Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation 7 minutes ago:
Yeah, it absolutely is. Hopefully they knock it out of the park.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 hour ago:
Not ‘every company of a certain size’, all of the means of production would be worker owned. In practice what this would mean is that if you run a business you can’t continue to extract profit from workers without compensating them or allowing them a collective voice in what the profits are used for. Whether they want to run that as a co-op (which can include consumers and not just workers, eg REI) is up to them. There isn’t a central government directing this under communism, as the eventual goal is for the state to no longer be necessary. I think that part is unlikely to happen naturally and communists are pretty vague about it IME, I’m more of the opinion that capitalism needs to be legislated out of existence and kept that way with a strong government. But implementing more widespread adoption of worker-owned companies is going to be necessary if we want to get out of this goddamned mess, because letting one guy (or a board of guys) decide what quality of life tens of thousands of people have clearly isn’t working.
I don’t believe the owners of a company should be compensated, because they’ve already been vastly overcompensated by the wealth they extracted from the workers and they should count themselves lucky if they’re not in an Ayn Rand situation afterwards. Because the thing is, if you’re actually wanting to do something cool, you don’t care if it’s going to make you rich as long as it’s not tanking the company. Think about how many scientists, engineers, artists, etc have been held back or had incredible projects canceled because some CEO decided that x% profit on it wasn’t a good enough return. Do you imagine that would happen with nearly as much frequency if, say, the organization was entirely owned and run by the highly skilled professionals actually doing the work and interested in it?
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 2 hours ago:
Show your work.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 hours ago:
Capitalism requires private, profit based ownership of the means of production. Not all worker owned businesses are profit seeking, or any profit they obtain beyond operating/wage costs is redistributed to the workers/voted on for how to use it. Without a profit motive and private ownership you’re cutting out a huge portion of what makes capitalism so destructive.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 4 hours ago:
Presumably the same way worker owned businesses work now.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 20 hours ago:
Nope, and that’s not what I said. The claim was that capitalism is the only system that has ever worked at a nationwide scale. The fact you brought up feudalism as an alternative shows it clearly wasn’t the only system that ever worked. And just like the divine right of kings was eventually found distasteful and overthrown throughout most of the world, so too can people come to find the capitalist system distasteful and replace it. It’s not a law of nature that people must operate under capitalism.
- Comment on Bleep bloop 23 hours ago:
I once had a dude working on monitoring the self checkouts get mad at me for having a bag that made the machine freak out and lock itself down when I sat it in the bagging area. Nothing crazy, just a normal canvas grocery bag. I don’t control your manager setting it so that anything heavier than the paper store bags set it off, dude!
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
If you’re using capitalism to mean monetary trade, you’re the one redefining words. See the generally accepted meaning here on Wikipedia; it specifically revolves around private ownership of the means of production for the purpose of profit. Maybe you could name a capitalist society in existence prior to the 1600s, if you think everyone else is just defining capitalist wrong?
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
Psst: workers own the means of production under communism.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
Crazy that nowhere in the world had functional societies until the past couple of centuries. Just wild.
- Comment on Is that good? 2 days ago:
The weird thing is that’s not even a tarot card. It just showed up when you did.
- Comment on wet the drys 3 days ago:
All that work just to put pregrated cheese from a shake carton on it?? If you’re weirdly in love with it you do you, but otherwise do yourself a favor and grate some real parm onto that.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 5 days ago:
Ask the people who think the dodecahedrons are for knitting, because that’s the only thing they’d be able to knit with it :p
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 5 days ago:
I don’t think most knitters would be able to do anything with a bunch of wire, and it doesn’t seem like the dodecahedrons have the kind of wear that wire crafting would entail. I also don’t know that crafting wire into a necklace would necessarily translate to skill in knitting gloves, or even mean people would have the idea for it.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 5 days ago:
Is this really considered knitting and not metalworking?
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 6 days ago:
There is no evidence of knitting in the Roman Empire, which if it was there is weird when you consider how much art they made that shows other parts of their daily lives and how many deities they had for every aspect of life.
The solid ones would also be completely useless for knitting gloves. And why are these typically found in hoards of money if they’re a part of domestic life? It just doesn’t fit the available evidence. I don’t think it’s a bad idea, but it doesn’t work to explain all of them.
- Comment on How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month 6 days ago:
“I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the way.”
Motherfucker, you did that!
- Comment on The man suspected of pushing a woman into the path of an oncoming bus killed himself. He told his family that the police investigation was “murdering him”. 6 days ago:
His sisters said there was no forensic evidence linking Brandram to the Putney incident and that he had a prominent military tattoo and a withered calf which, they said, distinguished him from the man in footage of the attack on 5 May 2017.
That morning, Brandram had walked from his home in Notting Hill Gate to his office in Bond Street and sent his sisters an email from his work account, which they said he could only access from his workplace. They said that evidence was passed on to the police.
They added that Brandram had volunteered to take part in an identification parade and provided his DNA for comparison with a sample recovered at the time of the incident. Hicks said detectives told Brandram just days ago that they still did not know when the DNA analysis would be completed.
If the details of this are true I’m betting police just did some AI “analysis” to find someone to blame it on without any deeper investigation.
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
One of us knows we can only say this shit online and it’s not me :)
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
Dare you to go to an Irish bar and try saying that shit, lol
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
and that Ireland trusts the UK to the point the UK in effect provides the maritime and air defence of Ireland
Who the fuck is even trying to attack Ireland except the Brits?? Weird ass imperialist cope.
- Comment on if I rip a fart, will putting a fan facing out the window or facing in from the window clear the stink out faster of the room? 1 week ago:
Fart directly into an air purifier and it’ll get removed even faster. Only works with the ones that use a carbon filter, I think.
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
Don’t start shit if you can’t take shit 🤷♂️ Nobody asked you to come in here and make up some story about why Irish occupation is Good, Actually.
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
‘Yeah well we were conquered a millennia ago, so actually you’re not allowed to complain about what is still ongoing to you‘ is the dumbest Brit cope I’ve run into.
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
Okay? First commenter is still correct.
- Comment on the lesson here is you tried your best 1 week ago:
whack wow, this is so easy whack I’m really good at this whack
- Comment on Republicans after seeing Hasan Piker's meat on the jumbotron 1 week ago:
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 2 weeks ago:
Chewy.com might have it at the same price or cheaper.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 2 weeks ago:
But if you pronounce it like the show, every Spanish speaker has the right to whoop your ass just once
- Comment on Cat vs Dog 2 weeks ago:
