squashkin
@squashkin@wolfballs.com
- Comment on Capitalism as whipping boy for all of history 1 year ago:
It's a mixed economy I think they call it, moving away from capitalism in some ways
pure capitalism would be "anarcho-capitalism"
- Comment on Capitalism as whipping boy for all of history 1 year ago:
great thesis that leftists are blaming "capitalism" when that is something recent, and I might add something often not fully realized
- Comment on Some people think government debt has always grown. 1 year ago:
yeah the interest is a whole other problem too
plus the debasing of currency
surprisingly a lot of people have no idea how these things even work
- Comment on Some people think government debt has always grown. 1 year ago:
National debt's not really a Christian concept in my view, based on:
"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another." Romans 13:8
The lenders have successfully convinced the public that a national debt is good or necessary or whatever, and the love of money leads many into delusions that this is a good thing.
- Comment on Instead of a white noise generator, this is a cat purring generator. Doesn't help me, but if you like had a cat before maybe it'll work for you. 2 years ago:
thought my stomach was gurgling at first
- Comment on 86 percent of women negatively judge dates who have a cracked phone screen. So bring your backup phone from 2012 without a cracked screen for interviews 2 years ago:
in the idea of a social hierarchy, alphas are at the top, betas below them, sometimes people have names for those below those
sigmas try to be outside of the hierarchy, in a league of their own for better or worse
some of the memes take like motivational advice and flip it backwards so that it might be humourously destructive
there was a millionaire or sigma grindset subreddit that got banned, very disappointed to see
- Comment on 86 percent of women negatively judge dates who have a cracked phone screen. So bring your backup phone from 2012 without a cracked screen for interviews 2 years ago:
sigma rule #488834 bring your cracked phone screen to an interview or on dates to filter people who care about these things
- Comment on How we can take social media back from the billionaires 2 years ago:
build alternatives, leave for them and get others to do so, simple as
- Comment on Adam Mosseri confirms it: Instagram is over 2 years ago:
it and facebook (and snap and maybe twitter too?) are dying according to some chart I saw, tiktok is the winner (with youtube still holding ground?)
- Comment on Slack is increasing its prices and making big changes to its free plan 2 years ago:
could be inflation related
but maybe bleeding users to other options
- Comment on What is BeReal? The ‘anti-Instagram’ app Gen Z is obsessed with 2 years ago:
nice to see an alternative offering
that would be awesome to see, some social media apps that consciously try to fix problems that have popped up in social media
creating some way to guide users "by design" towards good practices
- Comment on Hello, Mander! 2 years ago:
sup mrupsy, good luck with mander
- Comment on Use Custom Launcher on Chromecast With Google TV (1-Click no Button Mapper needed!) 2 years ago:
side note but it always throws me off when I see posts by you or I think it's like sjzero because on your instances or platforms your votes show up starting at zero instead of one