wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 2 hours ago:
I love ice cream but I would be very ill with an infinitely refilling bowl.
That’s a really good analogy
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 15 hours ago:
Tallyho, yip yip!
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 15 hours ago:
Right, mhm, cause we all know you’re totally human, right? aha, aha
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 18 hours ago:
Whoever created the meme was either being sarcastic or is a dumbass.
My point stands.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 19 hours ago:
That makes sense
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 20 hours ago:
Right? My first reaction was “Is this fucking sarcasm?”
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 20 hours ago:
Exactly! People need to stop translating it as middle class, because it throws people off.
Nobody is coming for Joe Schmoe who makes 70k a year to take away his primary (and only) residence. Or at least, they shouldn’t be.
People these days are so bad at understanding historical context. That, like you said, “middle class” back then meant the merchant class who were neither peasants nor nobility, and that the modern-day bourgeoisie have become the de facto ruling class. Nowadays we call them “Upper class,” “Owner caste,” or “financial oligarchs.”
I’ve tried explaining this to people and they get so caught up in the nomenclature. They say “Bourgeoisie means middle class” as if that’s some definitive argument, and they ignore me when I explain to them what that actually meant in the 18th/19th centuries when it was coined.
The modern day “middle class,” which another commenter rightly describes as the “petit bourgeois,” emerged in the post-WWII era as a result of FDR’s policies and similar societal shifts around the world. It’s a subset of the working class. Even upper-middle class (doctors, lawyers, accountants, cybersecurity professionals, etc.) who make six figures and live in mcmansions are still working class. Still petit bourgeois proletarians, though they’re less likely to think in those terms.
The bourgeoisie are those who own enough capital that they can live off of investment income without actually working beyond sitting in board meetings and telling other people what to do. That’s not “middle class” anymore, except maybe in monarchical countries that still have an aristocracy. And even in most of those countries, the bourgeoisie have become more powerful than the “nobility.”
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 1 day ago:
It provides a natural stopping point, which as another user explained requires a conscious effort to continue rather than infinite scrolling which requires a conscious effort to stop.
It doesn’t sound like much, but it can be those little things that make the difference. A little bit less on one side of the scale, and a little bit more on another.
I know I find myself scrolling for way longer than I intended, and when I look back and realize how much I scrolled it always seems to surprise me. Sometimes I tell myself I’m about to stop, but I just keep going. I see another headline at the bottom of the screen and have to click on it. After that I see another one below it, etc. Sometimes I have to scroll so the screen ends on one post, and I won’t let it show the one below it, cause otherwise I might never stop.
People whose minds are already wired for addiction can struggle with this. Just like with beer. “One felt good, so twelve must feel twelve times as good.” It’s a subconscious process, but it can feel like a vortex and be really hard to escape.
Pagination would take away that “mindless” aspect, and for instance I could see when I reach page 10 or whatever and decide that’s far enough. Or I could hop on and just scroll one page. Or I could scroll a few pages and then say “Okay at the bottom of this page I’m stopping.” It’s much easier that way for people who struggle with it.
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 1 day ago:
The problems are interconnected and should both be addressed. If this is a sore spot for you then you might want to consider your own scrolling habits…
- Comment on 1 day ago:
So true…
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 1 day ago:
Ridiculous.
- Comment on Kellogg ---> Epstein 2 days ago:
No foreskins allowed, even.
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 3 days ago:
- Comment on BASED? 5 days ago:
If you’re referring to multilateralism, international law, and rules-based-order, I’d agree. We already had that and it (mostly) worker since the second half of the 20th Century. Although there was still a lot of room for improvement, but now we’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.
But if you mean some well-intentioned do-gooder should conquer everybody and enforce their own standard of decency, then I’d say that’s a slippery slope and self-contradictory. Well-intentioned people don’t conquer the world.
- Comment on BASED? 6 days ago:
Anything with crisp formatting gets labeled as AI these days — and if you use the dash, forget it!
- Comment on BASED? 6 days ago:
I wish there was a choice…
- Comment on BASED? 6 days ago:
I can’t speak for everybody, but I remember when the first continents were formed from geothermal vaults at the bottom of the ocean.
Or maybe that was just a mushroom trip. Either way, the dystopia has only just begun. Stop being pedantic.
- Comment on BASED? 6 days ago:
Today’s world is a toe dipped in the lake of cyberpunk critique.
Transhumanism is, for the most part, still a crackpot fringe theory. Most of us aren’t brainchipped, and there are still recognizable human interactions on the web.
- Comment on BASED? 6 days ago:
I’d hate to break this to you, but the cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape is in its infancy. It’s barely learning to crawl yet.
Enjoy the next thousand years or so… if you can…
- Comment on Lost at sea 1 week ago:
The map:
- Comment on Send HOAs To the Stone Age 1 week ago:
Why is the stegosaurus nearly half the price of rhe triceratops? That’s triceratops supremacy!
- Comment on We are not the same 1 week ago:
C’est nes pa un arbre
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 1 week ago:
You’ve apparently never met Chinese tourists…
- Comment on no shit 1 week ago:
“And who built those bridges?”
“Mugatu!”
- Comment on Follow the rules! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Aggregate Estimate(s) Worldwide M0 (physical currency) $8.27 trillion M1 (cash + demand deposits, etc.) $50 trillion M2 (broader money-incl. savings etc.) $123 trillion rankred.com/how-much-money-is-there-in-the-world/ (January 2, 2026)
Also, I find this tidbit interesting:
According to the US Federal Reserve data, there is $2.3 trillion in circulation and $3.5 trillion in reserve balance.
As of the end of 2024, around 55.4 billion US notes of all denominations were in circulation.
and
As of July 2025, the M1 money supply is $18.4 trillion.
In other words, if these statistics are correct, since trump took office, in approximately one year’s time, the total amount of USD in circulation has increased by over 40×. In case anyone’s not aware, that’s not a good thing.
That’s probably why he keeps saying “the economy is doing great.” He looks at all those dollars and thinks “we’re all rich!” not understanding or not caring that it means the actual value of the USD possessed by most ordinary people is actually being watered down by that increase, while the amount of USD they own is not increasing proportionally to the total amount of USD. (Or he doesn’t care at all and is outright lying, which wouldn’t be out of character. As long as his and his buddies’ bank accounts are going up due to bribes, extortion, and embezzlement, the economy is working fine for him…)
And that’s just physical bank notes! In about half of a year, under trump’s watch, the total amount of USD in cash and checking accounts has more than doubled.
Anyway, my point is, if you include savings accounts, mutual funds, and other M2 assets, the total amount of USD worldwide increases to $123 trillion as of January, 2026.
The US debt, at $38.5 trillion, is nearly a quarter of the total amount of M2 USD assets worldwide. Assuming the relationship is linear, printing that much USD would lower the relative value of each dollar to nearly 75¢ in today’s USD. That’s nearly 25% inflation overnight.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
$3 trillion is only enough to cover the annual deficit (that’s how much the debt grows by each year). Oz doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Sovereign wealth fund, universal healthcare, and free education!
- Comment on HD 137010 b 1 week ago:
Don’t spread the virus…
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like the beginning of a domestication process. RemindMe in 1000 years.
