TheStaffmaster
@TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
not a problem. Overly Sarcastic Productions has a wonderful series on YouTube for those looking to get into Machiavelli, and other stoic philosophers.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
The short version is that Machiavelli is a rather profound Stoic philosopher, but everyone misses that in a lot of his work he is being slightly sarcastic to throw the “powers that be” off the scent that he was criticizing them. When you hear how he suggests that “Princes should be feared rather than respected.” he actually calling out the despots of his day. It’s kind of how Stephen Colbert portrayed a right wing pundit on “The Colbert Report” as a way of satirizing right-wing pundits.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
“That’s Cute.” -Machiavelli
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
I think I figured out the mentality. It’s Barbie dolls. They all still subconsciously want to look like a barbie doll. and this is some DEEP subconscious conditioning too. (Exception for folks with alopecia, of course)
- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 2 weeks ago:
Real talk: I heard somewhere that this is Jack Black’s Mom.
- Comment on CAH at it again 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this need a spokesperson. Is John oliver available? No need to pay him; He’ll do this shit FOR FREE.
- Comment on culture 3 weeks ago:
Case in point: I absolutely LOVE The Lord of the Rings films. Absolute masterpieces that haven’t aged A DAY.
Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” had me asleep in 25 pages.
- Comment on Trump's "New Golden Age" 3 weeks ago:
And so we’re told: “This is the Golden Age.” And Gold is the reason for the wars we wage.
-Bono, U2, “New Years Day”
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 3 weeks ago:
Using British definitions I see. 1 billion is 1,000 million, and 1 trillion is 1,000 billion. If 1% of 1,000 is 10 then 1/3 of that would be 3.3333.
3.33 x log 9 would be 3,333,333,333.333(repeating)
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: 100 Billion is a lot of money. That is only 10% of what Elon Musk is worth. If Elon gave every American (about 350 million last I checked), $1M, that would only put a dent in his wealth to the tune of just over 1/3rd of 1% of his wealth. These Uber wealthy need to shut up about needing more money. They have so much that they could loose an amount that would be literally life-changing to most of us and woul barely notice it, if an accountant didn’t say anything to them.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 3 weeks ago:
They want workers dependant. Ever since the end of slavery, big business has been trying to rules lawyer a back door into having it again.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
I actually think doing a theme is probably the best way to go about it. Like, if you are into thorned roses, or tribal patterns, or stars, riff on that shit. At least that could be generously called “body art,” and I have no problem with that.(because “art”) think the giant panel work people get on their backs.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
that’s just eggs, bud.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
As a person who spent many years in the culinary arts field, I can assure you that most professional bakeries use the same mix you can buy at the store, just shipped in 50 pound bags. The difference is that they use butter instead of oil, heavy cream instead of water, more eggs, and brown sugar instead of white.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
your tattoos “telling a story” is like a mandatory meeting that should have been an email about something I’m not involved with, and in fact, couldn’t care less about. You think enduring pain makes you seem tough, but it just makes you seem like someone who makes poor fiscal decisions in this shitty economy. And, (as an aside) ink was supposed to make you stand out because it was supposed to be a rare thing than not many people did. Now not many people have no ink at all so, if you were looking to be “unique…” (I mean, just sayin.')
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
The issue is that the powers that be did learn their lesson and they learned it well. If you keep the masses JUST sufficient enough that they still have something “to lose” they’ll be to busy chasing that to be able to mount any kind of resistance to their exploitation. It’s the splash and dash mentality. It’s also why they are so against abortion. they frame it as a moral issue, but it’s really about ensuring a good crop of fresh people to exploit when the current crop wears out. It’s a common fascist tactic: Concentration Camps were usually billed as “work” camps where people would be set to menial or meaningless tasks, so they would waste away on purpose, and the deaths could be logged as “by natural causes” and not murder. (only what the regime defined as “undesirables” were sent to be euthanized.)
Competing Lords owned the land and extracted labor from the peasants, and this was feudalism. Then peasants overthrew the lords so they could seek ownership of those lands, but that only benefited those who already had the means to fill the vacuum left by the lords. Capitalism only shuffles the deck of Feudalism. it doesn’t solve the underlying flaw in the game, namely that there will always be someone with more means than you extracting value from people whose only asset to sell is their labor and time. Eventually a group of gentrified individuals will emerge that fill the rolls that the old lords did, and given that nepotism is rampant in industry, it’s not even really that different at all from feudalism. The idea that a CEO should be president of a democracy is such a perversion of the idea of public rule that it is anathema to it. Extreme wealth should be disenfranchising in of itself, as if you are that wealthy, you no longer need the protections of a popular government, but rather, you are what that kind of governance is supposed to be protecting against.
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 4 weeks ago:
In ancient times when planes had a simple stick for controls, you pull back to go up and push forward to go down.
- Comment on That Damn Smile 4 weeks ago:
careful. this may be the first confirmed photo of a negative fuck
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
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someone wants to be covered in melted butter sauce.
- Comment on I had to see this. now you do too 5 weeks ago:
If you imagine their catchphrases, this is even better.
- Comment on Throwback To A Classic 5 weeks ago:
Made me think of this: Image
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Brothers and sisters in christ, in this, the year of our lord two thousand and twenty six WHY THE EVERLOVING HELL ARE EATING DISORDERS STILL A THING?!?! There should be enough celebrity push back on these warped managers and available information about this on the internet to shut down their body shaming bullshit, FFS. Get this chick dinner with Queen Latifah and Sir Mix A Lot STAT.
- Comment on I couldn't have articulated better 5 weeks ago:
someone should photoshop weird al’s head over that tree.
- Comment on Is it every aspiring chef's dream to work in a hectic high-stress kitchen? If so, why? 5 weeks ago:
No. That’s like wanting to be a doctor and having to work on call at the ER. they are dues and need to be paid.
- Comment on Not at all 5 weeks ago:
he understood it perfectly you dirty dirty boy. :p
- Comment on can we post smut in here? 5 weeks ago:
there’s a dad joke in here somewhere.
- Comment on AI girlfriends VS Egirls 5 weeks ago:
And this is why “tits or GTFO” was a rule of the internet. like the german general at the end of Indiana Jones and the last crusade… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PLIaNUZuQ
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 5 weeks ago:
how much you wanna bet those are those fake $100 bills with bible quotes on the back admonishing you for being greedy?
- Comment on I clicked through ALL of them and left without posting. 5 weeks ago:
Expecting accountability is not misogyny. People have every right to express themselves freely, but should also be aware of how that might also be received by others. They can choose to not care, mind you, but they should still be cogent of it.
