LengAwaits
@LengAwaits@lemmy.world
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 1 week ago:
So let me follow your logic, then.
I’m saying I’m dumb just to “sound like an intellectual”. But saying I’m dumb actually doesn’t make me sound like an intellectual, like you think I think. I just am dumb, like I’ve been saying all this time, genuinely, with no audience other than you on a dead thread.
Whew. That’s a pretzel if I ever saw one.
Have you ever considered that there might be people out there who don’t think they’re as smart as you seem believe that you are?
I’m not an intellectual. I’m a 40-something man who has seen some shit and learned a lot, but never had the luxury of a college education. Of course I’d like to improve myself, who wouldn’t? For me that means acknowledging that I’m not as smart as I wish I were.
That said, if you wanna exchange addresses we could be real life pen-pals. I’m enjoying talking with you. You’re not as dumb as you think I am.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad we agree.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
So you’re a mind-reader and smarter than me?
I’m not in the habit of saying things I don’t mean. How does self-deprecation make one sound like an intellectual, exactly?
I am not a smart man. I do my best to get smarter every day, but I’m not inherently intelligent.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
You don’t do your due diligence on your conversational partners? Ones you waste this much time on?
Clearly you are smarter than me! But then, I already told you that I’m a moron.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 weeks ago:
It becomes wrong immediately, but wrong is not a binary state.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 weeks ago:
“One a cop is responsible for 1 murder he may as well continue to kill because 1 murder is the same as 30,000 murders.”
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
Are you telling me that you honestly believe that you’re intelligent? With a comment history like that!?
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
When did I ever say that I thought I wasn’t a moron? I’m at least smart enough to know that I don’t know much.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
My mother is dead.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 weeks ago:
You win!!! Congratulations!!! You’re a big boy with big opinions that are right!
For what it’s worth, I hadn’t said anything in this thread so far, so I’m not sure what you mean with your last sentence. Just pasted a link that I thought was interesting, related to the topic at hand. Then you got standoffish about it.
You keep looking for things to be mad about, though. Someday everyone will recognize you as the most smartestest and correctestest boy on earth.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
1 person being held with no due process is as bad as 30000.
Please explain this one to me, because I’m not understanding your math.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
"To understand revolutionary suicide it is first necessary to have an idea of reactionary suicide, for the two are very different. Reactionary suicide: the reaction of a man who takes his own life in response to social conditions that overwhelm him and condemn him to helplessness.”
“I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions.”
“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”
– Dr. Huey P. Newton
- Comment on It really is like this 3 weeks ago:
I hope that in publicly questioning the narratives I’ve been fed all my life I am not assumed to be advocating for China.
I just like to try to think critically, compare disparate sources, and not pretend that I’m somehow immune to propaganda.
It seems like people are quick to try to label me a tankie these days for engaging with the world in that way, but I don’t consider myself a tankie. It feels like a thought-terminating cliche.
- Comment on It really is like this 3 weeks ago:
Is there anything you could share that would shed more light on the Zenz thing? I’m not very keen on just “tuning out” my ideological opponents or dismissing them just because they don’t affirm my biases. I’d rather read up on it myself and decide.
Part of admitting that I’m not immune to propaganda, for me, is working to root it out wherever I can by reading and cross-referencing a wide range of sources. If my deepest beliefs and biases can’t stand up to that sort of scrutiny then I don’t want them anymore.
- Comment on Forgive them, for they know not what they do 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 months ago:
Small Apartments.
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 3 months ago:
Don’t worry, it only has ≤5 lines of text because the card is cropped. The artist credit line at the bottom of every card would mean that it indeed does have >5 lines of text. You just know how to extrapolate from incomplete data!
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 4 months ago:
I wiped my ass with a wadded up ball of 25 toilet paper squares for years because no one wanted to tell me about more efficient ways to do things. Bathroom things are like your paycheck. They say you shouldn’t talk about it, but it needs to be talked about.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 months ago:
There’s also the issue that after the moon landing we didn’t really improve that much and much of the knowledge faded
- Comment on 'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords 5 months ago:
Cities: Skylines II Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords
For months, players have been complaining about the high rents in the city-building sim. This week, developer Colossal Order fixed the problem by doing something real cities can’t: removing landlords.
The rent is too damn high, even in video games. For months, players of Colossal Order’s 2023 city-building sim, Cities: Skylines II, have been battling with exorbitant housing costs. Subreddits filled with users frustrated that the cost of living was too high in their burgeoning metropolises and complained there was no way to fix it. This week, the developer finally announced a solution: tossing the game’s landlords to the curb.
“First of all, we removed the virtual landlord so a building’s upkeep is now paid equally by all renters,” the developer posted in a blog on the game’s Steam page. “Second, we changed the way rent is calculated.” Now, Colossal Order says, it will be based on a household’s income: “Even if they currently don’t have enough money in their balance to pay rent, they won’t complain and will instead spend less money on resource consumption.”
The rent problem in the city sim is almost a little too on the nose. Over the last few years real-world rents have skyrocketed—in some cases, rising faster than wages. In cities like New York, advocates and tenants alike are fighting against the fees making housing less and less affordable; in the UK, rent is almost 10 percent higher than it was a year ago. From Hawaii to Berlin the cost of living is exorbitant. Landlords aren’t always to blame, but for renters they’re often the easiest targets.
From this perspective, perhaps Cities’ simulator is too good. Prior to this week’s fix, players found themselves getting tripped up on some of the same problems government officials and city planners are facing. “For the love of god I can not fix high rent,” wrote one player in April. “Anything I do re-zone, de-zone, more jobs, less jobs, taxes high or low, wait time in game. Increased education, decreased education. City services does nothing. It seems anything I try does nothing.”
On the game’s subreddit, players have also criticised “how the game’s logic around ‘high rent’ contrasts reality,” with one player conceding that centralized locations with amenities will inevitably have higher land values. “But this game makes the assumption of a hyper-capitalist hellscape where all land is owned by speculative rent-seeking landlord classes who automatically make every effort to make people homeless over provisioning housing as it is needed,” the player continued. “In the real world, socialised housing can exist centrally.”
This is true. It exists in Vienna, which the New York Times last year dubbed “a renters’ utopia.” Except, in Vienna the landlord is the city itself (it owns about 220,000 apartments). In Cities: Skylines II, the devs just got rid of landlords completely.
The change in-game will have “a transition period as the simulation adapts to the changes,” and the developer “can’t make any guarantees” with how it will impact games with mods. Although the update aims to fix most of the problems at hand, that doesn’t mean players should never expect to see rent complaints again. When household incomes are too low to pay, tenants will be loud about it. “Only when their income is too low to be able to pay rent will they complain about ‘High Rent’ and look for cheaper housing or move out of the city.” Maybe it’s time players had a few in-game tenant groups of their own.
- Comment on Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like. 5 months ago:
Call yourself whatever you want, at the end of the day we’re all utopianists who’re overly self-assured that our favorite pet-theory-system will eventually remove all suffering.
“If my vision for society were adopted, the world would be perfect!”
Keep dreaming. We’re fucked.
- Comment on Those poor plants 5 months ago:
There was a good discussion of this on Reddit recently. Sorry to link to Reddit, but it’s a good, topical post worth perusal.
- Comment on Anon's gf is unfulfilled 5 months ago:
Educating your partner on what you think love is, and what you seek in a relationship is good. How can they be expected to know, otherwise?
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 6 months ago:
The main difference is who owns the means of production. In communism, the government does. In socialism, the people do.
What would we call a hybrid system in which the government is made up of the people and owns the means of production? Democratic Communism?
- Comment on [US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options? 8 months ago:
I’m not sure about that, as I’ve seen conflicting information. Medicare has existed for around 60 years, and not only have patients been more satisfied with their care on average than people with private insurance, the costs have also lower than private insurance overall. Couple those factors with metrics from the most recent study I was able to find on the cost of single payer, and the picture seems a bit muddier than you’re presenting it.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8170543/
