DupaCycki
@DupaCycki@lemmy.world
- Comment on EU citizens on here, Ross Scott is warning about a draconian law in the European Unio. 14 minutes ago:
She’s just one of countless American assets ruining the entire EU from the inside.
All that scum belongs in camps in Siberia.
- Comment on EU citizens on here, Ross Scott is warning about a draconian law in the European Unio. 21 minutes ago:
So the European Comission will not act on the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, because it wants to focus on deregulation, because apparently current regulations are too much of a burden on businesses (source needed).
And the same European Comission is perfectly fine implementing new regulations for the purposes of… ruining everything for everybody and establishing close to the most totalitarian regime in existence right now?
See, there’s always space for new regulation, as long as it benefits the oligarchs, and nobody else but the oligarchs!
- Comment on It's funny how once a country has Universal Healthcare they never give it up. 1 day ago:
Unfortunately, we might be slowly getting there.
A lot of countries have been and continue to erase public healthcare budgets, to the point where it barely functions.
Officially as a response to slowing economical growth… Because as usual, GDP is the only thing that matters, and of course, we just couldn’t possibly tax billionaires.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Not to worry. We can always increase the limit to 24 hours per day, and make them drag the trailers with a bicycle.
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 3 weeks ago:
“People need to work more for less pay.”
~ Nepo baby hoarding billions doing nothing
- Comment on UK recognises 'ethnic cleansing' in West Bank, sanctions settlements and declares Israeli occupation illegal 3 weeks ago:
Condemning illegal Israeli settlements is becoming worthless, because even the Israeli government itself is condemning them lately.
Even IDF internallly recognizes that 80% of terror attacks in the West Bank are perpetrated by Israeli ‘settlers’.
Source: timesofisrael.com/idf-officers-said-to-tell-pm-je…
The ‘settlers’ received a free pass so many times, now they got cocky enough to attack their own police officers.
Source: timesofisrael.com/…/cops-seize-pickup-allegedly-u…
So publicly condemning illegal Israeli settlements isn’t necessarily anti-Israel anymore. It’s still the extremely obvious right stance, but one that should have been taken 10 years ago, and not today, when the Israeli government itself is turning against the so-called settlers.
- Comment on Alcoholic billionaire says he wants to shove a camera up every workers ass. 3 weeks ago:
Genuinely how hard is it to at least pretend you’re not a nazi pedophile while being a nazi pedophile?
Not that I’m complaining necessarily. At least they’re making it easy to know which companies to avoid.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, the US, and some other Western democracies, operate based on capital. Bottom 60% owns nothing, so it’s the minority. Top 0.1% owns everything, so it’s the majority.
- Comment on Biggest, most beautiful pill. 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like somebody is illegally smuggling drugs to the US. When does the military bomb him?
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 4 weeks ago:
Of course the rich are getting richer and richer. It’s quite a challenge not to grow richer once you’re already rich. You’d have to make several consecutive really bad decisions to achieve that.
The problem for them is that taxing the rich helps the poor, and slightly narrows the gap between the two classes. This is precisely what they cannot stand.
It doesn’t matter how much money the rich have, or how much more they will make in the next 12 months. What matters is how much more than you they have, because that’s what dictates their elite status in society.
All billionaires would happily lose all their billions, as long as it meant the poor lost even more. Because that would result in them being relatively richer, and so more powerful in a capitalist society.
This is also why they will oppose a shorter work week till their last breath. Sure, it’d benefit them, but it’d benefit regular people more, and so the elites would become less elite as a result. This is the only thing that really matters to them.
- Comment on No Such Thing 4 weeks ago:
So what’s the difference between ‘corporate greed’ and ‘the economy’ exactly?
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 4 weeks ago:
I have to admit I did not expect the US to still perform so well after losing thousands of academics this and last year.
However, reading the article you linked, it strikes me as a pointless victory. A statistic that won’t lead to anything meaningful.
Sure, it’s cool that academics and scientists publish a lot of articles, but does it really matter if nobody reads them because access is paywalled? And does it really matter if government institutions, as well as private companies, will just go against the research, because they could not care less?
Personally, I’d be much more interested in something that tracks public access to academia, and its impact on society, especially government’s decision making. Because to me, this just feels like GDP. Good for bragging about being top 1, and nothing else.
Still, I have to give the empire at least a little credit for its universities’ performance.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 4 weeks ago:
Most advanced in what? The US is not even the top dog in military tech anymore.
- Comment on Pie in the face. 4 weeks ago:
Don’t waste good food for no reason.
A rope, on the other hand, is still good after being used once. Say, if you hang something. Or someone. Not that I’ implying anything.
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 5 weeks ago:
Might be difficult when the government is all clowns and no bakers.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 5 weeks ago:
You’re right. I was way too generous.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 5 weeks ago:
You know what doesn’t have ads, ever? Pirated movies and shows.
Why pay insane extortion fees for a deliberately worse experience? It’s like paying somebody to slap you in the face instead of enjoying a free, uninterrupted walk in the park.
As long as these satanic corporations continue to be focused on making their services as unusable and expensive as remotely possible - there’s literally no reason to pay for them, other than donating to a pedophile cult.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 5 weeks ago:
One of the reasons why capitalism seems to work so well in Western democracies is because it’s short-sighted.
Capitalism focuses on the immediate future - the next year or a few years, and any material gains that can be made in that time frame. Businesses rarely plan for 10+ years into the future, because their products or services may no longer be financially feasible by then.
Just like our democratic governments focus on the next 4 years or less, because afterwards the government will likely change. No point making plans that your political opponents will benefit from. Which is also why the West can’t get anything substantial done.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 5 weeks ago:
Freedom for all would abolish private slave ownership and trade. There’s no precedent in Roman history.
This is how dumb arguments like this one sound. Only a genocidal maniac could unironically spew nonsense like this.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 5 weeks ago:
sell fewer physical copies of media
make more media digital-only
surprise, surprise - digital sales rise
brag about how people clearly prefer digital
- Comment on Buying new trends is a choice 5 weeks ago:
Right now is the best time to play old games. Retro gaming handhelds have never been better, and honestly there’s little to improve in them at this point.
Get yourself a retro handheld for as little as $100, that will feel more premium than a Steam Deck, and start playing games that came out before you were born.
I’ve genuinely forgotten how bad the current video game industry is, because I’m so busy having a blast with older/retro titles.
Highly recommend to all gamers.
You can check out what handheld console would fit you best here: retrocatalog.com
And see what people’s experience is in various games here: www.emuready.com
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 1 month ago:
Leave it to Shitendo to include a dedicated button that does nothing but advertise a subscription for a service that is completely free on PC. Free on a Switch too, if you mod it first.
Don’t worry, though, homebrew software will allow you to rebind it to something else. Just wait for that, and don’t use Nintendo’s consoles unmodded. Stock firmware is a mostly unusable piece of shit.
It’s been 10 years since the original Switch launched, and the only themes you get are… light and dark. Or you can have thousands of themes if you jailbreak the console. And save managers. And cheats if you want to skip the grind in some games. Better performance on Switch OLED and Lite. Emulation of older systems. And the list goes on and on.
There’s so much these consoles are capable of, that Nintendo desperately wants to block or charge you insane prices for. Mostly just block.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 1 month ago:
And then you realize the only reliable way to back up your saves is to… jailbreak the console and use homebrew save managers. Which Nintendo is doing everything in its power to stop from happening.
Personally I quite like my modded Switch OLED. But I genuinely can’t see how anyone would use this console unmodded.
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 1 month ago:
You know, maybe all those years of being taught that extremism is bad and centrism is good, while fascism was on the rise, was just manipulation to keep people from pushing back.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 month ago:
Therapy is fantastic, but any therapist will tell you that for it to have lasting effects, you need at least 12 months of continual attendance.
Now ask yourself how many people can afford weekly therapy sessions for a year. Where I live the cost would be about 3.5 median paychecks.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 month ago:
I don’t either, but it’s really unnecessary to shit on someone so much, unprompted.
That’s not responsible public figure behaviour, let alone behaviour fitting of a president.
- Comment on Epstein's Copilot 1 month ago:
It’s absolutely insane how bad Copilot is, being nothing but a GPT clone with Microsoft’s seemingly infinite resources.
Premium Copilot is leagues below all other free chatbots. You really do need some special talent to achieve such poor results.
- Comment on Screw you peasants 1 month ago:
One small issue. It’s not ‘Trump’. It’s literally every US president ever, maybe except one or two. Maybe. And Bernie knows this. He’s a smart guy. I don’t know why he sometimes does this, but I don’t like it when smart guys make less-than-smart arguments.
Sometimes I read or listen to him and think: “Hey, maybe some American politicians actually want change”. Other times it’s posts like this one, and I wonder if he really wants change. Lasting change.
Personally, I don’t have the slightest issue with him calling out Trump. However, this rhetoric has one fatal flaw that so far seems unadressed among public or influential figures. Namely - if you keep blaming Trump for everything, that suggests that he’s a problem - the only problem, even - not a symptom of a broader problem. And that removing him will solve everything. Which it won’t. Of course it won’t. But some people seem to think it will. And some will continue thinking or hoping so even after the fact. That’s the problem.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 month ago:
Controlled opposition in madness because actual opposition is rising. They’ll do literally anything but let anyone even try slightly improving the system.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 month ago:
It still does. Except now because the portions are tiny, for a price higher than ever. And they somehow maintain the calorie count!