CannonFodder
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- Comment on Which is worse: not wanting kids, or wanting them too much? 4 days ago:
No. That’s entirely not the point. If you have a heart attack and so your body forces you to fall unconscious and so you get in an accident and kill your children, are you guilty? Obviously you need medical attention and cannot be allowed to drive while there is any significant chance that you might do it again.
Nobody is suggesting that this woman should be set free - she needs to be in a secure mental treatment facility until she is safe to be in society - and possibly that will never happen.
This has nothing to do with those other issues or skin color. It is about mental health, women’s support and post partum care.
If you can’t wrap your head around the mental illness cause part because you have no empathy or ability to understand things you haven’t experienced, maybe think about how one’s mind can be altered with drugs/alchohol, or how hypnotism can make people do complex weird things. Our brains are a very complex chemical system and can get out of whack causing surprising results. Post partum mental illness is much more common than most people believe because of the stigma and covering it up. It needs a lot more understanding and accommodation - that recognition and support would help avoid such tragedies as this case. Your inability to understand and empathize will only make things worse. - Comment on Which is worse: not wanting kids, or wanting them too much? 5 days ago:
She may have lied when she ‘admitted it’. She hasn’t been found guilty in a court of law. It’s still only ‘allegedly’.
- Comment on Which is worse: not wanting kids, or wanting them too much? 5 days ago:
If you had a heart attack while driving and so got into an accident and your children in the car were killed but you survived, are you a victim?
- Comment on Donald Trump telling everyone they're gonna get "lots and lots of money" if they vote for his party 3 weeks ago:
Surely everyone can see this is a lie? And if it isn’t, then it’s got to be illegally paying for votes. I can just see the SC ruling - ‘everyone should have known he was lying, so it doesn’t count as corruption’
- Comment on Why Should I... 3 weeks ago:
They ate it, mostly as a status symbol. They’d carry it around with a small silver grinder to add it to their food. I’m not sure what was so bad about that, other than adding something worth a laborer’s salary for a year on your food. Also, it contains myristicin which if one consumes enough in one sitting can sort of give a high - a really bad one with hallucinations that go in for 48h - don’t try it, it can make you very sick.
- Comment on So are they like extinct or something? 3 weeks ago:
We learn to learn how to learn.
- Comment on Fuck Yeah! Earth Still Number One! 3 weeks ago:
Pluto?
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 4 weeks ago:
Have you dried using a tor browser to access their website?
- Comment on Me attending "AI University" at work today 5 weeks ago:
Don’t write your password down. Don’t use a password safe. Your password can’t have any words in it, it must be 16 characters with half of them non alphanumeric. And stop forgetting your passwords
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
It’s so funny that you are the exact cliche and unsubstantiated claim generator that you project on me. Ah well, you enjoy your closed bubble, I’m not bothered enough to help you any more. I’ll let you have the last word now.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
Have you noticed the internet? That’s western innovation. There are lots of other examples all around you from the (gmo) food you eat, the medicines you take, the media you consume. There are also many Chinese companies that are now doing very well with renewable tech and EVs - the innovation for these is came from the ownership and competition when the introduction of capitalistic concepts were allowed and encouraged in China.
That’s the point. It’s not a deflection. Capitalism works to encourage innovation. You call it a deflection because what - it deflects the point you are tenuously grasping to try and make? In contrast, communism fails when people just follow the system based on outdated technology because there’s no incentive to find a better way. Obviously some innovation occurred in other systems, but it has to be legislated and managed specifically, whereas by rewarding investment in innovation by allowing ownership has clearly helped speed innovation. That you might argue otherwise is laughable. There are plenty of downsides to capitalism; it’s hilarious that you are fighting the one clear benifit of it. - Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
You sou d very sure of yourself, and yet also insecure with your harshness. It’s almost like you have an attachment to your desired logical outcome, but you can’t actually face any facts that explore other possibilities. I wish you the best and I’m sure you mean well, but maybe try to be a bit more open minded? Proof of innovation is all the innovation that the western capitalist countries have achieved. Much of it is irrelevant, but such is the way of science and technology - it’s a trial and error process. China has specifically copied the US capitalist model to create technological innovation. But I’m guessing you’ll just insult me for pointing such things out.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
I don’t. I want to reward innovation. And avoid some again. Human nature gets in the way in all systems.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
Sure, but you’re picking China for its success in poverty reduction and ignoring it’s authoritarian and oppressive policies. The USSR collapsed financially, so it doesn’t make a good example of anything.
No system is perfect and I’m surely not saying capitalism is. They all require constant adjustment and governments that prioritize the well being of the people. This always fails because humans are assholes regardless of the governmental system. - Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
Right, we’ve certainly let it get out of control in the U.S. and many other western countries, to lesser degrees. But what else has been shown to work without falling into a fascist nightmare or nose diving quality of life for the majority? As they say, capitalism is the worst system, except for all the others.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
I’ve seen innovators get some investment and build small businesses. They do this because they think they can create a new product that consumers will want. This is the catering to the public. It’s a risk as they put up their own money, time and effort. It’s not desperate, its a job, but they get to run it. If it works out, they end up with a stake in a worthwhile enterprise and they can get financial rewards. And society ends up with a new product or service. They needed capital investment to get things off the ground, and they had to convince someone with money to make that investment. The person fronting the startup costs gets some financial reward if it works out. So they are motivated to invest in development costs. If the company grows and grows and tries to overcharge, another startup should be able to get some of their business by being more efficient and not as greedy. It can work if the government can enforce rules against anti-competitive behaviors, and regulations about how to treat workers.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
I think if donations to political parties were limited to a couple of hundred dollars per person and no corps or other funding allowed - or better yet, paid for only by a public fund based on the number of votes last cycle, then the system would have a chance. We’d need much more anti-corruption systems for politicians too. And this stuff would have to be constitutionally protected. The goal would be to make it so the politicians can only game for votes from the people. And Corp/capital owners could only game the system writhin the rules set by the government which is actually beholden to the people. People could innovate and take reasonable risks/work hard and be rewarded for that. Of course decent education is part of the equation too.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
Or the other way to look at it is that it rewards innovation tied with risk taking. It rewards efficiency, and catering to the desires of the population (via purchasing power). Without that, we might get stuck technologically and in other ways. Most other systems do not naturally promote innovation.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
Any system will break down when the most ruthless and least moral people take control. You could argue that a communist system is no longer a communist system when the ruthless take over, buts that’s just the same as saying a well regulated capitalist system gets fucked up when the ruthless take over. I know capitalism is based on competition and that maybe makes it particularly fragile in that respect, but the competition part also makes it efficient and with the right regulations i think it can be efficient in terms of things that are good for humanity.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
Well, the idea is to use people’s greed to drive growth and progress. If the government can shape profit forces to drive life quality improvements of the population, then it can work. This basically boils down to taxing bad shit, or making certain practices illegal. People will always try to game the system and find holes, and the government needs to constantly watch for this and plug the. Then competition within those rules can lead to positive outcomes.
The government doesn’t need to treat corporations or billionaires with contempt, it just needs to ignore their wants and prioritize on the people. - Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
Yes, and capitalism can work if it’s well regulated. And that means the people have to control the government, not the corporations or billionaires. Thats what’s very wrong in the USA now.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 month ago:
So say we all.
- Comment on Hey, wait a fucking minute... 1 month ago:
And ya tell that to kids today and they won’t believe you!
- Comment on Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling 1 month ago:
Honestly, I can’t tell. But that’s what the sign says.
- Comment on Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling 1 month ago:
Anti-Zionism is not equal to not Anti-sematism.
Huh? - Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 2 months ago:
But everything is driven by profit. I don’t think the 1% will be able to pivot to reduced profit for better stability/comfort.
- Comment on B O N K 2 months ago:
They could have been 130 yo. That’s actually the best guess from piecing the timeline together. Not sure if they retired at some point - they were self employed and probably didn’t set up 401k’s
- Comment on I loved doing this as a kid 2 months ago:
If I’m 50+ and my eyes are out of focus can I try rubbing them hard to fix the shape? Be a lot cheaper than laser.
- Comment on Correlation implies causation 2 months ago:
‘Over my head’ haha
- Comment on GinkNo. 2 months ago:
Isn’t all pollen basically tree cum?