Landsharkgun
@Landsharkgun@midwest.social
- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 3 days ago:
Shit, came here to say the same thing.
- Comment on A universal basic income to the ultra wealthy would be perceived by them as being given a couple pennies every month 3 weeks ago:
It unironically is.
Posts like the above are why I’m a communist now.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 3 weeks ago:
Are we counting raising kids? Because I feel like that would be the answer for the supermajority of people. It’s super necessary work that society is utterly dependent on, yet we insist on not compensating.
Shit, we could just do UBI for parents and we’d be 80% there.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
Ok, but that’s unironically a great map for a TTRPG campaign.
I’m thinking Lovecraft. Plateau of Leng and all that. There’s just this huge, impassable land that goes south for what seems like forever. And…things…occasionally wander out of it.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
Stop. Using. Cars.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 1 month ago:
TIL what ‘basta’ means.
- Comment on legs to die for 1 month ago:
According to a random comment I saw once, these things will happily eat each other if there’s no other bugs to eat. So basically yes… unless your house has a continuous influx of new bugs.
- Comment on Disturbingly accurate 2 months ago:
Nobody told these gents that there is such a thing as having too much personality.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' 2 months ago:
" A moderator on the game’s Discord server, for instance, said “watching u all cry, amuses me so much,” while another said on Reddit that complaints about weapon nerfs were perhaps in reality a question of “skill issue.” "
Are you kidding? That’s fucking hilarious. Learn to use a different weapon than the railgun you absolute chuffs.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 2 months ago:
Posting this seperately: OP, you have a right to feel unsafe. Talk with your other coworkers, then go to managment with a safety plan. You probably can’t get this guy fired, but it’s completely reasonable to ask for some sort of safeguards, given he’s a multiple offender. If you need inspiration, look at the sort of practices medical facilities have: multiple people required to be in the room, clear boundaries being set, agreed-upon followup if rules are broken, etc.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 2 months ago:
“Not wanting to work with a multiple rapist is the same as slavery”
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 2 months ago:
I can absolutely see how someone who gets into fights can be rehabilitated. You can work with anger management, threat responses, removal of triggers, avoiding people or areas that cause the behavior, etc.
Rape? It’s an intentional, sadistic crime. I don’t really see how rehab would even work with a multiple rapist.
wanting to see someone rehabilitated
Tossing somebody on the street and hoping for the best isn’t rehab. Rehab involves active monitoring, behavioral modification, restrictions on liberties, etc. It also involves owning up to your crime to the community. If that makes life harder for the offender, that is their burden to bear.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 2 months ago:
ITT: people reallly pulling for a rapist.
I’m honestly with OP on this one. Rape is up there with torture and child abuse. You’ve gotta be a real scumbag to do it. It’s not something you get pressed into by circumstance, like e.g. stabbing someone in a bar fight. At some point, the right of everyone else to be free of threat outweighs one guy’s right to reintegrate with society.
OP, you live in the US, and you have 2nd Amendment rights. Start carrying to work.
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 3 months ago:
Literally true; but also yes. A car that doesn’t look before turning is the same whether it’s ICE or EV. I’m a bus-and-walking guy, not a bike guy, but any car is a danger to me when I’m crossing the street. It’s not a problem we’re going to solve with batteries. Mass transit, raised crosswalks, narrowing roads, physical speed controls, and densified cities (to name a few) are all things we desperately need.
- Comment on Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... 3 months ago:
It says it right there: SUVs are less safe and more polluting. The entire city is impacted by that, so they’re recouping some of the cost.
- Comment on Government bonds anyone? 3 months ago:
Bruh, this is literally Market Socialism.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 5 months ago:
Get Nebula, you boot licking clown
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 5 months ago:
Youtube will never give their content producers a fair payout. Just get Nebula.
- Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. 5 months ago:
Yes.
If you’re operating a piece of heavy machinery at high speeds, “But they ran into road!” is not an excuse.
- Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. 5 months ago:
Uh, no, pretty sure it is legally your responsibility to be safe to everyone around you when driving. If you can’t so that, don’t drive a car.
- Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. 5 months ago:
Good.
Maybe we’ll start designing our cities and lives for shorter commutes, benefiting ourselves and our environment? Might just be me tho.
- Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. 5 months ago:
Limit the speed of private vehicles mechanically, the same way they do with ebikes.
- Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. 5 months ago:
80% of the US population, and about half of the world population, lives in urban areas.
By 2050, those figures will be 90% and 75%, respectively.
Planning better urban areas won’t help everyone, but it will help the supermajority.
- Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. 5 months ago:
Conical shades on streetlights and yellow light to reduce interference with sleep.
Also: fewer fucking cars.
- Comment on A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams 5 months ago:
Do not colonize other planets. They suck. They have all the downsides of space habitats (needing sealed environment, etc), while also adding more (breaches now let in toxic dust instead of vacuum, cannot control gravity via spin, etc).
Just build O’Neil cylinders. If you can’t do that, maybe work on stabilizing the ecosystem we evolved to live in. Nowhere will ever be better than here, folks.
- Comment on Apartment furnishings should cost credits, not resources 7 months ago:
They’re using the same engine they’ve used since Morrowind. It literally cannot handle large numbers of NPCs.
- Comment on 15 More Free to Play Overwhelmingly Positive Steam Games 7 months ago:
I’ll add Endless Sky in there as well. It’s an open-source spiritual successor to EV Nova.