Samskara
@Samskara@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on You never forget your first 12 hours ago:
Atari and Amiga were sooooo good at the time. It’s a shame Microsoft and Apple won in the end. These machines were so much better technologically, power, and usability wise.
I plaid lots of LucasArts adventures on these
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 18 hours ago:
The whole suite is great.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 days ago:
A centralized platform providing infrastructure could be financed using a tax on every internet subscription.
- Comment on Is it time to stop? 3 days ago:
!nosurf@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Fully self-hosted password manager options 3 days ago:
Enpass works well for me.
- Comment on GUYS I found Candy Mountain, who wants to go in with me? 3 days ago:
First I have to a banana on my ear.
- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 6 days ago:
Zu spät. Kartoffelsalat mit Majo oder ohne?
- Comment on Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Well 6 days ago:
Because it’s cool and difficult
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 6 days ago:
Vor pain really? I found it more of nice chill mellow mood alteration.
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 6 days ago:
Pregabalin is quite nice. Would love to have some again.
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 6 days ago:
Package size as well
- Comment on Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future 1 week ago:
Cleaning your cum out from your sex bot would just feel sad.
- Comment on China now faces 245% Trump tariff 2 weeks ago:
It fucks lots of people around the globe. I don’t see any fun this.
- Comment on U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist 2 weeks ago:
Yes, Human Rights organizations mostly document events. Lots of countries around the globe have long reports written about them with little consequence.
- Comment on The people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools. 2 weeks ago:
Use the big UV light in the sky.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 4 weeks ago:
LaTeX is great but it’s not an officer suite.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 5 weeks ago:
LaTeX is great for documents, mediocre for slides, questionable for spreadsheets, useless for mail and calendar.
- Comment on Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants. 5 weeks ago:
You get assigned a task in an office.
- Comment on Struggling 5 weeks ago:
Average Lemmy chick is qt-3.14
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 5 weeks ago:
7 BIC or bust
- Comment on infected by the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
!nosurf@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 5 weeks ago:
Matrix/Element has shitty usability and reliability compared to Discord.
For lots of communities, they could use modern forum software like Discourse with better results.
- Comment on Happy Birthday Emma! 5 weeks ago:
Taste is friendlier. Horse is between beef and venison.
- Comment on Happy Birthday Emma! 1 month ago:
Agreed. Horse steak is delicious. It‘s leaner and tastes a little more gamey than beef.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
100 in rent - 100 in mortgage cost = 0.
There’s also building upkeep insurance and taxes to pay.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
corrupt markets resulting from restricted/scarce housing supply
Housing has a hard limit as there is only so much ground available in desirable locations. Building houses also needs resources and labor and takes a while.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
Let me show you how I make X passive income, by selling courses about making passive income
Coaches selling training courses to train new coaches and then for consulting to grow their coaching business is a whole thing as well.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
Instead of a rich asshole, you can have worker owned cooperatives and such.
everyone’s time is worth exactly the same amount
That’s just objectively not the case. Some people are able to provide more essential or better quality services and labor than others. There are also more and less enjoyable activities.
Everyone’s time can be worth the same amount for the same activity at the same quality level.
how do we prevent kings or rich politicians in either scenario? Tax them in capitalism for one. In socialism we just downright make that illegal.
You will always have people in more powerful positions and some will take advantage of it. What you can do is rotate people with term limits and such. However that can also have downsides in effectiveness and efficiency.
You can also impose limits on how much stuff a person can own. There are ways to circumvent this with non profit NGOs and such.
Socialist economies also need taxes to pay for infrastructure and the operations of the state.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
Without money, money is reinvented. For practicality reasons you want a fungible means of exchange that also lasts. Being small, portable, and not spoiling is also desirable.
That means precious metals or vouchers for something. If you standardize these, you end up with money again.
Without a standardized currency, you end up with a bunch of parallel currencies. That means there will be businesses, who only deal with exchanging one form of currency for another. They could even give out their own vouchers.
Now, the state also wants to collect taxes. Collecting a bunch of different vouchers and coins is a headache. So the state issues their own vouchers, which you have to use to pay taxes. Then we are back where we started.
An interesting approach to money would be, if money had an expiration date. So you have to spend it, or lose it. That keeps it in circulation, leading to more economic activity. Inflation serves this purpose as well.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 1 month ago:
A Short Hike is a fantastic game.