SlopppyEngineer
@SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Country music 4 days ago:
All the hate combined: youtu.be/CORANvT8l9A
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
Today, yes. We’re dealing with a few billion people with stuff shipped across the planet now.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
Barter was never a thing in daily life. No anthropogist found evidence for that. Trust based systems were used, but those don’t work well when they population increases and interaction with strangers happens more. That’s where currency takes over.
Why currency is the most important thing right now? Because currency at the moment is status and many people seek a high status on society.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
That’s not exactly true. Barter was never used like that in the past. People used gift giving systems or other trust based systems in daily life. Barter was only used with strangers and that was not a common occurrence. These trust based systems do work in smaller settings but break down in large settings where interacting with strangers is the norm.
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 1 week ago:
- where is doesn’t stand in the way of profit
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
You need a magnetic personality to make this work. No personality, no movement. And if you have a personality that pushes things away, the car might explode.
- Comment on PSA: Do not approach the wildlife. 2 weeks ago:
Here is a family with small children thinking it’s a good idea to have a picnic between the cheetahs. The cheetahs were loving the idea. Luckily the family figured out in time it wasn’t their brightest moment.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
It hasn’t reached the critical mass for monetization. It’s not ripe for the picking yet.
- Comment on BOOTY 2 weeks ago:
The original versions of the stories the Brothers Grimm wrote down were also very X-Rated. More like horror hard core porn. You can’t look back on the children’s stories in quite the same way after reading version 1.
- Comment on BOOTY 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s pretty much how constellations got invented.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s completely fucked. That’s also illegal.
Exactly. But a little illegal activity never stopped a corp. Wage theft is rampant, estimated at $50 billion a year.
I don’t work for free.
And that’s called quiet quitting in OP’s post.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
The issue many people have is how some bosses redefine underperforming as “not doing enough unpaid overtime”.
- Comment on NEW JOB! 3 weeks ago:
Working in the cloud
- Comment on geoengineering 3 weeks ago:
I figured that both sides are eventually going so far to their side they meet halfway. The good ol’ horseshoe theory.
In this case tech would go so far with genetic engineering while resource depletion forces them to go bio-punk and arrives at basically high tech treehouses.
- Comment on geoengineering 3 weeks ago:
The closest thing to a self sustaining thing3is that Neom city they’re trying to build. It’s basically an arcology. And it’s already failing.
- Comment on research 4 weeks ago:
I do love that flat earth documentary where the guy eventually proved the Earth is a sphere.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
The solution to that is having 12 months of 4 weeks each, and one week of solstice every 3 months. One quarter then is 13 weeks in total. That makes it so each quarter is exactly perfectly matches a season and keeps it all in sync with solar time. In the ideal case you also match the school holidays to the solstice, and the winter solstice includes new year’s day and leap day, making it just a bit longer for Christmas holidays.
Yes, I’ve given this a bit too much thought.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
That would make the cybertruck a brutalist car.
- Comment on Fast Paced Environment 4 weeks ago:
Just next to this one:
“Clock out before crying. Do not forget.”
- Comment on It's lazy, if you ask me 5 weeks ago:
That building was in use for far longer (80 AD to 1349 AD) than America is discovered (1492 AD to present)
- Comment on To put life into perspective 5 weeks ago:
Nobody claimed there was no extraterrestrial life. Most expect some life with at least some algae. Just chances for intelligent life, as more data comes in, turns out to be rather small and with a reasonable chance we’re the only one in this galaxy. The values originally used in the Drake equation were very optimistic.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 5 weeks ago:
Some astrophysicist are saying that. And like they say: it’s never aliens.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 5 weeks ago:
But so far chances of intelligent life seem to be vanishingly small and using those numbers we get one civilization every few galaxies.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 5 weeks ago:
It’s also the only place that has life in that vast desert of stars with empty rocks orbiting them.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 weeks ago:
Some suspect that production will start to shift to worker owned enterprises and user owned services. These don’t work for profit like capitalistic enterprises and can provide cheaper goods and services, something desperately needed when money is tight.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 weeks ago:
That’s what they’ve been doing already. It already caused the 2008 financial crash with mortgages. The answer then was to throw around QE money to corporations like a socialist dressed up as Santa Claus and reduce interest rate to 0%.
- Comment on Art posting 5 weeks ago:
From the little bit of older literature I’ve read, violence is normal. Hitting the wife if she speaks up is just everyday occurrence. Don Quixote hits Sancha a few times. Even the stories of my grandparents were full of getting slapped it hit with a ruler by nuns and pastors in Catholic school.
- Comment on It's more interesting when self-directed 1 month ago:
That’s the biggest gripe I have with how history was taught. A lot was focused on the who what when but the why, and how it all build up to the world today in a big picture sense was often lacking.
- Comment on Complaining 1 month ago:
That has been tried and its failure is our entertainment.
Libertarians succeeded in taking over a town. Government services get cut to the bone. Things get bad. Waste attracts bears. Things get worse.
- Comment on Not the life Christ wanted for us 1 month ago:
The system needs them! The economy must grow! It needs moar workers!!