Doomsider
@Doomsider@lemmy.world
- Comment on Home made Soup 1 day ago:
Wait till OP finds out they were homemade.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Corruption with a capital C.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 2 days ago:
For sure, great book and movie!
- Comment on Paradox issues Bloodlines 2 refunds after backlash over paywalled clans 3 days ago:
DLC should be available before the launch of the game. I personally can’t wait to by skins for a game I can’t even play yet.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 3 days ago:
Looks like we just found our next head of the Department of Education!
Now we just got a tweak Grok a little and our children will be ready for the first lesson of their education checks notes Was the Holocaust real or just a woke story?
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 3 days ago:
You don’t care that this administration is using immigration law to drive a wedge in society and needlessly ruin people’s lives?
You think it is fair and reasonable because the law as written was not universally enforced according to X interpretation?
If the government decides to apply some random law that was never enforced in that way before to ruin your life to get extra votes than that is just okay. Sounds pretty corrupt to me.
Perhaps you misspoke, or perhaps your just some lawful evil motherfucker.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 3 days ago:
That is pretty much the point of propaganda. It takes advantage of people’s psychology to manipulate them.
- Comment on The duality of man 5 days ago:
Ah yes, because being under Russian or Chinese thumbs would be so much better. /S
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 5 days ago:
You may be able to get a used 3070 for around $200. That doesn’t include the rest of the computer though.
- Comment on Make America Great! 5 days ago:
The wealthy game the system. This was always recognized, hence the high taxation.
- Comment on Make America Great! 5 days ago:
We are great! At killing the environment, brown people, and women’s rights.
- Comment on Make America Great! 5 days ago:
Meanwhile the US is fueling up their tanks getting ready to run you and everyone you know over for funsies.
- Comment on Make America Great! 5 days ago:
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
- Comment on It's efficient. 1 week ago:
I remember I was twenty-five and ate a medium pepperoni pizza at like 10 pm at night. I woke up around 1 am with the worst feeling in my chest. It was a horrible burning that would go away and kept me up all night.
Yes, I discovered I had heart burn. Never had it up until this point and I have had it ever since. FUN!
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
Spousal Rape Laws started getting enforced finally.
- Comment on Joseph is still not buying her story 1 week ago:
Oh it is BS for sure. Some other interesting topics about them are blood atonement, mountain meadow massacre, Brigham Young (a real piece of work), divided heaven, fundamentalists, and seer stones to name a few. Way more interesting than your typical Christian religion.
- Comment on Joseph is still not buying her story 1 week ago:
My wife was born and raised Mormon and she did not know this, so it is not common knowledge. I had studied Mormonism a lot because I thought it was interesting. When I told her about this she freaked out and told me I was lying.
She went to her to dad, who was former bishop, and asked him. He confirmed it and her mother said, “isn’t it beautiful?” She was upset for awhile because she was molested as a child and the whole god having sex with his daughter didn’t sit well with her.
- Comment on Joseph is still not buying her story 1 week ago:
In Mormonism sky daddy came down in physical form to have sex with her. They also believe sky daddy and mommy have lots of sky sex to make all the souls for their planet. So she was definitely his daughter.
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 1 week ago:
If redundancy is code for hilarious, then you are correct!
- Comment on Mechanical calculator made of wood 1 week ago:
That was really cool.
- Comment on We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill 1 week ago:
Give us all your energy so we can pretend our tech is way more advanced than it is.
Yeah, gonna have to pass on that. Reminds me of Sam Altman just asking for a few more trillion dollars to make it all work.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 week ago:
There are other general AIs that can look over imaging like cat scans and in some situations catch things a doctor can’t.
There are also ones that can simulate drug interactions with the body and can be used to model creating novel drugs for treatments.
These are not LLMs though.
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 1 week ago:
I think you meant White Cracker Barrel.
- Comment on don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices 1 week ago:
Just bringing broke back
- Comment on don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices 1 week ago:
Fascist is what fascist does capital weak liberal hands down without governance ye-hawed straight to small government free trading rascals who spike Wall Street shenanigans straight out of snowflake DEI hires!
Right out of the horse’s mouth.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
It does talk about leaders not owning their wealth as it was owned collectively by the tribe. No, it does not mention this specific tribe. I can’t find my anthro book either.
I could have remembered it wrong. I spent some more time poking around the Internet this morning about chiefdoms. I still couldn’t find the specific tribe, but I learned some other interesting things.
There does seem to be some romanticizing small groups and the concept of tribal communism. So there is definitely something to support your skepticism.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
It would have to be something society is willing to do (make the wish happen). Obviously what I said was slightly in jest, but I am just trying to think outside the paradigm we seem to be stuck in.
I like your idea of community absorbing the billionaire if they were willing. Yes, they would have to be pretty well off to begin with, but if they did then everyone would get the benefit instead of a minority. Even well off communities could be improved with infrastructure upgrades or other things that would collectively benefit everyone.
You bring an interesting point of the guilt of money and transferring that guilt to the community. I think this might be the rational needed to create a tradition like this. Accumulation of money should be seen as a negative thing and we should have mechanisms to take care of it.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
No, I remember reading it. There is a lot of niche knowledge you cannot find on the Internet easily.
There are a lot of African traditions around gift giving (like potlatch) and redistribution of wealth as well as concepts of collective wealth (Ubuntu). Here is an article that talks about it, but does not mention the specific tribe I was thinking about. www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3600660/
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
It has to be a solution that benefits both parties, but I also recognize that one party is giving up something tangible.
They have to be compensated in some real way. That is why I propose make a wish for the ultra wealthy. We pick an obscenely rich person, take 99% of what they own, and give them the one thing money can’t buy. A real wish that can be anything humans can reasonably provide.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
It was in my Anthropology book, I will have to go dig around for it. I tried a Google search but all I could get was crap.