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- Comment on we are creators 3 days ago:
The problem is time.
You’re just considering human spaceflight. Keeping humans alive and more importantly sane for years is very different to sending a probe somewhere, and we’ve been getting better at the latter
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 4 days ago:
The Greens also have a terrible name, they’re a left wing party that don’t particularly care about environmental issues. Meanwhile the Lib Dems just stand for whatever the government doesn’t, which changes depending on who’s in power.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
Idk about you but if the government took 24% of my money I’d be ecstatic, currently it’s much closer to 55-60%, a too-big percentage of which goes on privatising profit and nationalising losses.
- Comment on Cursed 1 week ago:
there’s a gap on both, just in different places and you can get from one to the other just by sliding. The constraints are elsewhere so wouldn’t allow you to twist.
- Comment on I get scared of a girl who approached me 2 weeks ago:
So for context, I’m an asexual guy who had one girl in his classes at high school & went to a 75% male university on a course that was 94% male…
Right after graduating I had the same issues you’re describing, just from “new experiences” more than anything, but when you go out into the world and start interacting with people you’ll be fine - it’s somewhat normal especially if you didn’t have a drive to seek out women previously or even just didn’t have the self confidence to
Also though, that sounds like a bit of a weird interaction as an introvert anyway, I don’t think I’d have been super comfortable either way as I’d be expecting to be robbed or scammed or something, but if someone is expressing interest in something you’re passionate about then they very clearly want to hear about it, so just say things about it even if it’s cringe or not perfect
- Comment on :-) 3 weeks ago:
Infected road rash all up your right arm is so much worse too, and I imagine there’s probably worse things than that once you get into spinal pain
- Comment on Helpful guide 4 weeks ago:
everyone and their dog has texts come up on their wrist… texts can also be read a lot more discretely than picking up a phone call
That said, some things do warrant a phone call, it’s just very specific situations
- Comment on testing how this site handles videos 5 weeks ago:
Works fine on eternity
- Comment on Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend 1 month ago:
Why not just tax based on the number of homes, isn’t that a better idea?
If someone owns three £10M mansions, they’re potentially depriving two families of homes but way of scarsity, but frankly if you can afford a £10M mansion is it really an issue, as you’re not being deprived of a home?
If they instead own one £10M mansion and forty £200k flats/terraces, they’re potentially depriving forty families of homes and so should probably be charged twenty times as much to dissuade people from buying up the cheapest homes.
- Comment on I'm down with this 2 months ago:
Tinkering and DIY for days
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 2 months ago:
Threats to the US
A lapdog isn’t a threat except to reputation, even if they’re not on your side. Same reason North Korea isn’t on the list of threats.
- Comment on Notepad autocorrected what I was typing for my foreign language exercise 2 months ago:
That study is for notetaking though, as you copy verbatim when typing but more concisely when writing, making you process the information and not just the words.
When you’re doing something that requires thought anyway, you’re already processing the information so they’re equally good?
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 3 months ago:
I’m not convinced on this whole “things happening in Austria” malarkey, it sounds very unlikely
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
On the /s, I somewhat unironically agree woth that more than the case of just obtaining citizenship
- Comment on World travelers 3 months ago:
Yes, but for human related reasons. Humans moved them around a lot in Africa and Asia - moving them from Southeast Asia to India and Madagascar is bound to have an impact on the currents they get caught up in.
- Comment on Fucking hell 3 months ago:
No, 1-12 are influenced by the old base 12 Germanic/Norse system, which is why -teen starts at thirteen, same as in German (11: elf, 12: zwölf, 13: dreizehn, 14: vierzehn & so on)… The -teen for 1x in english is also a carryover from this, being threeten, fourten, fiveten etc. with only numbers over 20 having their orders reversed.
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 3 months ago:
Gemini and Copilot are often overly cautious with their guardrails on generating anything violent or misinformation, although super easy to bypass in most cases
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 3 months ago:
Images are a lot easier to create “good enough” generations of locally compared to text and video… I imagine the driving force is probably horny people like 99% of other innovations on in internet
- Comment on School is training for prison and wage slavery 3 months ago:
That’s a bit harsh, prison is a way nicer environment than school
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 3 months ago:
It’s not evil, you’re providing a service by offering the product in a more familar environment to people, but still it’d be good to be transparent about it rather than pretending you’re the seller
- Comment on gottem 3 months ago:
Libertarian ≠ capitalist… It’s just a diet version of anarchism at its core which husters are trying to rebrand as being purely pro-business.
There’s even Libertarian Socialism
- Comment on tickle tickle 3 months ago:
My sister did, you just need approval from some government offices so you don’t get mice that’ve had rabies-ebola-smallpox-anthrax tested on them getting out
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump 3 months ago:
There’s a difference between libertarians and republicans looking to make more money. Most of the supposedly anti-taxation anti-regulation billionaires just want less tax for them and fewer regulations for their business; everyone else and especially imported products can be taxed more to give the billionaire’s company more subsidies, and regulations to prevent competitors from growing or starting up is even more welcome. Even when it comes to personal freedoms, they don’t care and will gladly support the government in reducing those freedoms if it earns them some sway.
This all goes directly against the libertarian principles of government non-intervention in the free market people’s personal lives, both of which are vastly more important than just reducing taxes, which supposedly comes as a side effect later (even if in reality taxes would probably stay the same as you’d need to provide more assistance to low income people)
This isn’t to say that libertarians are necessarily noble or right or whatever, just that saying it’s about reducing taxes and giving power to corporations is buying in to the direction that corporations are trying to move the ideology in
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump 3 months ago:
Be generally aligned with the right
It’s gotta be authoritarian right though… I can’t see a pro-immigration, pro-choice, pro-gun, anti-tariff, anti-corruption (generally pro-freedom, that thing republicans pretend to like) libertarian getting anywhere with trump, it wouldn’t surprise me if a tankie got along better given they’re into most of the things trump likes
- Comment on Poor guy 4 months ago:
Of all the people who deserve money, corrupt politicians and lobbyists are the only two groups who deserve it less than people like musk
- Comment on A quarter of startups in Y Combinator's current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated 4 months ago:
if any of these startups succeed, my condolences to the engineers who get hired afterwards and are stuck bugfixing
This is any successful startup - you don’t succeed by making a perfect product, you succeed by making a buggy mess that’s enough to convince both investors and more importantly customers that there’s potential… That means you need to rebuild from scratch in years 2-4 anyway, so frankly for the engineers who are coming in then, frankly there’s little to no difference
- Comment on If we want to have any power vs. watching helplessly while people in charge fuck everything up, we should focus on democratic workplaces. Not just unions, workers should own and control the business 4 months ago:
I think the best option is for workers to be able to get shares in the company they work at via an optional salary sacrifice scheme (so that it reduces the tax you pay, rather than letting you buy them with your after tax income)… If you care about the business, you can get a stake in running it, if you don’t you can collect your paycheck and go home.
The stock market shouldn’t exist however - when you leave the business you can either keep the shares, or return them to the business for “a fair price” (the amount you paid after inflation? or maybe just the current purchase price). Shares bought like this shouldn’t be able to be sold - only those owned by the founder(s) can be, with the caveat that they must be offered to workers at a reasonable price.
That system eliminates both forcing “responsibility” on people who don’t want it, as well as removing
peopleparasites who want to destroy the business to mall a quick profit. - Comment on If we want to have any power vs. watching helplessly while people in charge fuck everything up, we should focus on democratic workplaces. Not just unions, workers should own and control the business 4 months ago:
Workers owning the business < people who care owning the business
That can take the form of workers, but equally founders or just people with an interest in what the business does. Equally though hard to get a founder who doesn’t care about what the business does, but many workers genuinely just want a paycheck and to go home (myself included).
The problem is, stock markets and the existence of easily tradable shares, options etc. actively encourage people who not only don’t care about the business, but would be willing to mess it up for short term gain.
- Comment on Meow 4 months ago:
⅔ may be overestimating, but yes, they’re native to all of the Middle East and Africa, and most of Europe (outside of Scandinavia) and mainland Asia (outside of Japan & deserts, Siberia etc.)
- Comment on Meow 4 months ago:
Most places is a stretch… They’re invasive in around ⅓ of Earth’s land area and where less than ¼ of people live