Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 5 days ago:
Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 1 week ago:
Hey look, it’s both sides of the trolley problem.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 week ago:
It’s called “sealioning” and the only solution is to not engage with these types. They aren’t interested in honest answers, just controlling the conversation with a veneer of legitimacy to shield them from criticism.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Imagine if “exciting” was the only metric all art was judged by.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
Companies are stupid, which is why they do things like demand return-to-office even though employees are more productive on average working from home with less micromanagement. And they’re incredibly short-sighted.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 3 weeks ago:
There was a while when the US was on top, revolutionizing automotive manufacturing. Ford’s Model T and later Model A sold like crazy.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 3 weeks ago:
Damn near the entire internet is “social media” but people usually mean “social networking sites”.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, how dare we live in an even slightly collectivist society! I should only have to maintain/pay for the infrastructure I personally use!
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 4 weeks ago:
Do you furnish your concrete bunker with concrete furniture? Or is it full of wood and plastic and paint and other flammable materials?
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 4 weeks ago:
What do I do? Landfill. Nobody near me wants the ABS housing even if I pried out the electronics and the radioactivity of ionization alarms is too low to need hazardous waste disposal. There are so many more impactful things to care about than recycling two or three smoke detectors every ten years.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 4 weeks ago:
Photoelectric smoke detectors also need to be replaced every ten years or so, and the radioactivity of ionization alarms is well within safe levels as long as you aren’t taking them apart to eat the ^241^Am. They’re sensitive to different things but the photoelectric ones are probably better suited to modern home fires (but they’re more prone to false-positives from kitchen smoke).
Pointless America Bad and radiation fear-mongering.
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 5 weeks ago:
When did I say anything about banning drugs? I just said I don’t think it’s a good idea to make more addicitive substances for the sake of addiction.
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 5 weeks ago:
Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 1 month ago:
What, and lose an opportunity to funnel tax money to private interests?
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
Nestle is Swiss. The Doritos are called that because Euro countries call our “ranch” dressing “American” dressing. Turkiye is on the Eurasian border with parts in both continents. I can’t easily find where the pizza was first marketed but that’s not even relevant to the point: the rest of the world is using our country’s name as an adjective for food so fuck you we’re doing it too.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
Don’t kink shame, let them have piss.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
Which is accurate, but Philip Chiang (cofounder) is a first-generation immigrant whose mother helped bring other-than-Cantonese Chinese cuisine to American restaurants. It’s not like a bunch of white dudes were sitting down to appropriate a foreign food culture.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
Pizza Americana. Torta Americana. Amerikan Salatasi. Cool American Doritos.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 1 month ago:
I’m really trying to think of a single upside to putting it in space. Unfiltered solar power, does that matter at all? Not that you would ever break even on the cost.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 month ago:
It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 2 months ago:
Do not come to the USA until we’ve gotten rid of these guys.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 months ago:
Solar power is not a feasible solution in all parts of the world, though, and large-scale storage is still very much an issue.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
Alright, well, I don’t believe in ghost stories.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
I prefer “naughties”
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 months ago:
The comics were pretty good too.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 months ago:
Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 3 months ago:
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 3 months ago:
Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 months ago:
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.