SJ0
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- Comment on U.S. Economy Adds 227,000 Jobs In November 4 weeks ago:
I have warned about this with respect to these numbers before, and I’m going to warn about them again: you really can’t trust the employment numbers right now. The amount of downward revisions in the past 2 years is absurd, including one 800,000 job downward revision prior to the election. It’s entirely possible and even probable that these numbers will be revised further downwards.
What I actually expect is for a lot of numbers to keep looking better than they really are until about January 20th. And then suddenly a whole bunch of stuff is going to end up looking the way it really is…
- Comment on Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ 5 weeks ago:
Bluesky starter pack:
Oh god, I can’t show this! What the hell, Bluesky! What’s wrong with you!?
- Comment on What are the three ‘nevers’ of your life? 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t it obvious?
I’m never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you
- Comment on US justice dept pushes to break up Google in search monopoly case. Chrome, Android in line of fire 1 month ago:
In some ways, the DOJ would be doing google a favor. I mean, Google search is the thing that makes them money.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders & Trump Against Credit Card Interest (Usury) 1 month ago:
Honestly, schemes like this tend to have big bad consequences.
Force credit cards to charge only 10% interest and immediately many people will lose access to credit cards altogether, or alternatively will have to pay high annual fees regardless of their responsible use of credit, or will have tiny credit limits, or will have to provide their credit card company with the full dollar amount of their credit card prior to being given one. A final effect could be the poor who are affected going to super high interest lenders like payday loans or in the event that even those loans are regulated, even organized crime.
The problem is that unsecured credit lines like credit cards are the most likely forms of debt to be defaulted on, and if banks can’t recoup those losses, then they won’t provide the product. People can blame capitalism for this, but ultimately a similar kind of government program would need to be similarly limited lest the program just become a free money pit as many poor people assume credit cards are.
Now maybe that’s the point, and we want fewer people in less debt, and to force them to live within their means. I’m not necessarily opposed to the idea, but you can’t just do it. You’d have to change the banking and monetary system (for the better). You literally can’t have the current monetary system without debt.
- Comment on Party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president wins majority in parliament 1 month ago:
I guess the whole starvation thing won’t get any better.
- Comment on Trump says his mass deportation plan has ‘no price tag’ 1 month ago:
The whole “while upending the economy” thing is really obnoxious.
I’m so sorry that your illegal wage slaves are going away and you’ll have to offer legal residents living wages. My heart bleeds purple piss for you.
- Comment on What advice would you give to someone half your age? 1 month ago:
It doesn’t feel like it, but you can have that life you think is unattainable. You can find a wife, you can get a home, you can have a child, and there’s a good chance you’ll like it. You have to pick your hard, maybe you don’t get to live in the capitol city and go to the club every night, but try to be consistently virtuous and you can succeed even in a world that feels stacked against you. Remember that you only exist because thousands of generations of your ancestors made it through harder times than this.
- Comment on France's triumphant left-wing coalition unveils its radical plans for government including a 90 per cent tax rate on the rich, lowering the retirement age and huge spending 5 months ago:
You really need to study fascism more if you think communists and socialists finding success is a step away from that.
- Comment on Would you date a coworker? 5 months ago:
You don’t shit where you eat.
- Comment on France's triumphant left-wing coalition unveils its radical plans for government including a 90 per cent tax rate on the rich, lowering the retirement age and huge spending 5 months ago:
French people being totally retarded is par for the course. That’s why they’re on their fifth Republic while many other countries are still on their first.
- Comment on Axios omits crucial details about economists who say Trump will destroy the economy 6 months ago:
I’d like to know how many of these economists failed to predict inflation being a problem back in 2020, how many of them claimed inflation was going to be “transitory” when it did show up. Nobody who failed to predict those two predictable things gets any say in economic policy moving forward because they’re stupid.
Real talk: Biden and Trump will be doing similar things in terms of not doing the stuff actually needed to not destroy the economy imminently. They’ll both run up debts like they did, they’ll both rack up spending like they did.
- Comment on Faces made of living skin make robots smile (#TechnoDystopia) 6 months ago:
- Comment on Canada: bitter clash in parliament over Trudeau ‘wacko’ jibe 8 months ago:
Honestly, a lot of people are quite happy seeing this happening because Trudeau is becoming immensely unpopular.
The Conservatives lost the last election in part because they weren’t presenting a differing vision of how to run the country. The PPC got more votes than the green party in the last election in part as a protest vote because Erin O’Toole got off to a good start by contrasting his worldview to the Liberal Party worldview, but as the election neared he started to pivot the Conservatives into liberal lite while Trudeau steered the liberal party into being the more leftist NDP. I said at the time that we had a choice between the red NDP, the blue NDP, the orange NDP, the Separatists, the PPC, and the green NDP.
Besides the PPC, the other option on the ballot was staying at home watching Netflix, and if people got the impression they were going to get the exact same stuff, Netflix would win the election.
Poilievre is hammering hard on the differences between how he wants to run the country and how Trudeau has because that’s what a lot of people need to see. They’re going to be mobilized to get out there if and only if they think heading to the polls next October actually stands a chance of changing something. They don’t want the Liberal party Lite, they want someone who they think is going to try to get the car back on the car because it hit the ditch a long time ago and we’ve been driving through some farmer’s field for several years now.
As a study in contrasts, the NDP’s Singh barks like a little Pomeranian dog, and he’s shown the entire country he’s a lap dog living in Justin’s purse. He’ll bark, but then he’ll accept a treat from his master and do as he’s told. That’s why the NDP isn’t doing much better than it is despite the Liberals getting killed in the polls.
Now, do I worry that Poilievre will take this dickish nature into being Prime Minister and then start to take it out on Canadians similar to how Trudeau already does? Of course, that would be really bad. On the other hand, people across the country want to feel like someone is standing up for them, and this to me looks like that strategy at work. Trudeau is an abusive leader, so it’s appropriate to push back.
- Comment on Canada: bitter clash in parliament over Trudeau ‘wacko’ jibe 8 months ago:
Far too late for that.
Justin Trudeau spoke of anyone who disagreed with him with all kinds of names. Racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, American, Russian, or bots. He spoke of how upset he was at the unvaccinated “taking up space”.
You might like him, but he’s acted how he’s acted, and the entire world saw.
You might be thinking “Oh, this stupid conservative for life loser, what does he know?” – Well that’s fine to think, but I voted for Chretien’s liberals, and I voted for Martin’s liberals, and I voted against Harper’s conservatives, and supported Trudeau in 2015 because I’m a liberal, and over the past 8 years I’ve gotten to learn Trudeau isn’t one.
- Comment on Is the movie industry dead? 8 months ago:
Yeah, and it’s not because it’s diversity but because it’s more about the message than about the art – you remember ever watching one of those horrible Christian movies? Very few were even watchable because they were so busy literally sermonizing. That’s fine, but it makes for crappy movies.
And on the other side of that, there’s lots of works out there that integrate Christianity as a theme that are first and foremost about making something good, and often they’re awesome.
- Comment on New York Times blasts Biden for 'avoiding questions' from journalists in blistering statement 8 months ago:
Pawns don’t have values, they have marching orders. Get back to writing the next smear piece, nyt content monkeys. We have an election to win.
- Comment on Is the movie industry dead? 8 months ago:
It’s been busy but going well. Glad springtime is finally here.
The nature of power is such that it isn’t self-sustaining. Many people see something that has been powerful for a long time and particularly neo-marxists think power is the lens through which everything is viewed, but such a lens ignores where power comes from.
When I say “neo-marxist”, I’m referring to the ideology that all there is must be power and we must view everything through that lens. Marxism split the world into the working class and the owners, neo-marxism split the world instead into the powerful and the powerless. Neither viewpoint is accurate enough to be a useful model of reality, even if both do touch on truth. By basing your actions on these models then, you’re going to be acting wrong because your models predict things incorrectly.
You can get power through raw force, but it never lasts. Examples exist all throughout history. The first imperial dynasty of china was extremely legalistic, the punishment for most crimes was death. The dynasty ended when one of the generals was late for a meeting, and when faced with death anyway chose to take his men and rebel. The Assyrians used brutal repression to become a powerful player in their region, but as a result every other player in the region banded together to take them out because they were too dangerous to be left. The same for the National Socialist Germans – they used a lot of force, and as a direct result everyone else ganged up on them and tore them to pieces.
Lasting power comes from mutual service. Even dictators who last end up having to live by this playbook. Dictators who last end up building coalitions of people within the nation because to do otherwise will just mean the next person will use slightly more force and become the next one. China as an example was a dictatorship, but the people tolerate it because many people felt the dictatorship was working in the interest of the people (more or less), and did supervise the greatest increase in the middle class in china ever.
All of this applies to the movie industry because people think the movie industry has power solely because it has power, when in reality it had power because it was producing films and TV shows people wanted to see and were willing to pay for. As the neo-marxists have come in and changed the industry into the left-wing equivalent of making those hokey Christian movies nobody likes it has lost much of its power because a screen nobody is watching is meaningless and powerless. Meanwhile, Japan as an example has lots of great media coming out of it because they’re making stuff people like first and foremost and then if they have other goals they come with that (and they’re great capitalists, using media to sell all kinds of stuff)
People think the problem is diversity, but the real problem is that diversity has become the centerpiece of the western media landscape, when it’s a boring centerpiece. Just being a different race or sex or sexuality isn’t interesting by itself, and all these new priorities come at the price of making unwatchable tripe.
To give further examples, there was a lot more popular media from black people in the 1990s, and A-list actors like Wil Smith came from those backgrounds. It worked because those black people were telling stories that involved them and were about them, helping audiences learn a bit more about the world around them while being entertained. By contrast, today we have black snow white, black little mermaid, and girlboss Aladdin. It’s a meaningless display of token diversity that is disrespectful to the source material as well as to the talent who could be doing something more relevant.
- Comment on Wash This One Thing And Conquer the World 8 months ago:
Why would I leave it open to response? You’ve responded to 3 messages saying “enforce monogamy does not mean arranged marriages or anything of the sort” with “so what you’re saying is you agree with arranged marriages”, which only leaves 2 options – troll or idiot. And again, being a redditor who thinks every opinion that isn’t his is a troll, you’re probably being sincere and also really stupid because that’s what redditors do.
- Comment on Is the movie industry dead? 8 months ago:
The west can’t make movies anymore, but it just goes to show the destruction of western infrastructure. Increasingly, people are looking to asia (japan, korea, and india in particular) and I’m sure they’re going to keep growing until the west remembers that it’s the viewers that allow the film industry to exist.
- Comment on Wash This One Thing And Conquer the World 8 months ago:
No, you didn’t understand it at all. You’re either a troll, or you’re apocalyptically stupid.
- Comment on Wash This One Thing And Conquer the World 8 months ago:
“I came to a new server and people there had opinions I didn’t understand. lol cool story bro they just be trollin”
- Comment on Wash This One Thing And Conquer the World 8 months ago:
No, you’re just indoctrinated by bullshit and it’s making you say insane and stupid things.
If you think that monogamy means you get to rape your partner, then you probably shouldn’t be in any relationship under any system ever because clearly consent is something you have a fuzzy concept of. You can stay in incel town where you belong.
Monogamy is a system of relationships where you and another person agree that while you’re in a sexual relationship you won’t have sexual relationships with other people. Under such a system, if you have sexual relationships with other people while already in one relationship it’s called cheating and it’s frowned upon. You can have sexual relationships with other people, but first you need to end the relationship you’re in.
The enforcement of monogamy isn’t forcing people into being in a relationship. It’s the enforcement of monogamy as the general way of having relationships rather than something like polygamy or a sexual free for all. Under monogamy, there’s lots of men and women who aren’t in relationships for a variety of reasons, and there’s nothing at all inherent in monogamy that suggests you must be in a relationship, any more than there being anything inherent in polygamy that suggests you must be in a relationship.
Marriage in the west is a form of enforced monogamy. There is no law saying you can’t cheat on your husband or have a side boyfriend or girlfriend, and in fact a surprising number of marriages practice polyamory or other forms of sexual relationships but society expects that if you choose to marry someone then you’re going to be faithful to the other person. Under the European nuclear family model, there is no one ‘arranged’ to do anything – certainly not by the state. Young men go out and try to meet women, and a woman chooses who she wants to marry, and then they get married. The way that it is enforced is that you’ll face social disapproval if you cheat on your husband or wife. If your friends know that you are married, and they see your husband or wife kissing someone who isn’t you, they’ll come back to you and let you know, and if it gets out that you cheated on your spouse then you could lose social standing including losing friends because they don’t respect what you did.
- Comment on Wash This One Thing And Conquer the World 8 months ago:
The state isn’t the only or even the best way to enforce things. Culture and society are the things that enforce many cultural norms.
Now maybe you might ask “why should society enforce monogamy?”, but to me the real question is, “do you hate most women and most men?”
If we don’t enforce monogamy at a societal level, the alternative seems to quickly become powerful men acquiring massive harems, and many men never getting a chance to be in a sexual relationship of any kind. The consequence is that the women are treated like garbage because they’re just one of many in a powerful man’s harem, and many of the men go crazy and become increasingly extreme in an attempt to secure their future. We see this in some African countries where old men treat their many wives like trash and young men are ruthless and violent because they have no chance of participating in a key piece of the human experience through normal means.
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
- Comment on Deeper, chief! Expanding federation 9 months ago:
I have to admit that I’ve got one foot outside of this part of the fediverse at all times.
With the amount of groupthink on Lemmy, I just feels like there’s a lingering threat at all times. Better step in line and not have any incorrect opinions or God help you everyone on your instance is going to get screwed over.
It’s downright impressive how many instances defederate from fbxl lotide and narwhal.city, considering the fact that both of those instances barely engage with any other instances in the first place since there aren’t that many users.
- Comment on Woman removed from Delta flight over 'too revealing' clothing, calls for policy change 9 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s a white shirt and the reason it looks off white is because it’s so thin you can see her skin underneath. The color of the shirt is thicker fabric, and you don’t see the skin color underneath.
I think that you probably could have put 99 more t-shirts on her, and not one of them would have invoked this policy, because most t-shirts are not designed to be see through.
- Comment on The Social Media Has Changed the Modern Society, Badly 9 months ago:
The internet is a mirror, it reflects back what you put into it.
Of course, some people want to inject politics into every single thing that we do, and some people want to inject bad lessons into everything we do, but you can use it to learn math, science, crafts, skilled trades, you can learn about literature, history, philosophy.
On the other hand, the one thing that I think that you’re absolutely correct about is that you should eventually step away from the screen, and go do some of those things that you learn about online. My beloved Soviet canuckistan is presently an Arctic hellscape, but when we end up getting our 37 minutes of summer, I intend to go out and play with a new kiln I bought for firing pottery and melting different metals.
Earlier today I made a post on fbxl social about the concept that the state owns you as opposed to you owning yourself. If you own yourself, and I think that most people should want to, it ends up becoming contingent upon yourself to come up with plans. The world is an adventure, there is so much out there, and so many things you can do without a penny, but just as you said, you need to get out of the house in order to actually participate, and you need to put in the effort to find those exciting things because no one else is going to do it for you.
In Plato’s allegory of the cave, is the understanding of the forms which releases you from your bonds and sends you into the wilderness, but I think in postmodern society it is actually embracing your personal autonomy. For many people, if they see you doing something that they don’t like, if they hear you saying something that they don’t like, if they think that you think something that they don’t like, and they get all of their opinions and actions from someone else so they don’t need to and don’t get to choose their opinions or their actions on their own, and they see someone else thinking for themselves and acting for themselves, and of course it enrages them because they know what they’ve lost even if they don’t understand it.
- Comment on What’s your personal key to happiness? 9 months ago:
The modern world thought that material wealth and goods were the key to happiness. The postmodern world has no answers for how to be happy and even questions if happiness exists.
To me, it seems like we’ve lost the plot. What matters is intangible – living a good life isn’t about having the most stuff, it’s about doing fulfilling things including creating things, building things, forming relationships, leaving a legacy you build over a lifetime.
- Comment on Deeper, chief! Expanding federation 9 months ago:
One way to find out.
But fr, almost anyone who defederated wolfballs is just following what they’ve been told. Wolfballs was gone before virtually every instance, there isn’t even any good reason for them to know that domain because most of these instances didn’t exist at the same time.
Sad.
- Comment on What’s the most average skill in the world? 9 months ago:
Calculating mean, median, and mode.
