Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 week ago:
Yep. And boot-lickers of that kind of business ethics will always say “Well that’s capitalism, baby!”
But it’s really not. Capitalism as an economic theory IS those small businesses that are being driven under. It’s human beings making a living from their own labour." Even if that human being is the person in charge and doesn’t set foot on the sales floor (for example), it’s still a human being at the helm.
My goto example for some reason is always furniture, I don’t know why. But someone making bespoke wooden furniture out of his garage because he enjoys it and other people want to purchase it. That’s capitalism.
If that same guy’s product gets so big that he starts a company, get’s a factory, and now has employees making the furniture for him, it’s still capitalism because he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.
What’s missing from what the bootlckers call capitalism is the human element.
When the human equation is taken away and everything is at the whim of a stock price, it’s not capitalism anymore, it’s called a Corporatocracy. Humans themselves become just another metric on a spreadsheet called “labour”. Something to be accounted for, controlled and minimized for the sake of the share price. Those shares aren’t owned by humans either (for the most part), they’re owned by other corporations and hedge-funds. Humans are so far removed from modern corporatocracy that there’s no room (or even understanding of) empathy.
- Comment on How many cases from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries remain unsolved in 2026? 1 week ago:
Watching Unsolved Mysteries on PlutoTV, I like that the producers of the show actually add updates to the end when things have been changed or solved. They could just replay the episode as is, but they make the effort to introduce new updates. I appreciate that from them.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 week ago:
To put it simply, cost isn’t the same for everybody.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
With you 100% on that. I love Picard, but it’s Janeway I’d trust to her me through the delta quadrant.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
The new show was cancelled because not enough people watched it.
“Outsized influence” my ass.
Money talks. You think if the show hit the top ten in the streaming Nielsen stats that they’d cancel it because some people “didn’t like it”? Get real.
People are allowed to like something. People are allowed to dislike something. If enough people like it, the show gets enough viewers to continue. If not. It doesn’t.
People who don’t like it aren’t obligated to watch it just to prevent it from being cancelled for your sake.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 1 week ago:
/e/os/ on a Motorola One 5G Ace.
- Comment on AI pro war egirl 1 week ago:
Modern conservatives are the dumbest fuckers in history.
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you to a point. I would say however that it’s not the fact that government exists that’s the problem. It’s the fact that government is controlled by corporations and billionaires that is the problem.
Take all of that away and have a government is actually by the people and for the people…we’d be golden.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 weeks ago:
That would require that I use Gnome. shudder
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 weeks ago:
I used to bother doing all of that too. I just found symlinking achieved the same results without a bunch of manually configuring of mount points.
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 2 weeks ago:
The United States has always been the villain of the story. But they used to at least try to hide it behind a sheen of soft power. The only difference between now and then is that Trump unabashedly takes the mask off and gives no fuck what the rest of the world thinks.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 weeks ago:
Me neither. The more I dwell on it, the grumpier I’m getting. Distro hopping is a young man’s sport. I’ve got work to do.
Thankfully, I learned the hard way a long time ago that my files are almost entirely on a secondary drive and my home folders are all simply symlinks to folders there, so I won’t lose any data since that drive won’t be wiped. But it’s just such a pain in the butt to set up everything the way I like it.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 weeks ago:
I started using Manjaro long before all this crap started going down, and I’ve been holding on hoping this all gets sorted because I hate distto hopping.
But sadly I don’t think its going to happen. I’ve got a new PSU coming to fix a burnt out one that has left my desktop turned off and unupdated for two months. Might be time for an install of something new rather than updating afterwards.
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 2 weeks ago:
Bitwarden.
Paid. Not because I need the added paid features, but because I value it and want to show my appreciation for the developers.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 4 weeks ago:
I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.
Willful Ignorance
- Comment on Belt Holster for USB Power Supply 4 weeks ago:
A pocket protector for the modern age.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 4 weeks ago:
My last few phones have been Motorolas and I’ve been very very happy with them.
My only issue was that back then, I wasn’t really paying attention to alternative OSs like Graphene, Lineage or e/os and was therefore not really too concerned with ROM support/chip set. When I switched over to e/os, two of my Motorola’s (including the one I WANT to use with it) has no ROM support because it’s running a Mediatek chipset. So I’m using my second to last one while my nice new one collects dust.
Moving forward I’ll be paying more attention to Qualcomm vs Mediatek.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 month ago:
Progressive, and Conservative are all nouns.
Not in the context in which we’re discussing, they’re not.
- The Liberal Party of Canada (not “The Party of Liberals”)
- The Conservative Party of Canada (not “The Party of Conservatives”)
- The New Democratic Party of Canada (not “The Party of New Democrats”)
and then back in the early 90’s,
- The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (not “The Party of Progressive Conservatives”…which, FYI…THAT would be the oxymoron by definition that you are trying to argue.)
In the context of party names, which is precisely what we are discussing, these words are adjectives.
Which brings me all the way back around to “The Socially Progressive Fiscally Conservative Party of Canada” being too long to fit on a sign, and so it’s shortened to just Progressive Conservative. Which YOU seem to think means that Progressive is being used as an adjective for Conservative, which yes…WOULD be an oxymoron if that was how the words were used in the party name.
But…they’re…not… They are two adjectives describing two separate things (Fiscal policy & social policy)
You want to talk about English competency? How is the difference between adjective and noun and when to use each so difficult for you to grasp?
Good lord. I’m done. I tried being respectful, but you’re beyond hopeless.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 month ago:
It is an oxymoron whether you admit it or not
Military and Intelligence are nouns. So they are comparable things and can therefore be oxymoronic to one another.
Progressive and Conservative are adjectives and can only be oxymoronic if their describing the same thing.
They’re only function is to describe the noun that comes after them. In some cases, that is an unspoken noun, as is the case when someone describes themselves as “Progressive Conservative”. Really, what they’re saying is they are “Socially Progressive Fiscally Conservative”.
But that has trouble fitting on a lawn sign.
If they say “Socially progressive and Socially conservative” THAT’S an oxymoron. But as long as those two adjectives are describing different concepts (fiscal and social), they have nothing to do with each other.
If you want to go an a pedantic well actually battle royale in regards to the english language and proper nomenclature, bring receipts.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 month ago:
Niether concepts nor humans are monolithic things. It’s possible to be conservative in some areas of your life (finance, relationships, etc…) but progressive in others (equal rights, healthcare, etc…)
This notion that all conservatives are hard-C conservatives in every facet of their life, and all progressives are radical leftists in every area of their life, is frankly stupid and a major contributor to the polarization that we see all around us.
The reality is that with the except of maybe 5% of crazy people on either side (far right or far left) the VAST majority of us are a mixture of conservative and progressive opinions depending on the particular issue we’re talking about.
Thinking otherwise is frankly not helpful. But as I said, you’re welcome to your opinion.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 month ago:
Respectfully disagree. But you’re welcome to your opinion.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 month ago:
At this point there is nothing that they could do to make Creation Engine feel “new”. I don’t understand why they keep beating that dead horse.
A couple of months ago, I had some extra money, so I bought Starfield because I had an itch to go back into my Crimson Fleet character.
The problem was that a couple of weeks before that, I had also purchased a game that I had wanted for years, but could never justify spending the high price of new games on, Red Dead Redemption 2. In comparison, Starfield just felt so…lazy… in ways both big and small, beyond the common issues like repetitive dungeons, barren worlds, loading screens, etc…
The biggest thing I noticed immediately was the effect of bumping into people as you’re walking. If you compare a Rockstar Game (Or even an assassin’s creed game), where npcs will make a comment, will move out of the way, get upset, etc… Whereas in Bethesda can’t be bothered to do anything except slide you to the right when bumping into a character, who doesn’t react or flinch in any way.
I started noticing those little things fucking everywhere. And I have to believe that little limitations like that are because it’s running on an engine that is older than dirt.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 month ago:
Up here in Canada there used to be a thing called “Progressive Conservatives”. Fiscally Conservative, but socially fairly liberal. “We need to keep spending down, etc… but we still need to build hospitals, maintain healthcare, etc…”
The modern hard-C Conservative party drove them out because a hard-right, Alberta asshole with nothing more than a bachelor of Arts, named Preston fucking Manning merged his “reform” party with the Progressive Conservatives and steered them hard into the “let’s give all the money to the oil and gas sector and let them trickle it down to the peasants as they see fit.”
Ironically, the Progressive Conservatives that didn’t like that, basically all went to the Liberals, who shifted a little bit more to the centre as a result.
I’m assuming that other countries must have a similar group of “progressive” conservatives of some ilk. Ones that are educated and intelligent enough to have empathy, but skew conservative fiscally.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 1 month ago:
I absolutely agree. I wasn’t trying to defend the company’s practice. Just explaining why they make those kind of decisions.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 1 month ago:
It absolutely sucks, but from a company perspective it’s not about greed, it’s about legal liability. If they provide food to a charity and someone gets sick from it, they are responsible for it. So the legal danger of giving away your “close to be expired” food is fraught with corporate danger.
Does it suck. Yes. Absolutely. But Joe opened them up to a potential lawsuit.
- Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions. 1 month ago:
The only issue with Unions is a corporate system that has spent decades on a campaign of misinformation and vilification.
Never forget that its unions that gave you a five day work week, 8 hour days, and child labour laws.
Nothing is given by a corporation out of the kindness of their heart. And nothing makes them more gleeful than listening to people repeat their anti-union screed.
- Comment on Everything was indeed brown. 1 month ago:
*Davenport
Chesterfield actually. “Davenport” was a name brand of chesterfiled-style-sofa that became popular enough to become synonymous (Like Kleenex became synonymous with tissues, or Chapagne became synonymous with almost any bubbly wine)
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 2 months ago:
What exactly does Apple think that they’re brining to the equation in order to deserve that 30? Is it simply that they’re hosting an app on their store, so therefore they’re entitled to a cut?
So if I write a novel, and get it published, Microsoft can say "We deserve 30% because you used our product to produce your product?
I’m so fucking tired of corporations. It’s well past guillotine-o-clock.
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 2 months ago:
“most”?
Try “all”. Everything always eventually comes down to someone, somewhere, trying to make more profit for themselves.
That’s why “Follow the money” is the surest way to solve any crime.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 2 months ago:
I’m intelligent, but not nearly intelligent enough for whatever this is…
Is this just another way of talking about the Teleological framework of time (like the heptapods in Arrival)?