TipsyMcGee
@TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Soon... 1 week ago:
WRONG! They are CONSUMING! Gotta mainline that hedonic treadmill shit on Klarna before your credit runs dry, my man WOOOOOO! big winner energy
- Comment on Soon... 1 week ago:
Being against a civilian arms race seems like a pretty sane policy in a country where school shootings is a national pastime.
Losing that arms race on walkover while simultaneously losing democratic institutions, that is… unfortunate.
- Comment on arborholing 1 week ago:
Confirmed: Fossil Fuel Capitalism is a righteous slave revolt
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 1 week ago:
The US is one of the countries I would have enjoyed visiting again, but just can’t see myself ever doing it. In addition to the whole fascist thing being awful on its own, dealing with any US institutions/agencies remains a hard no for the foreseeable future.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s a ”chugging ivermectin party”…
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
I’m confused, show us on the doll where the text book fingered you
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
Then you should try half-assing it, Crohns isn’t semi enough
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
When the AI bubble bursts, even janitors and nurses will lose their jobs. Financial institutions will go bust.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like ”they” held a meeting to decide they were going to get everything for themselves. Rather they’re embracing this inevitable ”feature” of the ongoing collapse of market economics.
Increasing the concentration of financial capital in the hands of a few people changes the value of that capital. For normal people, the dollar value is measured in the cost of food and living space. Billionaires, who despite evidence to the contrary, are human beings, don’t need or demand more of those real resources – say potatoes or tenancy in small rental apartments – than anyone else. In fact, they can in many cases make do with less! They prefer to subside on lobster, filet mignon or whatever fad diet their longevity coach prescribes, and live in lavish palaces and/or bunkers.
Billionaires, and even down to the measly top 10 percent of earners, are the ultimate hedge when things go sideways in the real economy. They allow governments to keep printing money by diverting a tidy sum of it from potatoes and apartment leases to the lobster, filet mignon, yacht and private jet economy – and more importantly, their investment portfolios.
My point being, that malevolence isn’t the main driver here, but a widespread failure of people to acknowledge that the fantasy of limitless growth inevitably must be realized within the confines of the fantasy world of the financial economy by insulating it from the real economy. Because in the latter we eventually have to accept that we have reached the highest amount of potatoes and apartments possible. This failure is on everyone, not just billionaires.
At this point, though, I guess ”they” (Peter Thiel et al) have pretty much decided to help this collapse along with the help of every major government. So I guess you’re right.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 4 weeks ago:
The normalization of needless single use products, like straws, by making it non plastic DOES make things worse. It delays real action, like removing straws altogether.
It’s greenwashing inherently unsustainable practices, just like introducing carbon capture technology on oil rigs or hyping electric cars as a way to keep the auto industry going (while suppressing more efficient means of transportation).
If we’re not going to fix shit, then why the fuck bother with mushy straws.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 1 month ago:
He had a lot of ideas that are not left, more like chronically online incel stuff mixed with general tech bro stuff. Don’t really remember the specifics any more, not interesting stuff really
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 1 month ago:
Luigi Mangione, the tech bro cum eugenics enjoyer? Is that the leftist we’re talking about here?
- Comment on ... 1 month ago:
We’re out of reds today, sir, can we offer you a fresh orange wine, served fresh at body temperature, genuine Piss Du Lave-Vasaille
- Comment on Clock logic 1 month ago:
No use imperial, eg. 1 gallon is equal to 2,4899 feet mutliplied with 8,67763 nuggets, therefore you need to work five big mac longer
- Comment on What if this is a coma dream. 1 month ago:
No such luck, I’m afraid
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Cool, I love mushrooms in omelette
- Comment on A conundrum 1 month ago:
Would have been standard fare in Sweden until recently, but that’s obviously an outlier
- Comment on A conundrum 1 month ago:
Surely, this depends a lot on what market you’re in. If you’re in a very expensive area and need to take a big loan with a high fixed rate, I can see that being the case but renting the equivalent place would probably be extremely expensive too.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 month ago:
What happens in 2028 exactly?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
Everything that’s happened in the since around 1900 is an extreme outlier in the history of humanity. Nothing’s been normal.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 month ago:
If we’re strict, being right is always being right. If we’re not strict, wouldn’t that imply that being wrong “for the right reasons” is being right?
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 month ago:
Since definitions are not facts, the word factoid itself being a factoid is a factoid
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 1 month ago:
I didn’t even realize I was doing therapy, you inbred fucking idiot
- Comment on The duality of man 1 month ago:
In the first panel both are, somewhat vapidly, disagreeing based on their respective perspectives on objective reality (vapid because they both fail to see that it very clearly is a curled up sperm!)
In the second panel, one has broken with reality and the other is unwavering in their obsession with an out of scope issue. Meanwhile, the third: the artist or the viewer that shares neither perspective, is alienated because the plainly visible sperm doesn’t even matter anymore.
It’s not about whether they agree about anything. It’s about sperm.
- Comment on Shitpost 1 month ago:
It’s 11.11 here, is that supposed to mean something?
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 month ago:
It’s possible to not give a fuck about Taylor Swift, but still care about her and her fellow billionaires outright destroying the world while glitzy magazines treat them as main characters in a soap opera, just going about their glamorous exploits and intrigue. It is fucking stupid to celebrate Taylor Swift’s anything, for as long as she remains a prime example of everything that is going wrong in the world: massive hoarding of wealth in a winner takes all economy obsessed with intangible assets (notably bands and song rights), excessive personal consumption and burning of fossil fuels, hyper commercialized culture mostly void of artistic expression.
I don’t mind people that like her songs, but I’m fairly certain Swifties should be designated a death cult.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 months ago:
The UK is just ahead of the curve
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 months ago:
The proliferation of unathorized opinions is threatening democracy! Doubleplus ungood.
- Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’ 2 months ago:
Every country is moving towards this and there is no fucking stopping it, it seems.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 months ago:
I’m not from the US, but I’m pretty sure that’s just for shooting up schools and raiding non-existent pedo dungeons underneath pizza parlors.