UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Submitted 1 hour ago to [deleted] | 3 comments
- Comment on the world 6 hours ago:
That’s the one.
- Comment on the world 6 hours ago:
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 9 hours ago:
no way this skinny CEO eats that shit
I think “Super Size Me” touched on this. Calories in the burger aren’t as impactful as calories in the fries and drink.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 9 hours ago:
Why is this allowed?
It’s a private company operating under a contract that affords representatives to deny you payment for care on conditions that favor the company.
Why would it not be allowed?
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 11 hours ago:
It is a bigger deal in business settings, where one laptop can see multiple hands and you’ve got a team dedicated to repair.
Not typically an issue for the individual user, but always an issue for a team of users.
- Comment on US | Trump Officials Now Want Ukraine's Help To Counter Iranian Drones In The Ultimate Twist Of Irony 12 hours ago:
Why stop at Ukraine? Trump should ask Russia for help as well.
Maybe doing a genocide in Iran is the one thing all these countries can agree upon.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 13 hours ago:
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 13 hours ago:
Unfortunately, the other half of the people who don’t want it banned have all the political capital.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 1 day ago:
You’re way too optimistic.
I’m putting my money on Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 day ago:
I’d love to see how Microsoft is gonna convince those cheap fucks that this is the correct path forward
I suspect we’re going to see some kind of sweeping compatibility issues in the next few years. Possibly a really ugly virus rips through the business community to scare people into switching.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 day ago:
What are u even discussing about guys…
Doomerism
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 day ago:
I guess you’ll just need to convert to proprietary cloud services
- Submitted 2 days ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 days ago:
an open conspiracy is still a conspiracy.
US military hegemony isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a popular public policy
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 days ago:
NDAA authorizing almost a trillion dollars to the military industrial complex
Congress authorizes it. I guess you could just put “Congress” on the list. Or maybe “The Pentagon”.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have died by US bombing in the last fifty years.
With Iran, Syria, and Yemen you could probably get to 100k in one or two years.
Nevermind our airstrikes across Latin America, the various African states, and our collaborations with Israel in Gaza.
Hell, the US can take credit for quite a few kills in Ukraine thanks to our long standing policy of playing both ends against the middle.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 2 days ago:
That’s just the marketing cycle.
Is marketing a grift? I mean, kinda. But you’ll get marketing on good games and bad alike.
Nobody seemed to mind the endless marketing for Expedition 33 or Eldin Ring or Stardew Valley or Minecraft.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 days ago:
I don’t think “pernicious” would describe the NDAA, no.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 days ago:
I mean, some of them are vague to the point of being banal. The NDAA is just the bi-annual Congressional requirement to reauthorize US military operations abroad.
Why would anyone have that marked out as a conspiracy theory on the level of MK Ultra or Operation Northwoods? No reason you’d recognize the acronym as such.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 days ago:
Like the man himself or the whole assassination conspiracy theory thing?
Plenty of compelling evidence to believe Kennedy was murdered at the order of ex-CIA Director Allen Dulles. Even if you don’t want to go all the way down that rabbit hole, though, there’s even more evidence to suspect Kennedy’s secret service fucked up on the job - both in the planning of the parade and in the initial response to gunfire. The “magic bullet” thesis has a number of much more believable counter-explanations, not the least being Kennedy’s security detail firing blindly from inside the car and hitting the President by mistake.
Also, very deep CIA and mafia connections specifically running through New Orleans in the 1960s, such that letting Lee Harvey Oswald spill his guts would be bad for mission security, even if he had just been a lone gunman.
However you slice the Kennedy assassination, there’s plenty of big blind spots in the story where speculation runs rampant. And those blind spots are almost certainly the result of embarrassed/implicated state officials involved in some level of cover-up.
shit like MK Ultra actually and provably happened
The downwind implications of MK Ultra get incredibly muddy. It’s one thing to say “the US government was experimenting with psychedelics” and quite another to claim “The Manson Murders were orchestrated as a domestic terrorist event intended to crush the hippie movement in California and elect Ronald Reagan.”
You could say the same about the Gulf of Tonkin. Was this an American Navy vessel crew that fucked up by accident? Or a deliberate false flag intended to bring the US into Vietnam?
Bohemian Grove is another one you can take extremely deep. It gets brought up alongside Comet Ping Pong Pizza in the “elites are eating babies to stay young forever” conspiracies.
Part of the problem with this list is that you can take any item on it and flip it like a coin to get “mundane rational accusations of impropriety” on one side and “wildly speculative deep lore of a fascist puppeteer regime controlling the country” on the other.
- Comment on Title 2 days ago:
This is the famous “Loo With A View” taken from a high end restaurant in Paris, incidentally.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
LintCoin’s value is through the roof, though. You’d be a fool not to hand them all your boring old American dollars.
And don’t even get me started on TulipCoin.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
I think some people look at this arrangement and say “This is unsustainable, the cards have to come down at some point”, because it is a fucking stupid way to run an economy.
But, like… the money keeps flowing. And it keeps flowing because the Fed and the Treasury are implicitly backstopping the malinvestment. And their pockets are functionally endless.
I wish you could just roll your eyes and make these abhorrent economic decisions stop. But I’m afraid these people might legit die trillionaires without a regret in the world (other than failing to solve Immortality Science with an LLM), because we’ve stacked the economic deck so high up in their favor.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
Which means now our tax dollars won’t just be used for data centers, they’ll be used for power plants too.
Sure… maybe…
Part of the problem with power plant construction is that our production capacity is largely maxed out. If you want a new gas power plant, you go on a waiting list that’s two years long (conservatively). Wind and Solar production are also at their domestic limit. Nuclear continues to be a pipe dream.
And, again, it cannot be overstressed that turning on a data center means a net-negative cash flow. These facilities cost more to operate than they earn, even under a ludicrously generous state contract. Why would you want to power them on these terms?
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
You gotta at least give yourself a full Friedman Unit.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
We’re still only 3 days into this war.
The second big Iran-Israel conflict in less than a year.
And yet this is already manifesting right now in real life as we debate it on the internet.
Ah yes. A total nosedive of 0.30%.
This is the Uno-Reverse “Why you complaining when the DOW is over 50,000!” line. Any token sell-off gets reported on like it’s Black Friday.
Because Trump does not have control over the interest rates.
He’s lining up his pick to replace Powell as we speak.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power
One of the more curious artifacts of the recent surge in data center construction has been filling these megaliths with hardware and then… not plugging them in. Either because turning them on would flatten the local electrical grid or because they’re loss-leaders for which data cycles only cost the company money.
So you’ve got this multi-billion dollar paper asset that wows investors while it gathers dust. And then you go off to build another one, because people will fling their unlimited borrowing power at you to reap another quarter of double-digit growth in speculative valuation.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
the economy and stock market taking a huge hit
Two things that have also failed to manifest, in large part thanks to the prolific state spending following COVID.
Keep in mind, the event that really knocked over the tower of cards in 2008 was Greenspan’s decision to raise interest rates (very sharply) in 2007. Trump’s very obviously not going to do that. If anything, he’s been working overtime to get interest rates lower, because he knows cheap money = high (raw) GDP growth and low unemployment.
What we’re seeing isn’t recessionary. It’s a glacial shift in the economic priorities of the US, from a post-Reagan titanic banking juggernaut to a more-WW2-style global arms depot. The US economy increasingly makes cops and bombs and machines that assist cops and bombs. And there’s no recognized upper limit for demand on these goods and services. Not under current geopolitical conditions, anyway.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 3 days ago:
I’ve had “AI Bubble Burst” on my bingo card since 2023.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 3 days ago:
:-/
