SoftestSapphic
@SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it 14 hours ago:
Microsoft will wait until everyone who was willing to use win11 switches, and once they notice too many people swapping to linux they will come out with a statement saying they will continue to support win10 with security updates
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 day ago:
It’s funny that’s why
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 day ago:
Getting users to pay extra for features that should already be included with their overpriced consoles is such a scam.
Ffs xbox live used to be free -_-
- Comment on Caption this. 1 day ago:
The muscles that make my wife scream in pain/pleasure
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 day ago:
I have all 140gb of music I have ever loved enough to keep a copy, I have it on my microSD card on my phone (and backed up)
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 2 days ago:
You’re also on the Truman show
Suprise!
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 2 days ago:
YTPs are good content, sorry
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 2 days ago:
Oh you’re just a troll -_-
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 3 days ago:
Any issue where the answer is “every single individual doing that just needs to do the right thing” is not a valuable take when it comes to actually fixing those systemic issues.
Of course the problem would be solved if people all stopped doing it, we could end all war today if everyone just decided it was bad and refused, but that kind of thinking is never going to fix it
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 3 days ago:
Blaming individuals for systemic issues does not solve systemic issues, it’s a way to shift blame away from those in power.
“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”
George Orwell, 1984
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 5 days ago:
XD
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 5 days ago:
They wouldn’t restrict access to information based on your perceived age, would they?
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 6 days ago:
Lmao if someone tried this shit in the US all the dispensors would be kicked off the walls by the end of the day.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 6 days ago:
Yes because accents are funny
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 6 days ago:
It’s sometimes easier to focus on solutions that would rebalance this imbalance of power.
IMO, wealth redistribution is the single most important policy for limiting the influence of the rich. A UBI funded by perpetually redistributing all excess wealth over a certain point would prevent anyone from gaining enough money to break the systems we depend on.
From the political power angle, removing representatives at any level and replacing them with direct democracy or direct influence from the people removes the opportunity for our representatives to be corrupt.
UBI funded by wealth redistribution and direct democracy, these are the tools that will allow humanity to break the wheel.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 week ago:
At least we know one thing that didn’t cause it.
Thanks for that hint on decoding your shitty blackbox google.
- Comment on Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead 1 week ago:
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 1 week ago:
They’re legal harrassment
- Comment on Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now 1 week ago:
Nah, no amount of shaming students for the choices adults forced them to make will fix our systemic issues.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 week ago:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
This phrase is the basis for enforcing an equal society, not an excuse to establish a different type of economic caste system.
Doctors will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.
Engineers will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.
Sanitation workers will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.
There is no situation where a caste system results in a more equal society than just equal wealth distribution.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 1 week ago:
Nobody asked for your fetish dude
- Comment on Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right' 1 week ago:
Payday 3 didn’t make enough money, so they’re following the players back to Payday 2 to try to shake them down there.
What a sad decline for such a great dev :c
- Comment on Netanyahu Flies To New York, Avoids European Airspace Over Arrest Fears 1 week ago:
Can someone Luigi him this time?
Netanyahu shouldn’t be able to safely exist in the United States
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 week ago:
There will never be a fair system as long as we keep creating different tiers of privlage.
No, we have enough resources to provide for everyone. Money isn’t a game to be won, it’s a tool for human beings to extract what they need from human societies.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 1 week ago:
So make sure you cash in your violence card properly before you go to prison.
Duh
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 1 week ago:
People usually don’t steal things they can easily pay for.
- Comment on Why isn't there a Megumin sub-"lemmy"... 😣 1 week ago:
How?
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 week ago:
Money isn’t real, and humanity will keep enslaving itself until we equally distribute the products of our labor.
Food and housing didn’t cost money until we decided it did.
We can decide to change things again.
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 1 week ago:
Greeters is a jobs program that keeps retirement age people working instead of them having to steal from the stores they work at.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
Because not enough healthcare CEOs have been shot yet