SacralPlexus

@SacralPlexus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏭🏭🏭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have ten kids in ten years by lolligagging about taking pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the answer. Tax wealth, not work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gary Stevenson to quit YouTube channel, citing health concerns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gary’s work has been hugely important to me personally as I feel like this was one of the key pieces of the puzzle that I had danced around but never quite gotten into place. This is at the root of many of our modern problems from falling living standards, rise of the far right, etc. Once someone’s fortune is large enough it becomes a self-sustaining phenomenon like a black hole that has unchecked growth. Eventually they will consume everything unless we unite to change the system that allows this.

  Tax wealth, not work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same I bought a PS5 during the pandemic, played TLOU 1 & 2, God of War, and haven’t touched it since. I have a Bazzite gaming machine I subsequently built so the PS5 has been sitting in the box for years at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not getting it™ since 2024©⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disclosure: I don’t know the full lore and I’m only answering because nobody else has.

  My vague understanding is that this is unique to the ‘196’ community which has a community rule that every post must include the word “rule” in the title post. So it’s super common to see because it’s an active community. Beyond that I don’t really understand what the community is about as it seems to have a random variety of posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This objection has been brought up repeatedly but these are solvable problems.

  Firstly, a lot of assets the wealthy own cannot be transferred out of country. Stock in companies, real estate, etc. The super rich are not rich because they have bank accounts with all of their money that can just disappear overnight, but because they own real things in the real world.

  Secondly, economist Gabriel Zucman has proposed a solution to the “they will all take their money and leave.” The USA taxes all citizens on their income no matter where they are in the world. You could simply create a wealth tax that says “if you have wealth over 100 million USD and have lived in this country in the past 5 years, you have to pay the tax no matter where you live for the next X years. (X could be 5, 10, 15, whatever.) If it goes into effect starting in some future date of course people will try to shift assets and move but if you make it retroactive they can’t. Also the tax needs to apply to companies so they can’t have an LLC holding all of their assets tax free neither.

  Finally, taxing wealth is not about being jealous or craven that others have more. It’s about survival of society in some form that isn’t “ten people own everything and the rest live in desperate poverty.”

  For the ultra wealthy, their wealth can grow passively from compounding interest leaving them will little choice but to continue acquiring assets. If you were given a million dollars every week (that’s roughly 5% annual growth on a billion dollars) you would quickly find that you had lots of money sitting around despite paying off all of your debt, upgrading your house, having fun trips. Eventually you would start using that money to either buy stocks, real estate, etc. Then those things appreciate and your $1M per week begins to climb despite living a lavish lifestyle. It’s just a natural consequence at that point that you buy up and own real world assets at an increasing rate. This means there is less and less available to own for everyone in your community.

  Essentially, at a certain point these individuals become financial black holes where their wealth is not only self sustaining but continues to grow and consume things. There is no stop unless society puts brakes on it to limit the growth beyond a certain point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police have finally released a sketch of the main suspect accused of defacing the reflecting pool.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump, wearing a banana suit: We’re all looking for the guy who did this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, you can actually see what seems to be a microphone pack clipped on the bottom of her shirt.

  If that doesn’t scream “unscripted” I don’t know what does. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the first thing the internet says whenever a relationship post comes up is: "Red Flag"/"Break Up"/"Divorce"/"Don't Walk, Run"/"Go No-Contact"/"Let them die in a nursing home"/etc...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Selection bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of all depends on what is meant by a “reasonable” person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not breaking news but it is a really interesting snapshot in time showing how not only were these behaviors occurring, it was at times very publicly normalized. Comparing a 13 year old actress to a “nascent whore” is staggering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rest in pepperoni⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just skimmed part of those links and… wow what a looney.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  Same for me, I must love everything I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian teaches gen-z dating lingo⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  while running errands, such as walking the dog or committing crimes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get out of my head⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The rectum is not the same as the anus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i am not good at small talk⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok but since you brought it up, do YOU believe objective morality exists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FACTS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎶 Hitting the Brown Note 🎵⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me this is shopped.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This man⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The man in the photo is a well known adult film star named Johnny Sins so one would assume these are images from one of his films. He has become a meme because of this recognizability and that he has starred in many roles so there are images of him dressed as Doctor, firefighter, plumber, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call it “woke”?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  There is an interesting precursor from the election that made Lincoln president. There were groups of young people forming “Wide-Awakes” clubs and demonstrating.

  Source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people are saying there is something wrong with his mitochondria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With a lot of parasites, when they die the tissue around them calcifies (just your body’s response). That’s what we are seeing on the radiograph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is he drunk/stoned, or cheating with someone's wife?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious answer: could be drugs/alcohol but he looks like he could be older and dementia is a possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll just take the bus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Subaru

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll just take the bus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Had a previous car that was manual. Then I bought a car with a CVT (continuously variable transmission) and it’s such a nuisance because it is always unpredictable when it will shift. So you go to pass someone, step on the gas and sometimes it takes off and other times it fiddles with shifting for a second before giving you any power. Can also be a real pain in stop and go traffic because it will have unpredictable amounts of power when starting from a stop. I’ve had this vehicle since 2017 and it’s always been this way. I don’t miss having to shift constantly but I do miss having a reliable amount of power when I’m in a certain gear - that’s what is so nice about a manual transmission. You feel more in control of the car. That said, my daily driver now is electric with no transmission and that is the best of all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 will have a bigger map and a silent protagonist, say devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I truly hope this is the spiritual successor to the first game. I am one of those who was disappointed by Below Zero as I felt like they abandoned the core elements that made the first game so great.

  I’ll confess I was a bit disappointed when they were like “We know you guys really love the Seamoth and Cyclops but no they aren’t going to be in the game.” If they just made a new (big!) map and story with all of the game play elements of the first game I think it would be a smashing success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the worst acted main or supporting characters in a TV series you've watched?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really have enjoyed the show so far but oh my gosh you are so right. He completely breaks immersion every time he’s in a scene.