Clent
@Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on snakes 15 hours ago:
This has always been a flag that symbolizes, “I yearn to tread on others”
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
We’re not there yet. The problem is as we approach it, they just skim more so we will reach a point where we should barely need to work but won’t know it.
That skim is how the stock market keeps going up in ways that make no sense to the workers. They’ve figured out how to profit regardless of the struggles of the working class.
As it stands today, we could probably survive by working one day per week, likely less. The amount being skimmed is that insane.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 2 days ago:
The stock market is up because nothing has fundamentally changed. Tarrifs are only going to hurt the consumer.
The stock market is based on value extraction and as long as everyone keeps on working and consuming at reasonable level it will continue to hum along just fine.
Some markets and industries will be harmed by this the tarrifs but these are small fractions of the overall economy. There is also a ton of uncertainty since Trump has a tendency to pull back any measure that affects the market averages.
The pain will be felt by workers and consumers but people have to work and we cannot stop consuming so affected workers will ultimately shift to new places and consumption will shift to new products and the skim will continue.
Global markets aren’t going to get shaken up because the global market is incredibly resilient. Prices will quiver for a bit but in the long run they will simply route around us and new normals will emerge.
The only way things change is if the people cause it to change. Either accidentally or on purpose. But the change has to be sudden and swift because there are tons of levers built into the system to force us to participate.
Something like national strike might not be enough unless it can be sustained indefinitely and it’s not clear how that could occur. I suspect will take several events each gaining the momentum of the last and there is little chance of a first event for occurring.
The stock market is indicating it doesn’t think we have the fortitude and despite what we may want to be true, they know a lot about us and our patterns. Our predictability is to their profit, literally.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 days ago:
The civil war itself destroyed the south’s market for cotton. The number of slaves that fled was ever increasing and the war made it even easier.
If the north and south were separated they would have continued to come north but would then be asylum seekers.
The north of the south would have been the main producers of economic growth as mineral exports from that region exploded after the civil war. Based on this alone it’s not certain the confederacy would have actually collapsed.
It would take someone with deep historical knowledge of that era to make any realistic predictions of what would have happened.
For instance, the likelihood of the confederate states not further splittering isnt known. And then there are issues such as if the west coast or other regions would do attempt the same break from the union.
There are all sorts of trade imbalances that would be in play. But it’s hardly an idle thought experiment. There are simply too many pieces.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 1 week ago:
Anything that requires a subscription is a no-go. Especially when it’s running on my hardware.
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 2 weeks ago:
You must not be a Linux user. Linux users have no sense of humor.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 4 weeks ago:
And self driving cars were five years away a decade ago.
This isn’t a public company. He can say a lot of bullshit and twist those numbers in ways he could never get away with for a public stock like Tesla but I don’t doubt there are some rich fools looking to swap positions with the current batch of rich fools.
- Comment on LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs 1 month ago:
Apple desperately needs to enter the smart tv market so these shitheels have something to copy.
All these smart tv interfaces are trash and now that Walmart is positioning itself as a market leader with its purchase or Vizio and Amazon already entrenched, it’s time for a real tech giant, one that has been designing interfaces for decades to step in and show them how it’s done.
Having a retail giants own the experience is an idocracy distopia. If Apple did even a tenth of the shit these tv manufacturers were actively doing, the internet would be flooded with Apple-Bad™ articles.
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 1 month ago:
Solar is equipment you buy very infrequently.
They want a product you have to consume over and over. That’s why some of them push hydrogen.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 1 month ago:
'Merica!
We’ve normalized mass shootings.
- Comment on Behold, world class engineering from Tesla 1 month ago:
According to Musk after commenters speculated it was fireworks.
There is also a dead body in the vehicle so none of it is adding up. May have been a failed suicide attack as likely as fireworks.