I’ve found a good number of negative reviews of Bose QC 2 and quite a few good things said about Sony WF-1000XM5 so I’m leaning towards buying them but would love to hear the general recommendation on Lemmy first....
I have no idea why it’s out there, but I suppose abusing it a bit may help toughen it up enough to ensure you can still have children when an accident happens.
Freedom is a state in which a person’s input into their life has significant effects on the outcomes. Freedom is a state in which taking responsibility is a possibility.
Obviously. I mean look around you. You think any of this would be possible if evil were more powerful? I’m talking the clothes, the lights, the shelter, the food, the relative safety, the infrastructure, the language, the libraries of entertainment and knowledge. How about the open source software we’re using right now to communicate, and the fantastic technology that’s running it?
One of the parents was running around the drain making a bunch of noise, went to investigate and found the baby trapped inside. I fished it out with a hair net wrapped around a coat hanger that I taped to a broom handle.
So my home office is in our basement while my wife’s is in a finished attic space. We have a mini split system, but it has to be all heat or all cooling, and many days it’s cold in my office, but hot in my wife’s office....
Right, because a healthy business consists of a sort of zombie corpse leech, not a symbiosis.
The little diner down the street where everyone has a good time every day? That’s not a healthy business.
It is very important that we twist the definition of every word to ensure people understand how bad capitalism is. Language and the ability to think is secondary to the great Revolution Take 25!
If I ever run a successful company, I am never taking it public, and I hope that I will never accept a sum of money that more than doubles our assets.
I’ve worked in the startup world and seen too many companies fail in all but name when they receive investment money. It really sucks the soul out of a company.
I ordered a sex toy once to a communal place I was living. Okay fine it was a buddhist temple.
The website said they’d use discreet packaging. NOPE. Their box was labeled and even had a logo for their company, which sells nothing but sex toys.
Their idea of “discreet packaging” was that the box was regular brown cardboard, so that anyone observing from fifty feet away wouldn’t be able to see that it was anything special.
I chewed out their support staff on the phone. For fuck’s sake.
I’m 41 and I’m just staring to experience a little mental health. I really want family, but it may be too late for me. I can’t give up though, because if I give up it hurts more. The way to minimize the pain and horror is to get up and go work on my vision.
My friend, as soon as the bathroom door closes the outside world exists entirely in your imagination. You can be taking a dump on the Rocinante if that’s what your heart desires.
Worrying about who’s gonna get charged with a war crime, during a war, is the opposite of grounded. During a war the only question is “How do we stop the robots from killing the school full of children?”
A bad boy trying to be good is one of your best bets for a partner.
It’s all a matter of whether the PTSD will defeat him in the end. If you think there’s a possibility he’ll overcome it and continue to rise in life, and if you’re attracted to him, and if you trust him, then you should stay with him.
A bad boy past is not a mark against a man. It’s evidence he’s got what it takes to be good.
We haven’t had a “communist” country yet. Communism is a spontaneous, free market for voluntarily donated goods and services.
Communism is basically how groups of people under about 100 behave naturally. Any group of friends on a road trip is inherently communist, as is any tribe of people, as is any family.
At larger scale, this kind of “just pay attention and do what needs doing” approach to economic distribution breaks down. Marx believed that with enough material abundance, humans would naturally behave communistically at larger scales as well. I think he’s wrong, but it remains to be seen.
So far we’ve never had communism at the scale of a county. We’ve had socialism, which is where the government forcibly redistributes wealth.
The reason that socialist countries are more authoritarian is that socialism is by definition the non-free-market version of that process.
Under capitalism, if you have an acre of farmland, that’s your acre of farmland until you decide to sell it. Under socialism, whether it’s your acre of farmland is the decision of the central economic planning committee, and in order for that committee to be able to decide whether you keep your farm or not, it needs to have the authority and power to take it from you. And the policy to do so.
Do you see why this requires a more authoritarian society?
Let’s look at it another way. Under capitalism, ie under what we call the “free market”, you own the farm. That means you have authority over it. You have authority over yourself. There’s just as much authority; it’s just that the authority is broken into little bits and distributed to people who own capital.
Under socialism, the people own the farm. Except “the people” can’t effectively operate with anything like a will, due to a lack of borg hive mind telepathy mechanics unifying their will into a single instrument, and so “the people’s” authority is wielded by the Central Committee.
When authority is centralized in this way, taken away from individuals and given instead to the state, we call this an “authoritarian” state.
Authoritarian therefore doesn’t refer to more authority; it refers to the authority being concentrated in the center.
And the authority over economic decisions being concentrated in the center is, by definition, “socialism”.
Just to clarify since I don’t think I did in the above comment: by the above explanation communism is not authoritarian. Communism is the free, distributed decision-making version of socialism. Communism is a free market scenario, just like capitalism. It’s just a gift economy instead of a trade economy.
Alison Hell by Annihilator (lemmy.ca)
Prompt was the lyrics of a song. Test your lyrical knowledge out and try to guess the title. The genre is Thrash.
Why does the aurora borealis appear to be white in the sky but in pictures it has nice coloration?
Analyst on Starlink’s rapid rise: “Nothing short of mind-blowing” (arstechnica.com)
Help needed choosing a good pair of noise cancelling earphones
I’ve found a good number of negative reviews of Bose QC 2 and quite a few good things said about Sony WF-1000XM5 so I’m leaning towards buying them but would love to hear the general recommendation on Lemmy first....
CBT as a kink may be an evolutionary adaptation to protect men's most vulnerable (and evolutionarily useful) body part.
I have no idea why it’s out there, but I suppose abusing it a bit may help toughen it up enough to ensure you can still have children when an accident happens.
What is freedom?
Chemical tweaks to a toad hallucinogen turns it into a potential drug (arstechnica.com)
See also: Family Guy S02E14 Let’s Go to the Hop
What would you ask to a potential partner in a partner compatibility survey?
Do you think the good in Humankind can prevail?
Baby Killdeer I rescued from a storm drain (sh.itjust.works)
One of the parents was running around the drain making a bunch of noise, went to investigate and found the baby trapped inside. I fished it out with a hair net wrapped around a coat hanger that I taped to a broom handle.
I’d like to build a ducting system to actively push air from one room to another. Is that a thing?
So my home office is in our basement while my wife’s is in a finished attic space. We have a mini split system, but it has to be all heat or all cooling, and many days it’s cold in my office, but hot in my wife’s office....
Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Discretion (sh.itjust.works)
People without a family, how are you faring in life?
Without a family as in fully on your own since legal age, be it kicked out / had to leave at 18 or from a foster background, or from an orphanage.
This calls for jihad (lemmy.world)
What are you up to instead of what you wish you were doing?
This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance - and Charges Just $35 a Visit | AJ+ (5:46) (www.youtube.com)
Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation (arstechnica.com)
I'm falling for a long-distance "bad boy trying to turn good" who has PTSD and traumatic family/past, afraid of it possibly being mistake but I'm not ready to let go: What should I do?? Please help!
Please read post for full context and be kind with me. Any help/input will be appreciated!...
Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?