CannonFodder
@CannonFodder@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
It’s a reason to not hit people I suppose, but it really shouldn’t be the reason. Like just don’t resort to violence because violence is bad?
- Comment on trap 2 days ago:
Depends on what kinda bean we talking about.
- Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47 2 days ago:
But if you only can think about yourself as your ‘current you’ because that’s all you can remember, then that’s the only ‘you’ there is. A soul or whatever that transfers between subsequent lives but retains no memory, is effectively non existent.
- Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47 2 days ago:
There isn’t really an effective ‘you’ then is there?
- Comment on 4 days ago:
How hot is fuck? I guess about 37’C?
- Comment on Just vibin' 1 week ago:
- Comment on strassen's algorithm kinda hot tho 1 week ago:
Could use chat to summarize it.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
0.5% - you might as well not bother as it’s almost more of an insult than not tipping at all.
- Comment on Truth 1 week ago:
- Comment on Target 1 week ago:
‘Agrees to have sex’ is all that is needed. Not disclosing std is abhorrent and illegal, but it’s not rape per se.
- Comment on Bene Gesserit 2 weeks ago:
She was 19. Had been abused herself, and had fetal alchohol poisoning. If she’d had spent the last 30 years being rehabilitated, she’d be a very different person from that fucked up 19-yo.
- Comment on Future is going swell... 2 weeks ago:
Join the struggle while you may,
The revolution is just a t-shirt away. - Comment on Which is worse: not wanting kids, or wanting them too much? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 5 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... 5 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? 1 month ago:
We learn to learn how to learn.
- Comment on Fuck Yeah! Earth Still Number One! 1 month ago:
Pluto?
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 month ago:
Have you dried using a tor browser to access their website?
- Comment on Me attending "AI University" at work today 1 month 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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.
