phoenixz

@phoenixz@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully agreed that this is a dumb thing but hasn’t this been a fad since like 10 years ago?

  I’ve seen people do that (or worse, watch a video of someone else playing a game) since looooong ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds his people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  got rejected once, now I’m an incel!

  Yeah, with that attitude you sure are. It’s called dating, and you just try again until you find that awesome person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand credit scores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great write-up, thanks!

  Having said that, it’s hard not to feel that these rules have been semi purposefully left vague so that people take the wrong actions that will cost them extra money

  To add on-top of that, I feel like this system, and most systems around this, are all setup to work great for the rich and the “providers” and just plain less good for us. It’s almost like a casino in that the house always wins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How about both?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What unique thing bothers you about politics in general?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have notes!

  That (depending on the country) all politicians continuously lie and that were sort of okay with that. We shouldn’t, and at the very first lie they should be called out, hard, and three strikes, you’re out

  That we have political parties where everyone has to do what the party says. I’d rather have all independent politicians, vote for those

  That many democracies call themselves democracies yet they use the first past the post system and their politica have moved to the point where you wonder if it’s still democracy

  What companies have such a disproportionate amount of power. Companies should, in the end, exist for the people. The people should ALWAYS go before companies

  That politicians can be in charge of something without having the slightest clue what that subject is. You should be an expert in the field to get a field. That also goes for IT, by the way. Fuck, so many politicians are so dumb and tech illiterate yet have to vote about tech.

  That the rich still exist. Im fiine with capitalism, it works well to generate wealth which COULD be for everyone but people seem to be okay with the rich and ultra rich? I want to see hard cap limits on personal and company wealth. Anything, income, gifts, whatever, that goes over that limit goes 100% straight to taxes. Below that limit we need 10-20 more brackets, where the lowest incomes pay barely or no taxes at all as they likely can’t. The highest will pay on the 90% range and the next bracket is 100.

  Same for companies, but limit it to 1 billion or so and 1000 employees max. Need more employees for a mega project that requires multiple companies to work together. Instead of one trillion dollar company, I want a million million dollar companies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never?

  When you’re dead?

  I’ve seen 70-80 year olds get degrees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And for everything else there is jellyfin, arr yes there is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone in tech confirm?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of

  I still love open source software and tinkering and building my own software

  Anything closed source can go pound a bag of dicks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of that seems very hard

  Find other people and invest with a group. You’ll end up with loads of companies with lots of small shareholders. If your shares become worth souch that you go over the 10M, you’ll have to sell some or have some taxes for taxes.

  Maybe have governments fund independent investment foundations that can help setup startups

  This isn’t even a utopia, it’s literally current capitalism with a small set of core rules added that will make a huge difference between now and how it could be.

  It could be that nobody has to be poor anymore. Governments will have huge incomes so loads of money for socialist projects like free education and healthcare and housing.

  The few problems I’ve seen mentioned so far, to me, are literally details that follow from the core rules.

  Nobody can be worth more than X (and for now, say that X is 10M) and companies cannot be worth more than Y (let’s say 1 billion dollars). Both values can be +/- 5% if you hover at the limit, that doesn’t really matter much. What does matter is that we’re now finally all equal and still have capitalism as the core engine, allowing for all the freedoms we have today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does this pic make U think of?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Family guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any good place to start on a complete arr stack?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Full on 20

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what is that number really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Jenny is the kind of person where if anyone would ever decide to string her up from a tree that loads of people would come to watch and nobody would cut her down.

  Everybody would just watch and feel a weight lifted from their shoulders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the company owners aremulti million dollar assholes, that’s why we behave like this

  Stop the multi millionaires

  Nobody should be worth anything over 10 million. Anything after that should go 100% to taxes.

  With that, governments can actually give out free healthcare, free education, universal basic income and all on a high quality because it will have the funding now that we finally stopped a few from hogging all the world’s resources

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also for trump and co to get rich quick. I imagine most people that lost money are magats. Not that i cate about them, they got what they went for, but this was definitely more than just a pipeline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok is an LLM, a fancy word distance measuring database, if you will, that has no opinions, it says nothing

  Elmo put certain concepts about himself closer together, making it more likely that the database outputs phrases that are more positive about Elmo. It’s sad, Elmo is a sad puppet with multiple drug addictions, and a severe narcissistic personality mixed with a huge inferiority complex, somehow.

  Elmo is the richest puppet in the world yet craves being loved yet is only capable of actions that make him more hated. So is Elmo’s curse. Elmo is sad.

  Wanna avoid this sad story for other puppets?

  Prohibit multi millionaires, cap personal netwoths at 10-20 million dollars. Nobody should be allowed to be worth more than that and any worth over that goes to taxes.

  Prohibit companies to have a net worth of over a billion dollars. Anything over that, all to taxes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The President of the United States of America⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well he ain’t making it to the end of his term, for sure, but can that brain aneurysm please hurry a little? I need a president that might cause the world to survive climate change and well, there isn’t much time left, if any at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nor really true. In most northwestern countries you’ll find a high quality of life even when not rich and though there is still inequality, it’s not even remotely comparable to the US, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We've got a bone to pick.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then, you already knew all this, spiney!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Programmer: fork the parent, kill the child

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go on…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? I’ve known girls like this

  Not to say this is a woman’s issue, men can be assholes too, bit this is just the risk of approaching human beings

  Pro tip: when people are with their friends they might feel the need to show off how cool they are or something, promoting responses like these. In my personal experiences, when in groups, kids and young adults tend to behave much more like an asshole whereas when they’re alone all of the sudden they behave like themselves.

  If this is a true story, had he approached buyer alone, she might still have rejected him but have not been such a bitch about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me confused using your country culture, norm, news, art or even social interactions on social media.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello Canada

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me confused using your country culture, norm, news, art or even social interactions on social media.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finland? Sweden?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me confused using your country culture, norm, news, art or even social interactions on social media.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Netherlands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I easily hit 500+ tabs, usually against 1000 or so, and usually spread around over 40 windows on 4 different desktops, so it’s fairly wellp organized as all tabs in a window are about the same subject.

  Most auto close after about 15 mins to spare resources because websites these days just are insanely heavy. I used to do 2000 sites with maybe 32GB mem, now I need a tab auto closer to be able to manage half of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re talking out of your ass so I asked an AI

  Pot, you are black! Signed, kettle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you talk about killing the few people like these that are the root cause of all these problems, you’re a terrorist. You go to jail

  These people actually kill people by the thousands, millions, and we call them smart CEO’s and celebrate them 🥂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parenting advice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been probably saying that for longer than you have been alive