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- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 3 days ago:
Right wing ideologies are a symptom of brain damage.
Q.E.D. - Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
When the Berlin Wall fell, the predictions made at the time were for several decades of low intensity conflict (‘war on terror’) followed by another major world war. This is the expected state of the world, not some surprise outcome from out of nowhere that the capitalists haven’t planned for.
Australia is still being shielded from Chinese expansionism by NATO’s anti-access and area-denial strategy emplaced along the islands off China’s coast.
If the war in Europe expands and heats up, it will be European cities that get destroyed and EU citizens who will have to choose to fight for their autonomy or preemptively surrender to subjugation by the Tsar. USA pulling back from supporting Ukraine forces the EU to pick a path and walk it. Either they build an army capable of self-defense, or they’ll be overrun. The fighting in Ukraine prevents Russia from building up forces, buying the EU time to arm themselves, if that’s what they decide they want to do. If they move fast, there’s a chance they can win the war before it really begins.
Expect to see nuclear proliferation. Modern wars have shown that non-nuclear armed states are a toothless prey species that only exist so long as their nuclear armed neighbors permit it. During the reconstruction era following WWII, USA’s relative advantage in infrastructure and technology allowed them to grant credible security guarantees. Now that the rest of the world has caught up, USA’s defense promises have lost credibility (for example, see Ukraine).
The ocean is full of submarines, and the coastlines bristle with long range, precision missiles. World trade is expected to be among the first casualties of the next world war. Countries that are not self-sufficient will be unable to replenish their losses. Economic protectionism is a matter of national security.
Dismantling USA’s Federal government serves the interests of organized crime, ie the capitalists that own Wall Street. They’re getting squeezed by de-globalization but also expect to be able to expand into new criminal enterprise enabled by deregulation and the dismantling of the Federal government’s investigative capabilities. Without having someplace better to invest capital, might as well let it ride despite the chaos. With a world war, and possibly a nuclear exchange, just over the horizon, there really isn’t any safe place to put one’s money, except perhaps housing and real estate in those parts of the world expected to survive. Canada. Siberia. Greenland.
If we do nothing to reduce atmospheric CO2, global heating will eventually cap out at 5 degrees C and won’t go higher due to diminishing returns. The far north will need to invest in agricultural infrastructure, but once that gets built out in the warmer world, there will be more arable land than there is today. Its going to be boom times for real estate developers.
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 week ago:
I get that too.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 weeks ago:
Imagine thinking CNN is center-left 😂
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 month ago:
Kerbal Space Program: progression from being unable to get a rocket into orbit, to collecting a surface sample from all 5 of Jool’s moons in a single launch
- Comment on Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99 2 months ago:
Anyone know what version of TacOps mod is compatible with OldUnreal’s version of UT?
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 3 months ago:
Did the publisher know which ip they were working on?
gestures broadly at the current state of KSP2
To quote every Oblivion NPC: “I don’t know you, and I don’t care to know you.”
- DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue himwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 5 months ago:
over charging customers and under paying employees
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 5 months ago:
That’s the crux of the issue.
Who’s going to buy it for a high price, if there is no demand for office space, because workers are all remote?
- Comment on Launches 5 months ago:
If the sun became a red giant tomorrow, and Earth found itself inside the outer layers of solar atmosphere, then drag would start slowing it down. In less than 70,000 years, it would fall close enough to the center to be torn apart by tidal forces like one of Saturn’s moons (assuming it hasn’t already been vaporized).
If we’ve already waited 5 billion years to have our revenge, whats another 70k? The lowest amount of Delta V we can spend on this project is zero.
- Comment on Launches 5 months ago:
Sagittarius A* would like a word, and you’ll never get that word back.
- Comment on Launches 5 months ago:
What if we catch a gravity assist off Jool, and do the retrograde burn at perijool to catch some Oberth Effect?
- Comment on BEAM 5 months ago:
- Comment on Bread 5 months ago:
After licking every slice.
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 5 months ago:
Scientists: Climate Change will lead to everything going to shit if we don’t change our gluttonous ways and become good stewards of Creation.
Supply Side Jesus: HERESY!
- Comment on Mans got big hands! 5 months ago:
The Book of Enoch is wild though. It reads like a first hand account from a bronze age tribal getting abducted by aliens.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 5 months ago:
The market didn’t need regulations to maintain its freeness back then because the vast majority of transactions were made with small businesses. The limited technological capabilities in transport and communication also decreased the need for government regulation by decreasing the ability of the largest concentrations of capital to succeed at implementing global anti-competitive strategies.
To achieve the same degree of market freedom today, in the era of omni-national mega-corporations wielding monopoly influence, requires utilizing levers of power outside of the market those mega-corps dominate. The intervention of democratic governments to enforce anti-monopoly laws and prohibit other kinds of anti-competitive behavior is a necessary component of any plant to transform today’s marketplace into one that looks more similar to the market of Adam Smith’s day.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 6 months ago:
It is though - this is what capitalism invariably becomes. Musky Twitter is a symptom of late stage capitalism. This is why so many people say capitalism is bad and doesn’t work as advertised.
The golden age of classical liberalism, when capitalism actually worked, the 1700-1800’s, more closely resembles what we would today call market socialism.
Once the agglomerations of capital became large enough to impose irresistible anti-competitive force, the days of capitalism’s beneficial functionality ended. They say “the freer the market the freer the people”, but an unregulated market isn’t free - it invariably trends toward monopoly and irrationally assigned concentrations of wealth and power, eg Musk, Bezos, DuPont, Sackler, etc…
Capitalism supports, rather than resists, the anti-competitive influence of capital. A truly free market requires the intervention of powers other than capital - eg, democratic governance imposing something akin to Market Socialism against the wishes of those anti-competitive agglomerations of capital.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 6 months ago:
fund it exclusively out of his own pocket
That’s how newspapers got started - they were propaganda organs of the rich and existed exclusively to manipulate public opinion. Things really haven’t changed that much, but somewhere along the way, people were tricked into paying for them instead of getting paid to read them.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 6 months ago:
I think its more likely that YouTube will shut down and be replaced by nothing. Its existence has never made sense as anything but an act of charity from an organization with tech resources to burn.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 6 months ago:
Yeah, creating a venue for sex work is the only plausible use case.
- Comment on fish 6 months ago:
kitties
- Comment on Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali? 7 months ago:
ironically not communist
- Comment on Have fun with this one 7 months ago:
pickle bowls are rare
- Comment on The shooter posted a video of him saying "I hate republicans. I hate Trump" 7 months ago:
that’s some good copium!
- Comment on Sleep soundly 7 months ago:
An adventure for characters level 10-14.
- Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% 7 months ago:
Yeah, if you’ve got a short commute, and some way to charge it at home, that’s the way to go. I’ve heard second hand about people needing to add fuel stabilizer to their plug-in hybrid because they use so little gas.
- Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% 7 months ago:
The market for hybrid vehicles has lately been growing even faster than for fully electric vehicles; hybrids, which do not have to be plugged in, allow consumers to avoid a patchy national public charging network.
Not to mention the lack of chargers at rented residences, and the inability for most of us to afford to buy our own house.
- Comment on Why don't we put butter and sour cream on French fries? They're basically like tiny skinless baked potatoes... 7 months ago:
When I make steak fries at home, I’ll sometimes mix sour cream and hot sauce for a dip.
