JimmyMcGill
@JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 1 week 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 3 weeks ago:
I think you mean -1180s
- Comment on RIP America 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 (・∀・) 1 month ago:
Very late here but thank you for the post
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month 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 (・∀・) 1 month ago:
Fuck yea!
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month ago:
I see XD
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month 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] 2 months 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? 3 months 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 $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 3 months ago:
Games don’t cost 90$ 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 6 months 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? 6 months 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 8 months ago:
Legend!
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 8 months ago:
2 days till 100 let’s go!!
- Comment on Day 89 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 9 months ago:
My man ATTICUS!
Let’s go for 100
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 9 months ago:
Because our collective we is composed of many different people. You have brilliant scientific minds and genius artistic people and everyone in between. At the same time you have very empathetic people and others who would not hesitate to hurt someone for their gain.
Diversity is both a blessing and a curse.
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 9 months ago:
As other folk said, definitely do get the DLCs. There’s a whole other game in there.
It’s been a while since I last played, and this game IS a masterpiece, no doubt about that, but the one of the first sections can be rough. Iirc it’s gloomy af, there’s some hard monsters in some quests that can be demotivating and the combat/mechanics takes some getting used to which makes the previous point worse. Just know that the game opens up and there’s a whole world out there.
There are tons of side quests which are great, so you should do those but also don’t feel like you need to do all of them. It can be easy to get side tracked and then lose steam and quit on the main story.
Especially because like I said the DLCs are amazing. They are also quite self contained so it’s like a breath of fresh air
Enjoy this amazing game. I’m jealous of you
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 9 months ago:
I mean do you really have to suggest him that? He’s gonna get hooked like we all did
In any case W3 gwent is actually kinda crap in terms of balance but that just means you can own them super hard at some point
- Comment on Day 73 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Bulk Photo Post) 9 months ago:
Keep up the good work
You will be one of the Lemmy legends in the future
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 9 months ago:
DotA and Dota 2