MyBrainHurts

@MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Complete societal collapse, hard to say what, beyond the basics, would be useful as a medium of barter.

  But, in a society facing major issues, e.g., hyper inflation, or say, a US government default, yeah, gold is a pretty decent hedge bet.

  The traditional safe haven has been government debt but that’s been seen as an increasingly risky bet where you could lose a lot of money to inflation or worse, government default/intervention.

  So, while not ideal, gold at least seems a better bet than most other “safe” places to put one’s money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like ragebait or you need to read or watch more modern stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve legit wondered about this and one of the many reasons I don’t want kids is I don’t think it’d be fair to inflict my lifestyle on them, no matter how morally correct I feel.

  My basic thought though is that as long as social media is the dominant means by which cultural trends are spread and amplified, anti-consumerism will be hard to spread.

  Once modern social media became dominant, social justice pivoted from our own sins (wearing slave made clothes, children losing limbs for our new phones etc) and switched to dunking on public figures and large systemic forces. I think that’s because it’s much easier to share, make jokes about etc evils that you are not currently doing. That is to say, it’s a lot easier to make memes about say, OscarsSoWhite when none of us are in the Academy than say, “my shoes are made by kids who occasionally burn to death” while many folks are wearing those types of shoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And I just got a better job after having a bad one.

  I’ve also known addicts who’ve quit.

  Does that mean “just get a better job” “just quit your addiction” and “reject consumerism” are reasonable answers to people struggling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the same as “I would just have a better job.”

  Some normal folks are out there, trying to give their kids as normal a life as they can despite their financial circumstances and not all of them are as enlightened as you claim to be online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fucked but with a charitable view, I can see some logic.

  For all the nonsense, there are a handful of good deals on the Friday/Monday. If I were living paycheque to paycheque, seems like a bnpl scheme could let me budget say, November to February for christmas gifts, interest free unlike a credit card.

  That being said, that’s the theory. I imagine a lot of folks end up in over their heads much like credit cards etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still looking for the right community for this meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, did you just “I’m rubber and you’re glue” ?

  Every comment you sound more like the kid in my elementary who wasn’t allowed to use the glue sticks without supervision because he kept eating them.

  Now, as then, I’m not particularly interested in charging with either of you, so this is my last interaction with you.

  Hope you find a better use of your time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still looking for the right community for this meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m funny, everyone else is just a dumb poopyhead!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still looking for the right community for this meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, it would be weird if you didn’t think it was good.

  Believe it or not, others can disagree. As has been the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still looking for the right community for this meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered it’s also just not a very good use of the format?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth in advertising⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-ssecretary-of-war-name-plate/

  I’d guess it’s still ai generated in that someone asked an ai to print their labels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this isn’t going to be productive or interesting.

  Have a nice day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tenth among European nations in the 60s isn’t particularly good and is not thr standard that makes Norway the model everyone wants to emulate.

  Consider how much of Europe was under communism or fascism and there’s really not a lot of competition.

  It wasn’t a terrible place but not the high quality with which we currently associated Norway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not every liberal democracy is America.

  If you want to understand, you might go to Canada where strict campaign finance laws generally reign in billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  previously established

  In other words, Norway established this stuff pretty quickly when oil was discovered. That’s wildly different from taking over existing private enterprise.

  People really don’t like it when you take things away as opposed to having a set of rules before anyone begins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lithium is not nearly as profitable as oil. It costs a huge amount to extract and refine (China has such a chokehold on critical minerals, not because they have so much more but because they’ve built an incredibly efficient set of supply chains.)

  And personally, I am very much not in favour of tearing down what little protected land is left in America. But you will be happy to know that trump strongly agrees with you and is opening up a swathe of public land for oil and gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  previously established

  In other words, Norway established this stuff pretty quickly when oil was discovered. That’s wildly different from taking over existing private enterprise.

  People really don’t like it when you take things away as opposed to having a set of rules before anyone begins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All of a nations natural resources rightfully belong to the people

  Yes and we have a liberal democracy to determine how best to use them. Thankfully, most folks understand that simply nationalizing resources comes with huge reprecussions which greatly outweigh the gains.

  Do you have a successful example of your proposal in mind?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going to start nationalizing previously established resources, that’s going to have all sorts of wild reprecussions and is not what Norway did.

  But beyond the logistics, which similarly profitable resources are you thinking of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Norway admittedly has gigantic, relatively recent, oil and gas reserves that allow it to fund all sorts of social programs. Not saying those are bad or anything, just not a particularly exportable model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to a halloween party⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the texts that are clearly just anon’s personal fantasy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What ever you do, don't think of the number 37.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He speaks some English but he cannot speak it good like we do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What ever you do, don't think of the number 37.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is my favourite line in the movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sees through the lies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a major plot point. Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator, has been put into almost everything in place of water ("water, like from the toiler?") And consequently kills the crops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play many games etc but just wanted to say congrats on finishing it!

  Also, cool subjects material!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those who have all the right answers for the rest of us⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who upvoted and moved on, probably have a sense of humour. The ones who stopped to yell "that's not funny!!!", probably less so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It's also such a damn efficient workout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re following them around, that’s not living rent free in someone’s head, that’s just being weird.

  The whole idea of the phrase is the one living rent free is just enjoying their life while the OTHER person obsesses about them.

  If you’re the one doing the stalking, it’s the stalkee that’s living rent free in your head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funniest shit...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funniest shit...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My God, I love this as a new meme format.

  Dumb question, is there an easy imgflip equivalent for adding a static header like that to an animated gif?