CileTheSane
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services 9 hours ago:
Are you prepared to assert and prove that every single company over a certain revenue is exactly the same?
So in this conversation about a specific company, and how this specific company behaves, and someone commenting on pirating from this specific company, why am I being expected to extend that to every compy?
- Comment on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services 15 hours ago:
You seem to be the one creating hatred here.
- Comment on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services 16 hours ago:
Now, the one part I’ll admit is this logic doesn’t work as well in corporate atmospheres; where CEOs fire as many people as possible, reward no one for good performance, and would rather fudge numbers than sell a good product.
So you agree with the person you’re replying to, and the two paragraphs before this one are irrelevant to what’s being talked about?
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 week ago:
Seeing as your the only person who doesn’t seem to understand, I’m going to listen to the other poster and not engage with your sealioning.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 1 week ago:
Land of the free labour
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
It’s a natural extension of what you originally posted.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought, but here we are.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
“If I had a horde of money I’d try to make it an ever bigger horde so I could tell people what to do.”
Yes, that exact attitude is the problem with billionaires and why simply being a billionaire is a sign of mental illness, because people without a hording disorder will fuck off long before they get to a billion.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
Right, but you said they insisted they wanted the billion. I’d want the billion too, but if I had 50 million I wouldn’t be complaining that I didn’t have a billion.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
Well considering my individual taxes are such an insufficient portion of my governments total spending I shouldn’t have to pay them at all then.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
It’s hoarding. It’s never enough to have a lot of money, they need to have all the money. Being a billionaire is a significant sign of mental illness.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
If you gave me the choice between 50 million and a billion I’d take a billion too; but if you gave me 50 million no one would hear from me again as I would quit my job, move somewhere quiet, and keep to myself.
- Comment on Why is that a problem? Did something bad happen in 1929? 2 weeks ago:
It’s okay guys, Trump just signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Now that the more important business is out of the way I’m sure fixing this is next on his to-do list.
- Comment on Jimmy Neutron confirmed Chad? 2 weeks ago:
And unfit for the pubic to interact with.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
This is an “every accusation is a confession” situation isn’t it? Can’t even call an obvious insult an insult but will accuse others of arguing in bad faith.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
I will not waste my time
Said while wasting your time posting anything but an actual argument.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
I addressed your strawman claims. I both addressed your argument that “not everyone is altruistic” and expanded on why your anecdote does undermine your argument.
This is just another attempt to not defend a weak argument, which could also be achieved be just not replying. This whole attitude of “I could totally defend my argument, I just don’t want to. You need to prove yourself worthy of having me defend it” is not a good look for you or your argument.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
If you have a good argument, let your argument stand. When people don’t have a good argument they stand on insults.
who is no longer willing to repeat himself by restating the things he already said that were ignored and mischaracterized
So instead of defending their argument they’re insulting the people who disagree with them to try to make them go away? That is exactly what I said. If you think the counter argument is invalid to the point that you’re not going to address it you could just not reply, it’s even easier than trying to insult the person and making your argument look weak as a result.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
didn’t see him peppering his comments with insults
“I didn’t happen”
If anything, he was the one peppering insults. I don’t blame Bytemeister for getting exasperated with that.
“But if it did, they deserved it.”
You might want to pick a lane before you reply so you don’t undermine our own point.
Do you think disagreement and criticism is the same thing as an insult?
Do you think this is “Criticism and disagreement”?:
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 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:
Which, I assure you, makes him the rare exception rather than the rule.
Using someone unnecessarily peppering insults into all their responses to people who disagree them as a “rare example of someone who cares” is an odd choice.
They don’t care enough to be civil with people they disagree with and even they can be altruistic. How much more altruistic can we expect all the people who don’t insult everyone who disagrees with them to be?
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
To start with, someone arguing in good faith does not open with: “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…”
That’s a sign of someone lacking a good argument and trying to hide it behind insults. Either the person gets offended and doesn’t respond, or they focus on the insult instead of the argument. Either way it’s a weak attempt to get them to focus on something other than the actual argument you are making.
Secondly, speaking of Strawmen: you are insisting something cannot work unless 100% of the people are maximally altruistic, which simply isn’t true. If you have 100 people, 99 are altruistic and 1 isn’t, things will work out just fine. Now, what that minimum percent of autistic people needs to be is up for debate, but it does not need to be 100%. So I agree that not everybody is altruistic, but not everybody to be.
Which brings me to the third point: you going on about your own personal altruism while claiming people aren’t altruistic is a bizarre choice, and if you don’t see how that undermines your argument I can’t help you. My guess is you do see how obviously it undermines your argument and that’s why you’re trying to hide it under insults. You probably also want to feel like you’re very special and nicer than everyone else, but given how rude you present yourself to people who disagree with you this undermines your argument even further. Most people are not this unnecessarily rude to people who disagree with them. So if even someone like you who is below average on politeness can be altruistic, it would imply people who care enough about others to be civil during a disagreement would be at least as altruistic if not more.
You being altruistic while also being a dick implies the majority of people are altruistic; as the majority of people are not dicks, and even dicks are altruistic.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
So despite your earlier claim that expecting people to help others without getting something out of it themselves was “indicative of a failed home-school education and a lack of real world experience” 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.
Did you do all that for your neighbour because of your failed home-school education? Or your lack of real world experience?
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
everyone contributes as best they’re able with no concern for getting value out of an exchange proportional to the effort put in
How much effort went into contacting your neighbor about their roof and how much value did you get out of it?
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 4 weeks ago:
Please be more specific in the type ranked choice voting system you’d favor.
any version is better than what is currently being used
also
I didn’t see the point of having Randos argue over which specific version of ranked choice voting to use
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 4 weeks ago:
Glad you were able to find the answers on your own for the potential options.
Seeing as Lemmy is not in charge of implementing it I didn’t see the point of having Randos argue over which specific version of ranked choice voting to use, as I’m sure we can all agree that any version is better than what is currently being used.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 4 weeks ago:
Please forgive any ignorance on my part, but would it be required that we’d know what the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th and so on) preferences of those who voted for E in the first choice?
Yes. Please look up “How ranked choice voting works” instead of asking randos on social media to explain it to you. The information is readily available.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 4 weeks ago:
Also does not make them to blame for Trump above all the people who voted for Trump, and all the politicians actively supporting him and not reigning him in.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 4 weeks ago:
Either that, or they thought letting Trump run again would make their candidate a shoe in, so they wouldn’t have to try at all and could run a “Status Quo, everything is fine so nothing is going to change” candidate.
Either way they put their own desires for power above law and order.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 4 weeks ago:
Or any other prominent MAGA figure.
