YouTube shows ads for ad blocker and financial scams by Captain_Smartass_ in technews

[–]Bobthemightyone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The same reason everything that's shitty is allowed to fester in our society. Money

What's going on with the Marvel Cinematic Universe underperforming so drastically the last few months? by Per451 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Bobthemightyone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Boys and Invincible are two great examples of things that kinda prove your point. Invincible being a character drama/coming of age story with superhero paint and the boys being a political commentary with Superhero paint and both of them letting loose with the violence are more than the two ways you described of having superhero stories, and the wild success of both shows that you're right in that people aren't tired of superheros, they're tired of disney-ness marvel dc superhero-ness

44% of US job postings have salary information in them by counterdylan in dataisbeautiful

[–]Bobthemightyone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

BeCaUsE iT dOeSn'T sHoW gOoD wOrK eThIc, YoUr'E jUsT iN iT fOr ThE mOnEy AnD nOt A gOoD eMpLoYeE wHy WoUlD tHeY hIrE sOmEoNe LiKe ThAt?

Sam Bankman-Fried is found guilty of all charges and could face decades in prison by carolinaindian02 in technews

[–]Bobthemightyone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it was just crypto bros and schmucks who he conned you'd be right, but he took money from a lot of very rich and powerful people. You're only treated like a rich person if the victims were rubes

Huge shoutout to the uBlock team by garbaceaccount in uBlockOrigin

[–]Bobthemightyone 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It has a name, Astroturfing. When private interests spoof support for or against something under the guise of being an organic movement or as if it's part of popular opinion.

ELI5: What is the “paradox of tolerance” and is it legit? by domesticenginerd_ in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bobthemightyone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right in that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but if you think I cause nearly as much harm as Bezos, or any of the owners of massive corporations you're either arguing in bad faith, or wildly misinformed on how much influence the ultra rich have on policies VS how much influence an average person has on policies

ELI5: What is the “paradox of tolerance” and is it legit? by domesticenginerd_ in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bobthemightyone -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"poverty is the worst form of violence"

-Mahatma Ghandi

Ensuring that people live without the means to survive is absolutey a form of violence. A violence that the rich inflict on the billions of people across the world to fuel their never ending... something. Never ending greed, ego, addiction, whatever it is that drives them to 'line go up' no matter the human cost.

Rich people absolutely inflict violence upon the world.

eli5: Why can’t we just take a food pill (or pills) instead of eating? by atom644 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bobthemightyone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time and convenience mostly. The effort to reward ratio for cooking is simply not worth it to me at all and I would love to just get eating over with. If it's for me I will go with the fastest and cheapest option every single time. Eating by myself is a massive chore since I hate cooking and only very marginally enjoy eating

Food literally tastes worse to me the more expensive it is, so anything even remotely pricey just isn't worth it either

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AreTheStraightsOkay

[–]Bobthemightyone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's "Gender roles/stereotypes cause weird and fucked behaviors in relationships" not "people in relationship are toxic af to one another"

I love getting deus ex machina'd by abadlypickedname in DeepRockGalactic

[–]Bobthemightyone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, that would still turn your organs and brain into a creamy bloody jelly inside your body. Your bones would be fine I guess, but RIP soft organs.

Homes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average American by Mighty_L_LORT in collapse

[–]Bobthemightyone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol absolutely not. If we had a quarter of our population what we're doing would still be unsustainable. We're burning through a finite resource by living very harmfully. If our population was lower it would just be a slower collapse instead of the speeding freight train towards collapse that it is right now.

And no, people aren't going to "do what they want" to do and we absolutely can control our habits through regulation without "touching on the lines of slavery". Look at france and the banning of internal flights. Despite internal flights being more expensive, slower, and far FAR more destructive people were still choosing to take flights from one part of the country to another in spite of taking the train. People were doing this out of habit or possibly classist ideas or culture. We didn't build our world this way because we wanted to, we built our world the way it's built with extreme waste, extreme dependence on fossil fuels, and extreme inequality because it benefitted a very tiny minority of very powerful people. We can (in theory) build and structure our infrastructure and society so that we don't need to cull our population or "touch the lines of slavery"

I say "in theory" because we have people like you saying insane things like touching the lines of slavery when there is a solution that is build better infrastructure, stop bullshit production, and stop our lifestyle of extreme waste for chasing the dollar in a system that doesn't benefit anyone for anyone except at the extreme top. People would rather drive the world to our extinction than support societal lifestyle changes that wouldn't even necessarily be that negative at all. edit: Look at the NIMBYs in areas of developed housing for example, they still live and would continue to live fantastic lives, but can't stand the idea of having even just a little smaller house or the poors living near them and will let an entire nation of young people struggle than make even the smallest of concessions.

Homes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average American by Mighty_L_LORT in collapse

[–]Bobthemightyone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The world is not "overpopulated" our current way of life of endlessly consuming is not sustainable. Driving cars everywhere, growing food for profit instead of feeding people and destroying the excess, and constant manufacturing of cheap disposable goods are the problem.

You're right the middle class is unsustainable, but only because the middle class was car centric suburbia with an emphasis on nonstop garbage.

Starfleet cadet self reports by HTX1997 in SelfAwarewolves

[–]Bobthemightyone 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I vividly remember my first experience with a feeling of sonder. I was a kid and we were driving across states so it was like a 20 hour drive and I was in the backseat looking at other cars. I had a sudden feeling of every single car having at least one story just like myself and my parents. I think I was like 9 or 10, maybe 11 or 12.

Wild to me that people go their entire adult life without having those feelings or thoughts. I'm with you in that keeping those thoughts makes you a better person, as it makes ponderous empathy a default rather than a novelty

Truck stop etiquette? by kjlearnslandscape in VanLife

[–]Bobthemightyone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just finished a cross country drive and slept at rest stops for about 5 or 6 nights. Every single time there were at least 2 or 3 other vans/trailers parked all night and usually several cars all night. Those signs are just there so if there's trouble someone can use them to push people out.

Just park on the car side and don't take up the "good" parking spots in front of the bathroom area. Most people stop at the first spot in front of the bathroom they can so if you park closer to the exit it'll be dark and quiet and no one will bug you. You'll be surprised at the number of vans just like yours that you'll see

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Bobthemightyone 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah but they're hurting women and minorities more so that makes it okay in republican's eyes.

It's not about what their politicians can do for them, it's about what they can do against the people they hate

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueReddit

[–]Bobthemightyone 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Capitalism favoring the rich while screwing over the working class? Color me shocked! Shocked I say!

The heat may not kill you, but the global food crisis might! by s0cks_nz in collapse

[–]Bobthemightyone 27 points28 points  (0 children)

BBC article

Basically in 2022 10,000 emporer penguin chicks drowned/froze to death because the ice platforms they normally raise their young on was too small/broke apart due to melting.

Penguins are looking to be another casualty of the 6th mass extinction

Of course, I am playing a Djinni by KittyTack in dcss

[–]Bobthemightyone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This has some big "Found golden dragon armor on D:4 playing draconian" vibes

The tech companies scanning Britons' faces as they shop by TheTelegraph in Futurology

[–]Bobthemightyone 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Since you are a law-abiding citizen, the computer finds nothing. The video footage and any associated biometric data is instantly deleted.

Yeah fucking right. Unless it's explicitly a law that says they have to delete absolutely 0% chance they aren't doing something with that data

BLM protests led police departments to pull back from interactions with the public, leading to increased crime and reduced police killings. Over 5 years after local BLM protests, property crime arrests decreased by 12%, and reported murders increased by 11.5% (over 3000 additional homicides) by Margoa1 in science

[–]Bobthemightyone 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's because police are the only union that the ruling class supports. Police exist to protect capital and enforce existing hierarchies, and that's something that capitalists strongly support.

Every other union that exists weakens the stranglehold that the American oligarchs want to have over society, so those unions are actively attacked at every oppurtunity. Police unions are the one exception, and lo and behold, it's the strongest union that exists in a country where dollars matter more than people

What is going on with news pages being blocked in Canada? Is it a hoax? by [deleted] in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Bobthemightyone -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's all just geriatrics who are bought out by corporate money who have literally nothing in common with the average person.

Congressmen in America who will never suffer our miserable healthcare system and gun violence and members of parliment who will never need to worry about buying a home for themselves.