Dyskolos
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- Comment on Meanwhile in America 1 day ago:
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 1 day ago:
Yes absolutely this. I’m glad that this sentiment is seen more and more in the younger generations. They won’t bend for jobs or abuse that easily like mine (genx) or earlier did and still do.
“But they’re your parents!”. Aaand? “dad” or “mom” are titles earned by love not labels given by birth. Toxic is toxic. Fuck it.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 1 day ago:
Like I said in my reply to this commenter:
Basic rule in life: cut toxic people out. If someone, let alone a fucking PARENT, treats you like that, and especially if they don’t respect or at least acknowledge your neurodivergrnce: just fuck them. Maybe in your case, play along the absolute bare minimum until you can inherit their shit and then smile. At least you were not the idiot anymore.
Friends, or even random people who have nothing to do with you, shouldn’t treat you like that. We often just endure all shit because… Well, because it’s just like that and we never really knew it could and SHOULD be different. Or other silly reasons.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 1 day ago:
Lol. Yeah sounds like the typical boomer. Never learned what a worry is yet constantly complaining.
Like I always say “I complained to have no shoes until I saw a man with no feet”.
Anyhow. I’m sorry my dutch neighbor. Parents like that are a PITA. Mine were like that too. What a failure i am. Then I became successfully and they both, having no spine at all, couldn’t resist the offer to be employed by me. And after they learned how cool it could’ve been, and what a dream of an employer I was (work whenever wherever you want, but please get the shit somehow done, from cleaning stuff to CEO), I fired them and replaced them with, in their eyes, “horrible failures that only weakens the country!”. Their last month working was showing the news guys the ropes.
It felt great, but, to make a point relative to your story, they didn’t learn shit from it. Even being on welfare didn’t change them. You probably either are an arse or you’re not. So fret not, just cut them out of your life. Basic rule of life: remove toxic people from your social circle. No matter if family (blood) or not.
And get whatever money you can from them. No matter what fucknuggets they are. Money isn’t dirty and has no inherent value. Take what’s yours when you can. Here it’s at least 25% if they disowned you, guess it’s not much different in NL.
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 4 days ago:
Worst proctologist’s bathroom ever.
- Comment on Epstein accomplice Maxwell moved to minimum security Texas prison 6 days ago:
Hey, finally not “disgraced financier epswine” but “sex offender”. We’re getting closer to the child-rapist it should read.
A luxury prison…what a spit in the face to the victims.
- Comment on A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth 1 week ago:
I find this unreasonably hard and totally unjust. It should be capped at around 8.5 Million years. Cut this guy some slack you horribly mean monster!
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 1 week ago:
Wasn’t meant condescending or anything. You didn’t mean harm. It’s just that victims, who hear this attitude a lot (because it seems so bloody obviously easy), might be pissed. Same like “why are you even homeless? Just buy a house, doh!”
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 1 week ago:
Those tribal linux-neckbeards need this to feel superior. Who cares for their opinion?
I use both as tools for the job at hand. One always fits better than the other. It’s not a cult, it’s an OS
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 1 week ago:
You (and the upvoters) thought that this was a clever statement. But it actually was not. It was very disrespectful.
Victims of abuse most often can’t “just leave”. It’s not always that simple. It just appears simple to people far outside of abuse, having neither experienced nor witnessed it. Or, the rare case, are victims of survivorship bias, because they were in the miniscule percentage of people successfully leaving abusive enviromnente AND be smug about it afterwards. As someone working with abuse victims, it’s really never a “then just leave!”
- Comment on North Korea's Kim urges troops to prepare 'for real war' 2 weeks ago:
Hehe. Probably. Such stupid click-bait is like cancer.
- Comment on Interesting and probably true 2 weeks ago:
That I’d wholeheartedly agree with. We long have reached a state of extreme productivity. Yet the spoils of labour is basically still the same. At least for the 99.9%
- Comment on Sounded great when I was young 2 weeks ago:
Thank you kind internet stranger. And the same to you too 😊
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 2 weeks ago:
No thanks. I might accidentally slip onto that button and accept a call. And I never accept calls 😁
- Comment on Interesting and probably true 2 weeks ago:
Do you prefer eternal stagnacy just to keep unskilled jobs? No judgment towards “unskilled” but some jobs just die out and create new jobs. The horse’s carts might be gone, but we have cars now with millions of diverse jobs plus legwork. I prefer a car over a horse-ride. And a house over a hut. And mobile phones over smoke-signals or pidgeons.
- Comment on Interesting and probably true 2 weeks ago:
Just because you might not understand it or see any viable use-case doesn’t make it garbage. Maybe to you. I like LLMs and use different ones for different needs, knowing their limitation.
- Comment on Sounded great when I was young 2 weeks ago:
…ill cut this short with…Dirty liar 😁
But a wonderful post, despite being a bit more fatalistic than it probably actually is. Nice stance on adoptio one rarely sees. Most people are so hellbent on procreating while so many kids would love to have parents that actually want kids.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
I’d sniff a line of that hopium too. I just don’t see it being available in the foreseeable future. At least not for an affordable price 😁
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it even be more helpful to just relieve the ultrarich from taxes? So they could better pay their rent too. I’d throw in one or two moneyz to help.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Not today anymore. Social-media and the state-of-stupid of the web inhibit that. The masses don’t even know what to protest for or against. And without MASSIVE numbers you’d achieve nothing. Someone just needs to throw enough moneyz at the problem (or pay thousands to flood the net with “I love our overlords because XYZ”) until it’s gone.
It was hard to topple a king some 100yrs ago, but today? We don’t even know our kings anymore. Besides those few media-clown-babies that so desperately crave attention to fill a bottomless void of darkness inside them.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 weeks ago:
Sounds fine to me. But I bet there are a handful of “nice” exclusives.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 2 weeks ago:
“Bears no resemblance” != the same
If you’re too lazy to think critically this is child-like, yes. But you are basically able to. If you aren’t, for whatever reason, then you can’t be blamed for not knowing better. Otherwise I don’t get your point.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 weeks ago:
Lol, why even buy such a piece of shit then? Even when in the EU, the fact they do this is enough.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Your arguments are all valid and fine, wouldn’t argue with them. BUT understanding the underlying reasons doesn’t really change the fact and my point.
I can empathise with speeders, murderers, scammers and whatever. But know why someone does something, or even truly empathizing with it, doesn’t change the fact that it’s bad. I could understand a society of murderers and their reasons for murdering. But they’d still destroy their society.
And sadly I really see no way for the government (any gov anywhere) to really pull the rudder. Capitalism just won. And, as you already stated, their goals align excellently with the average Joe/Jane having no clue about the stuff that’s thrown in their faces and are worked to death so that’ll never change.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but also no. Unmonitored(!) Children are a special case. Them being clueless and easy victims is inherent by design. You can’t lay any blame on them, so they kinda make an unfair argument. Can’t blame a blind person for not seeing you.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Yeah sure, government shall intervene. But…i can probably expect more from anyone else.
And no,I didn’t imply everyone should be expert at everything. That is beyond impossible, even for fractions of fractions of things. But. If you wanna drive a car, you’re forced to learn a shitton and pay like 2k € to be allowed to do so. One of the reasons is safety for others.
If I had no clue about e.g. doorbells, I would ask a pro I know or search the net or whatever. At least the absolute basics of it. Even setting the pure curiosity aside, just to know what the heck I’m getting at. Admitted, I might have much more spare time than the regular Jane or Joe, but I’d still do that if I had to work. Just less intensive.
But yes, this mixture of apathy and ignorance is the leading reason why the internet sucks so much nowadays then 30 or even just 20yrs ago. The majority of absolutely clueless people not knowing how they get fucked and where to draw a line. Sure, to some it’s just a tool they don’t need to know shit about to use it. No judging. BUT that doesn’t change the fact.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Oh I’m lazy too (in regards to boring stuff). But I know what I don’t know and would not start to argue about e.g. car-mechanics or buy something without at least getting a basic grasp of that. Lazyness isn’t an excuse for ignorance 😁
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
TL;DR 😊 they already started to go downhill when they ditched their motto “don’t be evil”. Their agenda to push advertisements before actual search-results combined with the incredible horrible thing called SEO, really did a number. Duckduckgo followed when they became relevant. Etc.
And I grew tired of maintaining my searx-instance.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
And exactly this behavior (“I have no clue about the thing I will do, but I’ll do it anyway without educating myself prior”) is what makes everything suck more and more because it always gets adapted to the lowest common denominator.
We’re only still alive because people need licenses to drive cars or fly planes.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Why do I need the footage offsite? Because the burglar might’ve stolen the server/raspberry? I actually have my server storage hidden, if that would even be on the radar of a thief, which I really doubt.
But even if, an encrypted storage of your own choosing still beats random access by who-the-fuck-even-knows.
OK, granted, your 19-moneyz-solution is financially hard to beat, and probably no Chinese really gives a rats ass about your data. But even the thought that some random cloud-admin might just take a peek out of boredom…ugh. But OK, I’m a very private person.
A proper solution that does not suck probably costs a bit more than a ring (dunno what they cost though), but if one owns a house, one probably has a few spare hundreds or thousands for a secure surveillance.
