Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 1 day ago:
IV/V Romans agree…
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 1 day ago:
It’s funny because we keep pointing it out, and every fucking individual conservative shitslinger has had this lesson multiple times, and it never seems to stick.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 2 weeks ago:
That’s a trap.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
Clearly, there isn’t even an attempt to rectify why you attacked me on a statement I did not make. It’s a free forum where you can post and comment how you like, but I will not waste my time crafting meaningful replies for you that are either beyond your comprehension, or more likely, that you are unwilling to engage in with honesty.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone anywhere mentioned redirecting flock cameras funds would even approach switching the grid to green energy.
Couldn’t the billions have been used for solar infrastructure?
That’s how I interpreted your statement actually. It came off to me as “the government is spending so much money on Flock when that huge sum could be used to setup a lot of solar energy generation”. The points again though, is that it’s not that much money (in comparison to other government contractors), a big chunk of it comes from private sources not public anyway, and it would be a small drop in a big bucket of money that is needed to have a meaningful effect on national solar power generation.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
Just barely over a billion actually. We don’t have good numbers from 2017 to 2023, but from 2023 onwards they’re basically spot on 1 billion.
Regardless, not all of that money comes from groups that should be building solar power stations, and the amount of money spent on them is not nearly on the scale required to switch the grid to green energy in a reasonable timeframe. That was the whole point, you don’t understand the financials, you don’t understand the sources. You have a valid frustration about where and how public funds are being spent, but you’re barking up the wrong tree, and you’ve picked a rather small tree at that.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
“Annual recurring revenue (ARR) is a key metric used by subscription and software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses to measure the predictable and recurring revenue expected over a 12-month period”
They are expecting to bring 500 million this year in revenue. Thats what I said, and that’s what you said. Not 500 million for the first half of the year and another 500 million the rest of the year. 500 million total.
Perhaps you should do a slightly less cursory search.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t address the strawman that you created, and instead went to ad-hominem attacks.
You at least put forth some effort to make another point, but I see no reason to waste my time defending against it until we are cleary having an honest discussion on even terms.
Please address why you made a strawman in the first place, and I will address the points you made in your last reply.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
Some empathy is normal, but I don’t think my level of empathy is, and I’m certain that there isn’t enough for an anarchist society to exist at a scale larger than a few thousand people.
I think would rather enjoy living in an equitable society where everyone helps everyone else, and there is no property, but as soon as your society needs to have modern amenities (water, sanitation, electricity, roads, etc) setup or repaired, you’re going to involve a chain of people so large to support that infrastructure that your society will extend beyond it’s stable size.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
I don’t even think it was that altruistic. I have a saw, and a ladder. I could have risked myself to try to remove the tree and fix up the roof… Not to mention the potential lawsuits from screwing it up, since I’m not trained in tree removal or roof repairs, or getting arrested for trespass for messing around in a house I don’t own.
I put in an amount of effort to satisfy my own concerns about how devasted I would be if my house was destroyed and no one even lifted a finger to let me know about it before I got home.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
you have a story where you spent an hour of your time and effort to help your neighbour without getting anything out of it yourself.
everyone contributes as best they’re able with no concern for getting value out of an exchange proportional to the effort put in
If you read a little slower, and tried a little harder, you might understand what I actually wrote. I’m gonna go ahead and lay it out here, since you seem to be struggling…
I am not everyone, you are not everyone. Everyone is not me, and everyone is not you. People are individuals, and as individuals, they have different experiences in life. Those different experiences cause those individuals to behave differently. Some people do like helping others, (like I me), but not everyone does. You’ll note in my story that not all my neighbors worked together to find this guy and let him know about his house, I doubt any of them did except me. I called the police about it, and they tried to help, because they are paid by my city (and by extension, me and my neighbors) to help if they can. I do not hold a social view that depends on everyone being as altruistic (if not more so) than I am. I have a personal philosophy that you should help people, and prioritize helping them based on how close they are to you. I put myself first, a little selfish, sure, but it’s the old “put your mask on first, then help others” logic. You can’t help others effectively if you need help yourself. After that, it’s my family first, then friends, neighbors, residents of my state, countrymen, neighboring countries, continent, and then the rest of the world. However, it would be foolish of me to think that everyone has this same willingness to help, or the same logical progression of altruism for their fellow man. That is why I as an individual can help others with no expectations of direct compensation without characterizing myself as a naive fool who flunked out of homeschool, because I didn’t actually state anything about the education of individuals that help others freely. Your comment is a strawman, where you build a different argument, and attack that, rather than debate what I have actually said.
Now, I’m asking you a question to make sure you are arguing in good faith. Please be sure to address it in your reply. Did you build a strawman intentionally, or did you do it accidentally?
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, maybe not.
They’re only pulling ~300-500 million in revenue, which is enough money to build… 1 or 2 grid scale solar farms…
I’m not saying that wouldn’t be a better use of the money, but you should probably do some cursory research on the company so you understand what they are doing, and the financial scale that they are doing it at.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
What makes you think people work together even with the threat/promise of those two things?
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
Maybe an hour of time between checking around the house to make sure no one was home, checking with my other neighbors to see if they had his contact info, calling the non-emergency police line, chekcing the country records for property info, digging up my neighbor’s linked in profile, calling the corporate office (getting stuck on hold) then thinking to check the Zillow listing and call the agent that last sold the house.
What was it worth to me? I didn’t have to spend the rest of my day wondering if he was going to come home from a day of work and find that his house needed major repairs that could have been mitigated if only he’d known a few hours earlier. He was able to get a crew out there the same day to get the tree out of his roof and get some temporary coverage up to weather then next few days of storms.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
No, I’m saying that your reading comprehension abilities and your lofty ideals of a utopian society where no one needs property and everyone contributes as best they’re able with no concern for getting value out of an exchange proportional to the effort the put in, is indicative of a failed home-school education and a lack of real world experience.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
Your first comment is exhibiting the isolationist mindset of suburnites
I don’t think you can narrow that general mindset down to suburbanites. People in all kinds of population densities form in-groups and outgroups, it doesn’t matter if they are in suburbia, a big city, or out in the country. I lived in Baltimore for a year, and that was probably the most socially isolated I’ve ever been. The east coast of the US is just a bucket of crabs, everyone trying to climb over everyone else. The people there wouldn’t even spit at you for free. My partner grew up in a very rural environment, like “outside city limits, and that city only had one traffic light of the blinking yellow variety” rural. The help they got growing up was from family. They would do odd jobs for neighbors and neighbors would do likewise, but there was always some expectation of barter or compensation for materials and services. They definitely had a concept of private property, and knew their tools, time, and expertise were valuable assets necessary to continue their desired lifestyle.
Please, contrast my experiences with yours. I’d love to hear a first-hand account from someone living in a current anarchist society.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
One of them lost a roof during some recent storms. He just moved into the neighborhood and no one had his contact info. I found his house listing on zillow, called his realtor and managed to get her to get him home in time to get his pets and documents secure before the next wave of storms hit.
My neighbors next to me are retired, they have an old dog and are struggling with health issues (all 3 of them) neighbor across the street had a falling out with his son, daughter is graduating high school this year. Other neighbor got a new job and a raise, has been working really hard on his yard and put in a nice gazebo and grill. The guys next to him are working on their drag racing VW Bug. The people on his other side are from Pakistan and are starting a food truck business.
Bro has never lived anywhere but buttfuck suburbia and it shows.
Can you explain how/why people in urban or rural areas would behave any different?
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes it’s public entities, like city councils, or police departments. Othertimes, it’s privately owned business, like Lowes, HomeDepot, apartment complexs, or even “communities” like HOAs. The point is that Flock is a private business, and only government affiliated when and where th government decides to do business with them.
This is in contrast to say, traffic cameras, owned by state DoTs, which are publicly prooerty and exist on public infrastructure.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
How anarchism actually works:
“These suckers are socially obligated to give me free lemonade if I look like I really need it”
“Fuck you, you can’t have my lemons to make lemonade for that slacker, I need my lemons”
“No one wants to provide the materials and do the dangerous work of fixing my roof for free! And now my house will collapse and I’ll have nowhere to live…”
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
He solved the railroad problem. Pull the lever, and then clear any arguments of bring partially responsible for murdering someone by shooting them.
That’s if he actually did it though, which he didn’t, because we were hanging out that night stomping spotted lantern flys.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
Guitar picks. Slip them in the most pliable section of the sea and slid them along. You want the pick mostly pointing up or down so that it slips through the “buckle” of those plastic clips and allows the two parts to slide loose. If the pic gets stuck, flip it the other direction, and the wide end works better than the narrow end.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 3 weeks ago:
Eh. Use an AI to make smaller AI models that have different combinations of personalities (this one acts like Elvis singing opera, this one mimics Einstein with a cowboy accent) and the create NFTs for the ownership of those personalities. Each one comes with it’s own bot-created twitter account, and it posts. The holder of the NFT gets any revenue the account generates.
Anyway, if you build this, send me a cut, I’d like to get rich from stupid people who would actually go nuts over this.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 3 weeks ago:
No I did find it weird. I also found it weird that my DMV has a 6 hr wait time, and I had other shit to do with my life. Plus, I don’t really buy cars all that frequently, so I’m not exactly sure what to expect when the reg gets flipped over. It’s not out of the question to assume that it was done online. I never even got temp plates, the dealership said it would be fine to use my old plates.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 4 weeks ago:
Plus, I can assure you that the technology to instantly alert if a car shows a registration for, let’s say a blue honda, but looks like a red ford
Ironically, I traded in my blue Honda for an orange Ford and drove it unregistered for almost an entire year and never got pulled over.
Dealership said the would handle switching the plates and registration, and didn’t do it. I only found out when I went to renew my reg.
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 4 weeks ago:
Traditionally, yes, but it’s not obligatory. Fire does consider the color of flesh, nor the gender of it’s attendant.
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 4 weeks ago:
That’s because burning shit is more interesting than talking to you idiots.
Fire is a fickle little thing that if not attended, will die immediately or get wildly out of control. It moves, breathes and eats. Every piece of fuel must be assessed for moisture, shape, size, and the potential to create smoke or embers. Fuel placement is critical, depending on the purpose of the fire, you can make it burn faster, stronger, longer, or create a good bed of coals for cooking. Fire gives warmth, and light while also containing desolation and death. It is a balancing act with dire consequences for falling off either side of a thin line of control.
Occasionally a log will pop or snap, and throw out a little spark show, and that is cool.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 4 weeks ago:
If you like that one, check out Beaver Lick and Big Bone Lick.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 4 weeks ago:
That’s nothing. Go camping in Appalachian. Random banjo music suddenly hits way different.
- Comment on All part of their scam plan 4 weeks ago:
Lies. Those are cold and LP is a bunch of wusses. They mostly hang out in the management office and occasionally look at a camera when they see a black person in the self checkout.
- Comment on All part of their scam plan 4 weeks ago:
Normal governments wouldn’t allow a demented geriatric racist child-trafficking man-baby to unilaterally impose tariffs in the first place…