MolochAlter

@MolochAlter@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because less and less legitimacy and authority is vested in the individual and their bloodline, meaning even dictators can be replaced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume “how” is referencing the “change your habits” part, because getting off social media is simply a matter of choosing to do so, so I’ll answer accordingly.

  Changing habits is not easy, in my experience finding hobbies you like is a great way to get out of your routine which then helps you notice what habits make you less happy since you’re no longer just going with the flow, but YMMV on that.

  In general, it takes time and effort to vet your habits.

  I’m not a professional, so I don’t have concrete methods other than my own, which is to “test” them: stop doing the thing for a week, assess how you feel afterwards, then go back to it and see if you feel better or worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. It does not matter if you look at twitter on the official app, a frontend, your neighbour’s door’s peephole, it’s still twitter, it’s still a cesspit, curate your feed better or leave it altogether.

  2. Socialism is an adventist secular religion. It provides no tools to alleviate suffering because it is based on the whole concept that problems will be solved “when the revolution comes” and “when we abolish private property” and so on (see this comment for a perfect example).

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  If you want to feel better, do what you can to improve your situation now. This means: find a better job, change your habits for better more fulfilling ones, stop doomscrolling social media designed to rot your brain keep you engaged, find a better friend circle if the people around you reinforce these feelings of doom.

  The feelings of “can’t find love” have a lot to do with the people you hang out with, or lack thereof if your social media diet takes up enough of your mental energy to impact your feelings.

  Go touch grass, find a hobby to do with others, preferably groups of mixed age, background (sex, race,etc), and beliefs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What belongs to who when it comes to wealthy families?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, financially stable parents who pay for their kids’ clothes, phones, cars, etc. will say, “I paid for it, so it belongs to me.”

  Financially “stable” just above the poverty line or formerly poor parents, yes.

  In my experience, rich people don’t look at the bill or who owns what.

  They will occasionally use the concept of having supported someone financially as a cudgel, depending on the person, but they will never go “well those shoes I bought for you are still mine because it was my money” cause the shoes don’t matter nor does the money used to buy them.

  It is literally “the thought that counts”, because the dollar amounts are trivial.

  As for who owns what in the broader sense of family fortunes, that really depends on what kind of wealth and the culture they are from. Are they old money? are they nobles? are they new money? This will largely dictate who is actually in control of the “family” holdings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a WiiU for Bayonetta 2.

  Not only was the WiiU itself little more than a paperweight beyond running it, the game itself was extremely lackluster and simplified.

  I didn’t even bother emulating bayo 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Lemmy, what are your thoughts on Mixtape?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The latest in a long line of walking simulators aimed at sad over-the-hill millennials.

  Everything I see of it feels borderline focus tested to hit the dopamine centers of random game journalists like a stinger missile annihilating a civilian target.

  Hard pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True or false: "Reading and studying socialist theory is the cure to AI psychosis."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how replacing one form of sycophantic validation slop with another would help, if not maybe for the fact that socialist theory is non-interactive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s been a plumber for 40+ years, he will know what it would have cost you, if you tell him.

  You can be matter-of-fact about it and not belabour the point by catastrophizing a possible outcome.

  “Hey dad, we dodged a bullet. A fitting was loose but they caught the leak and there is no permanent damage, I’m going to go fix it”

  If he’s not an idiot he won’t need reprimand, he’ll know he fucked up, and the potential size of the fuckup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you (a regular American citizen) had actionable, insider knowledge about the US Federal Government/Military and felt the public should know, how would you tell everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d probably end up shooting yourself twice in the back of the head after posting this if anything you knew was actually actionable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to not know who a famous person is?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to think I recognize your authority to give me orders. I don’t.

  No, he’s giving you free advice on how not to be an insufferable dickhead in public; advice that you seem to desperately need, and this is coming from an atheist, before you think I am playing team sports.

  It’s a very simple concept: if all you’re contributing to a conversation is the equivalent of coming into the room and violently jerking yourself off while going “hurrrr look how big my dick is” you’re being actively detrimental to the conversation no matter if you’re right or wrong.

  You can engage with the conversation while disagreeing with the premise, that is not what you’re doing. You are just being a smug teenage dickhead who needs to butt into every conversation to, if nothing else, reinforce the idea that there should be harsher barriers to being on the internet in the mind of everyone looking at your “contributions.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the first thing the internet says whenever a relationship post comes up is: "Red Flag"/"Break Up"/"Divorce"/"Don't Walk, Run"/"Go No-Contact"/"Let them die in a nursing home"/etc...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a few contributing factors:

  1. Posts asking for this kind of advice always come from people who either did not do anything wrong in the interactions they are describing, or think they did not, either way they will not offer a fair description of events, which means the readers will be primed to think they are entirely in the right and victimised for no reason by the other party, which is something that does warrant separation over reparation.
  2. There is a general culture of disposability, especially in the US, around everything, not just relationships. You need only check the level of repairability of appliances over the decades to see it in practice, and the mindset extends to most things. Employees don’t work how you want them to? Fire and get new ones, phone broke? Trash it and get a new one, issues with your partner? you get the picture.
  3. In your specific case, !DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works, you have a tendency to ask a lot of questions about your mental health and perceived shortcomings, and their relationship with your extremely sheltered, unorthodox upbringing, while also being extremely adamant not to do anything to change the relationship you have with your parents. Not to mention the stuff you routinely write in OffMyChest. Do not be surprised, when you bring these connections to the table, that people tell you to distance yourself, since you can also clearly see there is a toxic element to that relationship.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brown lentils.

  • Dice onions, celery, carrots, in equal volume.

  • Stirfry them in a pot with some olive oil.

  • Throw in a sausage or some other meat with a strong flavour, just a small amount, stirfry until the outside is seared.

  • Add a can of lentils and a can of tomato chunks and sauce, cook until the chunks have rendered.

  • Serve with polenta or another neutral side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with people liking old devices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked up an old amplifier from my parents, they bought it for their day’s equivalent of 4-500 bucks to use with their LP player, which has since died.

  It’s a Scott from the 70s, made in the US, and it somehow now appreciated over inflation if you look at the sale prices on ebay and the like (~700€).

  When setting it up i opened it to see if it needed cleaning out, and the insides were pristine, and clearly hand soldered.

  The sound is clean as a whistle, it’s compatible with RC cables, and has a standard European plug. Not only does it not need upgrading, it stands head and shoulders over what you can get today for the same price they bought it for.

  Sometimes, products made before planned obsolescence were just better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Jetpack cat”? Really? That desperate, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I know this will be a bit of a read, but:

  Capitalism vs Croney Capitalism

  In an ideal scenario, a “free market” is a market that may be regulated but not in such a way that the state uses its institutional powers to play favourites.

  Either a good or service can be provided on the market, which means that within the limits of the law any group or individual can provide that service, or the service is banned, meaning it won’t be allowed for anyone to provide.

  Depending on who you ask, even simple barriers such as licenses to operate and OSHA guidelines are forms of interference with the free market; the reality is that in practice perfect information does not exist and society at large prefers limiting the ability of the incompetent to do harm accidentally or through negligence, rather than having them punished after the fact.

  Croney capitalism is when these barriers are not only present but erected (typically by the government, but it could also be done by other regulatory bodies) in such a way that they deliberately privilege certain preferred entities (the aforementioned cronies) over others.

  This, much like redlining was discriminatory to black people despite mentioning them explicitly, does not have to be an explicit bias, it can be as simple as tuning requirements to make them prohibitive to companies not already established in the market to prevent new competition from coming into existence.

  The US definitely has a big issue with this at multiple scales.

  What is the best solution

  I find the best approach to markets is to look at their elasticity.

  An example of a highly elastic market could be videogames. Nobody needs videogames to survive, nobody needs a specific videogame to exist, it’s entirely driven by preference and unnecessary voluntary spending, you have full access to the entire market regardless of where you are provided you can pay the price of admission.

  Perfect field to build a market around, the client will naturally gravitate to whatever offer they find provides the best value for money, companies will read the signals and adapt, etc.

  A highly inelastic market is, for instance, emergency healthcare. Whenever you are in the market for it, you definitionally have an urgent, time sensitive, geographically limited need for the product. You can’t shop around beyond that range and failure to find the product usually means permanent consequences potentially as severe as death.

  In that case, a market is a terrible solution to the problem, as markets have no incentive to capillarise at a loss, and want to price their goods and services based on the value to the client, which in this case would be infinite.

  A market handling healthcare without a non-profit option competing with it is a recipe for disaster, while flanked by one it becomes extremely beneficial.

  Italy and France, 2 of the best healthcare systems in the world in terms of cost per capita and outcomes, are mixed systems where you can go to the state healthcare system for anything and pay a nominal amount (to deter timewasters) or you can get private insurance or pay out of pocket for private alternatives that have to follow the same standards as the public sector at minimum. This helps treating niche conditions or skipping the line on severe common conditions, meaning those who can afford private treatment will lessen the load on the public sector, reducing queues for those who can’t afford it.

  In short: The best approach is looking at each market category and making tailored solutions that best fit the kind of good/service being dealt with.

  Some markets, like security, are better left in the hands of a few strictly regulated entities, other are better served by a fully free approach (like luxury goods), most important things fall somewhere in the middle, where some state interference/mediation objectively leads to the best outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All great mechanic driven games do this to an extent.

  I had this with Portal and Minecraft back in the day, it’s just because they’re games that force you to think with their mechanics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My answer to those is always “i code for money, I don’t code in my free time”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the idea itself, as insane and barely disguised a fetish as it is, isn’t even that bad, to me.

  It’s the planned aftermath that is pretty horrendous?

  The idea that they would need that for their relationship to evolve in a positive direction when they’re already basically a couple by Shindig is genuinely sad, if they wanted that grim a story beat they should probably place it after they’re already an established couple and Mal has gotten over his shit about companions, then there’s some good meat on the bone in terms of character dynamics to explore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ~ Man who never did drugs, 2025

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I should’ve said “accidental byproduct of non-consensual experimentation on the population” but yeah, still beyond the pale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  • Given how Serenity turned out, firefly’s cancellation was probably for the best, making the reavers the intentional by-product of alliance experiments completely destroyed the nuances of the factions in the war of independence.

  • Inuyasha ran out of ideas 10-15 tankobon in, and Takahashi just kept milking it for the money.

  • Every fandom that accepts the “x is for everyone” motto is accepting enshittification and casualization with open arms. Air and water are for everyone, even bread has people who dislike it, for something to be unique it necessarily will have haters. The right word is anyone.

  • Archer had a bit of a dip when Adam Reed left the writing team but it recovered and had one of the best endings possible for a series that long lived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it does not fit the definition.

  It would probably fit reckless endangerment, but murder requires the intent to cause death specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are the arms bearers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/2025_Dallas_ICE_facility_shoot…

  I dunno where the others are but they better be at the range, cause this guy did the opposite of helping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely affecting it, yes.

  For most people being sexually desired and knowing they are is a very important part of a relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason the USSR did the same shit to subvert countries all over the world?

  Power blocks are the basic concept underpinning modern multipolar foreign policy decisions, it’s not rocket science.

  The difference is liberal capitalism won eventually, and the USSR didn’t.

  Communism didn’t and never will exist in a vacuum, you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, bud, that’s why communism worked every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re correct, you’re just being too literal in your understanding of the statement.

  Will people occasionally work for free? Sure. For friends, family, friends of friends, hell even strangers sometimes, volunteering is a thing, sure.

  Will they work for free reliably and consistently enough that they can be built upon by other people?

  Obviously not, they sometimes don’t even do it for money.

  Society as it is today, with its insane population count and highly specialised workflows, requires an insane amount of logistics that absolutely can’t bear “random cunt #354 decided not to work this month so the boat is without a captain” levels of random disruption without heavy consequences; this is incidentally also why strikes are extremely effective.

  No society that evolved beyond subsistence did so without some obligation to work, whether through monetary incentives or straight up serfdom/slavery; and if subsistence is all you want, I’m sure you can go live in like, some tribal commune on a Pacific island somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that, it’s the trade halt that points to something major (and bad for them) happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but you should write that by hand on clean paper