Cowbee
@Cowbee@lemm.ee
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
Full agreement, way ahead of you. Instead of having a robust, publicly funded infrastructure-based necessity (internet service), it gets chopped up and sold piece-by-piece with price-gouging and local monopolies like warlords.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
Just finished Signalos, got the “Promise” ending. Feel pretty empty after that, it’s such a good game and is further proof that games don’t have to have incredible graphical fidelity or huge teams to be fantastic and look great.
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
Co-ops are cool, but markets in general have far too many disadvantages for me to advocate for market-based Socialism over a non-market solution.
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
Markets are extremely bad when it comes to proper allocation of essentials. Infrastructure in general should be nationalized at minimum, and heavily invested in.
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
Nationalize internet.
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 11 months ago:
Not just mods, but the entire Capitalistic model.
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 11 months ago:
You don’t understand, she gave us the clue. It has to be this way.
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 11 months ago:
“G? As in, Gussy?!”
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
Leftists go to Lemmy because Lemmy is FOSS, ie leftist, and was made by a Communist. Reddit mostly has liberals.
- Comment on Homelessness rose sharply in the U.S. in 2023, data shows 11 months ago:
Urbanization and multi-use buildings, change office buildings to residential buildings and enact working from home more.
High speed rail.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 11 months ago:
✨️enshitification✨️
- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play 11 months ago:
Yep, fucking terrifying.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 11 months ago:
Hyperloop should be halted and replaced with high speed rail, and starlink should be nationalized. Musk keeps rinsing and repeating his grand privatized infrastructure projects where he essentially embezzles public funds.
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 11 months ago:
That’s the biggest thing for me. If I can get a similar phone to work in the US with no stability or functional compromises, I’m happy.
- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play 11 months ago:
Fucking Factorio. Tried that shit years ago for 2 minutes and never touched it again.
Not because I didn’t like it, of course. I stopped because I knew if I played any longer I’d have to drop out.
- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play 11 months ago:
I try to keep it to one longer game, and one shorter game at a time. Right now that’s STALKER Gamma and Signalis, with Signalis on the Steam Deck.
Speaking of, Signalis is fucking amazing, fantastic horror for anyone new to the genre or fans of Silent Hill 2.
- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play 11 months ago:
Fair! Haven’t done that yet.
- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play 11 months ago:
Sure, you can play games like Cyberpunk on a Steam Deck! Absolutely true. I just prefer playing more demanding games at higher settings and framerates.
- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play 11 months ago:
It’d a fantastic backlog killer. Main PC for new titles, steam deck for indies and patient gamer style games.
- Comment on Income isn't keeping up with inflation, 76% of Americans say in new CBS News poll 11 months ago:
The best part is that much of the reason houses are getting bigger and cars becoming more luxurious is because that’s the only way to maintain higher profits. Because we have achieved abundance, the only way to stay on top is for Capitalists to make not participating in the endless consumerist cycle ridiculously difficult.
Case in point: dumb phones. I have felt like my phone addiction is too great, so I have been researching dumb phones. After all, I got by with just a flip phone for years, what’s the harm in going back to something like a Light Phone? Turns out, modern society is built on the assumption that you have a smartphone to install a random app just to accomplish a goal like checking in for a flight, or reading a QR code for a menu, or otherwise.
The standards have “raised,” but only in a way that maintains profit over what’s actually good for humanity.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
I’m not ignoring it, hence why I said the presence of some systems doesn’t necessitate all consequences of similar systems.
Their point was that because Communist governments have committed genocides, Communism itself is synonymous with Genocide. This is absolutely false, nothing about collective ownership of property in a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society necessitates that the collective itself be evil, hence why I made that point.
It’s fully possible to make coherent points against Communism without resorting to pure ad hominem and mysticism, and I’m fine with people making those points, as discussion adds value.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
You’re on Lemmy.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
Apparently they have quite the modlog, though I haven’t checked. Probably a troll, which is why I disengaged.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
Yes, Finland does this precisely by rejecting Capitalism and giving homeless people homes. This is not a Capitalistic solution.
I get what you’re saying, you can have a majority Capitalist society and still solve homelessness, but the answer will never be Capitalism.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
Ah, you’re a troll, checks out. For your information, the Weimar Republic was a failing Social Democracy that led to Nazi Germany, which was responsible for the Holocaust. Even Social Democracy isn’t a perfectly innocent system, nor can anyone truthfully say that unrelated systems necessitate the presence of each other.
I support collective ownership of the Means of Production, which will eventually lead to a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society. I don’t particularly subscribe to any flavor of leftism, as each country will get there a different way. Decentralization, equality, and Democracy are critical to human happiness, which will necessitate trans liberation. To call me transphobic is projection.
All in all, you’re nothing more than a troll who believes tools have mystical qualities that necessitate genocide if people share them. You can’t actually logically prove this point so you dodge and resort to calling me a transphobic fascist, despite being the opposite.
There’s no use in continuing this convo, you asked me to be civil and yet you immediately out yourself as a troll and spew slander.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
Every country had systemically killed off minorities.
Show me exactly where the mystical property of tools comes in, where collective ownership turns people evil. If you can’t, then Communism does not necessitate genocide.
It’s that simple.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
Why does Communism necessitate killing minorities, and why are you assuming Social Democracies haven’t killed minorities?
Do you think tools have a mystical property that requires the owners to turn evil if they are collectively owned, rather than privately?
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
We have more empty homes than homeless people.
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 11 months ago:
It doesn’t have to.
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 11 months ago:
The ending of Outer Wilds legitimately made me cry, it’s a very bittersweet ending.