orcrist

@orcrist@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, my dear, Canada wouldn’t get any voting rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon Musk is also an idiot. He thinks he’s smart enough to quickly understand complex situations and complex problems about which he knows next to nothing, within just a few minutes.

  Most people would only try to claim that level of understanding in areas with which they have professional experience or about which they’re extremely geeky. He does it with everything, and nobody can be an expert in everything, and everybody knows that except for narcissistists.

  I suppose for non-tech people it might be convenient to assume that because someone knows something about some kind of tech, they therefore know a lot about all kinds of tech, and the reality is that’s just not true. There are so many fields that are totally different. But if it did, actually he would look even more idiotic, because Twitter is a train wreck, so clearly he’s incompetent in tech field, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mainstream media's face when Trump dies of a hamburger heart attack and they have to go back to reporting like they used to.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There already is a ton of great media out there, but many people are not looking for it. If you’re trapped by the US news cycle, start reading international news. It doesn’t solve all the problems but it solves many of them.

  And more to the point, consumers have been willing to pay for subscriptions to newspapers for decades, and they’ve gotten burned by it. You’re saying that money is the answer, but it didn’t work before. It’s not working now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mainstream media's face when Trump dies of a hamburger heart attack and they have to go back to reporting like they used to.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They started reporting badly in the 90s (Fox News), if not decades or centuries before that. It is on the consumers to consume better media. The companies that failed won’t fix themselves, ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they say they got your back, that means they will stab you there.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard an HR worker pretend to care about me, lol. Those jerks are at least too busy to pretend. Integrity of a sort, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you buy a flagship phone? It sounds like you want not that. And not that exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even California can't say no to prison slavery.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even California? California is really big on that, last I heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that they accurately believed the DNC were horrible. They stopped Hillary. They stopped Biden and Harris. Good for them? Kinda, not really though.

  … We know Trump is worse. Far worse. But they saw a legitimate threat, a group of people who were not going to make their lives better, and they took some kind of action to stop them.

  And then lots of bigotry. Can’t forget that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of US government sites go offline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of amazing how fast everything is moving. I get the feeling that large numbers of government workers were waiting for this opportunity, because if they actually had integrity then they would be protesting in some fashion, or at least dragging their feet and pulling out the red tape.

  We all know that just because the big boss orders something doesn’t mean it’s going to happen this year, so if it is happening this week, it’s because rank and file are pushing it. And that’s messed up. They should know what they’re doing to the country, to themselves, to everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly are you talking about? Men who feel lonely sometimes? Men without friends? Men who are not having sex?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When does Tesla assume liability? They’ll be sued soon enough. The more data they analyze, the more they’re responsible for, for example, stopping bad drivers, or catching terrorists installing bombs. But they won’t want to feel that heat, now will they.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s important to recognize that the system in the US is more convoluted than you believe. It’s not like we have totally separate drug manufacturers versus distributors versus hospitals versus insurers. There’s a fair amount of overlap, and a lot of it is relatively secretive, so you don’t know where the kickbacks are. You don’t know who’s jacking up prices in general knowing that they’re going to lower prices for the company that they are partners with. All of which is to say, this is not a fair market, this is not a market where you can reasonably compete if you play by the rules, but even if they actually bothered to follow the rules, you’re already screwed because they have market dominance.

  The only path forward is through government run single payer healthcare. You can call it NHS, you can call it whatever you want, but it has to be run by the government. You need the government to set price ranges for drugs and treatments so that the drug companies and the hospitals don’t f*** over everyone.

  But I don’t think Americans are ready for that yet. Obviously Trump winning the election makes it incredibly unlikely, but I think even large numbers of Democrat voters are still trapped in American exceptionalism. They know they’re getting fleeced, but they aren’t yet willing to say that they should probably copy what’s happening north of the border or across either ocean. They have good stories, things about super long wait times or lack of doctor choice, pretending that those things don’t happen in the US, and then pretending that those things do happen in every other country that has universal health care, which is laughable. But it’s hard, because so many people are desperate to believe that the US is the greatest country in the world, and they are desperate to avoid recognizing that they’ve been getting f***** right in the ear for the last few decades.