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- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 4 days ago:
That’s not the point of inflation.
Our economy needs inflation to discourage saving and incentive investing.
If there was no inflation and 3% interest on savings, that’s all people would do.
So they make inflation more, and people lose purchasing power in a savings account, and instead invest, which pumps up stock prices for the whales who knows when to cash out.
On a smaller level it once tives people to spend as soon as they get it, because next year a $100 is worth less, so they spend while it’s worth more.
It’s a house of cards and when the wealthy owns the government there’s no one to hit the brakes on profits before the economy crashes and burns.
- Comment on Slowthai trial: Rapper cleared of raping fan after gig - BBC News 4 days ago:
Hadnt even heard the charges, but had been wondering why he seemed to stop putting stuff out
- Comment on how do you separate your clothes and linens to avoid fabric degradation and bleeding? 5 days ago:
You’re overthinking it.
Modern fabric dyes are a lot better than 40 years ago. Like, don’t wash something dark the first time with a bunch of white stuff, but after the first wash or two it definitely doesn’t matter
- Comment on Some disabled workers are making pennies per hour. Will that change under Trump? 1 week ago:
I mean…
Yeah?
We should also have peace on Earth and good will to all.
But that’s outside the scope of the current discussion.
Which is that while on the surface getting rid of the exception is a good thing, if you know the situation it’s the opposite. Which is why when I see it brought up I clarify.
If the topic was UBI, I’d be saying the same stuff you are.
Hell, I’m a disabled vet. I have free healthcare and my monthly payment is pretty much UBI. I know for a fact how little it takes to drastically improve standard of living and I want everyone to have what I do now.
That’s just outside the scope of the current discussion
- Comment on Some disabled workers are making pennies per hour. Will that change under Trump? 1 week ago:
I say this everytime it comes up:
For someone on disability benefits, they can lose all their benefits by earning a very very small amount of money on a single paycheck.
The exception to minimum wage is so the ones who want to work, can work without losing benefits.
So before we raise their wage, we have to fix how/when the benefits are effected by income.
Personally the fairest way is after something like an extra couple hundred a month, every dollar earned just reduces benefits by a dollar. And if all the benefits are cancelled out, keep them in the system instead of yanking it on the first paycheck.
- Comment on Josh Johnson: Drake is suing everyone BUT Kendrick 1 week ago:
Yeah, I got into his standup at some point during Covid, dudes smart as fuck and will just talk about random shit for half an hour.
It’s easy to take up hours of content compared to writing an actual standup set.
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- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 1 week ago:
Everything with “middle men” is like that.
Numbers get inflated then discounted.
It’s why it’s present at every step of capitalism, at every step someone takes a cut, so the price is inflated, then “discounted” to what consumers are willing to pay which is still an insane profit margin.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
And here we are. “tRaNsPhObE!”
You act like you get called a transphobe frequently…
Which would make sense if you were never asking in good faith and I’m far from the first person who has taken the time to attempt to explain and reached the same conclusion.
How often does this happen to you?
Did you ever stop and consider why other people aren’t constantly being told their views are transphobic?
You do realize that’s rare, right?
It’s notable if it keeps happening to someone by different unconnected people…
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
I’m just old enough to know pigeon chess when I see it.
You keep saying that, as you actively keep shitting on the chess board.
I explained this as patiently and simply as is possible…
If you’re gonna keep replying just admit your problem with puberty blockers is their existence allows adults to transition easier.
It’s a bigoted opinion, but at least it would be honest
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
You know you can just not reply…
You don’t need to reply and say you’re not replying again like it’s a warning.
I am fully ok with you spreading less misinformation about simple science on the Internet. It would be better if you actually understood anything we just talked about. But at this point just being silent is helping, so at least you kind of did the right thing in the end.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
What?
You said:
The forty years worth of proof you are referring to is in almost all cases where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.
And I replied:
Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…
If someone goes on puberty blockers, decides not to transition…
Then that is:
where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.
You keep saying your issue is with puberty blockers, but the only complaints you have is minors transitioning.
Since that doesn’t happen, you seem to be mad at blockers
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
The forty years worth of proof you are referring to is in almost all cases where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.
Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…
Which is what you said you’re worried about.
Like, you’re still talking about something besid s puberty blockers:
How much proof I would need is a tough question because it obviously requires testing on children and it’s an ethical issue.
Lots of children go on puberty blockers, the reason they’re going on them doesn’t change how safe they are.
At the end of the day, I’m not pretending to be an expert in puberty blockers,
I’m saying you don’t seem to know what they are. The temporarily block puberty. That is it. You keep wanting to take it to a possible surgery later as an adult, and claim the blockers are a permanent and irreversible step towards that
When that is just factually incorrect.
It is not an opinion we disagree on. It is a fact and you are wrong.
I’m saying that sometimes children need to be protected from themselves.
Literally what puberty blockers are…
So children don’t have to prematurely choose if they want to transition they take blockers until they are sure and mature enough to make that decision, which is almost always when they’re over 18.
If they change their mind, they just stop taking blockers.
I legitimately have no idea how to state it any plainer than this.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
There is very limited data regarding clinical proof that the long term use of puberty blockers is 100% reversible
There is about 40 years of real life use, and I think a good 20 years of study before that?
How much data from clinical studies and real world use do you need to feel comfortable?
Many people don’t trust children to make decisions that could impact them for the rest of their lives
But the permanent effects of puberty blockers are negligible…
What do you think is permanent about them?
I don’t think you understand what Puberty Blockers are…
You seem to be wanting to ban something completely different.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
Only for gender dysmorphia.
Which is still stupid to ban it for that, but a lot better than a total ban.
I don’t know why people are so worried about it. I was over 6 feet tall and shaving before I was a teenager, if I had been given the option to press pause for a few years I would have jumped on it.
There is pretty much zero negative side effects to puberty blockers, it literally just delays it and early puberty is an issue and one that continues to trend in the wrong direction.
nbcnews.com/…/puberty-starting-earlier-treatment-…
Obviously it can be much worse for girls than boys, but it was still fucking weird being a child and having people twice your age assume you were a peer.
- Comment on Why is Trump orange? 1 week ago:
Spray tan and/or makeup
Without it he looks like a ghost, for rallys and TV appareances he gets a touchup right before, but candids you can see what it looks like without in the edges.
It’s not that it looks good, it’s that without it he’d look a hell of a lot worse.
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 1 week ago:
Yep, and it’s not like it’s just cheaper, benefits packages are tied into compensation.
Say you pay $400, insurance says the real price is $800, and your employer only pays another $200 as a “discount” but the real cost is actually $600.
Without an employer, you have to pay the whole $800.
With a co-op you’d pay the actual real cost of $600.
It needs a critical mass of people.
And OP doesn’t understand a non profit still has a CEO that can be paid millions. The organization can’t make a profit, but lots of corrupt people make a lot of money running non profits.
- Comment on Can the public expect to get to see Luigi Mangione's 3 page manifesto in its entirety in a reasonable timeframe? 1 week ago:
This is America…
- Comment on Can the public expect to get to see Luigi Mangione's 3 page manifesto in its entirety in a reasonable timeframe? 1 week ago:
Likely never if he doesn’t live past the end of the trial.
But like, it’s not like the guys dead, or old.
He’s 26, and they’ll almost definitely say it’s terrorism linked, so 20 to life in NY.
He could be out before he’s 50 even if he loses.
Guy is from a very wealthy family and has access to the best lawyers. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s bailed out even. It’s a thing in NY for murder charges, and sometimes there’s not even bail, you get out but up $0, even for murder.
This guy wasn’t a mass shooter, he walked right past witnesses, but most importantly rich as fuck.
We’ll know what’s in it, because he can just tell us even if the cops keep it.
- Comment on I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change? 1 week ago:
Pick a hobby, literally anything.
Our brains want us to be productive, so it’s likes doing something and seeing a result. Even the most inconsequential thing will stop your brain from freaking out.
If you also feel like you need more social interaction, a good hobby would be online videogames. Play something with voice chat and just be super helpful. Teammates want to do something stupid? Back em 100% and they’ll be appreciative.
You went off on dating too, but it’s 2024. Throw up an online profile here and there, but dont make it your priority like you can fix everything else by getting a partner. Fix the other stuff to make yourself a better person, and just make yourself available.
Don’t try to fix everything with your life at once. You can (and should) work on multiple things, but pick one thing to focus, knock it down, and make a new priority. Basically don’t try to fix your life, it’s a giant task for anyone. Pick easy attainable goals that will improve your life, and knock them out one at a time to feel like.peogress is being made.
- Comment on Elon Musk Backed Trump With Over $250 Million, Fueling the Unusual ‘RBG PAC’ 2 weeks ago:
Dems won’t fight because they like the money too.
So we need to just rip the fucking bandaid off and realize we can’t fix anything with the neoliberals running the party.
They don’t want to fix the system because it benefits them. We’ve been trying to get them to listen and they just refuse to
It’s getting really close to the time we need to just start over. We just “won” but it didn’t even fucking matter because Biden and Dem leadership didn’t want to fix anything after we got them the Presidency, House, and Senate.
- Comment on Mammoth: It’s What Was for Dinner | A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction. 2 weeks ago:
Herds of buffalo just feel different when you realize they used to be the equivalent of bunnies in their ecosystem
- Comment on Why do people with lots of 'karma points' tend to be nothing but egotistical assholes? 2 weeks ago:
Your account is an hour old and Lemmy doesn’t have Karma…
So did you make a post complaining about Reddit and just forget youre not on Reddit?
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 2 weeks ago:
You think they’re the only ones with lead poisoning?!
You could be born today and still quickly accumulate enough lead to cause effects, especially living in a city because plants can soak up lead too. If it’s all concrete, that lead just keeps moving around till something alive picks it up.
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 2 weeks ago:
Because you’re assuming everyone thinks the same, so what would convince you would convince anyone else.
That isn’t true.
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 2 weeks ago:
That makes FEMA bad and ICE good in their hate filled minds
Humans are animals…
We need socialized at a young age so our ingroup/outgroup doesn’t form along racial lines.
If it does, it can be overcome with logic, but that takes constant effort, and as we age our minds go on “autopilot” more day to day, which is why old people who grew up pre-civil rights movement “become” racist as they age. Or after drinking or sleeping aids.
For them it’s a conscious effort to remember “they” are really “us”.
This isn’t my opinion or something I’m guessing at, it’s actual psychology.
Like, people laugh at Alabama being so backwards for banning Sesame Street when it became racially inclusive, and they get called for calling it “brainwashing” but even just seeing people of different ethnicities on TV is enough to blur the line for their entire lives.
I swear to God only the fascist option paying attention to science is the most maddening part of this.
Their voters are idiots, their politicians are idiots, but the people calling the shots aren’t idiots.
If you’re reducing them to “hate filled minds” then history will keep fucking repeating like it always does.
And it’s fucking getting old to have fascists keep showing up.
So I stead of imitating them and dehumanizing them, how about we do something with a snowballs chance in hell of working?
- Comment on Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate? 3 weeks ago:
Although I’m sure there was some genetic adaptation
It wasn’t so much spontaneous adaption…
There’s more genetic diversity inside of Africa than outside of it combined.
Very very few mutations have occured outside of Africa. Blue eyes is one of the few examples, but that was a perfect storm of something just breaking (what made pigment in the eye), allowing for greater nonverbal communication (pupil dilation became more obvious), and being very very obvious no matter how much clothes you were bundled up with.
It’s just Africa is so fucking diverse, that it’s rare for populations to become truly isolated and for the same certain recessive genes to become the most popular variation within a fixed population. It’s mostly just things like sickle cell that provides a benefit against a common cause of death even when recessive.
So I wasn’t talking about tribes mutating on the march North.
I meant the people who would expand north were more likely to have the recessive traits, mate with others, and consolidate them.
Besides, neanderthals had better tech then we did. The advantage was our faster reproduction cycle which allowed not just for greater numbers, but faster concentration of beneficial recessive traits to suit changing environments.
So like…
We have a real example that tech was second place to biology. This ain’t a hypothetical. You’re right tech played a part, just a smaller part.
- Comment on Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate? 3 weeks ago:
Yep.
And it’s not like someone went from Africa to Greenland on a walkabout.
It took generations for that kind of migration, some people decided they went far enough and stopped. But at every stop, the ones who could handle colder would expand North/South where there’s less competition.
They were repeatedly being selected for the people who could handle a slightly colder environment, so by the time the population reached the polar regions, all that was left was people with traits to handle the cold. Any remotely beneficial recessive gene would quickly replace dominant alleles in the population.
People think of evolution as spontaneous mutations, but really it’s just the concentration of recessive genes that have been around basically forever
- Comment on Missing Comments 3 weeks ago:
Probably something with federation running behind.
Like, you’re instance A, one of those accounts is on instance B, and the ones you can’t see are from instance C.
So A has an issue with C, but B doesn’t.
So A (you) can see comments from A and B. But B can see comments from A,B, and C.
A doesn’t see the C’s, but knows B has replied.
It’s also possible your app is the issue if not using web client.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Because your LLC is a person…
And we’d all prefer it not to be.
But business owners with better accountants than you spent a lot of money for the current arrangement.