Buffalox

@Buffalox@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more about the fraud rate

  AFAIK there is less fraud on sex pages than on facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a Victorianism syndrome,

  oxfordreference.com/…/acref-9780195176322-e-1665

  Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834—were introduced for the moral reform of paupers

  Where morality has nothing to do with actual morality like in whether it is doing harm. But everything to do with government making decisions over your private life and your body.

  This mindset is disgusting, immoral and childish. And it so permeate everything about most English speaking countries culture for some reason.
  It’s a kind of a thought police, that has no base in actual morality. But in bodily inhibitions and insecurities, supported by superstitions about an old man in the sky who disapprove.

  So anything having to do with naked skin and sex is a nono. Even if it’s not actually sex but only loosely related to it, like being gay or trans.

  If they were really serious about this sex thing, stating to be CIS should be exactly as problematic, and pushing the thought of marriage on children would be extremely immoral, because that too indicates sex. Which has almost become the sole purpose of marriage under the moral standards of Christianity, as it’s the only allowed form of sex.

  So in short, the answer to your question could be boiled down to “brainworm”.
  There is no logic or moral explanation, that doesn’t boil down to inhibitions, control and religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK I didn’t know that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Many things like shoes could easily be for both men and women, like for instance sneakers.
  But with the different size standards, that can’t work.
  The result being identical sneakers have a series for women and another for men! Although usually the colors are different. But what if we would rather have a choice of ALL the colors?
  It’s not just stupid it’s moronic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does a week of groceries look like to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1 kg of sliced Bacon, 2 dozen eggs, 4x 6 packs of beer.
  I prefer a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, so I’ve decided beer is vegetables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If any external factor made you create art, would your art be created by that factor?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you really making an argument akin to, since it’s your hands that create art, it’s your hands that are creative, not you??
  Can’t you see how the question you pose doesn’t even make sense?

  Depression is a state of mind, not inspiration for art. Depression is however a filter through which the art may be interpreted. But it’s a t most only part of a way more complex process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are US citizen, you must still pay taxes to USA when you work and live in another country.
  IDK if there are other things, but that’s pretty major for some people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Id guess renouncing your US citizenship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t get sufficient vitamin D from eating a normal healthy varied diet.
  So if you want to be sure, and don’t live a place where the sun gets above 45° year round, you need to take it as a supplement.
  It’s ridiculous to read labels to see if you get enough of all vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids. That’s insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mandatory to label sweetened water as not containing Cholesterol or trans fat?

  That’s outright moronic. Might as well demand labeling the amount of U35.
  It’s moronic to require labeling what’s NOT in it, it ads noise and hides what’s actually in it.
  I know American standards are sometimes stupid, but really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a maximum. A recommended limit that you should not exceed.

  Ah OK that makes better sense.

  it’s percent of daily recommendation.

  But that’s not the same as a “daily recommendation” which was what GBU_28 wrote, and I responded to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol…

  Those are the ones that are illegal, not protein 0g.

  The fat parts are illegal because those are not normal content for that kind of product, trans fats are also regulated, and advertising that something is within regulation is illegal. Because it implies other products are not.

  The salt part is probably OK since salt is sometimes added to this type of drink.

  It’s funny how some people can’t even spot the problematic parts when pointed out, because they are so used to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In reality there is no recommended sugar intake. We can do perfectly well with zero grams of sugar every single day for a whole life, without it causing a single health issue.
  So the label remains nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tips are legalized begging.
  Accepting a job where your pay is partially based on tips, effectively makes you a beggar.
  Offering a job that is partially based on tips, means you accept begging as part of your business model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only country I know of, that could have this shitty and misleading label and still be legal is USA, but I don’t know that for a fact.
  I think if I saw these labels here in Denmark, I would call the police or health authorities immediately on the spot, which AFAIK are responsible for observation of declaration rules on items meant for consumption.

  Those labels are not merely mildly infuriating, they are attempts at scamming consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  erythritol

  Shouldn’t that be on the label if it was in there too? How can you assume it is when it’s not labelled?

  IDK what shitty country this is from, but it’s for sure an illegal label here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This label is what’s called green-washing here, and is illegal unless what they are doing is a signifikant part of the price.
  The labeling of what’s NOT in the drink is also under similar regulation, but I don’t recall what it’s called.

  Whatever country this is from has bullshit regulation.
  The thing that is ABSOLUTELY NOT a problem is the Stevia which is clearly labeled!

  So the “mildly infuriating” part is completely misguided compared to the real problems of that product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s despicable. I’d be absolutely disgusted by that behavior, and tell him in no uncertain terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stellantis is fucking up so badly, they only have 1 car in top 20 here now!! (Denmark)
  It’s really sad, because they now also have Opel, which used to be a brand known for good quality, and I’m still rolling with an 18 year old Opel Vectra that is still going strong, which is from BEFORE it became Stellantis.
  We are considering buying an electric instead, and there is NOTHING from Stelantis we are considering, because we have lost trust in them.
  There are lots of bad stories with Stellantis cars here, cars breaking down and dealers not honoring warranties!! And extremely expensive repairs.
  The only car that is worse is Tesla. With 30% failure rate at the 4 year legally mandated safety check!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not a matter for personal action.
  It’s up to environmental scientists to figure out how we can deal with it, and then it’s up to lawmakers to make the laws accordingly.

  Of course if you are in the USA you are probably on your own. 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastic is very durable, will it make my brain last longer?
  Also plasticity of the brain is a crucial function, if it benefits the plasticity that would be great too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WHAT?!
  Why does he complain about a stupid OS being stupid?
  That doesn’t make much sense. 😋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The appropriate path is /usr/share.

  That’s a global folder, and not proper for storing “per user” data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK appdata are stored in ~/.local/share, but you don’t even have that folder!?!?!
  It’s not the Linux convention that’s fucked up in this regard, but your system.
  If you want it stored in ~/AppData, you need to make a link to it from ~/.local/share.

  I’m no expert, so there may be other ways to do it. but apparently your system doesn’t follow conventions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, it also seems to me when I call false claims out, they don’t care, they just go on to something else.
  Like when I call out how Anarchy in Russia couldn’t have been oppressed by capitalism, it’s changed to “those in power”.
  As I mentioned we were taught on these issues in public school in the 70’s, and already back then it was blatantly obvious to me that the model can’t work.
  And I’ve seen nothing to change that opinion since, and I am aware of confirmation bias, and I do occasionally try to review my opinions without prejudice.

  Thanks for your supportive response, it seems that for some reason there are a lot of anarchists here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  literally every single founder of anarchist thought

  You cant be serious?! Those people are hundreds of years to late to be founders of anarchism, from when the idea was reexamined 400 years ago. And the actual founder of the Idea was 2000 years ago.

  It would be easier to believe you, if you didn’t spew such bullshit. Also those were not new ideas when I was in 7th grade, I may be old, but i’m not THAT old.

  And also Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian Anarchist, so how exactly were his ideas suppressed by capitalism?

  When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick”.

  This is a nice quote though.

  just as an example, why do you think bakunin did this:

  Because he was anti Marxism/communism, as per the quote above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if I was unread on the topic.

  I never claimed that, just that I didn’t read any philosophers, there’s a huge difference between philosophers and real scientists. We were taught about political systems in 7th grade, so it’s quite stretch for you to claim people need to read philosophers to understand them.

  But i actually have read philosophers, but it wasn’t very big reads and it was long ago, doesn’t take much to recognize when you are confronted with bullshit.

  I agree, democracy is by far the greatest system ever created, that’s why I maximize it, I want democracy in the workplace, democracy for every single law,

  OK that’s not anarchy. maybe someone calls it so, but that has NOTHING to do with what anarchy actually means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever read a philosopher on democracy? If not, how can you such strong opinions without doing your research?
  It’s not like Anarchy is some very complex concept, Fundamental political ideologies are not that hard to understand, like theocracy, dictatorship, communism, democracy. It’s all pretty simple, and so is anarchy.
  And of all of the above, democracy is the best we have, but in that context, it’s important to notice that USA is NOT an actual democracy!!! It’s a flawed democracy, and the flaws are very fundamental.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You get a point for effort, but we will probably never agree on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you’ll have to demonstrate issues with the fundamental ideology that apply to all anarchist societies

  No you have to show it actually works, the idea of anarchy goes back to ancient Greece, and there has never been a functioning society based on it. Because it doesn’t function.

  the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeast Spain was controlled or largely influenced by various anarchist, syndicalist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era.

  Anarchists enter the government

  So it wasn’t anarchist, it was merely one among many groups, it had a traditional government, and it lasted for only 2 years.

  again you haven’t even begun to research the topic, but are very confident.

  I’ve accumulated experience about the topic over time since the 70’s. I’ve read philosophical books about forms of government, I’ve examined MANY types of governance, and examined why Communism works so poorly, while Social democracies seem to be just about the best form of government we have achieved yet. This is in combination with my interest in national economy, and psychology from an evolutionary perspective.

  Don’t you try to claim I haven’t examined the subject, when national governance is a high interest of mine through about 50 years now.
  And yes based on my experiences it’s extremely clear that anarchy is not a realistically functional form of governance. Anarchy for bigger societies is ONLY something countries devolve to, for instance after a war, and things ONLY get better when a proper government is restored. And by better I mean not killing each other, and not die of starvation, and the economy working and access to hospitals and education. All the things we normally take for granted in developed societies.

  I’ve presented to you the LACK of anarchist societies of scale as an indication it does not work. This means there is no proof it works, and since the idea and principles are clearly not working even in theory in my opinion, the lack of evidence to the contrary mean I see Absolutely no reason to believe it can work.

  You have shown NOTHING to make a plausible argument for anarchy, on the contrary everything I’ve been shown by you and others turn out to be clearly flawed and not support anything that is claimed.

  Again Anarchy as an idea dates back to ancient Greece for fucks sake, and there is NO society of scale in history to my knowledge that has proven it works even partially. It’s very easy to prove me wrong, because if there is, all you have to do is provide a link to said society.

  Many things have been tried for the past 2000 years around the globe, if Anarchy which has been a known theoretical model for all that time actually worked, it should be very widespread by now.

  Every single capitalist country immediately dogpiles and tries to destroy any anarchist movement,

  This is so much bullshit. the modern form of capitalism is only 5-600 years old. EVERY society before that cannot have been oppressed by capitalism.
  Capitalism also isn’t a form of governance, it’s a method to facilitate economic activity. Which is why ALL democracies are capitalist. Capitalism may suck hard, but we have nothing to replace it with yet.
  Anarchy is not an alternative to capitalism, on the contrary. Anarchy as an idea was always about pursuing individual interests. The exact opposite of socialism. To facilitate the pursuance of individual interests, capitalism in a democracy is the best model we know of.