Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 days ago:
They’d make for some mighty fine eatin’.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 days ago:
I see what you’re saying. But to me it’s very much a “You can’t swim in the sewer without getting covered in shit” morality-play.
The very act of providing a service that earns more than a billion dollars by necessity requires the cooperation of a number of different entities. As you described, Ticket Master, Publishers, Distributors, etc… So while they themselves might not be directly exploiting people, they have to interact and make use of partners that do if they want to play in that billionaire paddling pool.
To me, exploitation by association is still exploitation.
But that’s me. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 days ago:
Cant we outlaw corporations and continue as we are? Sure would be nice.
I think the world would do better if all of us shrank a bit to be more mindful of a community economy.
If my neighbour down the street woodworks in his spare time and makes bespoke tables and chairs, I’ll do everything I can to go buy from him rather than a corporation (for example)
Growing up on an Acreage, it was more common for us to buy a half a side of beef or pork from the farmer next door than to go to the grocery store. Same for vegetables from farmer’s markets or similar community markets.
It’s less about criminalizing corporations and more about refusing to reward them for making their profits off the backs of poverty wages and government subsidies…
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 days ago:
Let me put it this way.
It’s possible to become a millionaire through a combination of hardwork, brains, luck and timing.
It’s impossible to become a billionaire after that without exploiting others, whether that is workers, employees, investors…whoever.
In other words, it’s possible to be an honest millionaire, but not an honest billionaire.
So the amount of wealth a person is entitled to is the amount that they can earn with their own labour without exploiting others in order to do so.
So if you own a furniture store, and you pay your employees a living wage, give benefits, etc… and after that you’re successful enough to be a millionaire…great. You deserve it. If you’re an employer and you own a furniture store, and in order to become a millionaire you have to pay your workers minimum wage and rely on unfair labour practices to inflate your profits…you don’t deserve it.
I use the furniture store example because I worked for just such a guy. Family run business. Paid us all well enough. Gave us benefits. Made sure we were taken care of. Treated us like family. And he was financially very successful while managing to do so. Could he have made even MORE if he had taken it from wages and benefits…sure. But that wasn’t the type of person he was.
To me, THAT example is capitalism working as it should in it’s purest form. Corporatization is just a bastardization of the concept created by venture capitalists and shareholders.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 6 days ago:
Devil’s advocate:
You can either protect everyone’s privacy, or you can protect no one’s.
Doxxing is a privacy issue. It’s not “okay if it’s someone you don’t like”. I’m sure if the tables were reversed and people on the right had doxxed a bunch of left-leaning people, the left would be up-in-arms about it, demanding that it be removed and for the people who posted it to be suspended. But because they’re far-right, it’s suddenly okay?
I hate the far-right, don’t get me wrong. But get off the high-horse. Companies can either protect everyone from doxxing, or they can protect no one from doxxing. There’s no in-between just because the people being doxxed are people you find repugnant.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
The reason the “kill-switch” wasn’t made clear originally was because it literally didn’t exist until users very vocally tool them where to shove their AI crap.
It was added on afterwards.
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 2 weeks ago:
It’s only a matter of time. I want nothing to do with any company that is giving so called “A.I” the time of day.
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 2 weeks ago:
Well…fuck Udemy I guess.
One of my old employers used to pay out small bonus incentives onto a prepaid credit card for each staff member, and I called it my “fun money” that I would invariably spend on Udemy enrolling in whatever seemed interesting to me. It was truly enjoyable and I feel like I’m a more well rounded person because of it.
And now AI is going to fuck all of that. I want to learn from PEOPLE, not LLM’s cosplaying as A.I.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
Did Robotaxi just flat out steal the Cyberpunk font in order to try to look cool? It seems like a very Musk thing to do.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 2 weeks ago:
It’s never a bad idea to learn another language.
It’s never a bad idea to learn. period…full stop.
The act of learning anything wires our brains in a thousand different ways; increases our critical thinking skills. Increases our verbosity and our ability to communicate our own ideas more effectively. It increases problem solving skills, etc…
The very act of learning is something that should be practiced every day with something, whether that’s a new language, or a hobby, or being a history buff…it doesn’t matter. What matters is the learning itself.
So if Russian is what is giving you that interest right now, do it. At the very least, chicks dig polyglots.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 3 weeks ago:
Anytime a sentence begins with “Trump says”, it should be followed with “Trump, however, is an idiot.”
- Comment on As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ 4 weeks ago:
If by “work through”, he means guillotine the billionaires who caused the job losses and redistrubute their wealth to make up for it, I’m all in.
- Comment on Tuvix - Self-Hosted RSS Aggregator 4 weeks ago:
And rightly so!
- Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11 4 weeks ago:
My gut tells me that you’re being satirical. But just in case…
“Free” as in Freedom, not “Free” as in Beer means that you are free to view, use, modify and distribute the underlying source code within the guidelines of whichever Open Source license that software falls under. It in no way implies that it is “Free of Charge/No Cost”
- Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11 4 weeks ago:
Free as in “Freedom”. not free as in “Beer”.
Not charging money for your product had NEVER been a requirement in open source. Most people just give out away and get their money from elsewhere because theoretically someone could just download the source code and compile it themselves.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 5 weeks ago:
It was the seventies.
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Cool story, bro.
It has literally nothing to do with the topic. But hey, good rant there, bud.
- 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. 1 month ago:
That guy earning twice as much as you is still far closer to you than to the guy above him. He may make twice the amount as you, but the guy above both of you makes literally 400 times as much (per day sometimes). It’s like you said, we’re all on the same team.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 1 month ago:
FF7 (original) FF8 Fallout NV Crusader Kings 2 (with dlc and mods) Rimworld (with mods)
- 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. 1 month ago:
Middle class IS below the poverty line.
The poverty line is a number made up by the wealthy to keep the “less poors” at odds with the “more poors” So that we don’t join forces and guillotine the motherfuckers.
- Comment on I wonder 1 month ago:
If a seagull lives to it’s thirties I imagine it’s flying around with nothing but Smashmouth banging around it’s brain all day.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 month ago:
I mean, I guess that’s true in a peculirar sort of way in which nothing really exists outside of our perception of it.
What I mean by that is that whatever we see, hear, taste, etc… is merely neurons firing in our brain, processing a signal that it receives. So if we’re looking at a tree for example; that tree is just light/energy waves vibrating on a specific frequency. It’s only when it hits our optic nerve and travels to our brain that it’s translating into something that we call a “tree”.
So when the eyes are closed, the random interference pattern could indeed be interpreted as you say. Goog catch. Kind of makes you wonder.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 1 month ago:
Simple answer without typing a textbook is simply that the longer a language exists, the more individual “quirks” it picks up.
Words or idioms from a different language, regional differences in pronunciation that become common, changes in preferred spelling, etc…
Language is protean and ever evolving, which means that no (natural) language is ever going to be without it’s own unique weirdness.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 month ago:
What you’re seeing is the inner workings of the holographic universe we inhabit. Your brain interprets the signal as static.
/Obviously I’m not serious…
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 1 month ago:
Respect. He built something bigger than him and then knew that it was time to transition.
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 1 month ago:
IMO, consumers aren’t necessarily stupid as much as corporations have very expertly learned to weaponize FOMO through advertising; allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to “whatever the consumer is willing to pay.”
Is that “capitalism”? Yes…technically. But to me, it goes against the spirit of capitalism, which at its heart sums up as “Farmer has a cow that produces milk. Farmer sells the chicken farmer down the road his extra milk and charges enough to be reasonable but doesn’t get greedy because he needs eggs.”
Corporations don’t need our eggs. They don’t believe they need anything from us and so don’t care about being reasonable about profit.
Its “capitalism”, but in my opinion, a perverse, stilted form that should have been kicked to the curb the moment Reaganomics started making it popular.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 1 month ago:
I’m ready to move to a commune. But like… not a hippie Luddite commune that shirks all technology. Just one that isn’t fucking insane about the tech in their lives. basically one that rewinds a bit back towards maybe the early to mid 2000s. Where we had a of the tech in a still mostly uncorrupted form.
Its like “the village” for people who are utterly exhausted by corporate greed. Someone get M. Night Shammalamma or whatever on the phone.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
Doubt I would ever do the VR headset. I simply don’t play the kind of games that work well with (or even need) VR. Although come to think of it, a VR Civilization VI game would be wild.
But the Steam Machine would be interesting to replace the old laptop I currently have running as my multimedia box on my television (streaming, retro gaming, steam mirroring, etc…) It would be more powerful than the well worn old dude I’m currently using.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 1 month ago:
I’m going to throw in a sleeper pick and recommend the Motorola Edge 2025.
I’m still running the 2023 version and I dare anyone to tell me the difference between that series at 700 or so versus a 1000 dollar Samsung.
The reality is that once you pass the 600 dollar mark, your primary difference is whether the phone uses Snapdragon or Mediatek chipsets. And the people who tell you that make any kind of regular use difference outside of heavy gaming are flat out lying to you.
Save your money. Motorola is the last company that is seemingly still trying to price their products sanely rather than chasing Apples policy of “charge as much as we can until people say no”
- Comment on We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why | PBS Eons [13:46] 2 months ago:
It’s really because as soon as we evolved the ability to think abstract thoughts, we needed something to stroke knowingly while ruminating. Obviously.