PeriodicallyPedantic
@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 day ago:
Here, this will help stop seeing loss
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 days ago:
You’re can’t have one without the other.
The Chicago school promoted unfettered access to power for companies, they’re complicit in the companies using that power to influence the government to do unhealthy things like defang antitrust regulation.
To use your stupid analogy; if you take your car to the mechanic, and the mechanic tells you that your car doesn’t use oil, then it is the mechanic’s fault when your car breaks down.
Here the mechanic is the Chicago school, you are the govt, and the car is the market. - Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 days ago:
“that’s not real capitalism” seems to be the new “that’s not real communism”.
Capitalism gave unscrupulous people the power to do bad things. It is ignorant to try to absolve capitalism of this.
Capitalism is a tool to concentrate wealth and power, it is absolutely shocked Pikachu when those people use that wealth and power to influence the government to do bad things.You’re claiming both that the government is the problem for not stopping people from doing bad things, and also you’re saying that the Chicago school was right for pressuring the government to remove their ability to stop people from doing bad things.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 days ago:
Most cable companies have competition prohibited by law.
And how do you think laws like these came into existence? Capitalists accumulated power and then used that power to influence the government to protect their business.
You’re so close but for some reason you refuse to accept that business can and does influence the government.
But beyond that, the regulations we’re talking about were anti-monoply regulations. Despite you saying that the Chicago school is anti-monoply, they pushed to defang regulations that combated monopolies. Your justification is that regulations create monopolies, but you provide no reasoning why defanging anti-monoply regulations would reduce monopolies.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 days ago:
That lack of intervention is what created the conditions
Capitalism naturally moves towards monopoly. Government regulation prevents monopolies. Capitalism accumulates power. Capitalists use that power to influence the government into letting them accumulate more power, until they have enough power to remove the regulations that prevent monopolies, then the capitalists form monopolies, then we get the very situation that we’re describing. - Comment on Relevant username 3 days ago:
Ok, I think we’re not really disagreeing, we’re just fighting about language.
Yes if you follow the directions and pay close attention then you won’t end up with burnt popcorn.
But a lot of the time the directions specifically say not to use the popcorn button, when you really should, so in that case following the directions will give you what you want but there is a much better way.
When you said to actually follow the instructions, I thought you were more or less blanket agreeing with that part of the instructions too.So I think we were talking past eachother for a bit there.
- Comment on Is this real life? 3 days ago:
Jokes on you, us pendants are actually immune to humour.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
Sort of.
I was trying to highlight the clear inevitable outcome, rather than highlight who to blame.
- Comment on Relevant username 3 days ago:
Maybe I misunderstood.
Whan you say “follow the instructions”, which instructions are you saying to follow?
Instructions on the internet, instructions on stovetop popcorn, or instructions on microwave popcorn? - Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
The Chicago school opposes monopolies and bailouts, but they support the conditions that inevitably lead to monopolies and too-big-to-fail companies.
- Comment on Relevant username 3 days ago:
I feel like you stopped reading after the sentence that you quoted. Here, let me repeat the rest for you
If your microwave has a popcorn setting that uses sensors, is almost always the best option. Some use humidity, some use a microphone, some use both.
They have sensors to detect that for you. Sometimes using literal microphones
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
Surprise! The system of accumulating power was used to gain power to influence the government to let them gain more power to influence the government to let them gain more power to influence the government… Ad infinitum.
Government regulation of capitalism is fundamentally impossible in the long term, unless you lock it down early into something barely recognizable as capitalism. That ship has sailed long long ago.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
It wasn’t capitalism in the same way that “it wasn’t real communism”.
Sure, I guess maybe, but it’s the inevitable outcome of the processes that define capitalism. Just as all kittens become cats, this is what all capitalism becomes.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
I am opposed to the inevitable outcome of my policies!
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
So they all funnel money to the top.
Are you suggesting that capitalism funnels money to the top slower than other systems? Or that when capitalism does it, it’s somehow less problematic?
Because what else is your point here?
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
But that is the inevitable outcome of capitalism.
It’s like saying “the problem isn’t kittens, it’s cats”. - Comment on Relevant username 3 days ago:
Technology concessions did an episode on this. Those instructions are for the lowest common denominator of microwaves.
If your microwave has a popcorn setting that uses sensors, is almost always the best option. Some use humidity, some use a microphone, some use both.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I’m actually thinking of the sociopolitical ramifications of both scenarios here.
I feel like if physical attraction between species was common, then we’d end up with crazy purity culture:
If they couldn’t procreate, then population rates would plummet, most pairings would be non-viable.
If they could then we’d still see people obsessed with species purity like how we see people obsessed with racial purity today.I’m curious what an animal that was like 1/16th 16 random animals would look like. With so much selection, would everyone tend to the average of all animals after like 10 generations? Would we end up with a single blended specie? Would it reduce into a handful of different blends that achieved critical mass?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I would like to unlearn this, please.
- Comment on Is this real life? 3 days ago:
Put a harpoon against my leg
Pull the trigger, now it’s a peg - Comment on It didn't rise... 4 days ago:
Why is that bread a clam?
- Comment on Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box 6 days ago:
I remain skeptical. At the risk of anthropomorphizing, why would a hunting bear be “angry”?
As the dude in the video says, this is more or less what they do with seals. - Comment on Leftists should stop trying to change the world, and use those new skills, knowledge and strengths (after trying to wake Liberals up) to survive the accelerating US collapse. Be selfish. Make moves. 6 days ago:
survive by abandoning what defines you, and becoming what you hate.
Aka
Your enemy was right, join them to survive
Uhh… I don’t think this is going to do gangbusters here. I’m hoping that we’re seeing terminal lucidity of fascism; I’m not gonna hold my breath for it, but I’m also not going to abandon my principles out of fear.
- Comment on IT'S HAPPENING! 6 days ago:
With the sauce
- Comment on IT'S HAPPENING! 6 days ago:
Night: loses all spaghetti goat control
- Comment on Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box 6 days ago:
That eat people
- Comment on Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box 6 days ago:
How do the two different in appearance, in polar bears?
- Comment on lol, wrong 1 week ago:
I didn’t get it until I read this lol
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 week ago:
Vehicle combat games.
Right now it’s basically Mariokart or nothing.
Grip came out in 2018, but the physics were really unforgiving (clipping a corner could cost you like 10 seconds as you tumble) and there weren’t enough players online.
Which is a real shame because it’s gorgeous, fast paced, with effective power ups, and amazing tracks. And a hell of a sound track. - Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 week ago:
The thing new games don’t have that I miss from old games is friends to play the game with 😭
