grrgyle
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- Comment on We could have had it all 8 hours ago:
Pigeons only unclean because they have to stand on our garbage
- Comment on After Bombing 6 Countries This Year, Netanyahu Pins Israeli Isolation on Muslims 20 hours ago:
Does nitinyahu look younger…? What is he, bathing in the blood of innocents.
Sorry to focus on such a silly thing
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally 3 days ago:
Prepogrom
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally 3 days ago:
Wow what a wretched collection of individuals. These assholes can’t all possibly be in agreement with each other — don’t you wonder if they aren’t given pause by some of the company they’re stacked next to?
Like if I was giving a speech somewhere and Elon Musk, for example, had just delivered his I’d start to suspect I wasn’t on the right side of things, let alone in the best of company…
- Comment on Farewell to the fediverse 4 days ago:
Farewell from fediverse!
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I’m sensing a pattern.
No but seriously, the psychopathic allure of leadership (Forbes, sry just the first link I found) is leading to civilization scale decisions which are 1) out of sync with what a reasonable person wants, 2) counter to general human flourishing.
Tech leadership wants us to worry about potential ethical “alignment issues” with a theoretical AGI, but we’re already in crisis if those leading us don’t share our basic human values.
PS. I’m not trying to say psychopaths nonghuman. They’re the same species and probably as conscious as I am. I just don’t think they’re an apt choice to decide matters for humans who do have empathy. Imagine a chef with no sense of taste running a restaurant kind of deal.
- Comment on Related: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/16937362 6 days ago:
Neighbours at least talking to each other
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 6 days ago:
You’re speculating that an internet wouldn’t have emerged without capitalism. Capitalism exists, therefore we can’t know if that’s true or not.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
I worked at a place that had self-hosted git and IRC for internal messaging. Was great!
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
From my perspective that seems to be happening. I feel like there’s a rift between the websites I use for work and the ones I use on my own time. I realize that for most people on the internet, the big central platforms are the internet–I’m not trying to universalize my perspective.
It’s just that I remember when computers and the internet itself were niche and business was still barely aware of its potential, so this kind of feels familiar: You’ve got biz churning away in the mainstream, unaware of another culture that’s growing up, outside of their malls and parking lots.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Maybe just a liittle cancer until we get smartphones and then we can nip it in the bud and ooops why is everyone mad oh no why are all the animals dying I just wanted to scroll for gods sake
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
You are speculating on hypotheticals though, since no one can know for certain how things would have unfolded in a different world.
I’m not even going to argue that capitalism doesn’t get you some positive outcomes for certain people.
- Comment on Oh god 1 week ago:
Thanks, that is genuinely nice to hear. Was there any particular type of meditation that worked for you?
- Comment on Oh god 1 week ago:
Forgetting is second only to acceptance, yeah. Left to my own devices I’ll just fixate on the past, replaying the scenes and emotions over and over like that one Black Mirror episode.
I wish I didn’t spend so much of my time in the past.
- Comment on Oh god 1 week ago:
Me in the shower realizing I misgendered someone again
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Ah yes, I could see that situation arising, although frankly I’m as surprised to hear of landlords competing for tenants as I would be to hear of them selling their properties for under market value. Not that I’m doubting your honesty–it’s just not been my personal experience.
I’ve heard too many personal anecdotes of landlords trying to hike up rates by seeking spurious evictions, or refusing to install climate control, for tenants who are getting a “good deal” at lower rates. Maybe there are rational markets out there, but I don’t personally hold out much hope for landlords to be reasonable in the face of the dual pressures of fear and greed.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s the vagaries of the housing market and valuation, which is why I said equivalent property.
There’s also no reason you couldn’t sell that house for 400k less. The value is just the value. It’s going to be the same whether you’re renting or paying the bank for the same property.
I also won big by buying prepan, but who’s up or down in the Canadian housing lotto doesn’t change the physics of paying a lord’s mortgage costing more than if you were paying the bank’s mortgage directly.
Nevermind that whoever gets to be lord keeps the equity.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
It’s a little nefarious
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
All rents cover mortgage, taxes, insurance, upkeep, and usually a percentage profit on top of it all. Unless your lord is renting to you at cost or below (in which case they’re losing money (not counting equity)), then there is no way the cost to rent would be higher on an equivalent property.
Like just imagine if you wanted to rent out your property for $1900/mo - you couldn’t do it.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
How??!
- Comment on No one could make it out in one piece 1 week ago:
What is this animé?
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 1 week ago:
That’s a beautiful phone. I’m sorry to hear of your tale of woe. Sadly, there are many like it
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 1 week ago:
I thought capitalism was supposed to provide options.
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- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 1 week ago:
By siblings, there are stockpiles of refurbs to last us until the end of capitalism or life on earth.
I’m using a 9 year old phone rn now and I’ve got zoomers oooing over its “minimal” design (lol it’s just old).
- Comment on Y'ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!! 1 week ago:
YOUWANATOO
- Comment on Y'ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!! 1 week ago:
Me at any house party foolish enough to invite me
- Comment on Leaked footage of Human Head's long-buried Prey 2 reveals a cyberpunk shooter with a spring in its step 2 weeks ago:
Oh nvm it’s still dead
- Comment on Leaked footage of Human Head's long-buried Prey 2 reveals a cyberpunk shooter with a spring in its step 2 weeks ago:
Please I am begging, make this one about indigeneity and colonialism
- Comment on holup 2 weeks ago:
I get the feeling our winters are not the same. This would kill me lol
- Comment on holup 2 weeks ago:
It really helps I find. The warmer it is the more I expose. Generally something like
- foot
- feet
- leg
- arm over cover
- more leg
- back open to air
- upper torso
- entire torso
- legs
- nethers