DandomRude
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- Comment on It's time to stop 1 day ago:
Oh no, what a sheerstopper! My world is in sheermbles! I guess I should find sheelter somewhere and get in sheerape for the sheerdown!
- Comment on It's time to stop 1 day ago:
Yea, these sheernanigans need to stop!
- Submitted 4 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
An example of a feudal context: real estate companies that made Drump and his father big.
Blackstone Group, Gray Star Real Estate, Vonovia SE, LEG Immobilien AG, China Vanke, and so on.
These are all multi-billion dollar companies that are still controlled by people. They are not state-owned companies or anything that would be useful to society. This is about profits.
You can, of course, continue to insist that my blanket statement is not entirely correct, but I stand by it. Not much has changed since feudalism: there are still masters and servants — and I think it will always be that way.
So, I’m not saying that it’s something new — quite the contrary — I’m saying that hardly anything has changed in hundreds of years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You don’t seem to understand what I’m getting at: we are just as ruled by an elite today as we were five hundred years ago. Regardless of the political system, nothing has changed except the way it happens.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It is not. My statement was that humanity never overcame Feudalism.
You made it there maybe was some time when.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Here is a definition a Feudalism. Pls tell me how anything meaningful has changed beyond the obvious things.
Feudalism is a social, economic, and political system that dominated medieval Europe, roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries. In this system:
- Land ownership was the basis of power. Kings or lords owned large estates and granted portions of their land to vassals (nobles, knights) in exchange for loyalty, military service, and other support.
- Vassals managed these lands and had control over the peasants (serfs) who worked them. The peasants, in return for protection and the right to work a portion of land for their own needs, owed labor, goods, or services to their lords.
- Obligations and relationships were personal and hierarchical, based on mutual duties rather than state laws or centralized authorities.
Maybe the last point but not really - look at the US.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Can you name any society in which the population is not ruled by some form of feudal lord? In the sense that the population is not ruled, but works together for a good life.
I am not aware of any such society.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Poses for Weird Photos With Argentina's President as They Plot Alternative to World Health Organization 1 week ago:
Those two morons, of all people. We’re really screwed.
- Comment on The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine. 1 week ago:
This seems pretty inevitable, since it should really be journalism in particular that exposes and names such wrongdoings.
In a democracy, it theoretically has an important corrective function, but independent investigative journalism is already virtually non-existent (too expensive), and so in practice it is becoming increasingly unlikely that abuses will be remedied and those responsible prosecuted.
This leads to a situation that is already reality in the US, where serious journalism has already been largely replaced by mindless entertainment or even propaganda - I also think it’s only going to get worse.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 week ago:
I never thought that the absurd baggy pants I wore back in school would ever come back into style because they were truly awful.
But hey, what do I know - now they’re back and so am I … How do you do, fellow kids!?!
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 2 weeks ago:
Am I obliged to sacrifice my time to correct nonsense? I don’t think so.
Do your own due diligence if you don’t believe me.
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 2 weeks ago:
I just don’t feel like responding because it would take some effort to refute all of that. I think anyone who does even half a decent amount of research will quickly realize that it’s either simply wrong or cherry picking. It’s pointless anyway to try to convince people who are so entrenched in their opinions.
But hey, it’s good to know that people are impressed just by mentioning a few random sources.
You’d be better off reading the Wikipedia article about Orwell instead of forming an opinion based on random social media comments.
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if we are talking about the same George Orwell here or how you came to the conclusion that he was a “right-wing POS” - he was definitely not.
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what George Orwell would have to say about all this… nvm, he already said everything there is to say.
- Comment on 8 years of RBF 2 weeks ago:
CLYD is a badass
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 2 weeks ago:
Yesterday, I finally talked my parents into canceling MS356 and switching to LibreOffice and Thunderbird.
Now, the excessive subscription fees for MS365 goes to them instead.
If Microsoft keeps this up, I might even manage to persuade them to switch to Linux at some point.
- Comment on US Government officials have coordinated with Musk executives to pressure small african countries into embracing Starlink 2 weeks ago:
It has become abundantly clear that the US is now run by organized crime. How else can one describe all this?
- Comment on Social media is to democracies what PVP quick matches are to decent players: the worst teammates refuse to take any advice, but are still very vocal. This usually ensures that the team loses. 3 weeks ago:
Replace that with “state” and you know what I mean.
- Comment on Social media is to democracies what PVP quick matches are to decent players: the worst teammates refuse to take any advice, but are still very vocal. This usually ensures that the team loses. 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, Showerthoughts has a character limit. But in essence, billionaires are only reinforcing the kind of terrible game that best suits their profit-hungry agenda. I mean, it’s not like they produce any content themselves – that would be the logic of legacy media and far too expensive, therefore not profitable enough in the age of social media.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 weeks ago:
Has the manufacturer even calculated how much energy is needed for production and how long it will take for the corresponding CO2 emissions to be amortized?
We are living in strange times…
- Comment on Literal interpretation 5 weeks ago:
And suddenly he is feeling it again…
- Comment on Luigi checking out another CEO in my feed ? 5 weeks ago:
It’s just sad.
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
Simply unworthy of any country. These are truly rogue state posts directly from the official White House account. Malicious. Vile. What a disgrace.
- Comment on Coca-Cola is on pace to dump 1.3 billion pounds of plastic into our oceans each year 1 month ago:
Yes, I think so too. Unfortunately, it’s only available in Germany and Austria, I think.
Oh, and by the way, if you’re ever in Berlin again and haven’t tried it yet: Berliner Weiße (Berlin White) is also delicious, especially in summer. It’s a beer that’s usually served as a mixed drink with raspberry or woodruff syrup. Sounds strange, but it’s worth a try.
- Comment on Coca-Cola is on pace to dump 1.3 billion pounds of plastic into our oceans each year 1 month ago:
Right, also comes in sugar-free
- Comment on Coca-Cola is on pace to dump 1.3 billion pounds of plastic into our oceans each year 1 month ago:
Tastes better, comes in a glass bottle and from Europe
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s probably true. I just find it funny that Amazon named this line of business after a fraudulent device. For some of the things you can do with it, it’s probably quite the fitting name.
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
A perfectly legitimate question, especially since this misleading approach is precisely why Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is called that.
The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine built by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770. It appeared to play chess autonomously but was actually operated by a skilled human chess player hidden inside. (Source)
I don’t know the answer, but I assume that it probably has something to do with money and power…
