thewebroach

@thewebroach@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's friend gets exposed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People like to criticize a power imbalance based on where someone is in life based off of age/maturity, because with age comes experience, and the argument is you can’t have a fair and balanced relationship if the people aren’t equal.

  So i get that. But every aspect of society encourages it so it’s kind of bullshit. In truth vurtually no relationship is 100% balanced in every way.

  Someone a little older than the other? Power imbalance through life experience and maturity.

  Someone a little wealthier than the other? Power imbalance through financial portfolio and personal solvency.

  Someone a different race than the other? Power imbalance because of racial profiling in society, and how laws/grants/conditions may apply differently at home or abroad.

  Someone healthier than the other? Power imbalance through healthcare needs medical liabilities.

  Someone simply smarter than the other? Power imbalance because the smarter partner will naturally have an upper hand in the relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pure capitalism has an implied responsibility after one becomes overwhelmingly successful, they would be inclined to reinvest the excess into society. Donations to schools, social programs, not-for-profits, and so on. And higher wages for the workers who made you immensely successful, better benefits, higher quality of life overall to incentivize people wanting to work for you, and if all successful companies did this, trickle-down economics would be real.

  In unregulated corrupted capitalism, however, that excess instead is used to lobby government to make even more successful, shaping laws to shield companies from labor rights, destroy unions, surpress minimum wage, dodge taxes, and deflect hidden production costs like environmental pollution or outsourced slave labor. They use their economic leverage to remove legal responsibilities they have participating in society, while at the same time leaning on society’s resources like roads, police, emergency services, and infrastructure more than any individual ever could. Imagine how successful Bezos would be if taxpayers didn’t provide roads for his deliveries.

  It’s all a big game of monopoly to them and at the end of the game, one guy has all the money and everyone else is bankrupt, in poverty, jail, or just trying to collect $200 a week to not starve. And then new generations are born into the game wherever their parents were at on the board, with no game reset. People wonder why the birth rate is dropping.

  At the end of the game though our pieces all go into the same box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with it, Libby.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inflation is at an all time high - FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  23715769

  Social media used to be about socializing and communicating. These days its all drivel that has bren productized into a vehicle where streaming addictive brain rot keeps the advertisements flowing and lowers self esteem.

  Gen Z may have adopted the internet but it was born of us- AIM, yahoo messenger, ICQ, IRC servers, news groups… all on a dial-up modem. The good old days where there wasnt enough bandwidth for all the ads of today, and the most intrusive ads were a 468x60 pixel banner at the top or bottom of the netscape page

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Small correction- AC power doesn’t “travel in waves”. It just oscillates up and down with respect to its reference, and same with its current with respect to its impedance. Just looks like a wave if you look at its position over time.

  With a completed circuit with low impedance, it would trip your breaker. With completed circuit with large enough impedance to not trip breaker, it might burn your apartment down in a number of ways. Could also kill neighbor if they are somehow making a return path, as current disrupts your nervous system where once they get caught in the shock they lose control of their muscles and are held in the current unable to let go, electrocuting them until death. If insulation is high enough to effectively be an open circuit, your neighbor on the pole wouldn’t know it was electrified in the same way a bird sitting up on a power line doesn’t have a clue its anything but a normal wire in the air. Largely depends on how the pole is installed and if its touching any metal or electrical wires where it is mounted on top, bottom, or both. Also if neighbor is ground level or if another apartment beneath them. A lot of variables create.a lot of possible outcomes.

  Would not recommend, lot of risks with little to no chance of any reward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The reason women and some couches covrr their drinks”

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Both meters and seconds are units of Earth specific measures of space and time. Pretty sure at a cosmic scale god would give fuckall about how we measure and name our shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still the same situation with illegal drugs, but America outsourced the production and supply chain largely underground (and to other countries as they are much easier to smuggle than alcohol.) So same problems and empowering gangs, but happening outside Americas borders, and thus not America’s problem. Most present day issues with drug cartels are a derivative of America trying to control peoples’ access to substances and driving them from the open market to the black market… seems to have done a lot more harm to the world and peoples lives than good (as an opinion).