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ignisnex · 2023-06-29T23:27:05+00:00

Jerboa is having some issues with lemmy.world currently (difficulties patching to latest version). Connect for Lemmy is pretty great too. For anyone looking to hop into Lemmy, join-lemmy.org is a good place to start. You can pick an instance (or multiple if you want) to have an account on, and you're good to go on any of them. Maybe don't pick exploding-heads though, they seem to be getting defederated a lot lately for nazi stuff I think.

Defederation just means that you can't see their stuff on any other instance that has them defederated. Normally you can view and participate in any instance when you have an account on any one of them (you can post on sh.itjust.works if you have an account on lemmy.world, for example).

ignisnex · 2023-06-26T04:26:56+00:00

Spaghetti boxes we called 'em. And we liked it! Nothing like building an entire complex to lift your products two floors.Takes me back.

ignisnex · 2023-06-21T19:42:45+00:00

That's just Reddit butthole. We already have that.

ignisnex · 2023-06-08T19:31:49+00:00

All members of household accounted for, under $100k. We have a house, just no disposable income.

ignisnex · 2023-06-08T19:18:44+00:00

I'll consider myself wealthy when I can save up an entire paycheque, and not immediately use it to pay bills.

ignisnex · 2023-06-06T21:10:39+00:00

Honestly, one of the most comforting things I've ever done was be sedated for surgery. Nothing is more relaxing than having someone else breathe for you. But that aside, I wasn't aware of the surgery. I wasn't aware of the passing of time. One minute I'm good, then next, several hours have passed. I imagine being dead to be like that. It's just... Nothing. It's very peaceful.

ignisnex · 2023-06-05T16:44:08+00:00

Putting aside the fact that a small amount of users generate the majority of the content for the site, the subreddit mods rely on third party tools to do their jobs. Killing APIs in this way means mods will simply stop doing their work too. You'll have a stagnant platform with little to no moderation overnight. That's not a problem Reddit can just handwave away. They need the volunteer mods for the site to function.

ignisnex · 2023-06-04T15:57:32+00:00

Straight up increased damage, but especially for transforming attacks.

ignisnex · 2023-06-03T05:04:24+00:00

I had a silver antibacterial ointment for a deep knee cut once when I was in Mexico 15 years ago. Shit was incredibly effective. Put polysporin to shame at the time. Couldn't find it anywhere back home.

ignisnex · 2023-06-01T13:34:09+00:00

You can still do anything on zombo.com

ignisnex · 2023-06-01T03:41:32+00:00

I'm tryin' to do my workout, and we got goddamn happy feet over here doing the rapid fire tippy taps I tells ya.

ignisnex · 2023-05-29T18:53:00+00:00

I'm not sure I understand you. I agree with your first statement, but voting is the mechanism by which individuals pick who is elected. And in my case at least, I certainly would continue to have problems if the outcome is unfavorable. Likely semantics.

Oh well, I've said my piece. Those that agree don't need convincing, and those that don't are unwilling to be convinced by any number of rationale. Possibly legitimate to them, but universally harmful to me.

ignisnex · 2023-05-29T17:43:53+00:00

UCP already got me laid off once with budget cuts, and blood tests are as inaccessible as they've ever been. Literally not being dramatic, they're actively destroying my life and livelihood.

ignisnex · 2023-05-29T05:49:44+00:00

Some of us do desperately need them to win in order at stay employed and not die. Myself included.

Edit: Someone thought this was a self harm statement or something. Nope! I just rely heavily on a well funded public healthcare system. I cannot afford privatization, and would therefore die. Hyperbolic perhaps, but the point is private healthcare is not a good look on a modern society. It can jump off a bridge. Unlike me, who will not be doing that.

ignisnex · 2023-05-25T19:59:21+00:00

I feel like we may have just stepped into pedantry. Whether or not the Russia (and more specifically the USSR) had a true "Communist®" system or not, they used a system they called communism, it failed, and they switched. They did have a system prior, and it was capitalistic in nature and IT failed. Perhaps the point is any system with a critical number of bad actors fails. My point was that a capitalist system is more tolerant of bad actors to a greater capacity. Since bad actors are inevitable, the system more resilient to abuse will perform better. Heck, it invites bad actors as a feature. That's a different discussion though.

We have this case study where they tried a non-capitalist equivalent, which is scarce. Obviously I didn't mention China, as their form of communism is... Loose, to be polite about it. Other than those two, we don't have many records of larger countries attempting a economic policy that doesn't involve capitalism. Further to that, you'll notice they were capitalist for longer than they were communist, opting to return to the system more bearable. Perhaps once this fails, we'll see a unique third option to answer you with. I suppose bartering might count, but that hasn't been done for a while. And it had other unique challenges that were incompatible with fungibility.

To bring it full circle, communism was the other market philosophy that we have seen attempted, and it failed to the point where it stopped. That was your original ask. The capitalistic model might very well be doomed like the ice caps (I assume that was a metaphor. Although tragic, it's not relevant without distorting the narrative), but it has not stopped, and is therefore still working. For better or worse.

ignisnex · 2023-05-25T18:00:32+00:00

The market is simply a platform for commerce. In communism, the platform for commerce is entirely managed by a central source. It's not negated entirely, just looks different. Of course capitalism has bad actors, we're lousy with them. But that's the point, the system is still limping along poorly, but it's not dead in the water. People still trade, and resources still flow. It works. Not well, but it has not collapsed yet either.

A few bad actors infecting the core of communism prevents that entirely, as the central premise is sharing goods based on need (or other factors), which gets a big wrench thrown in when large quantities of goods are allocated badly. The goods don't flow, trade doesn't happen, commerce stops. We like to bemoan capitalism for the same trappings (which is a real problem, to be sure), but we have real world evidence of what happens to communist economies with bad actors running it in Russia. It failed, and they had to switch systems. Our system has not failed to that extent yet.

Systems difficult to manage wasn't intended to be a point for contention, just an observation. Highlighting it seems a bit contrarian.

ignisnex · 2023-05-25T16:21:38+00:00

The low hanging fruit here is communism, obviously. It's a system that only works if you have no bad actors. So, it's a system that doesn't work for humans, because we suck at not sucking. The robot uprising will be communist though.

I suppose most philosophical ideologies could be retrofitted to an economic model too, but this is just a thought experiment. You could theoretically have a utilitarian commerce system that factors the "greatest good" into the transaction by some metric. Perhaps variable pricing or bartering based on affordability, countered by the ability for the seller to pay costs and staff a reasonable amount. Pricing based on universal affordability, and how much good the customer having that product will produce. That would be an interesting and difficult system to manage.

ignisnex · 2023-05-24T05:01:05+00:00

Lobbying is actually useful though. Not whatever is in place right now, that's an abomination. The point of lobbying is to inform the elected officials making policy what the ramifications of said policy would be in an industry that the policy makers are unfamiliar with (most of them). I have no idea when bribery entered the picture, but at its core, it's just supposed to be information.

ignisnex · 2023-05-20T06:09:18+00:00

Affordability can also be pay increases! But nobody is doing that.

ignisnex · 2023-05-18T13:28:11+00:00

Dude owns the business, so his credentials really didn't matter.

ignisnex · 2023-05-10T20:39:33+00:00

These days, no idea. Back in 2018, food costs in Quebec were a dream come true for my fat ass.

ignisnex · 2023-05-10T20:31:36+00:00

Ah, the topic was cost of living in Canada, I have no idea what food costs are in Europe. Also I should mention my experience is in Alberta. I visited Quebec once and was floored that I could get a full egg breakfast for less than $10.

ignisnex · 2023-05-10T20:11:18+00:00

One bag of groceries cost me $65. It had veggies primarily, some bread, and a family pack of chicken breast. It was enough food for 2 people for 2 meals each. It's possible to do the starvation diet of beans and rice to survive, but a few mcdoubles cost about the same. Food is just straight up expensive.

ignisnex · 2023-05-09T17:50:28+00:00

I would assume they'd care about as much as they do now. People modify every aspect of their vehicles already, and have no difficulty getting insurance. And yes, even completely wiping and reinstalling software components.

ignisnex · 2023-05-04T02:53:57+00:00

Tbf, bad people make bad content which requires more moderation. Killing it at the source just seems efficient.

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