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- Comment on Rough date 2 days ago:
The polite thing to do in this instance is to get on her level by pounding your own set of shots.
- Comment on *Honk honk* 4 days ago:
I use Excel to calculate the ages of the oldest rocks in the Solar System. If I was using it to find accounting loopholes for a private equity firm, I’d probably kill myself.
Ted’s problem is that he equates the tools and the processes of post-industrial society with its people. Just because the possibility exists for these surrogate activities to replace meaningful work doesn’t mean we all succumb automatically.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Go get a PhD and an academic position. The pay is shit but nobody will care whether you show up or not.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
For sure, but the growth rate is rapidly decreasing in the developing world too. If that continues eventually there will be nobody left to run the machines.
- Comment on [serious] 1 week ago:
I’d love to watch these geniuses try to “innovate” their way out of cleaning toilets.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
The irony is that this causes birth rates to plummet, which eliminates the future workforce for the very companies forcing childcare to be untenable. One of the major contradictions of capitalism is that it does not reproduce its own labor force. I guess the resolution is to replace human workers with AI.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
I live in Prague. It’s full of Americans who come to do IVF becauee they would rather pay $3,000 than $30,000 for it. They get a nice European vacation too.
- Comment on Durian supremacy 5 weeks ago:
It’s a “sciency” meme that presents a bunch of nonsense. I will not chill.
- Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is 1 month ago:
We laugh, but this was an actual product.Image
- Comment on Hrmmm 🤔 1 month ago:
Man, David Harvey really went off the deep end huh
- Comment on If you think you look cool in your pickup truck or ford mustang just look at this guy 2 months ago:
Unrealistic though because most people who ride horses aren’t as cool as Subcomandante Marcos
- Comment on Sunglasses suggestions 2 months ago:
Go to a festival with corporate kiosks and grab a free pair.
- Comment on Easter diagram 2 months ago:
Not always, usually it’s an evolutionary arms race though. Recent paper I thought was really cool suggests the initial jump from single to multicellular happened because of a snowball Earth which changed the water temperature and therefore viscosity, making larger size equate to more efficient swimming.
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 2 months ago:
Never suggested he didn’t. The average age of Trump voters skews over 50 though.
- Comment on oh ok 2 months ago:
As much as I like to shit on AI, it has gotten rather poetic lately.
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 2 months ago:
If you add that these bullies were given high-paying blue collar jobs, cheap houses, and wives to abuse freely, it’s no longer an analogy. The Trumpist boomers literally had this happen. When this system broke they reacted to it like the selfish, hateful idiots they are.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 months ago:
Defunding is perennial and global, even if it’s not a targetted action like in the US. Consider for example that in the last 25 years the number of PhDs doubled while the funding of the National Science Foundation stayed flat. In the EU the situation is better, with funding at least keeping pace with inflation, but national funding depends on the whims of the current ruling party (I’m in the Czech Repoublic btw where we just elected a right-wing billionaire). Even in the best case the average acceptance rate for a grant is 10 or 15%, but in my experience it’s lower.
As for lawyers being in charge, I mean what’s the degree you go get if you want to enter politics? In China it’s engineering. In the West, almost a third of politicians have law degrees even though the fraction of lawyers in society is much less than one percent.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 months ago:
Geologist here. It’s really depressing being in the community these days. We’re continually being defunded and we know better than most what a systemic crisis this planet’s ecosystem is in. For some reason we thought it was a good idea to put lawyers in charge of everything instead of experts.
- Comment on art 3 months ago:
Some of the terminology is from Dan Simmons’ Hyperion series.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 4 months ago:
Haiti should have just patiently waited to gain their independence.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 6 months ago:
Here’s a great exposition on 37.
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 6 months ago:
I recently moved to the Czech Republic and found out that their hotdogs are already like this. The meat cylinder goes into a tube. It makes so much more sense than the sandwich!
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 8 months ago:
So the point of the comment was the relative strength of leftists during the era, not whether/how powerful the fascists were
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 8 months ago:
There were huge countervailing forces then. New Deal US. Soviet Union. Socialist parties gaining power the world over. The rise of fascism was limited to a few powerful countries, not systematic like it is today.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 9 months ago:
The US as a country does it to the rest of the world too, not just the immigrants.
- Comment on Metal 9 months ago:
Sometimes I think Lemmy is an echo chamber but then I hear a phrase like_ I used to show hogs._
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 9 months ago:
Environmental concerns have never stopped any developed economy from doing what they want. Just look at this area on a map. These objections are not serious. The passenger rail service is trash in the US because of the automobile and hydrocarbon industries.
- Comment on Anon is a fighter 1 year ago:
I recently saw a gorilla skull. Note how small the brain is and how much extra bone there is to protect it. Punching this would hurt you more than the gorilla.Image
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 year ago:
Just for posterity in case this follows us here, there is a genocide going on in Palestine.
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 1 year ago:
As your annoying communist I’ll also point out that if you’re a scientist developing novel methods to detect endotoxins your grant funding is currently being eviscerated by the US federal government and you’re likely to find a much more lucrative career path working for a pharmaceutical company that lacks your research ethics. And if you make it up to the admin level you can go lobby the government too!
