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- Comment on USA | Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced 3 weeks ago:
It’s utterly depressing to see the healthcare system (and thus people’s health) circling the drain – yet another cash cow that’s been overfed and overexploited.
In the wake, a handful of assholes have more money than they can spend while millions of people all get worse–while somehow more expensive-- healthcare. Take note of United Health taking the #2 Shkreli Award this past year, upholding their rep as the scum we know them to truly be.
I think about all the research, work, advancements, sacrifice, pain, and loss that has ultimately made medical technology so amazing and cutting-edge, yet as it’s gotten more capable it’s become less available. Inevitably it became a money game just like every other industry in existence. Compassion, humanity, care–all these things take back seat to the almighty dollar. The greed and cruelty is disgusting, and it’s only going to get worse. Nothing will change the responsible party’s minds and there are scores of self-important shits waiting to usurp any of the roles responsible for this state of affairs. Just a fucking disgrace and a real ‘fuck-you’ to all the innovators and brilliant individuals that shared their talents to give the rest of us a chance at a longer, healthier life.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 3 weeks ago:
It’s the boring truth–without getting the rudiments and stick control and proper technique, the drum set is not gonna make you a good drummer. It’s fun as hell to have one to play, no doubt–but if the goal is to be a good drummer you really gotta focus on the basics first.
- Comment on YSK: The US is currently giving away free COVID tests to all Americans 3 weeks ago:
Government excess i can get behind, lol
- Comment on Pentagon Approved Funds for MrBeast, Kelly Clarkson, Guy Fieri in 2023 4 weeks ago:
The Pentagon also approved funding for content involving YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, who was slated to lead a humanitarian effort in Puerto Rico. “We did complete a PAA for the Social Influencer Mr. Beast, but ultimately did not support the production as he did not go to Puerto Rico for the Hurricane relief, so that PAA is cancelled,” a Pentagon official wrote in an email obtained by Rolling Stone.
Guess Jimmy found something more profitable to sink is grubby fingers into.
We also need to ask why the fuck are we throwing money at people that are ‘planning on’ having a relief effort (as a form of self-promotion, clearly–if he cared that much to help he would have found a way) instead of having a relief effort for the sake of helping people that need help??
Puerto Rico is part of America for some reason so i have to assume they’re entitled to aid. But I’m sure when PR signed the contract there was probably some gotcha hidden in there that allows America to refuse to help or some other slimy bullshit, lol.
Is this really where the future of disaster relief is headed? Whoever decides to make a vanity project out of the reconstruction gets government funding? 🤡
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 4 weeks ago:
I imagine they will finally succeed in having robots running the operations, but there will be a warehouse full of underpaid wage slaves controlling the robots from somewhere in India
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
But they’ll have stragglers just the same as any major social media site. Even though many here have standards they won’t easily abandon, there are scores of people that won’t even know if/when AI started being used on the site or would care enough to leave if they did.
Plus every time we leave a platform we need to find or build a new one. The time it takes to get others to migrate and develop into a worthwhile community is hard to predict and it may not even work out. It sucks social media is such shit anymore, but it seems inevitable that it will remain that way given the landscape of the Internet at this point.
I say this as someone who’s drifted from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Lemmy over the past 20-25 years 🎈 (zero loyalty as well)
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 months ago:
They don’t care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there’s no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.
- Comment on Protests erupt in Paris over pro-Israel gala organized by far-right figures 2 months ago:
It’s one big, shitty tent with room for as much trash as necessary
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 2 months ago:
What makes you think they’d possibly do that?
/s
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 months ago:
If you could afford one! CGA/EGA were the best we had for a while. VGA/256 color was the stuff dreams were made of (and boy were we excited to finally get a computer that had it!!!)
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 months ago:
I loved Netscape as a kid. I would stare at the little Netscape icon with the shooting stars while waiting for pages to load… Funny how little things like that seemed so magical back then ✨🖥️💖
- Comment on If I lose the spread gun, I start over. 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation 3 months ago:
Guess we’ll never know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I too, was disappointed to get a little ways in before hitting that same wall myself)
- Comment on Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too 3 months ago:
This is my favorite comment so far today, thanks for the chuckle 🍻
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 3 months ago:
It honestly just never occurred to me that such a transformation was allowed/possible. A nonprofit seems to imply something charitable, though obviously that’s not the true meaning of it. Still, it would almost seem like the company benefits from the goodwill that comes with being a nonprofit but then gets to transform that goodwill into real gains when they drop the act and cease being a nonprofit.
I don’t really understand most of this shit though, so I’m probably missing some key component that makes it make a lot more sense.
- Comment on 3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time 4 months ago:
Here’s my proposal:
I’ve heard the claim numerous times that people leave a tremendous carbon footprint. Each person would be assigned a certain amount of “carbon credits” that their life is worth, and the value slowly declines as they get older. If they choose to, one can hop in the expiration bin and donate those remaining credits to a cause of their choice: they can give them to their children, family, or friends, donate them to a charity or research group, etc.
I can just imagine the ads where companies try to compel you to take the early-expiration route while relinquishing your credits to them “for the greater good” or some other such nonsense
Children mass-produced for the glorious stream of carbon credits it would award
Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla et al provide “expiration tanks” in convenient places that send the credits directly to them after each “donation”
Wtf i need to go back to sleep, lol
Night night lemmy ✨
- Comment on Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over 4 months ago:
down 30% in a year.
Thrice decimated 🧐
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 4 months ago:
This really does seem like the endgame for all collectibles–to eventually get capitalized to the point that outsiders come in and start speculating/buying out new releases/limited editions solely to flip for profit.
In plenty of cases I’ve seen, they never even have the product in their hands–they’ll just transfer the order to the highest bidder. I guess it’s the nature of collectibles and limited-edition stuff, but it just takes away the fun for a lot of the people who enjoy the hobby/collectibles/etc… it’s kinda deflating when you can’t even get the item without paying a premium to some rando that has no interest in it first (instead of just paying the vendor/manufacturer directly at their list price).
- Comment on As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For 4 months ago:
- Comment on The new middle-class retirement plan: Working into old age 4 months ago:
From the article:
“About one-third said they’d tapped their 401(k) or other retirement plan for a loan, early withdrawal or a hardship withdrawal, a share that Transamerica described as “concerning.””
I love how the reaction to massive amounts of people giving up their shot at retirement to fund an emergency is that it’s “concerning”. Yeah, I’d say that’s not a good thing either, lol. Just love this sterile language they use to cover the horror
One more from the article: “However, as a departure from long-standing notions, the middle class does not see retirement and work as being mutually exclusive.”
I can’t help but read this more like: “as the grip of corporate titans continues to crush the populous, many have taken to a new coping mechanism: delusions.”
I mean really, that’s what they’re saying–let’s redefine retirement from “not working because you worked all your life and finally earned your place in society for the remainder of your days, finally able to enjoy the fruits of your labor” to “well i mean, you can still get out of bed and see well enough to drive (sort of) and cancer hasn’t managed to claim you yet either–be here at 8AM tomorrow grandma, these jeans aren’t gonna fold themselves”, oh yeah and everything costs more now and requires the Internet and a monthly subscription. And they’re spying on you every possible way they can. Yeah, this is a future I’m looking forward to 🤣
- Comment on I'm so sorry 5 months ago:
LOL this is a great little thread, kudos to all involved! This really gave me a good chuckle
- Comment on NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels 5 months ago:
Especially with the knowledge of how little regard many of our fellow citizens actually have for others health and well-being. I don’t know how eager i am to return to a society that can’t even agree on diseases being a bad thing.
Totally agree about the empty gestures too, which really stood as a reminder of how little respect they actually get especially considering how much they risk for everyone else’s sake
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 5 months ago:
Paper Linux, computing done olde world style 📜 🤖
- Comment on Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash 5 months ago:
Why pay for something you won’t be using all the time? Why not just pay for it only when you’re using it? Oh–well yeah, you’ll have to buy it first–but then you’ll only have to pay to use it when you want to use it, and only when you want to use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What a fucking breakthrough
- Comment on Tagia 5 months ago:
🔥/🌲
- Comment on Peeble streamer on Doop 5 months ago:
It’s pretty wild how much they’ll deface themselves to attempt to hold onto their youth, esp when they’ll look much better if they avoided it in the first place. Anyone considering doing any of that shit just needs to compare old Madonna to her recent self. After seeing that, if that’s really what you want, go for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Hermit Crab Housing Market 5 months ago:
🪙🦀📈
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 5 months ago:
In a few years, they’ll all be posing with AK-47s or similar
- Comment on Twitter 5 months ago:
This is a good practice, i appreciate what you’re doing. If anything, i occasionally like to respond to posts like that in order to set the record straight for other people who may read the comment. Debating or disproving the commenter isn’t necessary as much as putting correct information right there next to their bullshit. Some people might buy their lies or faux good-faith, but anyone on the fence or unsure will hopefully benefit from having the truth repeated right next to the lie/bs.
- Comment on Good point 5 months ago:
There are a lot of clichés that may not make a lot of sense at face value. I’ve found some actually go a lot deeper than you expect, or may actually apply on multiple levels. Common wisdom often hits harder than I initially realized as I’ve gotten older…
