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- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 1 day ago:
“worth”
- Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? 6 days ago:
The IDF will never be held responsible for their actions the Israeli government that ordered them should be
You see zero irony and n that comment?
Like, Israel spent decades going after anyone tangentially connected to the Holocaust…
It was just a couple years ago they prosecuted someone in their 90s who was forced to be a teenage secretary for a nazi.
And you’re legitimately implying:
The soldiers committing genocide were just following orders. We can’t judge them for what they’re actively doing , which is committing a genocide
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you want actual advice just put your stuff out there.
Dont apologize for it or make excuses that you’re new.
Just put it out there and see if people like it
That being said, try not to do it a lot or in super general communities because some people may consider it spammy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean, most posts like this aren’t real to begin with if we’re talking about suspicions.
But they do get engagement so it’s worth popping in with general advice some people do need to hear.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Lately there have been some running jokes about how we’re basically a throuple already, and those jokes have been getting a little more… not-jokey.
Those jokes are almost never jokes…
If the other people were the ones starting the jokes, that’s called “testing the waters” and you might be in more of a trouble than you realize already.
Like, I get that guys don’t learn that as early as women, but most people figure it out
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 1 week ago:
Yeah, the whole point was to show feudual society was fucking stupid.
No one bout a square meter of land and started going to the Queen’s brunches.
It was to mock the people that unironically wanted to be called a Lord in modern day.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 1 week ago:
I’m sure there some scams…
But that doesn’t mean they were all scams.
And I sincerely doubt one lone Chinese woman was responsible for all the companies doing it.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 1 week ago:
It depends where you are…
In Europe (primarily the UK) they sell tiny plots like that because it comes with a lordship.
So you can buy a lordship and token tiny square of land.
But they do that for the title, doing it just for land…
I dunno.
The only way I could see people go for it is if trump sells national Parks and people use this method to maintain it in its natural state.
- Comment on Rumor: Sony Interested In Acquiring WB Discovery Streaming & Services, Including WB Games 2 weeks ago:
Another step closer to cyberpunk dystopia with a handful of corps…
But at least this way we might get a new game with the nemesis system
- Comment on Two Top Union Leaders Quit D.N.C. Posts in Dispute With Chairman 2 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah!
Was already hyped they got rid of Weingarten, but we’re getting rid of a second neoliberal superdelegate too?
And it’s another Rules and Bylaws member who fucked up the Vice chair election and all the shit shows of presidential primaries?!
I hope Martin runs all these dinosaurs out of party leadership, if you think the DNC has been incompetent the last decade, people like these two are the ones to blame.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It won’t last forever though…
A lot of the non-upgradability is the pursuit of smallest form factor. But then everyone throws a case on it anyways. Miniaturization has diminishing returns and we hit that long ago with laptops.
Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.
That’s why manufacturers are trying to push us to watches or glasses. They need to shrink the form factor to keep up the (insanely profitable) strategy of selling a brand new unit every 2 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Apple aggressively throttled CPUs when new models came out.
They claimed it was due to age of batteries and to prevent overheating. But then Samsungs started exploding and I think people just let it go.
Not sure if they still do it or not.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re actually being sincere, you might want to ask people how to articulate your view, you’d have to let them know what your view is though. Or ask for peoples opinion on the question.
- Comment on Live Updates: Senator Is Forced to Floor and Handcuffed After Confronting Noem in L.A. 3 weeks ago:
“confronting”…
He asked a question
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 3 weeks ago:
This would be insane and quite a claim.
As opposed to surviving with only a slight limp and blood from wounds that stopped bleeding almost immediately with no medical attention…
Because that would be completely normal and not noteworthy
Anyways, do you need a new watch? I could sell you Big Ben for 20 quid, comes with a deed and everything!
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 3 weeks ago:
Not just survived…
The article has a video that supposedly him after the accident. He has a slight limp and blood/dirt on him but not bleeding.
His proof is a plane ticket, but like…
It’s waaaaaay more likely dude missed his flight and is pulling a stunt compared to be virtually uninjured and walking into a busy area before rescue crews were out.
It’s like a 1 in billions chance if he was really on the plane
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 3 weeks ago:
but why don’t manufacturers of basic cars just put a fancy-looking exterior onto them?
“Kit cars” are a thing…
Not sure what’s popular these days, but for a while people were putting Shelby Cobra bodies on Miatas.
It’s way more than a Miata, but way less than an authentic Shelby.
So people who just care about the looks have been doing this for decades now.
But when it happens as a production, people don’t buy it because other people recognize it for what it is, look at the PT Cruiser.
So if a couple people do it, it passes as expensive. If a lot do it, it comes off as tacky and becomes a joke.
- Comment on Can we defederate hilariouschaos yet? 3 weeks ago:
if they are on lemmy, that to me points towards them wanting to establish a community here. why? no idea.
To get attention…
Commenting on their posts to tell them they’re wrong, upvoting people who already have, or even downvoting the post is all “engagement” which shoves the problematic community down every one else’s feed. Even making those “community spotlights” fairly regularly.
I mean, you’re flat out saying you don’t understand, I’m putting effort in to help you explain why not to feed the trolls…
This isn’t new, this is basic internet literacy.
- Comment on Can we defederate hilariouschaos yet? 3 weeks ago:
I tend to agree but I’m sick of giving stupid people a voice
You’re not “giving them a voice”…
You’re feeding the trolls
Like, it’s fucking Lemmy, you’re not out there protecting millions of people from misinformation. You’re the reason they’re doing it in the first place
Without people like you, they wouldn’t still be doing it.
So I’m gonna take my own advice
- Comment on Can we defederate hilariouschaos yet? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not exactly a secret, but neither is that .world really wants to federate with everyone.
You can block the whole instance yourself, as well as individual communities.
But anytime you see one about “conservatism” it’s gonna be a troll community. Either trolling everyone else, or to troll the handful of conservatives that are on here
Don’t get hung up on idiots using the internet, just block them and move on
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be”
That’s a pretty safe guess considering they explicitly said that…
But I don’t think I’m going to make much ground explaining to you why they’re wrong either
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be,
That is incorrect
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.
Either you don’t know what normal is or common is if you think they’re different things…
- Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts? 4 weeks ago:
Usually (but not always) if a mod removes it, it shows up in the mod log.
But lots of people don’t get the answer they want and delete it. Part of that is you can’t disable replies. A month from now someone might see this post for whatever reason and you’d get a notification.
That’s probably playing into it
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Because of the autistic community, there are a wealth of information on airports and what happens.
So I’m pretty confident that you can look up your specific airports and find out everything about them.
The layover is a good thing. It is incredibly unlikely you miss the connection when you have two hours. So you’ll be fine, but look up videos on the airports to reassure yourself.
- Comment on Why do americans assume they invented the internet? 4 weeks ago:
Because the first long distance use was kids at Stanford using it with kids from UCLA…
I don’t know if it was the very first thing. But it was almost immediately used to sell weed.
And the first use that used at least two nodes was a dude in NYC.
Where do you think it was invented?
- Comment on was made a moderator of community without asking and against my preferenc 4 weeks ago:
I mean, just close it?
It’s really weird it took OP 9 months to notice, but I don’t know how their instance displays it.
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 4 weeks ago:
Always darkest before the dawn. And always seems too late till something happens.
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 4 weeks ago:
Yep, video kind of touches on how neoliberalism has led to the same thing:
was that in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, know that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew that they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal.
For almost as long we haven’t viewed capitalism as a fair system that works for everyone, it’s a set of rules filled with loopholes and the goal is to abuse loopholes in anyway possible to maximize personal resources.
It’s not a new idea to say capitalism faces the same problems.
The entire point of monopoly was to show business success in a capitalist country is mostly just luck and random chance. Even if we start equal, one person will eventually accumulate all the resources to the detriment of everyone else:
In 1903, Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord’s Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and caused tenants to be impoverished. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly
Instead it was used to instill capitalist drive in generations of impressionable children… Under a system where no one could seriously argue we all start on the same square.
Like, we’re essentially joining a game after one player has already bought up all the properties.
There’s no path we can “win” even if we cheat, we’ll never be able to actually win, just delay losing a little longer.
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 4 weeks ago:
This reminded me of when I was in the US military and had been talking to a German military psychiatrist while out to sea for a few months
Dude listened to what was going on, the environment I was in and what life was like…
Then acted all surprised that I was surprised how my body was reacting.
I was in a stressful shitty environment that there was no way to get out of. Doc said everything I was going thru was completely normal and natural.
And honestly, that helped more than anything else could have. Just having someone evaluate what was happening and to say “shits fucked you’re right”.
American psychiatric care is molded after mental health meaning doing anything possible to get as much resources as possible if you can’t get resources it’s a personal problem.
But in today’s America, it doesn’t matter who you are. You likely just can’t get enough resources and shits not going to get better soon unless we fix it. We’re at the point where an American not being depressed is a real sign of mental illness.