kadotux
@kadotux@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
Holy shit this is full blown verification can shit.
- Comment on My Sega Genesis running Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) 9 months ago:
The soundchip on that thing was awesome <3
- Comment on My Sega Genesis running Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) 9 months ago:
I can hear this picture
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
I am fixating on the thing that relates to this picture. It seems to me (honestly, I don’t mean to come off as an ass) that your 2nd point of discussion is very much my “muddying the water” point. I don’t want to discuss that point, as that was totally irrelevant here. If I understood correctly, your 2 points were: (I’m paraphrasing, but) “I don’t understand, why showroom owners should let homeless people sleep inside their premises” and “every other economic system besides capitalism also has these qualities”
Right? And I think I have provided arguments again both of these. What am I missing?
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
The part where you did actually muddy the waters is that you assumed that the picture depicts problems in a “showroom - homeless person” context, which is clearly not the case (as you contradictingly say yourself and even recognize when you said: “when “capitalism” is written on the photo”). The picture clearly criticizes capitalism as a economic system, but you wanted to make the showroom the focus point of the photo. That is muddying the waters. You dismiss the original critique. Or at least that’s how I read your comment. The difference between “I was talking about multiple points” and “muddying the waters” is not that big.
On the other part, yeah, fair enough. I would compare it to a “utopian socialist society” rather than communistic, but sure whatever. I mean there are countries in the world where taking this picture is very easy, and some (socialist) countries where it’s take a bit of effort to find a situation like this to photograph in the first place (most nordic european countries, for example).
The whole point of the image we are both commenting is a critique on capitalism. You are moving the point slightly towards “critique on showroom owners”.
However let’s not get sidetracked here. In a utopian society there would be showrooms, yes. But the person would not be forced to sleep outside without a bed in such a society, be there showrooms or not. That is the point. Capitalism allows this, a socialist society doesn’t (just look at the countries with least homeless people and you’ll see)
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
The systemic solution is not a utopian communist society, but a system which provides beds for those who need it. The picture highlights this problem.This is not a critique on the showroom, or the store owner (which is how you interpreted it), this is a critique on society. You were the one who muddied the waters. The point is not “letting homeless people use the showroom beds” but rather “letting homeless people use beds”.
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
It’s a critique on capitalism, where we have the technology and products to improve our quality of life but restrict access to them for a considerable percentage of humas. You’re welcome.
- Comment on Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook 11 months ago:
Ao?
- Comment on Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste 11 months ago:
I see it more like a hacker news style “show HN”
- Comment on Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source 11 months ago:
It’s more than 0m
- Comment on Watching YouTube in private window still works with an ad block 1 year ago:
I just got the popup a couple of times but never any ads. I’m behind Pi-hole, running Firefox with arkenfox.js.
- Comment on What impact would reversing the Earth's rotation have? 1 year ago:
All the wind on the planet now blows to the opposite direction
- Comment on What is your favorite cybersecurity tool and why? 1 year ago:
Please elaborate?
- Comment on Chad scraper 1 year ago:
What’s that?
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
“Commercials in movies and series will be introduced in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Canada in early 2024, followed by France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Australia later in the year.”
So rest of the world is safe from this at least until 2025?
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
Yup because pi-hole is a domain-based blocker and youtube serves ads from their own domain
