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- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 12 minutes ago:
Being intentional about it can help. A handful of suggestions I don’t see in the top replies.
Volunteer: If there are any causes which you think are definitely good, find a local chapter (even something related) and show up! See what you can do for them. Make a friend and learn a bit about what they find fulfilling/interesting.
Travel and talk: If you’ve got money put aside, I might suggest a larger trip through (EU, US, broader culture, etc). You want to take a long train and talk with others traveling, see what they’re working on, hear how their lives have gone. Ask about their time after high school. See some historical sites, some art, and some local foods.
Local events: Check out the programming at a local library, pub, etc. Go to several things and see what’s happening!
Consider reading something like atomic habits (or in its genre); dreams aren’t terribly effective for doing things. Things get done because they’re important to who you are. If there’s a kind of person you want to be, focus on doing little things that reinforce that image.
- Comment on US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" 22 hours ago:
So let’s add this to the platform of everyone, please. If you’re opposed to genocide and capitalism gone mad, this seems like an easy win.
- Comment on US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" 22 hours ago:
Would be nice for others to platform this too! Write and ask your rep about it.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 1 day ago:
Library has better entertainment than the stuff I pay for, so I’ve got that going for me.
- Comment on How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business? 2 weeks ago:
to be fair, shutting down yourself is pretty easy on the corporate espionage scale.
- Comment on How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business? 2 weeks ago:
I recommend politics. Local politics can get their presence in your neighborhood to chill, set examples for other municipalities, and lead to broader office (if done well). Legal, community driven, and fairly direct. Does require talking to your neighbors, sometimes in public, which is a substantial downside.
Failing politics, I think your next best bet is probably attempting to do some hacking/espionage work. LLMs make this more scalable than it used to be, and they seem pretty happy to hack big companies. Costs a lot of money, will enrich other tech bros with high probability, definitely illegal, and it’s pretty hard to do this hard enough to crush the business (tho if you can siphon enough money out???). But you won’t have to talk to a neighbor or speak in public, so that’s nice.
- Comment on Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts? 2 weeks ago:
(Were this the case in the minds of these law&order judges, all would be struck down by 8th amendment. They are not, so at least one class of informed folk disagree.)
- Comment on Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts? 2 weeks ago:
Because citizens (even criminal ones) have a right not to be subject to cruel and inhuman punishment; and pulling the plug medically is very likely at least one of those. There’s a question of if it is possible to reliably have humane executions, but clearly TN isn’t good at it.
- Comment on They say "Change is slow" for anything that benefits the working class, but change is always instant for the Billionaire Class. 2 weeks ago:
I gave an example, no? Flight prices (on legs with a low-cost-carrier) are quite cost responsive, and have certainly raised and lowered back to where they started.
- Comment on They say "Change is slow" for anything that benefits the working class, but change is always instant for the Billionaire Class. 2 weeks ago:
Are we sure this is economically unreasonable? I think this happens in many financial systems; all you need is for a price increase in one place to cause cost increases at a delay (ie, fast inflation), eg: by workers getting paid more so they can afford the aforementioned price increase.
(We should also note there are markets that don’t do this. Air travel is a notable example.)
More interesting to me is price spikes when there’s no actual increase in costs. Several of those as of late.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
One should probably at least consider the military applications. Meteors killed the dinosaurs…
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 5 weeks ago:
(I’ll note that even states refused to pursue Musk. It appears that you can claim to do something illegal for a few hours on the internet, reap the media rewards, and then edit the post. Political activists, do take note.)
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 5 weeks ago:
Presidential immunity only extends to official acts see here. That said, its so poorly defined as to be irrelevant at the moment.
Still, I suspect distributing checks from the federal government that was not appropriated by congress would very much fail to qualify.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 5 weeks ago:
Yes it is illegal for you to do that, as it would be for Trump. But no, Trumps proposed 5k checks to all adult citizens, as I understand it, is legal. I’m pretty disappointed in the other answers. A few relevant points.
- Remember the model for sending checks to folks: CARES. Both Biden and Trump have previously done this.
- Congress can legally amend and pass laws. Note that the law that makes bribing for votes illegal is not in the constitution, so it requires only the usual legal action to amend it.
- I note that the policy Trump proposed isn’t discriminatory on who you vote for; your hypothetical does. (I suspect this is irrelevant for the legality, but certainly helps the optics.)
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 5 weeks ago:
It would if it cited its sources… Though my understanding (if we’re even thinking about the same regulations, sigh), is that several things did go down and many more have improved over inflation.
But sure; meme makes me feel good = evidence.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This would be compelling with sources; the OP explicitly disputes some of these points afaict.
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 1 month ago:
It seems one can agree with a person on one issue and not others. Fortunately Lemmy attention isn’t very valuable, so we don’t have to pretend that upvotes here are deteriorating the fabric of society in quite the way they did on reddit.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 month ago:
Is a source easily available?
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- Comment on Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure 2 months ago:
Honestly can’t tell which one is which. Most manifesto’s don’t do anything but social-signalling; and neither does the average climate report…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Wish we’d do this to academics more often. Give them enough to live on, no responsibilities, and beat anyone who tries to socialize with them with a big stick.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is what you can expect from a mathematician. Always ahead of the curve.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
They’re welcome to lie with the numbers! But then I can at least reason about it. Right now, we’re looking at some cherry-picked end points and ignoring the proposed numerics entirely.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
Note that cheaper self-checkout means more demand for it (and less demand for cashiers). So we’ll have fewer jobs, and worse service for those who can’t (for w/e reason) use self-checkout.
Most of its happening anyway.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
The numbers are public. You can do the math and convince us.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
That’s an abysmally small number compared to the amount of product they move.
Yes, sure, CEO’s should make less. But that amounts to fractions of a percent on the typical purchase, not 10%.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 2 months ago:
Is this meaningfully distinct from measuring monpolization/oligopolies? I can’t recall how we filter out small businesses + self employed folk (and how that plays against companies eating other companies.)
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 2 months ago:
Yeah… innumeracy really isn’t helping anybody here.
Confused at where the 1.5 trillion comes from, but maybe I’m just not following closely enough.
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- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 months ago:
See an extended version of this take from Bruce Schneier. (He’s also going to spend awhile arguing for a public option on AI; something using the technology in an open way, respecting IP, and distributing the benefits.)