gandalf_der_12te
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- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 1 day ago:
This is actually great timing, i’d say. Just now most of the northern hemisphere is starting into summer. At least i deeply feel it on a personal level that summer is arriving. I take this as a gift from the universe that directs me towards touching grass, and going swimming. Enjoy your summer, you all! Connect with your local community, if you can.
- Comment on When you take a moment to think back at your High School years 3 days ago:
i’m gonna counter that with
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 3 days ago:
hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music :) i totally forgot that exists 😂👍
- Comment on So close! 4 days ago:
It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
The alternative, btw, would be to fry everything in butter or some plant oil, i believe. That’s what they’re opposing.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 4 days ago:
username checks out
- Comment on Blessed 🙌 😇 🙏 ☺️ 6 days ago:
It is university’s jobs to collect and disseminate knowledge.
As such, it would make sense for university to host its own journal for scientific research. After all, that is “disseminating knowledge” as well. Universities could do it for the greater good, instead of for profit, at least in sane countries where Universities actually operate for public benefit, not for profit.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
I think the point is more to filter out people quickly who you couldn’t be in a sustainable relationship with anyways.
I don’t mind it as much as i used to anymore. But ten years ago, i consistently associated “small-talk” people with people who were superficial and wouldn’t comprehend important issues should they ever come up anyways.
Also i’m not sure how right i was about that.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 1 week ago:
Uh i didn’t know you could grow servers. I assumed they were assembled in factories, being machines and all.
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 week ago:
something pike that, yes
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 week ago:
wasn’t there something about children born from a C-section having a notably lower amount of gut biome, which kinda proofs that a significant amount of gut biome gets transported through the vaginal channel, or am i misremembering things?
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 1 week ago:
yeah, i agree, there are assholes everywhere. capitalism has just formalized and streamlined how-to-be-an-asshole.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 1 week ago:
which is why we need a wealth tax.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 1 week ago:
Basic income seems like an obvious solution.
ok i agree to this.
But then i do wonder, why take the extra detour over “labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create”? Why not just introduce UBI immediately?
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 1 week ago:
I’ve been floating the idea a couple of times that UBI doesn’t need to be implemented “all at once”. For example, maybe a very test-version UBI could handout $100 to everyone. That’s not enough to live on, but it would provide a good support, especially to low-income households, as they benefit relatively more.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 1 week ago:
I have a fundamental question.
labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.
In case you actually manage to do that, and the factories run in fact so well that a million workers are enough to provide the whole US with all the food and consumer articles they need.
Then what do the other 331 million USians do? They would not have a job and therefore no source of income. They would revolt and a civil war would erupt? How would you deal with that?
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 1 week ago:
To capitalists, humans are nothing but tools to enrich themselves. That’s why it’s called “Human Resources”. To them, you are literally nothing more: A resource to be exploited, like fruit from a fruit tree. They squeeze out the lemon to sell the juice and then throw the dry shell of the fruit to the composter.
What many rich people have is sociopathy, which means an absence of empathy and understanding for what it means to be human. We must remember to be human, whether you name that “socialism” or just better laws that are made for the people.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 1 week ago:
it also works the other way around, interestingly:
- future is shit
- no vision
- nobody wants to have kids anymore
- women abstain from dating
- we have a loneliness crisis?!?
- Comment on Grieve with me 2 weeks ago:
I had the same thing.
Turns out the charger was too weak. Getting a 2A (Ampere) charger fixed it.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on you - can you deal with asking yourself tricky questions and finding good answers? Or does the challenge make you uncomfortable?
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 weeks ago:
quick question - what the hell do you do with a modern computer without internet access anyways?
- Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? 3 weeks ago:
Supply and Demand
American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the jobs they already have.
That means there’s a demand for workers that is bigger than the supply, so as a consequence, the price for labor (aka. wages) should rise. If it does not, the demand was fake.
- Comment on DIN sagt geht klar 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 3 weeks ago:
but there is no real monetary incentive right now.
dude, solar energy is literally the cheapest form of energy right now. there is a real monetary incentive.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 3 weeks ago:
i’d like to be a labor leader, but i’m not (yet). Yet here’s my opinion:
Knowledge was meant to be free since the beginning. I look at ideas as human-cultivated, carefully cultured viruses. They’re packages of information that live within a host.
They’re a lot less aggressive than their feral counterparts, but they’re still individual beings who want to spread. Holding back knowledge is unnatural, and the internet should be free.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 3 weeks ago:
damn Ubuntu Satanic Edition sounds cool.
- Comment on if pure water is not conductive why would condensation be an issue for electronics? 3 weeks ago:
Water dissociates in the presence of electrical voltage into hydrogen and oxygen, and that makes it somewhat conductive (due to ionisation).
The bigger problem however is corrosion. Said oxygen causes corrosion.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 3 weeks ago:
I think it doesn’t actually matter what distro you use.
It’s like whether you’re wearing red socks or blue socks. As long as you’re wearing socks, so you don’t get cold, any will do.
- Comment on Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. 3 weeks ago:
No shit sherlock.
But the decline in real (inflation-adjusted) wages is a broader phenomenon and not constrained to gig-works, and that’s what deserves attention.
Background:
For years, inflation has been under-reported. Inflation should be measured mostly based on food-items, as the production methods don’t change over time in these areas, so prices there (inflation-adjusted) should stay constant. But if you look at official inflation rates, they are much lower (approx. 1% annually). Since wages barely keep up with official inflation, they fall behind on “food”-inflation. And that principle is basically at the core of the current “cost-of-living”-crisis.
The basic issue is that wages are dropping because progress is ending. Progress creates demand for human labor, and that keeps wages up. Since progress worldwide is slowing down, that depresses wages. That’s why we need fundamental reform, or revolution.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 1 month ago:
I think “personhood” refers to the ability to sign contracts though.
