Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on [NSQ Friday] Is this a stupid question? 31 minutes ago:
Is it?
The metacognition it requires confounds lots of people.
What makes a question “stupid”? - Comment on [NSQ Friday] Is this a stupid question? 1 hour ago:
I’ve been asking people that for years.
Still haven’t gotten a good answer. - Comment on Do turkeys that tell you to cook from frozen usually turn out as good as thawed ones? 1 day ago:
I’ve always thought recipes that insist on thawed food and preheated ovens, do so only to ensure the prescribed cooking time is correct.
I cook frozen stuff all the time. I never pre-thaw unless I need to manipulate it in some way that I can’t as a solid frozen block. Like, you can’t stuff a frozen turkey.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
Psst: that’s socialism.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
Why not?
Company ownership is already broken into shares. There’s no law of nature or logic that dictates how those shares are distributed. There are all sorts of ways to divide them between capital investors, labor investors, even outside stake holders like customers and suppliers. Any individual may be a labor investor in one company, and a capital investor in others. That one person would embody both your bourgeois and proletarian classes.Again large economies are too complex for simple, clean, universal solutions. Their complexity necessitates more complex thinking.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
Yes I did! Neither socialism, communism, capitalism, feudalism, or any other economic system, can yield the best result in every situation. There is no one answer for everything. No economy in the world is all one thing or another. It’s only by blending the strengths of each, using what works best where it works best, can we find greatest benefit for everyone.
So yes. A socialist minded form of capitalism, such as was built in the post depression US, is probably the best default baseline. Then in certain specific naturally monopolistic markets, a more communistic model may be needed.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
True. The government is supposed to manage that. It’s one of the lies of neoliberalism, that “Greed is Good”.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 day ago:
Not realy. That’s capitalism being managed by neoliberal economic philosophy.
It really has more in common with feudalism, than capitalism. Capitalism by definition requires fair transparent markets, with no dominant players able to take advantage of their size.Capitalism as managed by democratic socialist philosophy (not sure if there’s an official term it) is closer to the actual definition of capitalism.
- Comment on What would happen if the next President, said I want that ballroom destroyed and the White House put back like it was, and I want to use all Union members? And done in Six months? 3 days ago:
There is no resistance to doing renovations to the White House. Rump as shown that POTUS only needs to speak it, and it shall be done.
- Comment on What would happen if the next President, said I want that ballroom destroyed and the White House put back like it was, and I want to use all Union members? And done in Six months? 3 days ago:
It’s not very large. Surprisingly small really. And if you truly spare no expense with crews working 24/7, it can be done quite quickly. 6mo is agressive, but it can be done, and done well in that time.
- Comment on What would happen if the next President, said I want that ballroom destroyed and the White House put back like it was, and I want to use all Union members? And done in Six months? 3 days ago:
The people doing the demo and reconstruction of the White Hiuse, are different people than who would be fixing the executive legal landscape. Both can be done at the same time.
- Comment on Why doesn't windows in detail mode show the size of a folder unless you hover over it? They will show the size of files but not a folder unless you either go to properties or something? 6 days ago:
Because showing the folder size requires scanning all the files in it. For some folders that could mean tens of thousands of files. Which would take quite some time.
There are ways to speed that up. But you’d be scanning all the files, all the time to keep it updated.
Basically, it’s a lot of overhead
- Comment on The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth 6 days ago:
You want to redistribute wealth?
You need a wealth tax - Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 6 days ago:
Yah!
It’s not like the penalties on withdrawing from your retirement accounts early actually matters?
Who isn’t a billionaire at 50? You aren’t? You need to get a better job looser! - Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 1 week ago:
On a global scale, with buy in from multiple international human rights organizations? No. Once you reach enough global critical mass of agrement, it’s not a false accusation almost by definition.
It has been and is currently the case, that some local governments or groups falsely push a genocide narrative for their own benefit. That does happen. When it does, you never find anyone outside said group that truly believes it.
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 week ago:
I’m glad you get to definite wrong for everyone else
It’s not the boon it seems to be.
There are a variety of formats that are thriving and in constant use all over the world that differ from what you consider correct
I’m aware. That’s why it’s annoying to be the one who determines right and wrong, nobody listens.
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 week ago:
In every left to right language, the largest value numerical digits are on the left, smallest value digits are on the right.
The country doesn’t matter. Years are bigger than months. Months are bigger than days. If your country does anything other than YYYY*MM*DD, they’re doing numbers wrong.
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 week ago:
It’s backwards everywhere
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 week ago:
The date is backwards. 2026-09-15
- Comment on Just a matter of time before it's reality 1 week ago:
Yah, I know there are super fancy toilets with app controllers. I’ve no doubt flushing is one of them.
- Comment on Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards 1 week ago:
Please…
We can’t hold any corpos criminally accountable when any company or product ever does anything harmful. AI is no special case here. - Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Believe it truly literally? No
It’s a concept known as Kayfabe. A special kind of pretending, where both performer and audience act as if something is real, when both know it isn’t. It started with American professional wrestling. Wrestlers would greet fans after the show and sign autographs as their characters, not as themselves.
So no, even his MAGA supporters don’t literally believe he’ll give them $5k, they just accept is as a promise that he and the republican will do good things for them generally. They like the sound of it, even though they know it’s not real.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
He’s campaigning for the Republicans generally during this midterm Republican “convention”.
Campaigning for ones-self isn’t the only time or way to campaign. - Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
They’re two very different things.
In one case you’re handing people real money on the street for their vote.
In the other your making a “campaign promise” that everyone knows isn’t actually real. - Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 2 weeks ago:
Wile texting in the US went free relatively early on, much of the rest of the world continued to charge for every text message. So data based instant messaging apps became very popular everywhere in the world that’s not the US.
- Comment on Why should we feel sorry or empathy for the rich when they get scammed? Shouldn't we be holding these scammers parades? 2 weeks ago:
Why shouldn’t we?
Is understanding another’s point of view ever a bad thing?
Does feeling sorry for a scam victim mean we can’t feel proud for the scammer?
Do feelings and emotions need to be bound by logic?
Do we not experience conflicting emotions, simultaneously? - Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
Six of one half dozen the other.
You provide housing directly, or money for them to choose housing themselves. Seems a distinction without a difference. - Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 weeks ago:
That roster sounds so made up, I’m not sure you’ve ever been in a McDonald’s.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
The problem is, representatives and senators don’t live an average lifestyles. They need to pay for two residences, one of which is in one of the most expensive metro areas in the country. Then the constant transit costs between the two. They also pay their staff out of their own pocket if I remember correctly.
Truth is they need to be paid much more. With 100% of salary in retirement. And they need to be barred from any kind of employment after.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
The point is, these changes wouldn’t help any of those things.