Doomsider
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- Comment on 2 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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] 6 days 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.
- 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] 6 days ago:
The US was founded by the rich for the rich. Anything else is just convenient propaganda to convince the masses otherwise.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
Oh seriously. In a sane world this shit stain would be fired for incompetence.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
You can’t run with an idea if it has no legs?
- Comment on It's nothing 1 week ago:
It is always a turd inside you causing the problems.
- Comment on 4.3 Million Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign | Koi Blog 1 week ago:
Security by obscurity isn’t security at all.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 1 week ago:
People still care about Reddit!?
- Comment on War crimes? Nah. 1 week ago:
What they did is literally listed as an example of a unlawful order. So either they are incompetent or they are monsters. Either way you slice it they are murderers. Sad state of affairs.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 1 week ago:
Don’t worry consumers will pay for all their poor decisions.
- Comment on Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government 1 week ago:
Too hard to make up bullshit for report so we will have AI make up the bullshit for us.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 2 weeks ago:
First, that is not your child. It is a fucking elephant.
Second, I don’t care if the elephant says it has a high tolerance. You don’t shoot up anything with this much smack.
Third, labeling this poor junkie elephant as an aspie is just cruel and unusual.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 weeks ago:
Of all the machines an Emachine. Those were the cheapest and worst built computers ever. They were often obsolete the moment they were sold.
I guess that makes the irony even more delicious.
- Comment on I was diagnosed with early onset dementia and alzhimers. Is there safe guards I can put it up so I don't screw or kill anyone? Like who do I contact about being denied to own a gun? 2 weeks ago:
So sorry to hear. I have worked with many cases similar to yours. First things first, as most have said you need to find someone you trust to be you power of attorney. Depending on where you live in the world this can look different so I would consult with a expert to make sure you are doing it correctly.
This disease is scary because you slowly lose yourself. Depending on how it progresses you may eventually forget everyone you know. You may maintain long term memories but likely your short term memory will be completely shot.
This means you will often be on a short loop of 5-15 minutes as it progresses. Quality of life is highly dependent on very to patient, kind, and understanding caregivers. It extremely exhaustive taking care of a person on this short loop.
Hearing the same story thousands of times. Constantly correcting behavior and a lot of supervision is needed. Often your emotional state is completely dependent on those around you. If everyone else is happy, you will be.
The good news is you may have a long time before this happens. Enjoy life and prepare for the worst. They could find some new treatment soon so you are not without hope. Definitely time for a bucket list.
- Comment on He really made things worse 2 weeks ago:
I remember that year, it was the same year Biden cancelled Christmas. After black lives matter burned all the cities to the ground there was not much left for the holidays. A lot of people forget what really happened!
- Comment on YSK that Boris Johnson was one of the most corrupt Prime Minister in British history. He was obsessed about money 2 weeks ago:
I read a study somewhere that says wealth gaps and democracy can uneasily coexist as long as money stays out of politics. This is the essential problem I think.
When we allow money into politics it corrupts them. We have to look at actual metrics to measure and consider externalities whenever creating policy. Making sure a monetary system is working for everyone and that people who take advantage of the situation are dealt with is a no brainer.
I did a little research and it does appear CA law is a little lax around loaning for political campaigns. I am not from CA so I really don’t know if this is really a big deal or not. I would be concerned though that this system would be abused.
I personally I think we should actively attempt to eliminate wealth gaps. Money has been used to divide people for far too long and it is such a corrupting force for some people. It is a problem that has consumed the US entirely.
- Comment on YSK that Boris Johnson was one of the most corrupt Prime Minister in British history. He was obsessed about money 2 weeks ago:
Oh don’t get me wrong. Even though I live in a fascist nation my life is not bad. I just bought a house, I have a stable job. I have a big family I get to hang out with everyday.
I have a job for the first time in thirty years I can afford to insure my family with. A lot of my contemporaries are not so lucky though.
I think it is good just to point it out. It helps to keep me thinking straight and not feel gaslight by my government when it makes policy decisions to benefit the wealthy.
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I like that because it puts a ever increasing burden to use it or lose it. Once it is no longer profitable it goes back to public domain.
I find patents of dubious value to say the least. It is definitely the worst part of IP.
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
If there is any chance of reform it would have to still appeal to all parties. We definitely need to think about solutions that have not been proposed before.
As much as I would like to advocate for abolishment of IP, I recognize it is an unrealistic demand.
After all, IP didn’t magically appear. It took hundreds of years of court cases and laws passed to get to the arguably ridiculous point we are now.
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I think that if small business capitalism actually existed then it would run contrary to that.
There would be no need for copyright or patents. These systems create artificial scarcity which hinders society as a whole to benefit a minority.
I feel like our existing system of laissez-faire capitalism fully embraces the rent seeking found in intellectual property.
- Comment on YSK that Boris Johnson was one of the most corrupt Prime Minister in British history. He was obsessed about money 2 weeks ago:
The fact that corporations are the dominate social structure is undisputable. Everything, including notions of democracy, is secondary to this. Whenever there is a conflict between wealth and the general populace the government will always side with money due to corruption.
This is pretty universal across all nations. There is not a democracy that does not suffer from this problem. At this point it really does feel that democracy in most forms is just a window dressing for corportocracy.
- Comment on Are they still underpants if you aren't wearing pants? 2 weeks ago:
Inpantception 2: Under the Underpants
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
Copyrights and patents generate enormous amounts of wealth from rent seeking. This wealth has been used to continue to entrench these draconian concepts into our legal and governmental systems.
Even worse they have been used to stop the spread of information and monopolize development thus slowing slow down technological advancement. So many people have died so these clowns can make a buck.
One could argue that artificial scarcity is a farce, but unless you have more money than the people who benefit from IP, your voice will not be heard on a policy level.
- Comment on Americans helping Ukrainian war effort decry US peace plan as a ‘betrayal by Trump’ 2 weeks ago:
Oh wait, isn’t this the same Ukraine Trump tried to force to help him blackmail Biden?
You know the first time he got impeached.
Yeah, the Trump admin shouldn’t be allowed within a thousand miles of Ukraine diplomacy. Congress should have created a separate negotiation team if they really felt Trump was fit for duty (hint: he isn’t).
By not protecting Ukraine the Republicans have purposely thrown them to the wolves. How much Russian money is the GOP taking in?
It is time for a lot of heads to roll (figuratively of course) otherwise we will continue to endure blatant corruption and the Ukrainian people will continue to be murdered needlessly.
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 weeks ago:
Asking for a friend who has a daughter who bites hair, definitely not for my daughter who also bites hair.
- Comment on Why does American media (and to an extent the American public) seem to only focus on one issue at a time? 3 weeks ago:
Media does not find or aim for a specific market. They create it through propaganda. This is not media catering to groups, it is media creating groups. This is the feedback loop. While there may have been some original audience to cater to at some mythical time we are far beyond that now.
- Comment on I like making these memes out of spite 3 weeks ago:
I am sorry sir, but this goes against one of the primary rules of the Internet.
Your punishment will be repeating there are no girls on the Internet seventeen times.
May the great Cerf and Kahn have mercy on your IP address.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 3 weeks ago:
Who would of guessed a bunch of wealthy landowners would design a system to enrich themselves and their friends!?
Bonus points for making people believe in lofty ideals like justice and equality meanwhile allowing pure unfettered corruption to run everything.