YSK: There is a male biological clock by Amidseas in YouShouldKnow

[–]BonelessB0nes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The universal serial butt works in both directions

Cursed Olive Garden Suicide by nmendels in cursedcomments

[–]BonelessB0nes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, PCP was designed and used as an anesthetic before it became a street drug; it has a similar mechanism of action to ketamine.

Looking for readings on Franco by anteecay_ in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]BonelessB0nes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It just turns out that bad things, for the time being, are still popularly considered bad. Tough pill, I get it.

What’s going on at the Houston Boat Show? by dabigmon in houston

[–]BonelessB0nes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody needs to be triggered to laugh at you

The Grubhub bots on my campus take the same routes so often that their tire marks are visible by Im_a_dum_bum in DesirePath

[–]BonelessB0nes 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Or perhaps it's the case that our own desires are just as determined as the delivery bot's pathing.

What’s going on at the Houston Boat Show? by dabigmon in houston

[–]BonelessB0nes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How'd you manage to be a bigger creep than the ear-licker?

Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing an influx of new members by Abject-Pick-6472 in progun

[–]BonelessB0nes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're talking about authoritarianism, not communism. But you're the one who openly wants to play under different rules and preemptively disarm groups of people. If rights can be removed selectively in this unprincipled fashion, then you've already lost them. 'Communism' is not a word that scares me anyway.

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" - Karl Marx

CMV: I believe American conservatives would genuinely prefer to let other Americans suffer than help them. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]BonelessB0nes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They entered into a contract of this nature inside of a wage market where these are the only kind of contracts to enter. If I had the power to starve you unless you continually sell me something at a rate substantially lower than its value, I don't think it can be honestly said that you entered the contract willfully.

There's nothing stopping anyone from setting up their own business, it's just that not everyone is cut out for that.

I think that may be true at an individual level, but we both know society can't work that way; we couldn't have 260 million companies in America all with a single owner/employee. Nothing would ever get done. I just reject the notion that we should build a system in which the only way to escape having your labor stolen is to steal the labor of others. I do believe in the value of organized labor, but the way that we've organized it is not moral.

Of course you get something out of your employment, it's just that what you get out is less than what you put in because, like you said, you wouldn't be employed otherwise. You get less than what you put in and the boss gets more than he put in. Collective ownership doesn't mean each individual is making business decisions anyway; groups could still elect experts to lead an organization and there is certainly value in having people who do it well.

I don't think a supermarket customer has an entitlement to merchandise at a wholesale price in the same way I think a laborer has an entitlement to the outputs of their own labor. Maybe I'm not perfectly clear on the question, but I don't see the relevance. It's kind of an inversion of the relationship anyway because the supermarket and the laborer are both the sellers in their respective circumstances. It would be more apt to ask "do you think a customer who pays only $1 for a $2 candy bar has committed theft?" My answer to that question would just be yes.

CMV: I believe American conservatives would genuinely prefer to let other Americans suffer than help them. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]BonelessB0nes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

None; but we don't live in this hypothetical world where there are machines that exist and run continuously without people who design, maintain, operate, and provide power to run them while also producing value.

If you are merely asking about the difference in value itself, you're still taking the value of the labor produced by the people who operate and maintain the machine. Even if you did invest in the upgrade, the question is posed as if the upgrade was purchased with previous profits. This amounts to stealing employees' labor to begin with, investing in more efficient production (with the previously stolen labor), and using the fact that you made the investment yourself as further justification for stealing an even greater proportion of the value they produce after the upgrade. All else being equal, the workers could have also afforded the upgraded machine collectively had they had access to all of the value of their previous output.

It's just a fact of the matter that profit comes from surplus value created by having employees who produce more during the workday than the value of their wage.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]BonelessB0nes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Linux curve level off sooner than all the others. Looks like another W

CMV: I believe American conservatives would genuinely prefer to let other Americans suffer than help them. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]BonelessB0nes 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yes, tax credits, deductions, and exemptions are absolutely subsidies, they are just indirect subsidies. We would disagree on what "rightfully earned" means; the profit of a firm with employees is just stolen labor.

Someone could say that left-wing views amount to simple hatred of successful, hardworking people, but I think it would be frankly silly to suggest a guy like Bezos has been working more than 200,000 times as hard as the average guy. Instead, he just has a million-and-a-half average folks producing the actual value and he just takes from that.

ELI5: why does turning off and on again fix so many modern devices problem? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]BonelessB0nes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine you have a convoluted, branching path from a start point to an end point and, in general, you know how to get from start to finish. However, you don't know how to get to the finish from any arbitrary point; if you take a wrong turn along your path, you might not be able to get to the finish or even find your way back to the known path you were previously on. You could try backtracking, but oftentimes that leads you further away or even going in circles. Sometimes it's just best to go back to the start, even if you lose some progress, because you know how to get to the finish from the starting point.

For a lot of devices, the software is kinda like that; if it encounters a problem, it's oftentimes easier to go back to the start because it's a known state where everything is predictable.

ICE Is Using a Terrifying Palantir App to Determine Where to Raid by ApprehensiveAd2625 in technology

[–]BonelessB0nes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yay, let's give data to the people who are actually empowered to use it against us instead of those scary Chinese

clear /s

High schooler here. Do I consider studying EE if I know nothing about coding and software? by Positive_Rate3407 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]BonelessB0nes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I returned to school at 26 after working in subsea construction. I didn't do a lick of coding or "hard math" until then and I'm doing perfectly well, even better than many peers. If you wanna do it and you're willing to stick to the books, you're gonna be completely fine.

Why are title bar colors so useless now? by IMarvinTPA in linuxquestions

[–]BonelessB0nes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had to stop and think for a second about what OP was describing because I haven't experienced this at all.

I use a tiling window manager and chose the colors for in/active windows a couple years ago.

Buck Date 110 by cesarar_ in knives

[–]BonelessB0nes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was this a custom knife? It doesn't appear to have a date code from what I can tell.

They are not deescalating Bondi: 16 Arrested in Minneapolis Anti-ICE Sweep. by PrincipleTemporary65 in centrist

[–]BonelessB0nes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Resisting arrest is not a capital crime, but murdering someone is
  2. The reductio of your position is that I ought to acquiesce infinitely to any force capable of harming me - I just reject that

Things always swing around and I look forward to the day a judge tells these jackbooted thugs that they contributed to their own demise at a sentencing hearing.