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- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
Are those children babies or older? Children are taught to fear the other at an extremely young age. I’d like to see a similar study of newborns seeing a newborn of color for the first time.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
All representative democracies are flawed by nature since they all allow for an elite class to exist and likewise allow for corruption to exist. I just use the US as an example since I am the most familiar with US politics, but the US spread its ideas about representative democracy to the entire western world.
The most “qualified” person is not always the right person for the job. Some people take qualified to mean experienced, for instance, which is what many neoliberals in the US touted in their campaigns, but they were experienced in maintaining a corrupt system and serving their donors. The Republicans are experienced in also serving their donors while pushing the needle further right.
Say there was ranked choice or some other system that allowed for more than two parties. As we see in EU countries for example, the elite are still allowed to rule there, and corruption still exists. Denmark isn’t pushing for Chat Control for fun.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
I don’t think that premise is sound. Humans evolved from a central location and then spread out from there. There have been humans from back then who have taught their children to be scared of the other.
Nowadays, we see racism/sexism/religion/etc. as tools used by the elite to divide us so that the masses don’t turn against them. It isn’t so hard to believe that at the dawn of civilization, similar ideas spread.
Back in the hunter gatherer days, before civilization, it isn’t so difficult to believe that humans were equally scared of any stranger who they were not already familiar with, regardless of race.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
Kids understand what they’re taught. No baby is born racist, but instead, their parents teach that “the other” is dangerous/untrustworthy/“less than”/etc.
Without empathy, humans would not have formed societies. Humans being more social than neanderthals is what made humans “win”, and why neanderthals no longer exist (not counting interbreeding, since there is no modern being that exists that is considered to be a neanderthal). Sociopathy is considered a disorder for a reason, because it is considered to be out of the norm.
Bullies are, very often, if not most of the time, abused at home, or otherwise have a rough home life. That would also fall under the " nurture over nature" category.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
Do you know how to run a military?
Does the president know how to run a military? A president (in the US) can legally go to war with any country they’d like for up to 60 days without any congressional approval. Every war the US has entered post-WWII has been disasterous, both for the countries we went to war with, and for the US domestically.
environmental regulations
I’m not saying we should abolish regulatory agencies. We should still have them, and instead of having their leadership be appointed, have them be elected.
in charge of healthcare
What does that even mean? Healthcare should be considered a human right. Public institutions, such as universities or publically funded pharma research institutes would still develop new medicines, and doctors will be able to perscribe whatever the patient needs without mafia insurance corporations getting in the way and without private pharma corporations pushing drugs to be perscribed.
I don’t disagree with the point about a person in control of, say environmental regulation should be qualified in the subject matter. I wouldn’t mind making it a requirement to at the very least have a degree from a university in that subject matter in order to run for the position, so long as higher education is provided to everyone free of charge for anyone who chooses to go down that route and so long as the people who design the cirriculum do not have ulterior motives.
Also, you mentioned requiring ministers actually implement what they promise. How would that be enforced? Would it not be more feasible to just have the ability to vote them out and replace them with someone who would actually do the job they promise, if, that is, the position even needs to exist to begin with and cannot be replaced with a direct, democratic vote.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
I watched a video on sortition a while ago. It’s definitely better than the existing system, but it is still ultimately possible to outright rig the process via bribery, rigging the election process directly, etc. and for power-seekers/oligarchs to gain power. It’s just much more difficult to do so.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
Representative democracy was specifically designed to have oligarchs be in charge of society and it should be abolished in favor of smaller, direct democracies.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
Please elaborate. I’m more of the view that most humans are born as a blank slate and their upbringing shapes who they are as people.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
Counter point: David Lynch was famously very pleasant to work with according to the people who have worked with him, and he got some incredible performances throughout his career.
- Comment on AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see 4 days ago:
Fair enough. I just mentioned it to you specifically because you’re the mod over there and also the admin of the instance.
- Comment on AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see 4 days ago:
Why not just open submissions in the communities for user created artwork instead of AI?
- Comment on Steam Controller Review: Now You're Playing with Power - Nerrel 1 week ago:
Probably launched them through Steam to use Steam Input.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they put a drug in the water known as DHMO. It drasticly affects your brain and motor functionality.
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 2 weeks ago:
What’s your favorite idea?
Mine is being creative.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 3 weeks ago:
') DROP TABLE Names; –
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
No other handhelds have the dual trackpads, symmetrical layout, and capacitive thumbsticks that the Steam Deck has, which are the selling points for me.
- Comment on What a killjoy 3 weeks ago:
Makeshift bidet.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
Could be both, but I think that both RAM and SSDs have gotten so expensive due to the AI bubble that even high volume manufacturers are having to raise prices by an unreasonable amount to stay profitable.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
Or nothing will be a good buy because people won’t be able to afford to get anything.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
The main reason the Steam Deck was popular to begin with was that it was a relatively affordable gaming PC in a handheld form factor. It has been getting less and less affordable as more time has gone on.
Going to be a very tough sell from now on.
- Comment on Must have apps 4 weeks ago:
I thought there was a fork that removed those, but I can’t remember the name.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 5 weeks ago:
1 is literally just raw. I like both crispy bacon and chewier bacon, but only if the fat is completely rendered.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 5 weeks ago:
That’s not back bacon, that’s your back backin’.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 1 month ago:
Gish galloping is a well known argumentative technique to avoid scrutiny. It works so well, that now the US government is using a version of it to destroy the government at a rapid pace.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 1 month ago:
I’d say no for the reason that they are not a worker owned cooperative.
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 2 months ago:
Narrator: It was about the Pepsi.
- Comment on Tryna catch me riding dirty 2 months ago:
“Hello, I would like one ouch of weed, please.”
- Comment on Tryna catch me riding dirty 2 months ago:
How does a group of people smoke an entire pound of weed in one go?
- Comment on Which Pipes to choose (Newpipe, Pipepipe, Piped Invidious...etc)? 2 months ago:
Grayjay is not open source, but instead is source available. The license restrictions included in the source code do not allow for commercial distribution, and I believe they also don’t allow for forking (I might be wrong on that second point, though).
- Comment on Which Pipes to choose (Newpipe, Pipepipe, Piped Invidious...etc)? 2 months ago:
I find PipePipe to be the most reliable of the bunch with the least amount of crashes. Also Piped and Invidious are website-based frontends that are unrelated to the NewPioe project.
Basically, you have NewPipe (the original), Tubular (a soft fork of NewPipe adding Sponserblock and such), and PipePipe (a hard fork also adding Sponserblock and allows optionally logging into a Google account for the purpose of cookie authentication).