uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Nice 16 hours ago:
That is incredibly disappointing.
- Comment on Nice 1 day ago:
Um, rich people control Israel.
As revealed in the Behind the Bastards two-parter on How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win ( Part one, Part Two on YouTube), rich Jews are aligned with the ownership class first and with their fellow Jews second.
The current aggressive expansionism featuring genocide in Palestine (and beyond) is not popular among Jewish peoples, even the general Israeli population. But it is popular among the elites that control Israel… And curiously, the billionaires that control the United States.
- Comment on Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though. 2 days ago:
I have fantasies that some day we may hunt billionaires (and anyone who refuses to abandon the wealth) much the way we hunted escaped high-ranking Nazis after WWII.
We’re going to need to collectively get really mad for this to happen, though since whenever someone does a socialism the capitalists get aggressive, so a rising socialist civilization emerging from the ashes of empire might go after the ultra-wealthy as a pre-emptive defensive measure.
For now it’s all just blue-sky fantasy, though.
- Comment on Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though. 3 days ago:
I keep saying it, so maybe I should make a meme of it:
The key ingredient for data centers in the US is not an abundance of water and power, but cheap, bribeable regional officials.
- Comment on [serious] 1 week ago:
This is not merely a hypthetical. Vlad Tepes (Yes, The Impailer ) notoriously invited all his poor to a grand feast, instead to kill them all. (I think he burned them alive.) Usually in feudal and early capitalist societies, it was just enough to deny them basic necessities and let them die off, but this often would lead to an outlaw problem as some of the more able poors would turn to banditry and poaching to live.
In liberal societies, just as we don’t outlaw people anymore, there are some known good reasons to support low income, disabled and marginalized groups.
One of them is to cut off or discontinue the outlaw-to-professional-criminal pipeline. People who are forced to work but cannot for some reason will resort to poaching, banditry, fraud or any number of extralegal revenue-enhancement tactics. Criminal syndicates such as the Crips and the Bloods pull their numbers from demographics that are given no other choice by the society they live in.
Another reason the state might support it’s low-income demographics is in recognition that capitalist societies teem with social roles and efforts that contribute value to the society without compensation. Parenting is the primary one.
In fact, in the US, as social programs for low-income households have been defunded or rendered inaccessible (such as SNAP and Medicaid), millennials and zoomers are now choosing not to have children, and avoiding romantic relationships, so that the fertility rate is well below the replacement level 2.1 children. We’re not just not having kids, we’re not having sex.
Also, thanks to deregulation, and the failure of wages to keep up with inflation, a lot of the US is under-compensated. Much of the poor population in the US have jobs, but they’re not being paid a living wage. Infamously, Walmart workers still have to rely on SNAP benefits and Medicaid because their wages are not enough to afford a sustainable living. They still count as poor, and would be swept up if ICE were to start going after poor Americans. And then Walmart would find they have fewer applicants, and might have to offer better wages and benefits. (This happened after the great resignation when workers furloughed during the COVID-19 lockdown found they could monetize their home hobby, or just didn’t want their shit job anymore.)
But this isn’t to say these uncompensated or under-compensated people are useless or not contributing to society, just that what they do isn’t recognized by the system that rewards value with compensation.
Curiously, our political class and our ownership class both imagine they could dispose of the poor without ill effects, even as they directly depend upon those people to parent, to maintain homes, to organize communities and yes, even sometimes to do basic labor. At the same time, they’re also the ones screeching about how American women are not having enough (white male) babies.
Just as the US is suffering a shortage of farm hands to harvest crops, thanks to the persecution of immigrant workers, when we deny benefits and services to low-income houses, we’ll find that other work we depend on will cease to be done. And that will be accompanied by a new wave of organized crime… or maybe organized resistance against a state that has turned violent against them.
- Comment on LA is proposing a subway system for Dodger Stadium. This will allow people to commute from the stadium parking area to the stadium 1 week ago:
Disneyland has trams to take you from the parking lots to the entrance of the park. This is the next iteration.
- Comment on "Einstein Visas" are so passé 1 week ago:
- Comment on Suicide by obedience 1 week ago:
In the 1970s, some departments prized their detectives and investigators, and there was more of an interest in using forensic science that was sound to identify and convict a culprit. That sentiment had certainly waned by the 1990s.
- Comment on Suicide by obedience 1 week ago:
I suspect that intelligence and education are no longer prerequisites for law enforcement work as they were (more so, at least) in the late 20th century. The police unions of the 21st century seem to prefer officers who shoot first and think later.
- Comment on stony tony 1 week ago:
✂
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 week ago:
Extreme wealth disparity is the problem. When people can get vastly more rich than everyone else, to the point they can buy entire governments, the system turns from democratic to autocratic.
It’s been a recurring problem in the US for generations, especially since the temptation once a person is elected into federal office (or even high state office) is to forgo fixing the system in favor of getting rich from lobbyist bribes.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 week ago:
Senile retired actor mouthpiece for the ultra-wealthy
…who was voted in based on a single issue campaign. The anti-abortion-access movement convinced their flock that abortions were literally as bad as killing babies, and Falwell successfully created a voting block based on that one issue. That base didn’t realize it came with massive deregulation, and they weren’t smart or knowledgeable enough to care.
Reagan was the beginning of the end. I was fourteen when he was elected.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 week ago:
Corrupt billionaires was the problem when it was a monarchy. It was a problem when they were plantation owners. It was a problem when they were railroad barons. It was a problem when they were automotive industrialists.
During Hoover, even the US people, who were taught to be terrified of communism knew that what we had wasn’t working. FDR pushed the New Deal through as a last bastion of western capitalism, and at that very moment, the ownership class started working to roll all that back.
Curiously, billionaires can’t seem to remember the whole thing about the social contract, that to keep the working class from burning it all down, you have to make sure they are compensated enough to survive. They’re not doing that, and eventually too many people are going to have a grudge and would rather no system than this system.
- Comment on New Polycule Just Dropped 1 week ago:
That’s the thing. I can’t think of a single trait that is preferable for men to have but women not, or for that matter, vice versa.
I used to be a gender abolitionist, and the only reason I’m not is because I can see how much it means for trans folk to represent at the gender they identify with. (I also hypothesize that it’s similarly important for self-identified alpha-males, who just don’t feel masculine enough no matter how much they try.)
- Comment on New Polycule Just Dropped 1 week ago:
It’s because of guys like Tuberville that I do not regard myself as a man anymore.
I mean seriously, masculinity currently is defined in media by folks like Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan (and before them, Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly).
When I was a kid, masculinity was defined by the capacity to be responsible for a nuclear bomb and not launch it. Id est, to be able to take care of business without being petty. Then that just became common adulting, and everyone is supposed to do that.
And now we’ve got a man in office in the White House who is eager to launch nukes and end civilizations (and has had to be told no more than once regarding nuclear authorization).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
We learned that a lot of jobs are this thanks to the RTO mandates after COVID-19 pressured companies to let everyone telecommute when possible.
Two things seemed to mainly motivate people to return to office, even though it cost more in commute time and fuel and workers productivity suffered at the office. One was that companies were still leasing office space that was now mostly empty, and that made upper management sad. And the other is that a lot of clerical jobs are just there as the entourage of executive aristocracy.
The boss missed forcing his secretary to fetch him coffee on command.
- Comment on Boomer comics 3 weeks ago:
One article pointed out it takes $200 for a date, while another points out Zoomers are just not having that much sex, or are into romantic relationships.
Maybe if you work a people too hard and give them no hope for a future, they might not want to have kids.
- Comment on sleepy fascist 4 weeks ago:
Considering his continuous use of the Sleepy Joe epithet for Biden (who was far, far from this sleepy), it really highlights the notion that every accusation is a confession.
The cult leader always is excepted to his own rules.
- Comment on Where is the love? 3 months ago:
The flip side to this is an escalation of break-ups that happen on or around Valentine’s Day every year, since the holiday encourages those en-coupled to have serious conversations with themselves about their relationship and if they actually like where they are and with whom. Surprise! Not so much.
Valentines day is about the tragedy of romance, either not having it or not getting it or finding out it was wrong all along.
And day-after chocolate sales.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’ve gotten comments about the various far right wolves and dogs organizations as if they defined all furries. They’re ruining it for the rest of the kin.
It isn’t the first time a subdemographic’s reputation extends inappropriately to the rest of the group.
- Comment on With how the republican party work in 10 years the presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness. 5 months ago:
…And they’ll still win because some essential minority bloc will believe their promises of free beer and butter.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 5 months ago:
In my culture we had nothing but roadkill and weeds to eat, so we got really good at making stuff palatable. << Most cultural food legends.
- Comment on Do not recommend. 5 months ago:
But did you get high?
(Most AC recipes are for rec drug use.)
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 5 months ago:
I don’t get six-seven at all, but it’s not the first time I didn’t jibe with slang.
- Comment on Seems legit 6 months ago:
Offline LLMs exist but tend to have a few terabytes of base data just to get started (e.g. before LORAs)
- Comment on freddie mercury 6 months ago:
So…a muppet version of the Joker?
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 6 months ago:
If it is, then I failed to get the joke.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 6 months ago:
The 2025 trash icon no longer looks like a trash can. It’s no longer intuitive. At the same time, I don’t actually keep one on my desktop, so meh.
- Comment on FACTS 6 months ago:
Andrew Tate is the kind of hyper-masculinist that drove me to walk away from my manhood, so rather than being enby (meh, whatever), I’m enby ( not a man)
All attributes that that were once virtuous of men now apply to everyone, especially all the features of adults: The rest of us are expected to conduct ourselves politely and maturely, and to take care of business. But not men, and especially not rich men.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 6 months ago:
We use about 20% of our caloric intake (at rest, not doing math) for our bio intelligence. Having superpowers of social organization is expensive and power hungry.
So it’s really no surprise that the computation machines that can run AI require tens of megawatts to think.