Skyrmir
@Skyrmir@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who was in the wrong here? 5 days ago:
Pretty sure it depends on local jurisdiction. In some places the shop owner would be required to call the police to trespass someone. In others, the owner of the property has nearly the physical authority of a home owner in removing people.
- Comment on How long would it take to create a Pyramid 1 week ago:
It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.
It’s the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There’s a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there’s 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.
- Comment on This is the way 2 months ago:
Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.
- Comment on Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds 5 months ago:
Have you noticed the NRA is having money problems ever since they busted the Russian girl they were renting out?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 8 months ago:
Financial stress. Go take a closer look at the crime stats that right wing racists like to hammer the black community with. Then adjust them for poverty rates in the community. All of a sudden the racial divide in violent crime goes away. If anything, poor white men are the most violent, but not by enough to really be significant. The driving factor, by around 10 or 15 to 1, is poverty.
We’re seeing declining standards of living across the country, while technology is hides the true depths of it. The whole, you can’t be poor if you have a wide screen TV and a refrigerator, is almost true. It’s just enough to make it look like having no bargaining power, being locked into your zip code, buried in debt, and renting everything you own, somehow represents wealth.
- Comment on Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression 9 months ago:
Those kids are playing in the market the Boomers created and set the rules for, before they were ever born.
- Comment on Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression 9 months ago:
As a political block, they’ve had control of our housing market for around 40 years now. The changes they made, and problems they ignored, for those decades have caused the problems we have today.
- Comment on How do you currently handle Covid infections? 9 months ago:
Schools are far too based on attendance, and often legally can only count kids with a butt in their seat at school. Even into college, progress is based more on appearance than ability.
It leads to crappy teaching, and draconian absence policies.
To be fair, forcing kids into school drastically cuts down on child abuse. So there is a logic behind it, just taken a bit too far.
- Comment on fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails 10 months ago:
They’re playing on the latent puritanism in US culture. The only reason it’s done is because it pushes peoples buttons and draws interest. The other options are what you see over seas, where either free speech is harshly curtailed, or people get over it, and advertisers stop because it doesn’t cause concerned citizens to lose their shit any more.