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- Comment on Spirit of Mumbai, everyone. 9 hours ago:
India is a huge country with lots of wealth inequality.
While there have been gains in the last decade, in some areas it’s still common to not have indoor toilets in every residence, that’s people dealing with poverty.
It’s not like they just don’t want bathrooms, they can’t afford them.
Cracking jokes at their expense is very bad form, but there’s an equal chance you were just ignorant and legitimately asking, so I’m leaving the comment up.
But in any area where “open defecation” is widespread in a community, it’s almost never because everyone prefers it. It’s what happens when the infrastructure for a biological need doesn’t exist. There’s literally no other option.
- Comment on YOLO should really be used as a caution, like "Wear your seatbelt, dumbass. YOLO!" 2 days ago:
Two words about furniture:
Killing machines
- Comment on Trump calls for MAGA base to end 'Epstein Files' obsession 3 days ago:
As far as I know, he’s the only rumored one who:
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Has been convicted of sexual assault.
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Admitted to sexually assaulting his wife, resulting in a centuries old loophole being closed in one of the world’s largest cities.
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Bought an under 18 beauty pageant and then bragged about how he could go into the changing rooms to gawk at nude children even though they desperately tried to cover
It’s insane most people don’t see it.
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- Comment on In a sense, China has successfully seized the means of production, and they don't even need to start a revolution for it. 3 days ago:
Nah, they got a point:
, but the skills, and knowledge of how to make things.
Apple spent billions training Chinese workers how to do highly skilled manufacturing work for pennies and shitty hours with huge turnover rates. Remember the days of suicide nets in factories where the workers lived?
Apple viewed them as a disposible work force, they viewed it as job training.
They wash out, then get jobs doing the same things “the Apple method” for more pay and better conditions for a Chinese company.
Still not great pay, still not great conditions, but there’s an incentive there to work for a local company instead of Apple.
Over decades this has led to today where even if we tank our manufacturing away, that just makes manufacturing Chinese competitors even cheaper.
It has nothing to do with discoveries, it’s about a trained workforce with the infrastructure in place for them to work and a supply of the rare earth materials they need.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You go see a psychiatrist, who is trained and qualified to tell you your self diagnosed condition doesn’t exist.
They can probably do it in one appointment, but they might have to keep telling you over and over again before you listen
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 4 days ago:
Superman fighting the klan didn’t work because adults laughed at their hand signs and shit that were disclosed…
It’s because it got a generation of kids to see the klan as the bad guys
If Superman hated you, how the fuck were you going to indoctrinate your kid into the klan?
That’s why they’re always bitching about media. The people doing it are ignorant, but the ones telling them what to be mad about it are picking logical targets to fufil longterm goals.
It’s why fighting fascism is like losing weight, you can’t reach a goal and stop giving a fuck, it’s a lifestyle.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
The way they’re up sizing there’ll be a lot of “slide” positions
Where each year you jump two levels, so 5, 7, 9 decent money
The advantage to taking the short term pay cut used to be stability, but that shits gone now
- Comment on What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow? 4 days ago:
Showerexistentialdreads
- Comment on What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow? 4 days ago:
which assesses modern science’s ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization,
We can’t, we know we can’t.
It doesn’t even take lizard people millions of years ago.
Past 50k years is a blank spot. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 300k years.
They say it took the ice age ending so we could have agriculture, but that ignores we had 3-4 ice age cycles before the last one where humans were running around. Plenty of time for agriculture each cycle.
Even then, during the last ice age the Sarah desert was a lush rain forest the entire time.
The modern timeline is very Euro-centric, which is an incredibly naive view considering the glaceriers from an ice age are basically a giant bulldozer that erases everything. It plows down mountains. Obviously we won’t find any evidence there, it keeps getting erased every ice age.
And the places around the equater that would have fostered large settlements, are under the ocean due to those glaciers melting.
Just like with everything else, it’s incredibly ignorant to think we know everything and there’s no missing pieces of the puzzle
As a violent psychopath once said:
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
- Comment on What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow? 4 days ago:
would remain in five or six million years if we all just vanish?
Literally nothing…
10-20k years left and the only thing left would be like Mount Rushmore and other giant stone monuments.
At 5-6 million years it would only be the layer of plastic in landfills from before bacteria evolved to break it down and nuclear test sites if the future society does isotope testing there
- Comment on What was the first water level in a platformer? 5 days ago:
If you mean “water level” as in where for an isolated level you’re swimming, but not the entire game, super Mario Bros might be it
- Comment on The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity 5 days ago:
In an actual free market all the corporations would act like this, because shit like this is what people want out of a business they patronize.
You will recall that there was a bit of a fuss a month or so ago when an undoubtedly-harried GameStop employee stapled some customer receipts directly to Nintendo Switch 2 boxes—and through the boxes, and into the Switch 2 units themselves. It was all quickly resolved, without lawsuits or fistfights, and with the ugliness now behind it GameStop is looking to make some proverbial lemonade by auctioning off the Switch 2 killer for charity.
No lawsuits, no fight required by affected consumers
The company made it right and turned a bad situation into a PR move that helps a charity.
I really thought we’d see some kind of ethical capitalism out of the whole GameStop thing but it never really spread.
- Comment on Is there a last resort, whistleblowing like app that requires a password on a timer? 6 days ago:
I’m almost positive outlook can be set up to do it on its own, I was just too lazy to Google how to set it up
- Comment on Is there a last resort, whistleblowing like app that requires a password on a timer? 6 days ago:
It’s called a dead man’s switch and there’s not really anything complicated about it.
The thing is, it’s so so simple I doubt anyone has made a full on app to do it.
Like, the people who do that stuff aren’t the type to require an app to do everything for them.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 1 week ago:
Microsoft flat out said it in an investor meeting years ago…
It’s not exactly a secret
- Comment on The freestar ranger quest leads me into a Lvl30 star system, but I'm just Lvl15. Should I go there? 1 week ago:
I’m not enjoying fighting enemies at a much higher level than I am.
There’s a lot of difficulty adjustments you can do at any point from pause menu
So make a save, go there, and see what it’s like. Maybe you decide to lower difficulty and force thru it, maybe you reload and go level up.
But despite its flaws, Starfield gave a lot of player freedom. If you want to grind levels, adjusting difficulty adjusts XP earned. So you can cheese some settings to max XP gain and quickly get up to level 30.
And if you’re on PC you can always just use console commands to level up.
- Comment on It's the thing from the thing 1 week ago:
There was a lot of armed resistance to the nazis and their genocide of not only Jewish people but other minority groups…
What you’re saying would only be an excuse if Israel never took a genocidal action before the current “war” broke out.
Like, you’re not looking at the beginning, just at one of the few times the victim got a punch in. Which just resulted in the victim getting beat harder, but who wouldn’t fight back after their friends and family have been genocide victims for generations?
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 1 week ago:
“worth”
- Comment on Up to half of the earth's population doesn't have an inner monologue, up to half of the earth has never had a shower thought 1 week ago:
when I learned
You didn’t learn anything…
You saw a random social media post and instantly believed what it said
What the fuck is wrong with people?
- Comment on Disturbed 1 week ago:
Dudes really talented too if you haven’t listened to them yet:
- Comment on If nudity was more widely accepted, tattoos would be more popular. 2 weeks ago:
Only among people who get tattoos for others…
For lots of people something as permanent as a tattoo isn’t done to increase other’s views, it’s for a personal reason.
- Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? 2 weeks ago:
The IDF will never be held responsible for their actions the Israeli government that ordered them should be
You see zero irony and n that comment?
Like, Israel spent decades going after anyone tangentially connected to the Holocaust…
It was just a couple years ago they prosecuted someone in their 90s who was forced to be a teenage secretary for a nazi.
And you’re legitimately implying:
The soldiers committing genocide were just following orders. We can’t judge them for what they’re actively doing , which is committing a genocide
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I mean, most posts like this aren’t real to begin with if we’re talking about suspicions.
But they do get engagement so it’s worth popping in with general advice some people do need to hear.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Lately there have been some running jokes about how we’re basically a throuple already, and those jokes have been getting a little more… not-jokey.
Those jokes are almost never jokes…
If the other people were the ones starting the jokes, that’s called “testing the waters” and you might be in more of a trouble than you realize already.
Like, I get that guys don’t learn that as early as women, but most people figure it out
- Comment on The three musketeers never use muskets 2 weeks ago:
It’s one of those things where we shortened a word and then it stopped making logical sense.
“The three musketeers” werent just musketeers who carried muskets.
They were “the king’s musketeers”. They were elite special forces as well as the personal bodyguard for the King. The best of the best. The “musketeer” part was the common bit, it just sounds fancy centuries later.
But the book might as well be called “The Kingsguard”
- Comment on Netanyahu asks court to postpone corruption trial summons: lawyer 2 weeks ago:
I’m still pissed there wasn’t charges after it came out he was smuggling millions into Gaza to keep Hamas afloat
Dude has been creating his own problems for decades, because it’s just a distraction for him to stay in power.
If there was no Hamas, there’s be no Bibi.
- Comment on Bezos' Lavish Venice Wedding Spurs Demand for Global Billionaire Tax 3 weeks ago:
Literally no one needs that level of wealth
They’re choosing everyday to hoard it knowing full well how detrimental that is to the vast majority of other humans.
Every fucking second of every day, they are choosing their personal.pleasure over the rest of us.
They’re not gonna magically change their mind and start wanting to pay taxes.
We have to make them.
- Comment on Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers: no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health. 3 weeks ago:
This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ well-being and health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000–2020).
It’s crazy the AI bros will say that this means AI is safe…
But then ask them how much AI has improved since 2020 and without a shred of realization they’ll tell you only an idiot would compare 2020 AI to 2025 AI…
Like, it’s not the study’s fault. It’s the fault of anyone trying to apply it to modern AI.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the whole point was to show feudual society was fucking stupid.
No one bout a square meter of land and started going to the Queen’s brunches.
It was to mock the people that unironically wanted to be called a Lord in modern day.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure there some scams…
But that doesn’t mean they were all scams.
And I sincerely doubt one lone Chinese woman was responsible for all the companies doing it.