Hacksaw
@Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is a relationship necessary in 2026? 6 days ago:
Your problem is treating women as an amorphous mass with uniform characteristics.
Women are like everyone else. If you’re only meeting trash level women who just want to lay back and be treated to the high life and give nothing in return then the question is: why aren’t you seeing women who value character and individually?
In general it’s likely you don’t have much of it to offer. Work on your skills and interests. Make at least 10-20 friends you see at least a handful of times per year. Once you do that you’ll have what you need to find the kind of women you’re interested in because you’ll be the kind of person who is interesting to them. Nobody wants to be with a friendless loser with no interests except toxic online communities. That’s a charity, not a relationship.
Also chill with the “experienced” women stuff. That’s just your own insecurity. You’re scared of being compared unfavorably with past partners. I get that. When you’re with a partner they chose you though so on the whole they like you more than past partners. Plus if you just pay attention, ask, and listen, you’ll be among their best sexual partners in the long run because you stuck around and learned what worked well and built the sexual chemistry. Plus women who have been with a few partners are much better sexual partners than those who haven’t. They’re more skilled and more confident and a confident sexual partner is a thing to behold. Same is true for men so don’t be scared to experiment with different partners.
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
I did the same using GDP. About 10 years ago the numbers were like this in Canada: the average income was $56k the average tax burden is $7k and the GDP per WORKER was $90k. It’s so funny to watch people complain about the $7k the hobby takes to build society when you ignore the $44k in profit you generate for the rich.
The beauty of the stepped back approach is that because all wages are included and all economic output is captured you don’t need to solve for c, it’s included in wages and surplus value.
The machinery of capital is built on a large pile of labor + stolen surplus value all the way down to the raw material. So it’s all captured with the above.
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly it. Sure taxes take 40%, but capitalists take 100-1000% of your salary, and last I checked they don’t build roads and schools.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 3 weeks ago:
I mean it looks like you two are living by the fall asleep with the same energy playbook so good work! At least you’re using some good tag team logic. I love the collaboration.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 3 weeks ago:
That’s nonsense. Raising young kids is more work than most jobs, sure. But that’s not because it has equal work density. It’s an exhausting 20h/day 7d/week low-med effort task. A job is a 8-12h/day 5-6d/wk med-high energy task. Miss me with that 50/50 as soon as you come home crap. That’s a ridiculous goal. Not to mention you shouldn’t be wasting time making a mental accounting spreadsheet to figure out if your partner did enough work to deserve sex that day.
Ideally everyone should have put in the same effort into the day and both partners should have the same energy level going to bed. Some days you both fall asleep dead, knowing you’ll wake up in two hours with the baby crying. Some days you get to bed with a little extra energy and the baby is sleeping through the night and maybe you have to think of something to do with that extra energy.
It’s obvious you’ll have less sex with a tiny baby just from the exhaustion, but if you’re wasting energy resenting eachother because of low effort, unrealistic expectations, or withholding sex, then maybe y’all need to consider whether you need to work on your relationship or look for another one. Because some of what I’ve read in this thread on both sides sounds more exhausting than single parenting 50% of the time and working a full time job.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
They may be fragile but they are also extremely strong compared to a person. Here is a Tesla bot falling and hitting a closed water bottle hard enough to send water spraying. No human would do that as an international action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUaBCoLu8M
Maybe they’re not stronger in the absolute, but you never find a human just giving 100% power by accident, we also sense unintended contact, or unexpected material yield and adjust our force. And maybe that’s the problem here, robots constantly glitch and just give 100% force to whatever is around them.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
The most terrifying thing about these robots is their insane power density. If you were walking around and saw that you wouldn’t feel at risk. It has the strength to tear its metal and plastic body to dust. We just saw it. No human could do that, yet these robots deceive us with their human like appearance.
The slightest twitch, error, our bug and they turn into human meat blenders killing anyone around them. Even worse is intentional harm by the owner… And the manufacturer will often have an override access letting them theoretically possess a robot army at will with only their good virtue stopping them. Elon Musk is about to have this…
The future is going to be a weird and dangerous place!
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 3 weeks ago:
It’s sweet and warm and getting it is pretty hot too!
Better experience than cows milk every time! But not many times lol
- Comment on SBA #90 THE FOOT LONG COMPENDIUM CONUNDRUM CONTINUES 3 weeks ago:
This seems insane! How can that area not be confined? Help!
- Comment on please do not the fish 3 weeks ago:
I mean that’s been mostly true in the last couple years… AI slop or neo fascism… Sometimes both :(
- Comment on What would you do? 4 weeks ago:
He’ll let you “research” culture, it’s just participating in culture he’s against!
- Comment on What would you do? 4 weeks ago:
I agree that project based learning is great. Your initial description isn’t really a summary of perfect based learning though.
- Comment on What would you do? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, not understanding math and statistics makes propaganda so easy! I’ve seen so many people invest their savings into things that were mathematically or physically impossible from the get go. Gambling too!
- Comment on What would you do? 4 weeks ago:
So your ideal school has no physical activity, no culture, and is filled with memorization of things that don’t matter. Wow sounds like you’ve spent at least 15 seconds thinking about this. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on normulize leguana 4 weeks ago:
Legalization/decriminalization is great, I have nothing against that. I just have a hard time seeing how drug enhanced competitions don’t turn into people dying for our entertainment.
- Comment on normulize leguana 4 weeks ago:
I’ve thought about this a lot and I’ve gone back to being against it. A lot of performance enhancing drugs push your cardiovascular system pretty hard. If everyone is trying to juice as much as possible to win, they’ll end up competing to getting as close to death as possible for our entertainment to achieve the max performance. They’re either killing themselves in the process or shaving decades off their natural lifespans. I don’t know if creating such a system would be ethical.
- Comment on Flippin' 4 weeks ago:
A story as old as time
- Comment on Flippin' 4 weeks ago:
And of course that’s WHY he got crucified. He interfered with the most profitable business of the times: religious extortion. He did it in a way that was tremendously popular. The combination of popular policy and action that undermines the rich for the benefit of regular people is always the greatest fear of the rich. They’re always willing to kill to protect their position.
It’s a universal lesson.
- Comment on Flippin' 5 weeks ago:
It wasn’t just commercial activity. Money changers were charging a fee to buy shekels which people could use to buy an animal to sacrifice at the temple. Jesus was mad because the idea of inserting yourself as a middleman to extort money from people seeking salvation was basically blasphemy.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 1 month ago:
Arguing against adblocker and for YouTube premium is the most center of the bell curve IQ meme take I’ve ever heard.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 month ago:
Amazing video link. Makes me want to grow my own organic free range tax breaks!
- Comment on How possibly? 1 month ago:
It’s almost like you wrote a whole thing to say “from each according to their means, to each according to their needs”
Unless you intended to say that you prefer “to each according to their means” because you believe people who achieve more due to their natural gifts should get more… But that’s kind of fucked up when you really think about it. I hope you’re born gifted!
- Comment on How possibly? 1 month ago:
I was with you most of the way but you lost me here. Some of the biggest privileges for cis straight white males is that they don’t have to deal with racism, sexism, and bigotry over who they are and who they love. That’s not a zero sum game. We can all have that privilege. That privilege isn’t what causes bigotry.
There are some privileges that would be lost, like being preferentially hired by racists. But for the most part we’re fighting in large part for equal good treatment. It’s not a zero sum game.
- Comment on How possibly? 1 month ago:
Yes and you know what all us leftists say, “if you have any adversity it means you never had any privilege at all in the first place” very valid. Thank you for your contribution.
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 1 month ago:
The boobs on the left are nice to look at, but the ones on the right daaaayum that’s nice. Because of our societal expectation of bras at all times for all women, when you see boobs like on the left it’s because a woman has chosen to be vulnerable and it’s extra intimate.
The boobs on the left are boobs you get to see, the ones on the right are the boobs you might get to touch!
- Comment on Released footage of distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation exposes the aid system designed by Israel in cooperation with the United States to humiliate Palestinians. 1 month ago:
This scene is straight up from world war z. Hordes of emaciated people running to the only food source for miles around being gunned down.
How can someone look at this and argue this isn’t genocide. How bad would your life have to get for YOU to run towards these tanks for food, this is how bad their life is.
- Comment on 3.5 Stars 2 months ago:
Bad Photoshop will always be better than good AI!
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 months ago:
That’s not the original intent. In the US, HOAs were mostly created after the end of segregation to keep black people out of white neighborhoods, an origin story that puts into context the modern of pettiness and desire to control others we see in stories like this.
In the early postwar period after World War II, many [HOAs] were defined to exclude African Americans and, in some cases, Jews, with Asians also excluded on the West Coast.
A racial covenant in a Seattle, Washington, neighborhood stated, “No part of said property hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by any Hebrew or by any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic race.”
When these were found unconstitutional in 1948, they became private contacts until those became illegal in 1968, but because HOAs had to approve new members/buyers, the rules stayed in effect until the majority of a community decided to stop being racist. On top of that, in 1963 the Federal Housing Administration said they would only insure mortgages on homes with an HOA which is really what created suburban sprawl and the ghettoization of the American inner cities.
If you look at the history of HOAs it’s really a long and protracted fight on all levels by racists and bigots against the Civil Rights movement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association
TL;DR: Although conceptually HOAs are a good idea, even trending towards communalism, actually existing HOAs are, with a few exceptions, downright regressive, often criminally so.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s fair. In leftist spaces we should have healthy debate. We just can’t let that undermine solidarity with our more and less radical members.
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 2 months ago:
It’s such a great skit