DarkAri

@DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I only had one actually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Boycott the companies they are selling too, i just canceled my AI subscriptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When I boycott someone I do it for the rest of my life usually. I have moral standards that I hold people to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Watch anime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be cool if they added some more buildings and rooms and furniture and tech as well.

  I think the game would be very cool with electricity and pumps and water tanks. Maybe automated fertilizer systems. It might also be cool to hire labor to work on the farm and try to turn it into a bit of a business sim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just do what you like. Do what makes you happy. You have many paths you can take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There wasn’t really any challenge to it because of the absolute nature of the states control and the concept of human rights not really being a thing at that point under feudalism. The most powerful oppositional forces to the feudal lords were mainly the clergy originally, although they had many shared interests, and eventually the mercent class who was cosmopolitan and traveled.

  Under feudalism around 20% of the population was considered nobility and the rest were peasents, serfs, or coloni. Nobles generally owned all land and businesses and sometimes had political rights or fiefdoms which were like property that could be passed down.

  Midieval societies often used torture, execution, and abuse as well as religious brainwashing to control their subjects. The nobility also guarded knowledge about war and currency and other things, like reading to oppress the subjects who worked the land.

  Taxes were generally low. Around 20-25% of their crop. The rights of serfs varied from region to region.

  Really the biggest adversary to feudalism was other feudal lords, then the clergy, and at times conspiracies of finance and empires. The feudal kingdoms often aided each other in giving asylum to war criminals or relieving each other from riots. They often intervened to put back into place other monarchies when they were overthrown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Murder is a charge that means it’s an intentional killing, manslaughter is an accidental killing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Nvidia selling to these actual criminals is very unethical and also against the American people. We should boycott them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foot In The Door⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most interesting thing about drug markets is how stable they are compared to real life markets. Even as the currency deflates drugs maintain their value over the years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory never, in practice, after you have kids. Many people do it after having kids but they have amazing time management skills like my ex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Ploughing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently at work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live in alien zoo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, so I have thought about this for a while.

  There isn’t a ton of reason to think aliens are here.

  1. The main reason, is because of how things are. Things are rough and chaotic. Our leaders don’t seem to even see 5 years into the future. The world is very exploitative. It’s very arbitrary. It just doesn’t make much sense to think that some powerful mind is in control of it. It doesn’t seem planned. It seems like a bunch of hairless monkeys that live short lives developed technology a few people ago and are stumbling through everything.

  2.Aliens if they have the tech to visit earth. Are very likely to be post scarcity, and to have less competitive ideas. The values of our leaders do not align with the idea of aliens at all at least in all likelihood.

  3.Anyone who isn’t a child or short on intelligence probably realizes that everything on TV and the internet is pretty much a lie, intentional or not. Humans barely know anything about anything as it has always been, and the world is very much controlled by the upper class of wealthy people.

  There is maybe a shred of reason to think they may be here. One is that life on earth has continued for many billions of years, which is amazing when you really think about it. The conditions required for life to perpetuate are quite narrow.

  Another piece of evidence is virtually all of human history for many thousands of years revolves around extremely religious people and magic and all this stuff.

  Another thread of reason is simply the logic of the Fermi paradox, we know there is likely at least hundreds of thousands of intelligent life forms in the galaxy alone, probably more like millions or billions.

  So if they are here, they probably don’t want any contact with anyone or very few people. I don’t think politicians and rich people would be of interest to them. It’s also possible that they are so far beyond us in development that communication or acknowledgement of existence isn’t even something they care to establish. I mean what good does it do an ant to know humans exist? Mostly just makes them long for things they are not going to get from us. Even though we could give ants everything they want, we just don’t feel the desire for whatever reason. Maybe they judge us by our own level of empathy? They treat us like we treat lower animals?

  This still doesn’t line up well with the apparent chaos of reality, however, if they had a secret agenda, it becomes more possible, just also not all that likely. There isn’t anything on the planet that would ever be of value to them except maybe the fruits of human knowledge of culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you have a guardian slav

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well sure there isn’t a physical thing like class. It’s just an abstraction that we as humans came up with but I like the idea of owning (not indebted) a home, which to me signifies middle class. This is mainly because it gives you a lot of sovereignty. You can choose not to work continually, if the market doesn’t pay a fair rate. You expenses are relatively low and controllable, since you don’t have taxable income and you can survive, even retire in this ideal society.

  These days that’s very difficult with inflated asset prices, fiat currency, property taxation of the common people and things like that.

  Yes my definition isn’t anymore or less true then anyone else’s because class isn’t something that exists, but personally this is how I see it. I only think in terms of working class when it comes to labor law versus business and stuff. It doesn’t have much use to me outside of thinking about workers rights. Most more left leaning people that I’m aware of these days don’t particularly care about workers and stuff much these days. They care more about things like welfare or equality which to me isn’t really a working class issue so much as a low class issue. I’m not anti welfare by any means. I just don’t think I have every heard like an American Democrats professional or not, advocate for giving workers time off, or protecting their wages from excessive taxation or forced profit sharing or anything like that.

  America isn’t a right wing or left wing system. Democrats are mostly right wing and mostly liberals, they are also hard capitalists. The Republicans are mostly alt right and borderline to full blown Nazi. Workers come nowhere in the equation of political parties or the average worker. Most democratic and Republican voters seem to be mostly interested in building a massive surveillance state, rent capitalism via high taxation on the poor and low taxation on the rich, controlling each other, controlling speech and ideas. This is what most Americans for the past few decades regardless of party has found important enough to vote in. If you want someone to care about the working class you will probably have to somehow get your average American to stop being obsessed with spying on everyone in their society first because that is way higher on your average voters priority list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of class like this, lower class, is people who start with nothing. Their parents can’t save any money for whatever reason. They have to start working as soon as they are out of school. They will probably never own anything.

  Middle class is more like. The parents own a home, the child will probably own a home. They can go to college. They can move somewhere that better fits them.

  Upper class to me is like “good” families, people who have homes and investments. Where the children don’t necessarily have to work. Where getting some type of education is almost expected.

  The ultra wealthy to me are not upper class, they are just criminals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they do because they know there won’t be as many insects and the water will be colder for a few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pro wrestling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they respect you as a person? Do they let you have your own space and life? Do you feel like they are being fair and reasonable with their expectations of you? Do they get mad so they have an excuse to write you off or ignore you?

  A person who loves you will always be reasonable towards you and treat you like a human being. They won’t be a perv and go through your stuff or gossip about you. They won’t try to take from you, but fair expectations are fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stay away Roman slaver!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A better metric is homeownership to me. Someone who is middle class is secure and doesn’t have to rent nor pay debt. They only really have to work when it’s mutually beneficial. That is basically impossible to achieve in the modern world with the hundreds or thousands of micro taxes and cartel controlled corporate markets and complete lack of land for the lease it’s to live on without virtual indentured servitude. Even if you did spend your entire life buying a house the state would just take it away from your children with the brutal taxation. Without a home you are always going to be a slave and have to work at any shitty job just to have food and a roof over your head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s more like 15-30 minutes. I still count it as awake because if I remember something in this time I can still wake up and do it and also I can remember some things from this period of sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or get a raspberry pi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that almost zero phones have custom roms available, and android is just a bad operating system to begin with. It’s designed much more around tracking rather than something like a server. You can’t do basic things like close programs or uninstall software or even choose how the memory is used. Basically unusable as a server for anything other than a toy. If you do find a ron for your phone somehow, it will suffer from many of the exact same issues. No closing apps, no access to the networking layers, massive security flaws due to a chaotic software landscape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have too much gain.

  But yeah it’s normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly you shouldn’t judge anyone as a group, even billionaires. They are not all evil, probably mostly evil though even if just in the basic sense of destroying the world for profit, both physically and in terms of human happiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I promise I'm not⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony is that you don’t know anything about economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I promise I'm not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol like I said I study economics not reganomics. You can’t find any YouTube videos that are not reganomics. YouTube had all of that purged during the great censorship wave before they put trump into power. I know you live in the soviet union basically so you never heard anything that was true in your life probably. The internet is just not a good source in these things anymore. I’m pretty sure it’s like half bots.

  There is such a thing as true value in many ways, and you have it backward. You don’t measure the value of hard currencies by fiat, you measure the value of items by hard currency. A loaf of bread is worth however much copper someone will pay for it. A copper isn’t worth x amount of bread. The price of bread may change because of various things, but the price of the copper will always remain fairly constant, outside of improvements in technology and stuff. This is sort of buffered by the fact that if the value of something useful like copper drops then the market will use it for more things, since it just has so many useful properties. Copper is actually a better conductor than gold and silver. If the price of copper rises, the market may try to phase it out of certain things. .it’s also just that copper is already very valuable so the extraction of it is already very optimized. There probably isn’t too many big improvements to be made in extracting it but as the price changes, certain processing of it may become more or less feasible.

  This is sort of the reason things like oil keep its value over time. It’s when oil prices go up, it suddenly becomes profitable to open up old fields which produce lower quality oil which requires more expensive processing, and as the market is flooded those same fields become unprofitable. It sort of self regulates.

  Also you should do easily anyways, you should have your fortune divided into several pools of different metals, and also land, and maybe a bit of stock in a joint enterprise. You should probably spend some on collectibles, and also some on yourself. As in educating yourself.

  Mainstream MMT is a bunch of junk created to screw over the working class and to give corporations tons of power by controlling everything that is valuable. It creates so many negatives. High asset prices, even relative to true inflation, because people have to overly expose themselves to assets to store value if they aren’t rich and can’t snowball. It creates debt based economies, where many companies don’t even pay taxes because they operate on debt besides the many other tax loopholes that become necessary to keep this duct tape economy going. The people have to pay high taxes or inflation goes up too fast since they have to find a way to suck liquidity out of the economy as they also somehow have to keep injecting it. That’s why the average American pays dozens or hundreds of taxes. It destroys the principle of free markets, because once companies get into the range of tens of millions. They never really have to worry about going out of business as long as they sell something. This makes asset prices even higher and destroys small businesses. It locks out the working class from starting businesses without tons of investment from managers and puppeters. It requires that people not be given even a basic education, so that they don’t know how screwed they are which leads to all kinds of issues, like companies not knowing how to actually be successful long term. It punishes efficient companies which are in debt, because they become more exposed to risk, where shitty companies can just sell all their assets to a rich friend, or a shell llc, and file for bankruptcy. It requires that the state is always corrupt, because any sort of tweaking of the system will cause the economy to collapse. It requires that Americans put their retirement into a casino or there will be too much asset inflation this requires governments occasionally steal everyone gold with literal armies going door to door, as well as getting tons of propaganda about how saving money is bad and gambling with your retirement is actually good, when you can just buy gold and beat the stock market every year. It also destroys class, since there is virtually no reward for being honest, saving money, giving something to your kids. Fiat economics hates class, in particular the middle class, fiat currency thrives on a class of aristocrats and a giant underclass of uneducated poorly fed and disarmed fools. There will hardly ever be more then 3 generations of high wealth within one family or even basic land ownership, Inca fiat economy. This destroys our DNA. Our creativity, our intelligence, our looks, our more human features like our empathy and restraint. In short, fiat currency raises and entire population of fat bald ugly and disrespectful people, because this is the evolutionary pressure that fiat currencies create. There are many other reasons beyond this. Like just the fact that for some strange reason, under a fiat system, you will almost always earn less the next day then the day before with a job. Almost every single job in America pays you the most in real value, the first day you show up, it’s so ironic. The government also lies about inflation btw. It’s really around 7% per year on average. So if you are not making 7% more every year then you are being paid less. If your house doesn’t appreciate in 7% of fiat per year, then your house is becoming less valuable. If your retirement isn’t growing 7% a year, then you should of just bought gold, and when you add in the risk, it’s higher then 7% per year for your retirement, because every so often, seem to be about once a decade these days, the rich will decide to just crash the market and take half of your retirement. So really you need to be making about 12.5% per year on your retirement or you are actually just losing money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I promise I'm not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest I don’t feel like responding to every single one of these points. I think I summed it up pretty well in the last post even if you disagree. I’ll respond to one or two or a few, which I think covers most of your points.

  Stuff being made of literal money - this isn’t really true because you can extract more of it and recycle it. It’s also not just one metal but many metals. The way it worked in history, is that gold was used for things like large transactions, and long term savings, where most people used silver as the everyday currency. Copper is also a good option, relatively valuable but also very fungible with the downside of oxidation which silver and gold doesn’t have at normal temperatures. You can also have iron, nickel, platinum, and other coins. One of the core ideas is that the state doesn’t issue currency directly, as they like all human beings are not responsible enough to have that kind of power as a monopoly, but they simply ensure fair use by making counterfeiting and fraud illegal. This is how much of human history handled money.

  An economy without inflation or debts isn’t bad. It is bad for the rich, but not for the workers. It’s bad for the rich because mega corporations cannot compete with small businesses in a hard currency system. In the past things were worse because of technology. They didn’t have much of it. It’s a different era now.

  Hard currency doesn’t appreciate just because you are rich. This happens in fiat currency systems. The reasons corporations snowball in wealth, is because they have access to low interest and no interest loans, and real valuable assets where workers do not have any access to any valuable asset to store wealth in. The most valuable asset a worker has that actually holds value is a home, and even this has lost about 30% of its value over the past 50 years, despite being higher quality. It also isn’t a long term store of wealth and has property taxation attached to it, which means the only people who can ever get wealthy in our society, are people who get past a threshold of about 20+ million a year currently. They then snowball towards being extremely wealthy just on compound interest and stock appreciation alone. For every 1% of people who get wealthy this way, 99% of people get poorer year after year, and with absolutely no control over this process, as is the entire design of fiat currencies.

  Also to close, I would like to just say, that virtually every human who has ever lived in history would disagree with your fiat currency nonsense. It wasn’t until the age of mass media and compulsory education that governments and corporations could really force people into paper money and 401ks. It has been tried a few times in history, always by tyrants, and always has directly preceded the complete collapse of their society and culture.

  This is because the most valuable actual thing on this earth is people, and if people are not treated with decency and paid fairly, then your society collapses. You cannot cheat people out of their wages. America as well has degenerated nonstop since it’s adoption of fiat currencies. Economic growth in real value has been stagnant since the 70s. Most of the fake stock market is IP and real estate bubbles and overpriced companies that will never recover the valuation that they have in real value, only through inflation. Fiat currencies have also created a situation where the old and adults in general sell away their children’s futures and force them into debt without their consent so they can live lives of opulence and excess without having to actually work for it. This scam has went on for so long that now nearly half of Americans cannot find a job or will not work for the terrible wages and our IQ is dropping, and less then a quarter of people even own property without debt. The ones who do mostly own a worn down old wooden house. This is what fiat currency creates. It is find mentally just greed and unfairness and irresponsibility and an attempt for a terrible and inefficient state and corporate class to cling on to power for another century until the people starve and finally overthrow them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I promise I'm not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The value of metal isn’t arbitrary,bits valuable because the metal is actually valuable. You can use copper for electronics, silver for medical instruments, gold for all kinds of things from semiconductors to low impedance buses.

  There is no deflation of metal currencies or inflation. This is a common lie of corporate sellsmen trying to sell everyone into their pyramid scheme. The value slowly drifts over time and it is possible for the value to change more significantly with the discovery of new sources or technology which makes extracting easier. The point is though that compared to fiat currencies, it’s extremely stable and over generations. This makes the currency truly valuable, something people can save and give to their grandkids and it will be roughly the same value. People can retire for example without ever needing to put their money at mercy to the rich in speculation markets.

  What is actually happening is the economy is growing but it’s being spread across all the currency holders, not just sucked up by the state and the corporate class. The is what you call deflation, but it’s what I would call economic appreciation. Simply put prices have to meet workers halfway.

  The only real downside compared to fiat currency, and this is really the only one in actuality, is that money is harder to obtain without producing something of real value. This means that governments can not spend money to stimulate the economy, and the economy cannot carry massive amounts of debts which cannot be realized effectively. Interest rates would be high because interests would have to cover the people who default.

  This is not a bad thing, this is an honest economy. It would be hard to imagine a modern economy operating like this, because it’s so fueled by cheap debt and wasteful spending, and huge bureaucracies, but those things come at the expense of the worker, who has the least bargaining power of all. With a hard currency, whatever a worker wants is honest. It can’t be stolen from them. It can’t be taxed outside of income effectively without near extortion/Mafia level tax schemes.

  The middle class would absolutely thrive under this system, because they would possess one of the most valuable things under a hard currency system, labor. Since a worker is paid wages, they cannot really be duped by people. Once that money is in their hands that value has passed to them.

  This also fixes so many other issues, like economic bubbles, economic instabilities and recessions and depressions. It fixes the value of hard assets like land since people have to pay taxes on land if they own a lot, where workers should have property taxes, only businesses that deal in commercial selling of land, people can actually afford land.

  It would cause all kinds of issues with the way the economy is currently set up. Massive mega corporations would be bankrupt nearly overnight. Since they aren’t actually producing much real value for their costs. The stock market would tank, requiring the state step in and subsidize basic necessities for a few years, maybe even a generation. People would make a run on the stock market to withdraw their retirements they foolishly gambled with, trying to beat inflation.

  Yet at the end of it, you would be left with a healthy and functioning economy. A small upper class, a large middle class, and a mild class of poverty striken people.

  This could be handled pretty well by giving back half of all tax revenues in the form of UBI equally to everyone and setting up public clinics instead of having the extremely expensive Medicare system. You could offer doctors an abolition of their taxes and UBI to work there for the more meager wages, to encourage lots of high quality and older doctors to work there after they have acquired some private wealth that they would like to protect more from taxation. The federal bank instead of giving loans to banks, could give loans to people to build small affordable house. People can get one per lifetime and have the payment garnished from their wages or UBI. That way you could stimulate the economy more in times and also help to keep house prices low, so that the average worker can actually aquire wealth and raise up in class over generations.

  This is how an economy should be designed. Freemarket socialism, fair and level taxes, hard currencies, UBI instead of welfare, public funding of private education that is the students choice, publicly owned infrastructure, utilities, and a cost effective public healthcare system that provides basic care, access to cheap medicine, and pain management for end of life care if people are poor.

  With UBI and the state helping everyone get an apartment without high taxation, the economy would both thrive and everyone would have some basic social security. People would not have to work if they lived a meager lifestyle and could eat and acquire basic necessities. This would also make the labor market honest. Nobody would choose to work unless the wages were mutually beneficial. Most people would be happy. Women could stay home and raise children without being stuck in poverty and an argument away from homelessness or virtual prostitution with people having free time to pursue other things besides work, culture would thrive, technology would thrive and people would be happy, and also the economy would thrive because we would produce the best works on the planet.

  This starts with cutting the rich off the tit of the tax payer. Cutting the materialistic geriatrics off the tit of the working person. This starts with people rejecting Reganomics and embracing free market private socialism instead of stupid communism or stupid capitalism fueled by fiat and authoritarianism.