OwenEverbinde

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OwenEverbinde,

Alternatively, it’s possible cell companies like T-Mobile will lobby against these anticompetitive agreements, since it does reduce their number of potential customers. I don’t like cell company lobbying any more than ISP lobbying, but in this case, let them fight.

Something tells me T-Mobile’s got a little too much class solidarity to have any interest in reducing the profits of Charter Communications.

ELI5 why is anarchy not "the guy with the bigger stick" making the rules?

I’m politically agnostic and have moved from a slightly conservative stance to a vastly more progressive stance (european). i still dont get the more niche things like tankies and anarchists at this point but I would like to, without spending 10 hours reading endless manifests (which do have merit, no doubt, but still)....

OwenEverbinde,

Hmm… so an approach that would have gotten Rodeo’s point across better might have been to say,

“so anarchy is just another name for the purest form of democracy.”

Because democracy is such a broad word that it is occasionally applied to the United States, despite the CIA’s history of coups and the FBI’s history of extrajudicial assassinations of citizens.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

Oh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem.

EDIT: okay, looks like I was looking at median household income and not median personal income. Meaning my math is off.

OwenEverbinde,

Are they exploited on farms that grow feed for chickens and cattle? Because if so, I could imagine someone making an argument for “lessening” child labor with their economic choices by simply eating the grains directly.

OwenEverbinde,

This is the only acceptable measurement of time.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

Or what if they are 100 people who are all lying in hospital beds with incurable illnesses that cause excruciating pain, wishing they could die, and now doomed to years more of their unbearable existence?

OwenEverbinde,

Damn it, it’s now GNL and we have to rewrite all the textbooks!

OwenEverbinde,

Descent 1 & 2

There’s a Descent 2?! And 3!?

(Also, I didn’t know Interplay was a well known company. I had a whole set of Interplay CDs I used to play as a kid. Fond memories. Descent, Conquest of the New World, Whiplash…)

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

Good bot. Thanks

[EDIT: my bad! I read “I am a human” as “I am NOT a human” for some reason.]

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

I thought Lemmy World preemptively defederated Hexbear…

OwenEverbinde,

We dont need to “no true scotmen” leftism.

Fair enough.

Btw according to some hexbear folx. Its not imperialism when the USSR invaded Afghanistan, but it is when the US did it later.

🤣

OwenEverbinde,

High quality video. Thanks, friend.

OwenEverbinde,

If you’d like to know who this guy is, here’s a paragraph about him on History.com

One such erasure was Nikola Yezhov, a secret police official who oversaw ██████ purges. For a while Yezhov worked at ██████ right hand, interrogating, falsely accusing and ordering the execution of thousands of Communist Party officials. But in 1938, Yezhov fell from ██████ favor after being usurped by one of his own deputies. He was denounced, secretly arrested, tried in a secret court, and executed.

What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?

I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

Edit: oh, and the belief in intelligence as an immutable genetic trait is only social darwinism if higher intelligence makes people more likely to reproduce, which it doesn’t. That’s the premise behind Idiocracy.

That’s what I thought at first too. But the definition, oddly enough, doesn’t actually mention reproduction.

From Merriam-Webster

social Darwinism noun : an extension of Darwinism to social phenomena specifically : a sociological theory that sociocultural advance is the product of intergroup conflict and competition and the socially elite classes (such as those possessing wealth and power) possess biological superiority in the struggle for existence

It’s most often used to describe Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth” which was all about the superiority of some members of society, and the benefits society would reap by allowing them power over everyone else and over all of society’s resources.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

As Bobert said elsewhere in these comments, there is a massive mental health benefit to having any adult at all who provides the child with presence and emotional support.

To add to that, I have received treatment from numerous therapists. And I have seen siblings and friends receive treatment as well. From my experience – and I might get some flak for this advice – even though a good therapist is better than no therapist, a bad therapist can actually be harmful. Your little pal will easily get more out of a well-intentioned friend than he would get if he wound up placed with a mediocre therapist. It’s the unfortunate state of mental healthcare in this country.

Ten years from now, if he’s eighteen and still in your life and starts asking for monetary assistance to pay for therapy? Great. Pay for his therapy. (Also make absolutely sure he keeps shopping around until he finds a therapist who really clicks with him. For the above reason, you know? The odds of him getting a great one on the first spin aren’t high.)

But until then: there’s a good chance he’s missing very little. And a very good chance there’s nothing to feel bad about if you can’t get this little guy into therapy. There are more surefire ways of improving his outcome.

So, like the other commenters said: offer the mom help. You noted that she’s guaranteed to dump him on you for long stretches of time.

Also, offer to pay for his phone plan. (Like another commenter said, phrase all offers as a benefit to her.) If she agrees, put yourself in his contacts, let him know he can always call you, and try to make sure he knows the number “988” and never feels too shy to reach out to that number.

OwenEverbinde,

Yeah… opponents of the practice haven’t exactly chosen the best phrasing with, “your penis has been mutilated!” either.

So I can understand the stubbornness.

OwenEverbinde,

RULE!

OwenEverbinde,

My assumption that this was about SVB sounds totally off the mark now that you’ve put it this way. From your story, it sounds like this is about an entire culture shift that’s been alienating Etsy’s original community of artisans for quite some time.

OwenEverbinde,

I’ve seen the opinion before, in community college. I was assigned to read something, and it laid out a damn good argument for why working a register never taught anyone “life skills.”

OwenEverbinde,

I have never in my life heard the phrase “Chinese whispers” used to describe a game of telephone.

In fact, I’ve never heard the phrase, “Chinese whispers” at all.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

First of All, we Lost the Vocabulary War

There almost no arguments in favor of the thing anti-capitalists dislike and call “capitalism.” Every argument you see is an argument in favor of market systems and self-determination, which may be necessary components to some capitalist societies, but aren’t important criteria to the people advocating against our current system.

It was a clever move on the part of whoever redefined, “capitalism” until it meant, basically, “all human, economic activity.”

Fortunately, that’s a double edged sword. One can advocate communism these days, calling it instead, “democratic workplaces”, and “worker cooperatives”, and “worker owned businesses.”

And the overlords can’t tell their workers, “that’s communism!” Because they’ve spent the past 180 years redefining the terms.

Technically, according to their own warped-until-useless definitions, everything is capitalism. Because worker cooperatives ✨exchange goods and services for currency✨, they are capitalism too.

That said

Nevertheless, to answer the question: the most egregious argument in favor of capitalism is the businessman’s story. You’ve probably heard some variant of it.

  1. Tom has an idea!
  2. He makes a prototype, refines the process, and then starts selling his whatchamacallit!
  3. His watchamacallit has soared in popularity! The orders are coming in faster than he can meet them! He meets with investors who, in exchange for part of his company, give him enough startup capital to build a factory and hire wage workers.
  4. He manages these wage workers, becoming gradually more wealthy as his business expands. He is now able to recline on a beach as the fruits of his labor continue pouring in. And those clever investors can recline on a beach as well!

By presenting (1) and (2) in the same narrative as (3) and (4), with the same characters, the story portrays (1) and (2) as mere extensions of (3) and (4), when in fact their presence in a society is hard to protect when (3) and (4) are also present.

The Wright Brothers never could get royalties from the people who used their inventions to build planes. Tesla never gained wealth from his society-altering technologies. Hedy Lamarr never earned a cent for inventing WiFi (according to some stories, she never wanted to, and donated her patents to the American war effort. But she still struggled with poverty in the middle of enriching numerous people).

The most telling part of this argument is that one could substitute (3) and (4) for literal slavery! And the narrative would look pretty much the same.

“Tom’s getting more orders than he can handle, so he heads over to a slave auction to pick up some help! This way, he can produce more, and his new property can learn valuable skills! It’s a win-win! This is how slaveowning helps Tom profit off of his idea!”

It was no accident that slaveowners of the American South considered their society and their struggle the last bastion against a communist takeover of the world.

It’s a very compelling story (as misleading as it is). A tale where the beginning makes the listener root for the protagonist all the way to end – even after he’s committed unspeakable atrocities that plunder the world of its wealth.

Because we all want to be Tom and come up with a wonderful idea (or learn a rare skill) that makes us valuable to the world. We all want to bring some contribution to the table and have that contribution recognized.

OwenEverbinde,

You know, this wouldn’t be a problem if you had decided to have the moxy (aka $250,000 in startup capital from your parents) required to make yourself into a self made billionaire. If you’d gone that way, you could afford to hire a private chef by now.

OwenEverbinde,

Don’t forget the video Adam Conover made about billionaire donations in the wake of the Patagonia headlines.

OwenEverbinde,

Passmark

I use this Android benchmark website whenever a sibling asks me, “what phone should I get?”

It’s not a precise comparison. (In fact, it rates different carrier software running the same LG G710 phone hardware as anything from 7,000 to 8,000.) And it reminds you of its imprecision several times.

But some phones made today benchmark like they’re seven years old. And the site helps you avoid those egregious cases.

www.androidbenchmark.net

AlternativeTo.net

The name is pretty self-explanatory, but even if you don’t know the exact program you’re looking for, the search tool can find you programs based on a description like, “photo editor” or “markdown editor.”

It’s one of the first places I go when looking for software. Especially open source software.

alternativeto.net

OwenEverbinde,

They always are.

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