Doomsider

@Doomsider@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies grow and shrink from a combination of market and internal forces. Companies sometimes need to shrink or grow. The economy and culture are constantly changing. That is why it is very hard to predict where things will go.

  Your example of having a company with a set amount of employees that produce a set product happens pretty frequently. A lot of employee owned or family businesses are this way.

  I think most of you post can be summed up with why do investors want more and more money. The answer is because they can. If your company owes money to investors then they will beholden to them in one form or another.

  There is another worthy discussion here and it is about boards. Boards that do not contain equal representation for the employees and the public can be very destructive.

  Most of the corporate abuses we have suffered come from having perverse leadership non-representative of these two most important influences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Impressive and well thought out analysis. I think his thoughts on political violence are particularly poignant for what we are dealing with. He doesn’t pull any punches and some of his conclusions are grim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, just going to block you now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I know reading comprehension may not be your thing and this is certainly is not my fight. I will break it down one more time for clarity.

  RFK claims it CAUSES Autism. He does not claim merely it increases the risk.

  This meme stated quite logically that if it is the cause of Autism and Autism existed before the medication use was widespread, then clearly it does not cause Autism.

  Obviously it does not cause Autism, in fact I doubt it is even a risk factor for it. This is pseudo science bullshit that is being used to sell made up “treatments”.

  Frankly, people that are having a hard time with this are playing devil’s advocate, misinformed, or are MAHA.

  So what part of this are you not “getting”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is another dumb take. Cigarettes don’t cause cancer, they increase cancer risk.

  RFK is claiming he knows the cause of Autism not something that can increases its risks.

  The logic of this meme is sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm very happy for her. In youth tightness can be a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of those moving picture things from Harry Potter. I think it is buffering?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well damn, I got all kinds of old games that don’t work on newer Windows properly, I guess that means it is an OS failure for that use case.

  I refuse to install intrusive anti-cheat in Windows, why would I install it Linux, if I even could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ballistics don't LIE | A video I didn't want to make.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very compelling argument and until someone can refute it reasonably this is now more factual than what the US government has said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or the common cold!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty confident that mRNA vaccine research is going to lead to the cure for the common cold along with cancer, Parkinson’s, MS, etc.

  We already have an effective AIDS vaccine now. We are getting really close to stopping a lot of human suffering. This is probably why the current administration is trying to pump the brakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hue hue hue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is ridiculous of course but I do have one strange anecdote about this. I have been in a lot of retirement and assisted living homes and there can be some serious tension between racist resident and their non-white caregivers when they speak there languages around them.

  One old Vietnam vet would get the fuck triggered out of him when the Filipinos would talk in Tagalog around him. They ended up making a rule that they can’t speak non-english around him. Not saying that this was right, but it was understandable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol that was a good narrative wasn’t it? Fighting the good fight and all that. Too bad it wasn’t reality and Disney fell inline like every corporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hue hue hue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what a sun denialist would say! You can’t trust nothing from Nasa.Too many woke scientists unlike the God fearing employees of SpaceX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every flight should have at least one sitting in a passenger seat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Little brown kisses for the next passenger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every flight should have at least one sitting in a passenger seat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best is when they don’t get a seat for the dog and it just crowds everyone the whole flight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every flight should have at least one sitting in a passenger seat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprise! It is not the dog, but plague carrying fleas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is okay, you got caught up in the propaganda of what was his political leanings left or right. I am just here to tell you that your doing exactly what they want you to do. Hence the useful idiot

  I am assuming the truth. Just like OP said. He is a product of conservative culture regardless if he embraced or denied it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweep up is a reference to cleaning up.

  It doesn’t matter what you think or even I think. They already branded him as leftist. They are already attacking innocent people with political violence like the terrorists they are.

  The reality is he was raised conservative in a conservative religion, in a conservative family, in a conservative town, and in a conservative state. He is one of them. They know this, I know this, but you seem confused.

  They have a name for this and it is useful idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This kids was different. He is not one of us! /S

  What was fucking hilarious was the governor got on to reassure all Utahns that he was not like his parents, community, or state when he is clearly is.

  Your musings don’t matter he has already been branded by the liars as a leftist and your just here to sweep up after them like a good lackey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How half the US lost part of their minds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the 30k ~ 50k people dead every year for the last three decades from gun violence. The equivalent of a major conflict every year never ending.

  Or locking up more people than any other nation. Five percent of the world’s population but twenty percent of the world’s prison population.

  Or a society of excess that has almost 25 vacant houses for every homeless person but chooses to allow people to rot on the streets as an example of what will happen if you don’t “conform”.

  Or a society that has the largest military on the world by orders of magnitude that profiteers off of every conflict by doing things like arming both sides. Don’t forget overthrowing democratic governments to install fascist ones.

  Or a society that produces more wealth inequality than anyone else (finally American exceptionalism) and then allows these people to control the government and make all the decisions to benefit them and their friends.

  I could probably go on for a bit longer, but that is enough to chew on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There has been a shinning example of Fascism in the US since it’s creation. From genociding the Native Americans to over throwing countless democracies and installing fascist states.

  Sure the founding fathers existed before fascism was envisioned, but they did real good checking off every box. We will call them the proto-fascists, they helped guide the creation of the most destructive fascist nation ever. The kind of nation that nurtured the Nazi movement after creating the the perfect storm by walking away from the aftermath of WWI.

  The kind of nation that purged all its left wing back during the McCarthyism Era. A nation whose military complex is bigger and stronger than the rest of the world combined. A country created by the wealthy for the wealthy embracing the corruption of greed from the start to the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do not support political violence† online!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in Idaho for the Obama years. I had to listen to people fantasize about hanging or shooting Obama hundreds of times. My kids teachers joked about it. Little boys would talk about it to my daughters.

  I can’t understand going after people who say violent shit after what I have seen and heard in my lifetime. The right is so truly fucked beyond what people realize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just returned an insult, you are welcome dumbass.

  Blocked for being someone not worth talking to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exercising copyright in a court of law is extremely expensive. $250k+ minimum for a federal case. It is not a system designed for the artists you are describing.

  In fact, it is just the opposite with corporations going after small artists regularly, not the other way around.

  How has copyright been a deterrent to AI? This is a great case example of the system working as it is intended. Benefiting corporations which is what the system is designed to do.

  Most major recording artist do not own their works. Where is there protection? The system is once again not designed for the individual.

  Copyright was designed to create artificial scarcity. It was created out of the guilds back in England and was designed to censor and control the printing industry NOT protect authors rights.

  While I will admit copyright is the most palatable of the Intellectual Properties it is still extremely problematic and we would be better off without it.

  Don’t even get me started on patents and trademarks and the abuse these system perpetrate on our society. There is doubt the elimination of intellectual property would be beneficial to our society at the detriment of the rent-seeking capitalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporations already do this everyday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Artist that want to make money can preform or sell their work like they have always done. IP is about commercial interests like royalties and licensing. This has nothing to do with the actual promotion of arts and science. It is about control.

  Most artist don’t do it to make money even. This confusion of expression and commercial interest is the crux of what we are dealing with.

  There is no natural protection from someone copying, remixing, or reinventing your work. This is literally how art is made. No one creates in a vacuum and everyone is inspired by someone else.

  There are already no protections for the little guy. Corporations borrow and use whatever they want. The IP system is NOT for the average person. It is designed to benefit and enrich and extreme minority and it does this well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think every artist is a selfish asshole like you. That is just called projecting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have no take other than approving the purchase and sale of our culture controlled by corporations.

  You say IP is for the little guy, the average federal copyright lawsuit cost a quarter of a million dollars to pursue.

  You have no clue about remix culture which was destroyed by profiteers. Corporations control the majority of artist’s commercial music. Many artists don’t own their own work.

  Corporations constantly steal IP. AI has shown us that they don’t respect the very laws they created.

  The only person living in a dystopia and living it is you. The abolishment of IP would cause an explosion of science and art like the world hasn’t seen since they created laws to prevent it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you say Motoass!