Doomsider
@Doomsider@lemmy.world
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 23 hours ago:
You offered no solidarity, give me a break. You were dissing on a word to the wise under the assumption it was a personal attack due to your poor streaming choices. You are just overreacting at this point and likely every point.
Why you flail about with wild accusations is beyond me. It is probably because I am dead right that you are acting like a little bootlicker corporate clown. Solidarity, lol.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
It is gross and I am stuck participating in it. We don’t need a world full of weapons. It is such a disservice to future generations.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 1 day ago:
You personalized this beyond all reason. There was no malicious reading just someone trying to understand what you where trying to say.
Apparently, I was dead on. You are trying to say someone that is commenting your subscriptions are going to get enshitified is somehow a personal attack rather than a statement of fact.
Clearly you are some kind of person who acts like an extremely sensitive bootlicker rather than a rational actor who is here to discuss. I would not suggest taking it personally or acting like a bootlicker in the future if you can avoid it.
- Comment on No contest 2 days ago:
Like other commenters pointed out Star Wars is a universe in decline whereas Star Trek is constantly improving. OG Star Trek would be somewhat comparable to the Star Wars Universe minus the teleporters which would be an unbelievable advantage.
I think an OG Star Trek ship the same size as the falcon would be a battle that could go either way. Obviously a ship like the Enterprise is so much larger it wouldn’t be a fair fight.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 days ago:
If the platform formerly known as Twitter didn’t die when it killed itself, it ain’t going to die from this. Zombie Twitter will live on.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
Studying the revolutionary war reveals a bunch of rich propagandists using lies and violence to manipulate the people into forming a country for the wealthy by the wealthy.
The first President of the US was well on his way to becoming the first billionaire adjusted for inflation. All the things they said were pretty much lies as no one was ever equal in our classist society and our first major moves were to genocide an entire race of people.
The cracks and rot were present in our founding slaveholding abusive fucks who sold the people a lie just like our current reps.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
The US won’t go quietly into the night. A desperate US is a scary prospect with a military several orders larger and better equipped than the rest of the world combined.
Until the US eliminates it’s military budget the rest of the world would be wise to watch their backs.
- Comment on Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election 3 days ago:
So then back to 1776 then when oligarchy ruled. It is almost like the US has always been an oligarchy and harkening back doesn’t help.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 4 days ago:
To answer your second question. Company are expected to spend $1 trillion on advertising in 2025.
For the first question, it is pretty complex. You can break it down into some topics though and it is more manageable.
Types
Ecosystem
SEO
Criticism (good stuff starts at 10:00)
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 5 days ago:
Like I said, I thought like you many years ago and I have grown so much since then.
Christianity is a bad copy of other religions that came before it. Christ himself was a cultist preaching resurrection on Earth. The end of his story was just his fellow cultists trying to make his lies a reality.
It is a strange tale for sure and I study it out of morbid curiosity rather than seeking a higher truth like I once did long ago.
I wish you luck on your journey.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 5 days ago:
Religion is a superficial decoration in modern times. My ancestors true religion was taken from them by sword point. Convert or die, so pardon me if I view modern religion through the lense of conquerors and manipulators.
Argue, I have been married for almost thirty years. I was in your frame of mind back when I was a teenager. I spent decades studying all religions and I still do to this day. I am under no more false illusions or pretenses and have spent a long time deprogramming myself.
I am very satisfied where I have landed and I will not give credence where it does not belong.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 5 days ago:
You have a community here which is probably more real and fulfilling than going to a church service. Here we are having a discussion you would never get in a typical church. We are both thinking together, discussing, without any authority to tell us otherwise.
Our sense of right and wrong simply don’t come from religion. It initially comes from our familial bounds but is reinforced through our many interactions with our social groups.
You can see this in gangsters that believe in God, but also will deal drugs and shoot each other. Their morality is determined by their social group, not their belief in religion.
As I said. I used to believe like you that religion is needed by some people, but I have begun to doubt this premise.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 5 days ago:
There is good scientific evidence that people do not think about the consequences of their actions before they commit to them.
Criminals don’t think of the punishment they will receive by society but suddenly a far removed sky daddy will convince them not to rob a store? This is not how any of this works.
Morality is developed by our social bounds, otherwise every agnostic or atheist would be wildly our of control.
People are mentally weak because of religion, not despite it. It is the antithesis to critical thinking. The lack of critical thought is why our society is so easy to control.
I have seen this play out countless times in my life where people realize how fucked up their religion was once they have left it.
As their eyes open and they realize that they were being controlled by their religious leaders who abused them, they have to wrestle with the life that was stolen from them.
I am even to the point now where I no longer believe certain people need religion anymore. They need community and a sense of belonging and religious leaders like to highjack that basic need for their own selfish interests.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 5 days ago:
I personally think people who do things because they fear retribution from sky daddy are the weakest of minds easily exploited by propaganda. Religious thought lead to malleable minds easily exploitable by religious leaders.
Religion is not the source of our social bounds and morality rather a parasite of control left over from ancient times. A vestigial organ that no longer has a use in the face of science but lives on in the body regardless.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 5 days ago:
What in the literal fuck are you on about. You are worried someone is going to take this comment personally, get hurt, and then run to their corporate overlords!?
That bitching about subscriptions is actually an attack on those who use the service and not a word to the wise that enshitification is coming for all you subscriptions.
I think you are taking this in perhaps the most bizarre way possible.
- Comment on GF dumps you. You are taking a peaceful walk through the woods to clear your head. THEN you are confronted by THIS 1 week ago:
The sexy bear your girlfriend dumped you for.
- Comment on YSK that when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it! 1 week ago:
A couple of things here, this is of course a pressure donation where people don’t get the time to think about who they are giving to.
If a company does it right it should have information about the charity readily available. If not, this is a shitty practice in my book.
Many nonprofits have a high overhead. If this is the case a big percentage of your donation could be going into the pockets of administrators.
Also, while the company doesn’t get direct benefits, it does get indirect. Like a goodwill vampire the company is leeching on the act of giving.
Lastly, while the company doesn’t directly financial benefit there are no rules saying they can’t promote a charity that their employees/owners/shareholders have involvement in.
While this may not be a bad thing there is nothing preventing them from picking a charity a major share holder runs thus enriching them especially if the nonprofit has high administrative costs.
- Comment on I am here once again to post shit 1 week ago:
Something about Trump makes these commenters corny.
- Comment on chemotherapy mother 1 week ago:
You would have to be a masochist to use a Theragun on your ladybird.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 week ago:
Chocking hazard, next.
- Comment on Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says 1 week ago:
Another right winger who wants to ignore history. So surprised.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
More tariffs! Lol
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
That would be even more brutal, but sure I could agree to that. Then you could talk them down to gross profit so they feel like they are getting something.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
Gross profits, that way they are even more fucked. Can’t make it profitable? I guess it wasn’t meant to be.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
Because AI is a disruptive technology we should require 40% of gross profits be put into a fund to address its negative externalities.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 1 week ago:
Sounds like a fail to me. We will hold them to the same standards we would be held to. Can’t give a clean test then you are fired. We are also definitely going to watch you pee just like they do to all the poors as well. Turnabout is fair play.
Watch how fast drug tests would be made illegal.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
AFTER IT IS DOWNLOADED YOUR COMPUTER WILL AUTOMATICALLY RUN THE CODE 🤯
- Comment on Day 1 of posting real shitposts, till people and the mods understand the purpose of the community 2 weeks ago:
Is it unethical to eat you half pigeon human ass child? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
I am surprised the tourism industry is taking this so well. I mean Trump and company are literally doing anything they can to kill it off.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
Depends on your definition of funneling money to the top. You need a decentralized economic system designed not to behave like late stage capitalism.
One example of this is Parecon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics
Honestly though, most of our problems are not driven by our economic system so much as our culture. You have to face that just about everyone worships greed whether they like to admit it or not.
In the US it is extremely pronounced and we even have idolized phrases about it like “fuck you money”. Where you have enough money that you can do whatever you want and you no longer have to follow the rules.
There is obvious a problem with our culture, but it is not just the US. Fascism is pretty much everywhere and even the most progressive countries still have huge wealth gaps that are always slowly widening.
Democracies cannot exist with large wealth gaps unless the wealth is aggressively kept out of politics. This is extremely hard and that is why the majority of all policies in all governments all over the world are driven by corporations.