Auntievenim

@Auntievenim@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My dude, you sound like a south park character. I’m not even kidding. Just dont play the game if you dont understand how to create your own fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is quite literally the crux of the post: Who is actually making these decisions? Because there is, in fact, a zero percent chance that any number of Australian wokescolds would have leverage to force MASTERCARD AND VISA, the two global monopoly payment processors to change their practices just because the australians dont agree with the content of games.

  This is a top down decision coming from the owners of visa. Any attempt to backpedal this into the hands of some activist group is the most disrespectful patronizing I’ve seen in my entire life. I’m glad you and others are calling this shit out for the farce that it is.

  You mean to tell me the most successful activist movement in the last 50 years has been a single week protest lobbied at the most powerful capitalist institutions in the world, and the payment processors were bent over backwards for it? As if thats definitely not a giant, flaming red flag in itself?? It feels like the most obvious scapegoating of all time: a faceless Australian group nobody ever heard of before suddenly wrenched the arm of an economic lynchpin? No.

  Visa and Mastercard are doing this because this is what they want to do. No amount of protest would achieve this outcome save the literal socialist revolution at their doorstep. I dont care what any report says, this is top down. Visa is not exposed to any risk by any protest, it is laughable to suggest otherwise.

  With that out of the way, we can discuss the real matters of import: why are payment processors taking on the role of decency enforcement in global markets? What are their goals, who is making these decisions, and why is any government allowing these processors to dictate commerce within their borders unilaterally? Really and truly I dont even care about the games. I want names and faces of the people in charge of visa and Mastercard who are making these decisions, and I want them brought into a court room to clearly explain to everyone in the world what their exact reasoning is for caving to a historically insignificant protest. Stop killing games has been going simultaneously to this and, with millions of signatures, the response has been slander from the companies targeted. This collective shout bs is an absolute sham.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone somewhere is inventing a technology that will save thirty minutes on the production of my wares and when that day comes I will tower above my competitors as I exchange my products for a fraction less than theirs. They will tremble at my more efficient process as they stand unable to compete!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This actually sounds really cool, the idea of having a sidebar pull up posts of the article your reading is like sci-fi movie magic stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millionaire “exodus” claim backtracked but media re-run story anyway | Tax Justice Network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  41,400 millionaires supposedly left since 2017 when summing up all the migration estimates New World Wealth has reported for the UK since 2017. But there are 435,000 more millionaires in the UK today according to the UBS Global Wealth 2025 report. The total number of millionaires that New World Wealth claims left the UK since 2017 sum up to just 2% of the UK’s millionaire population in 2017 (2.2 million). But the UK’s millionaire population today is 20% bigger than it was it 2017 according to UBS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millionaire “exodus” claim backtracked but media re-run story anyway | Tax Justice Network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who cant make it to the end

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some say hes in this very thread… :')

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, the actual solution is everyone taking their money out of the bank on the same day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another thing I’d like to add, not that your comment wasnt very well argued but just to expand, the rationality of a decision to each individual is still coherent even when talking about sadistic and selfish decisions like those made by the oligarchs and corporate executives. Those actors are not irrational, they are rationally motivated by a completely different structure of stimuli, like you explained.

  Capitalism is rational, the issue arises from the fact that a rational decision for someone with billions of dollars is universally irrational to anyone else. You cant expect a system of individualized economic success to allow rationality to be egalitarian.

  That’s how we end up in these situations where millions must suffer the failures of a system they never benefitted from while the beneficiaries actively pursue the further dismantling of the system to increase their personal benefits from it.

  You cant map the needs of millions and the needs of billionaires onto the same resource pool. The rational actions required to be taken in that environment is what leads to the inconceivable outcomes that make us question actors as irrational. They are personally acting in a rational, self preserving way, which just happens to be the most oppressive and dangerous to the masses.

  I think you covered the mindstate of the masses pretty well in your comment, so I wanted to give some exposition towards the other side of the coin. In equal proportion, “Any individual action rationally follows from the prior experiences” applies both to those exploited by the system and those benefitting from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does trump know he cheats at golf?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the comment someone else made with several articles referencing trumps history of cheating in golf. My favorite quote from those excerpts has to be the one where hes cheating and the guy they’re playing with puts the ball back before putting and trump goes “he put it back, thats why hes an unemployed coach and I’m worth billions” so yeah, unironically thinks not-cheating is pussy shit lmao

  Look at this guy! He’s playing where it lies. What a fucking loser!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn

  We almost got rid of Jimmy dore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Update 1.2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to do something about gukmir and whoever else being permanently bound to me with no interactions beyond asking about rumors? I sped through the interaction after finishing knights of the nine and now I can’t do any missions with stealth because they go running in ahead of me. Oh and did I mention they’re invincible so I cant get rid of them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unexpectedly wholesome exchange after a poor performance from me in Rematch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the gameplay itself fundamentally refuses to accept spiteful/selfish players and they filter themselves out within a few hours of playtime

  You have to play the team game, even if you’re the one. You cant outplay 4 people focusing you lol as long as youre clearly trying and not spamming everyone usually gives each other grace

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It isnt a lot, but its weird that it happened twice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the verge has a pay wall now??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non pay wallet link?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radical moth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally

  A real moth posting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rematch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its definitely hard to pick up and get good at controlling the ball and having spacial awareness. My issue is that regardless of having just picked up the game they try to learn the mechanics while 2v1 at midfield.

  When I started I played back and let the game unfold until I had a plan of attack. Passing the ball around, jumping in to goalkeep, covering the open man, basic stuff. Im level 30 now and every time I’ve got level 1 teammates they basically throw the game trying to do rainbow flicks and juke out the entire defense while I’m standing in goal wide open. YOU ARE NOT HIM!

  Having even the most basic understanding of actual soccer makes you a god in this game just about. I have been loving it so far. I just hope people trying it out get good teammates to show them how great the game can be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel kills 11 aid seekers in Gaza, including 3 children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow this makes every day this week that Israel has murdered civilians seeking aid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Im saying your family stories are probably not as accurate as historians and authors who spoke to Germans in Germany in the 1950s about being nazis. Im very sure you’re not lying about that being what they told you.

  I’m calling you fantastical and wrong because painting a picture of nazi germany as a nation captive to a despot without any agency is holocaust revisionism. To say the German people were prisoners to the nazi regime is objectively false and all the documentation and research around the subject shows as much. They were very pleased with the reich and only started to sour once the war came home and started to get in the way of Germany’s greatness. Please read the book I recommended. Anecdotal evidence doesn’t prove this point wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhh...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientifically proven to increase both admissions and member retention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is absolutely inaccurate and borderline revisionism. Germans were not held at gunpoint to heil Hitler or risk being shot, the average german was perfectly happy and enjoyed the comforts naziism brought them. This inaccurate portrayal does nothing but abstract naziism to be an entity that only exists under specific horrifying conditions and not the reality that for the vast majority of Germans they were happy to be nazis.

  Please go read about nazi germany before you make up some fanfic about how it was just like the wolfenstein games. “They Thought They were free” is a book entirely centered around the experiences of the average German during the nazi regime and not one word of your description is in his book.

  From Milton Mayer:

  These ten men were not men of distinction. They were not men of influence. They were not opinion-makers. Nobody ever gave them a free sample of anything on the ground that what they thought of it would increase the sales of the product. Their importance lay in the fact that God—as Lincoln said of the common people—had made so many of them. In a nation of seventy million, they were the sixty-nine million plus. They were the Nazis, the little men to whom, if ever they voiced their own views outside their own circles, bigger men politely pretended to listen without ever asking them to elaborate.

  Only one of my ten Nazi friends saw Nazism as we—you and I—saw it in any respect. This was Hildebrandt, the teacher. And even he then believed, and still believes, in part of its program and practice, “the democratic part.” The other nine, decent, hard-working, ordinarily intelligent and honest men, did not know before 1933 that Nazism was evil. They did not know between 1933 and 1945 that it was evil. And they do not know it now. None of them ever knew, or now knows, Nazism as we knew and know it; and they lived under it, served it, and, indeed, made it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK - That there is a lot of trolling and brigading starting to happen around the LA peaceful protests to start violence. Here is a roadmap from 2015 on how they do it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  despite being controlled by democrats

  As a direct result of it, in fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a post about college loans lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Post Follow up: People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Im glad this was what stood out in my comment lmaoo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Post Follow up: People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people here being deliberately obtuse or are these reddit shills also operating on lemmy bc who tf cares this much about defending arstechnica? Every comment has like five downvotes. Who cares enough to downvote this and go through the comments to downvote every comment?

  It’s very clearly true that reddit is using their platform to boost stories by websites with ownership of reddit. Who needs this explained to them in baby English? It isnt that hard to understand or accept, this is also why people are here instead of reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look lady if you want people to have access to weapons as guaranteed by the second amendment the number one roadblock are weapons manufacturers who have used their monopoly on production to make firearms a luxury item. “Ghost guns” are a democratization of self defense and, in a time of rising fascism, to stand on a soap box and say “I want arms even harder to aquire” is active disenfranchisement of the working class who will have to fight their way out of this without the support of their military.

  The middle class should be mass producing this stuff right now on clandestine supply chains and distributing them to various cells across the country. Anyone with access to a 3d printer should be getting as much of this stuff out as possible before this even gets a vote. Pass around schematics on flash drives like its cod3 in your computer class in high school. We need to be organized now more than ever, they are showing a unified front against workers and this is just one step towards absolute censorship and surveillance. Take them at their word when they tell you who they are. If Luigi is the enemy here then let me tell you: you’re not on their side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel announces creation of 22 settlements in West Bank⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry guys France and Saudi Arabia are meeting to discuss the two state solution it will all work out just fine. Israel will certainly respect global agreements this time around, I’m sure of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are simply trading, by hate and ideology, the freedom of few to be billionaire with the freedom of everyone else to do what they want in their life.

  Da ruski, good job pointing out the actual issue and then moving past it like it doesn’t destroy your argument. To your billionaire owners: we will thresh them just like the tsar and his family. The freedom from oppression exceeds anyone’s freedom to amass wealth. They will pay for their success either by death or taxes and I really dont care which one

  ^russian ^bot ^says ^what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Orwell really didn’t miss