WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is Gen Z so Poor? 1 week ago:
Every day I see posts by Liberals bashing Gen Z for being stupid, without any self-awareness that 50 years of neoliberalism created Gen Z and gave them a horrific future outlook in housing security, employment security, financial security, climate security… all the conditions necessary for fascism to flourish.
We’ve told them this would lead to fascism for decades, and they still think they were right, spending their time pointing their fingers at everyone but themselves.
- Comment on George Carlin everybody. 1 week ago:
Yup. I already had a vasectomy years ago, in my late 20’s. I wish I did it at 18.
At no point was I gonna accelerate the collapse or force my children to experience it.
- Comment on George Carlin everybody. 1 week ago:
When you look at what humanity has done to the planet, especially in the last century, an extremely selfish humanity — deserving of the suffering they cause themselves in their confusion — was always self-evident.
We’re quite literally killing the planet to the extent that it will likely become unviable for human civilization within a century or so, most living species will be exterminated, and billions of people will starve to death … and every day most of us choose not stop the destruction because it individually grants us a constant stream of dopamine hits from consumption and consumerism; the consequences are out of sight, and out of mind.
We’re extremely ignorant, arrogant, dopamine-drug-addict, talking chimps, on a one way trip to oblivion. If it makes you feel any better, we never really stood a chance.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Considering the mass of the earth, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be nearly impossible to capture a difference between a feather or bowling ball. You might have to release them at 100m or 1000m above the surface, but then maybe the moons miniscule atmosphere or density variances will have more of an effect.
- Comment on Unsubscribe? Nope! We'll Just Add You To An "Unsubscribers" List! 2 weeks ago:
Don’t contact the company. They’re breaking the law, and they know it. Report straight to the regulating authority.
- Comment on Volkswagen to shut three factories, axe jobs and cut pay by 10%, says union 2 weeks ago:
If the controlling shareholders and board can approve spending money they don’t have on a dividend, they should be held personally liable and fined for that 4.5 B.
We’re taught that corporate criminals can act with impunity behind the liability shield of an LLC, but it is only this way because the people accept it.
- Comment on Boeing workers reject contract proposal with 64% saying Boeing hasn't done enough. 3 weeks ago:
Multiple crimes were committed throughout the development and rollout of the max, including lying to the FAA, and killed several hundred people. I’m willing to bet some, if not all, of them should be serving life in prison.
But we live in corporate plutocracies, so they only suffered negligible financial consequences.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Statistical modeling and machine learning theory goes back several decades. I’m not sure LLM’s even use new algorithms. They may just apply various techniques that improve the performance and accuracy of pre-existing algorithms.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
TBF, the veracity of the information is relatively field dependent. Structural engineering? Yeah, probably still as relevant as the day it was published… Quantum computing or astrobiology theory? Far more likely to be superseded or debunked.
- Comment on Probably 4 weeks ago:
This is straight comedic gold. I like to imagine some elderly stenographer refused to retire and this is a common occurrence… or it’s some 3rd rock from the sun aliens first day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sorry for your loss, thank you for your service, my condolences, best wishes, etcetera.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Mental illness in its raw dog, rambling, least distilled form.
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 1 month ago:
Maybe the solution to return-to-work is manufacturing a bunch of fake news about remote workers being significantly less likely to unionize and more likely to take an ass pounding from corporate overlords?
- Comment on Tibetan Sand Fox 2 months ago:
It’s Glenn Powell’s spirit animal
- Comment on Useless Calendar Widget 2 months ago:
The problem is a lack of emphasis. Apple routinely completely ignores basic features and UXD in their apps, for years. If you don’t want to use an app in the exact rigid structure they want you to, you’re gonna have a bad time.
That’s why I only use a handful of Apple apps — the apps that have no possibility of vendor lock-in, and can be instantly replaced on any other OS (e.g. calculator).
- Comment on Disneyland unions agree to ‘historic’ 31% pay raise 3 months ago:
Realistically, this probably isn’t even a pay rise but an adjustment to align with inflation since 2020.
Reminder: every year your pay does not increase with inflation is a pay cut.
- Comment on Linguistics 3 months ago:
Adequately pondiferous.
- Comment on How I explain my job 4 months ago:
Stuff goes in. Stuff goes out. You can’t explain that!
- Comment on Bellbirds 4 months ago:
Never seen a goober-flange before?
- Comment on PSI 4 months ago:
As far as numbers go, it’s definitely a number.
- Comment on Elsevier 4 months ago:
It sounds like all it would take to destroy the predatory for-profit publication oligarchs is a majority of the top few hundred scientists, across major disciplines, rejecting it and switching to a completely decentralized peer-2-peer open-source system in protest… The publication companies seem to gate keep, and provide no value. It’s like Reddit. The site’s essentially worthless. All of the value is generated by the content creators.
- Comment on The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake 5 months ago:
Che was a cunt. Still probably not as much of a cunt as you, though.
- Comment on The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake 5 months ago:
Irrelevant. Studies have already been done and countries with a high minimum wage (literally 2.5x the US) have cheaper 1:1 menu items than the US.
Corporations exist to extract as much value as possible; not provide value.
- Comment on Ant smell 5 months ago:
What a shitty superpower
- Comment on Ant smell 5 months ago:
I don’t mean just stepping on an ant. I mean when you were little and climbing a tree or playing on the ground and crushed some ants, smelled your hand to figure out what it was, and it smelled like ants…
- Comment on Ant smell 5 months ago:
The only time I’ve smelt ants is when they get crushed. Are you telling me you could smell an ant trail just by walking into a room?
- Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 5 months ago:
The problem has always been that Google doesn’t give a shit about user feedback, so it isn’t easy to report an error in Google maps. If you miss a turn, or get bogged down, it should ask for route feedback every time. Either way you should fuck Google and use OpenStreetMaps to evolve a better, non-proprietary, free, alternative.
In 2010 I punched in a waterfall and followed the route. The road was sealed and fine, but Google Maps sent me down the opposite side of a mountain range. When I arrived at the end of the road and it said to continue going straight down a driveway I stopped. Only took a minute for an old mate to show up and tell me that the waterfall was on the opposite side of the mountain and there’s no road to get there before sundown. It’s always done shit like this, and I don’t expect Google to ever care enough to stop shit like this from happening.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 months ago:
User error
- Comment on Never Forget 6 months ago:
It’s evidence that we live in corporatocracies masquerading as “democracies”. The 0.1%, shielded by the liability protections of the corporations they own and armies of lobbyists, finance our politics, choose who ends up on the ballot, and shadow write most of our legislation and policies.
Trump is free because he is a part of that < 0.1%.
The Boeing execs who oversaw systemic fraud, lied to the FAA, and murdered 166 people ARE FREE AND RICH. Why? Because they are the 0.1%.
The IPCC hosts fossil fuelled climate summits in fossil fuel exporting countries, inviting fossil fuel corporations and lobbyists to attend — at a scientific conference about how to solve the crisis they created and profited from. Why? Because we live in corporatocracies.
- Comment on Israelis laughingly describing how they raped underage girls and mass executed Palestinians in cages during the Nakba 6 months ago:
Yeah, the smiling seems more like desensitization. He doesn’t seem to promote, excuse or justify the crimes. He knows they were horrific.
War is hell. None are moral. The difference is that some are completely unjustifiable (e.g. aggression or imperialism vs self-defence). Human rights abuses, rape, murder, torture, and psychopathy are present in every single warzone in history, and committed by both sides; though the volume of crimes can be extremely lopsided.
