JimmyMcGill
@JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s entirely true
Everyday society chooses to save a persons life and not another’s
Not explicitly but not so indirectly either
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
I think a billion id take because you can save thousands and thousands of people
I could live with that choice. Maybe in the end I’d feel so guilty that I wouldn’t even use the money for myself at all.
Which is an interesting debate as well. How does your answer change if you can’t use that money for you or known people at all, and only “for good”. Do you feel less guilty?
As another commenter said it’s just a different version of the trolley problem
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
PS3 was on one the best consoles ever released tho
Maybe the library was meh (I didn’t really notice it) but from a hw it was peak. It was famously sold at a loss based on how much power it had
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release 3 weeks ago:
Probably not no
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 5 months ago:
It will still happen is a bit of a fallacy. It’s one less person doing that job but I agree that one person won’t make a meaningful change
However the thing that changes is that if you reject that job you reduced by 100% your direct contribution to people killing missiles. Someone else will design that missile but at least you won’t have to live with the guilt that you did
Now, if it’s between that and a much worse life, I won’t blame anyone. But it’s a choice that everyone has to make for themselves. Personally I have possibility to reject those offers, and so I do.
- Comment on It's true. 9 months ago:
Half truths aren’t facts nor science
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 10 months ago:
Or for me it would make CP2077 and hundreds of other games free to play on the Steam deck (since I already own them)
- Comment on Ahem, well well 10 months ago:
I think you mean -1180s
- Comment on RIP America 10 months ago:
Fuuuuck this is depressing
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 11 months ago:
First I’m not from the US
Second, yes ofc it’s politics. Nobody is disagreeing on that.
Third even in Europe this is becoming a problem even if the inequality gap doesn’t grow as fast
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 11 months ago:
Yes new jobs will be created but more and more wealth is concentrated at the top
It’s not the apocalypse but it’s also not not bad in many ways.
Technological progress should only be a good thing but in a capitalist society like ours it has a lot of downsides too (for the majority of the population ofc)
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 11 months ago:
Supposedly
But things need to become real bad
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 11 months ago:
Nobody is arguing that technology won’t progress. Even Marx defends that as a precondition for socialism/communism.
The question is the following. Tomorrow a ground breaking technology is developed that makes literally everyone twice as productive. (Please let’s ignore the technical aspect of this. I’m simplifying for the sake of the argument, but this is happening at some paces everywhere).
Now you have 3 options:
- Everyone can just work half the time for the same productivity. I.e. the economy can sustain itself with people just working less (which is a MAJOR quality of life increase).
- Everyone works the same amount of time but their salaries double.
- Everyone works the same amount of time. Their salaries increase a small %, perhaps keeping up with inflation, perhaps a tiny bit more than that, sometimes even not keeping up with inflation. The added productivity results in increased wealth aggregation at the top.
Number 1 is what people are talking about in this thread.
Number 2 won’t happen because salaries aren’t actually tied to productivity. Productivity just sets a higher limit on salary that in any case is never reached. The salaries are actually determined by competition between workers.
Number 3. Has been happening since the seventies and will continue to happen.
- Comment on wtf 11 months ago:
Yea but also tools
We don’t have to stop for water, we can bring some
Same for food
Our preys didn’t have such luck
- Comment on (・∀・) 11 months ago:
Very late here but thank you for the post
- Comment on (・∀・) 11 months ago:
Thank you for your work
I wish to subscribe to more anti pasta info
I’ll have the panda one now if you have time
- Comment on (・∀・) 11 months ago:
Fuck yea!
- Comment on (・∀・) 11 months ago:
I see XD
- Comment on (・∀・) 11 months ago:
You know Lemmy is getting good when you have comments like this
Like how the fuck do you know so much about koalas? It’s a rethorical question mostly. Thank you for sharing :)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Because they only want validation
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 year ago:
Competition for entertainment is higher than ever. You even have extremely good free games
An upward increase makes sense only because corporations will try to squeeze every possible cent from consumer. That’s the only justification that they need
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 year ago:
Games don’t cost 90$ today for other platforms tho… even Nintendo that are a few years old still cost basically the same as at launch
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 year ago:
No, I disagree. If things are really fucked (as they are) 30% of a population is more than enough to enact change. If they are really motivated to do so. Get most of those 30% only the street and you see what power it has.
Of course with 80/90% it’s easier. Much much easier but that’s just fantasy land. You can get 90% of the population to agree on many basic facts, so you can forget about having then agree to protest together.
Plenty of revolutions were made, and dictatorships overturned with much fewer people on board.
I very much disagree on how much power 30% of the population has. Yes the electoral system you have in the USA is beyond stupid. However voting is only the easiest and most polite way to make change.
Go on strike, protest, build some guillotines. If the population really wants it, change will be made, even if it’s only 15/30%. Because the remainder of that population will not opposite necessarily. They just don’t care enough to protest.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 year ago:
That’s just wrong
Put 20/30% of the population of any city or county out on the streets and it will make headlines
It’s technically a loud minority but a very loud and significant minority
The problem is that of those 20/30% only 10% will actually get out on the streets so you are left with around 2% of the general population. And that ain’t much
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 1 year ago:
I get your point but tbf they aren’t exactly cheap ass quality. I am always actually surprised that they are fairly decent
Ofc if you buy some they will sound even better but the free ones are still better than no plugs for both health and sound reasons. Without them not only is everything super loud it is also very noisy (frequency wise)
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 1 year ago:
Every concert I’ve been to here in Switzerland has provided them free of charge. Always use them
- Comment on Day 173 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 year ago:
Black flag was great.
But are you playing with reduced graphics or did the game age that poorly?
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 1 year ago:
2k hours on DotA2. No regrets. It’s an amazing game. I loved “studying” that shit. Optimizing my game.
I was never really that good but that isn’t the point
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 year ago:
Legend!
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 year ago:
2 days till 100 let’s go!!