nexguy
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- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 12 hours ago:
How many civilian contractors were hired by CERN and others and how many bidders did they take before deciding which to take. Did scientists volunteer or were they paid by grants. Where did the government funding come from? Taxes from citizen’s income. How much of the technology used in these projects was built on tech invented by public/private companies?
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 1 day ago:
Everything that happened before capitalism happened at an extremely slow pace. We might have smart phones without capitalism and therefore the industrial revolution… but how long? Centuries? Another millenia?
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 1 day ago:
Yes capitalism did not make all scientific discoveries but it did use them to make more discoveries at a vastly faster rate.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 1 day ago:
Russia’s industrial revolution did not happen in a bubble. They did not invent the technology that allowed the industrial revolution, they took advantage of others inventions to take a very inefficient rout to the revolution. They have enormous resources and a vast population… yet it was much smaller capitalist nations that advanced much faster.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 1 day ago:
Capitalism incentivises rapid progress in all fields.
I’m not cheering for capitalism, just saying it takes advantage of the inherent greed of people to quickly speed innovation. There would be no industrial revolution without capitalism. At least not on the short scale of just a hundred years or two.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 1 day ago:
I’m saying without the greed of capitalism we wouldn’t have phones to swap out parts. We would have very limited technology because the incentive to innovate is much less when you do it because you want to rather than earning extra resources to raise standards of living(greed). Not as many people will volunteering their entire lives to come up with new technology while living the same standard of living as a farmer.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 1 day ago:
What were most people doing before the industrial revolution? Farming.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 2 days ago:
I don’t see how we would have smartphones without capitalism. We’d still all be farmers.
- Comment on The things you can buy on amazon 2 weeks ago:
Heinz DOES sound German…
- Comment on 🗣 📢 W A T E R 2 weeks ago:
Sweet, what does mine say?
- Comment on Magic the Gathering is going to have more brand tie-ins 4 weeks ago:
Margorie Taylor, the Weird
One white and three black for a 3/0
When Margorie Taylor, the Weird enters the battlefield discard a card.
Whenever you discard a card, discard a card.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 4 weeks ago:
Just make sure the strap between the legs is tight enough.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
I think the hate for BlueSky is proof that it’s important enough to work. Buhbye elon
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Sic cat pics
- Comment on Bite me 1 month ago:
That’s a LEGO mini-fig holding up those coat tails.
- Comment on Bears Cave 1 month ago:
Word skeletons are just strings of letters…I thought.
- Comment on Bears Cave 1 month ago:
It is known that bear caves typically contain libraries on etymology of country names.
- Comment on Hose 1 month ago:
I always loved drinking from hosé
- Comment on freddie mercury in that one song 1 month ago:
Bla bla
- Comment on Tough Shit 2 months ago:
The Fart of the Deal
- Comment on Shrinkage 2 months ago:
Free eggs? Seriously?
- Comment on Shrinkage 2 months ago:
Especially if the candies make you round which is why most candy makes you round.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 2 months ago:
So Comcast users can’t have youtube tv?
- Comment on Implants 2 months ago:
This comic makes me want to stay alive, giggle, and have deep amorous feelings.
- Comment on Comic by rusty_creates 2 months ago:
Eat piss you damn hole
- Comment on Effort require Effort 2 months ago:
Of course Effort doesn’t require effort. It requires Ef and Fort.
- Comment on Dress Codes 2 months ago:
Then clear tie. Extra most formal
- Comment on Can anyone ID this succulent? 2 months ago:
Don’t say anything. Ask for a lawyer succulent!
- Comment on Meatspin 3 months ago:
We used to walk up hill both ways in the snow to the hospital
- Comment on Bread 3 months ago:
My cat leaned to open the bread box…