electric_nan
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- Comment on In January, billionaires amassed more wealth than the poorest third of humanity owns. 5 days ago:
Kill. Kill. Kill.
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 6 days ago:
Most of us have hands. This is just a sex toy. The novelty of it being shaped like a whole-ass woman will soon wear off and turn into the same self loathing.
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 1 week ago:
Maybe some men like the idea, but I bet most of them would soon find the experience less fulfilling than they had hoped.
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 1 week ago:
I’m saying Taiwan was able to develop its niche due to its strategic (geographic) interest to the US, not the other way around. China has raised millions out of poverty via cheap labor, yes. However, the reason is that its size allows it to maintain ownership of the profits, which are reinvested in China.
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 1 week ago:
There are exceptions of course, but they are often less about “finding a niche”, and more about politics. Taiwan is an important client state of the US for geopolitical strategy. Such relationships can include more favorable trade deals. I don’t know much about Singapore except that that it’s all about the finance “industry”. Seems like it’s the place where Eastern and Western billionaires can make financial transactions with each other.
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 1 week ago:
“Free trade” means big countries dominating smaller ones. In what way can a small Caribbean nation compete with the US for example? Say they have a self sustaining economy. They have farms to feed their people, and textile mills to clothe them. Free trade opens their markets up, and they are quickly overwhelmed by the mega corps and their economies of scale. Now local industry is driven out of business or subsumed by foreign competitors. Maybe tourism? Multinationals buy up all the hotels, beaches and restaurants. Locals get minimum wage jobs serving and cleaning. Any attempt at “protectionism” incurs penalties under the free trade agreements.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 1 week ago:
Some people seem to really hate down votes. I don’t give a shit either way.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 1 week ago:
There are some instances that disable downvotes altogether!
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 1 week ago:
There’s a lot of different kinds of intelligence.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 1 week ago:
When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 week ago:
Just engage. Make sure you are fully committed to not being a creep, and play your part. Lots of youngsters want and need older role-models/mentors/whatever. As long as you are clear with maintaining and signaling your boundaries, it can be a really positive experience for everyone.
- Comment on USA | Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami 1 week ago:
Spoiler: everyone involved in this incident is a fascist.
- Comment on It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic. 2 weeks ago:
Try it with opiates lol.
- Comment on Something like Sonarr but for Youtube? 2 weeks ago:
Damn that looks cool. I’m disappointed in how many projects are only for Docker though :(
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s better to keep it simple for new users. Tell them it doesn’t matter which server since that is theoretically true in a general sense. No need to overwhelm them with all the asterisks. Once they start engaging, they’ll learn the nuances and can change instances.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
We’re all mad at each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t lol. I just save it in a credit union. I’m not judging people who invest. I also have economic anxiety. I just can’t bring myself to participate in that way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sure, if you or a consortium control a majority of voting shares, you can make the company do whatever you want. Doesn’t seem very realistic to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you and your examples generally, but then that sounds like “active investing” which I have neither the time nor the “risk appetite” for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I avoid the stock market because I can’t find anything ethical to invest in. Particularly stocks that “perform” well are all variants of EvilCorp. So-called “Ethical Funds” all include companies that I wouldn’t consider ethical.
- Comment on The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler | They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps. 2 weeks ago:
They would all redo it the same way if only they could avoid the camps personally.
- Comment on Best Buy Store 3 weeks ago:
Obviously working since everyone knows GeekSquad is the peak of quality and professionalism /s
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 4 weeks ago:
Yes I know anarchists. I organize with them in real life.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 4 weeks ago:
Lots of money? Do you actually know any anarchists? Living in communal squat houses and dumpster diving for food is the lifestyle that comes to mind for me.
- Comment on Syria's leader says elections could take 4 years: Al Arabiya interview 2 months ago:
🙄
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
And milk of magnesia!
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
No. He did the right thing.
- Comment on Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military 3 months ago:
Just because my government has a list of enemies, doesn’t mean they’re my enemies too.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 months ago:
Because they liked Twitter, and Bluesky is (presumably) like Twitter before Elmo bought it.
- Comment on Ditching the VPN and port forwarding the selfhosted way 3 months ago:
I haven’t read your post, but I set this up a few years ago after finding this post: golb.hplar.ch/2019/01/expose-server-vpn.html