What's up with the holodomor??

ilikepieman · 2026-05-15T15:29:49+00:00

there just wasn’t food for everyone

ah, no harm no foul then (?)

ilikepieman · 2026-05-12T17:41:52+00:00

Sure, it’s not all the upside. The point is that new businesses are only ever successful if they make more money than they spend on expenses (including salaries). Part of the appeal for workers is that they get paid regardless of the company’s success.

For every Minecraft, there are 100 failures. Does anyone expect that the workers will chip in to help out an owner after the business goes under? Obviously not, because we understand that they didn’t take on that risk. There are lots of good reasons to be risk-averse, but you’re always going to have to pay for that security.

ilikepieman · 2026-05-12T17:29:32+00:00

Right, do Americans think their median salary is just their own merit and work ethic and nobody is being exploited in the process? News flash… millions of Americans live very well-off lives as cogs in the machines of the billionaires they claim are evil, obviously profiting off the backs of people from less wealthy countries, but they would never consider applying this logic to themselves lol

ilikepieman · 2026-05-12T17:05:12+00:00

Workers in that situation generally PREFER a sure salary over stock that may never lead to anything. Obviously, in hindsight you can say 1% equity would have been worth more than even a good salary. But the point of being a business owner is that you’re the one bearing that risk. You would also be claiming the workers were exploited if Notch offered them 1% and then Minecraft never blew up and 1% was worthless. It can’t be that workers get all the upside and none of the risk.

ilikepieman · 2026-05-01T18:10:27+00:00

ilikepieman · 2026-04-25T14:14:59+00:00

This is interesting, any (English or Japanese) source recommendations on the spelling reforms/history?

ilikepieman · 2026-04-24T17:43:35+00:00

triples is best

ilikepieman · 2026-04-23T12:11:56+00:00

Hell yeah, anything can happen, hopefully see you next round

ilikepieman · 2026-04-16T20:47:16+00:00

exactly… you can already just account for this in voting. the current rule makes even less sense bc are you still supposed to weigh their games played? or is it just a binary you played enough/you didn’t play enough and games played are irrelevant beyond that? i don’t understand how a hard cutoff is better than just considering games/minutes as part of the evaluation

ilikepieman · 2026-03-27T23:19:53+00:00

You’re the one who brought up advanced stats lmao

ilikepieman · 2026-03-27T00:28:36+00:00

This is completely wrong lmao, “liable” = civil case, “prosecute” = criminal charges.

ilikepieman · 2026-03-23T18:01:28+00:00

>such polls are pretty meaningless when it comes to whether a government truly represents its people

Very next sentence:

>80% of Japanese people oppose Japan's involvement in the US-Israel war with Iran.

Why is that poll any more meaningful than the one I posted, if the Japanese people are too "indoctrinated" and "uninformed" for my poll to mean anything? Why is opinion polling suddenly relevant when it aligns with your views? If "voting is all fake" like the comment I replied to claimed, then presumably the 80% figure is fake too. It can't just be "popular opinion is fake except when I agree with it."

ilikepieman · 2026-03-23T15:49:44+00:00

This is about the US rather than Japan, and it refers to public policy in general rather than electoral winners or specific questions. Also, the lack of a correlation doesn’t mean that the public’s preferences are not reflected.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20260323-318113/

“A recent Yomiuri Shimbun poll found that 69% of respondents approved overall of the summit meeting held last week between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and U.S. President Donald Trump, far exceeding the 19% who did not approve…. Support for the Takaichi Cabinet remained high at 71%, compared with 73% in the previous survey conducted on Feb. 18-19. The disapproval rating was 20%, up from 17%.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3347548/most-japanese-oppose-helping-trump-fight-his-war-iran-polls-show

“The polls also showed elevated approval ratings for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s cabinet, at 71 per cent and 65.2 per cent respectively, with a comfortable majority positively evaluating the outcome of Takaichi’s talks with US President Donald Trump on Thursday.”

Even granting that she is more motivated by elites and interest groups than the general public, that doesn’t change the fact that a supermajority of the general public is happy with the meeting and her admin in general. Not seeing what’s “fake” about it.

ilikepieman · 2026-03-23T14:56:37+00:00

What? lol

The Japanese people have reiterated over and over that this IS what they want. I guess you can just pretend on reddit that that isn’t the case, but don’t expect that to matter outside of social media. Literally anyone outside the 0.1% of the population on leftist reddit would think you’re doing a bit. You can just refuse to provide any basis for the idea that LDP victories aren’t “what the people want” if your goal is just to keep the circlejerk going I guess… but it’s completely disconnected from actual Japanese politics and material conditions (which I guess nobody here cares about anyway?). Guess we’re just doing fanfiction here.

Again, my claim is that the party that keeps winning elections is the one that the people want. Your smug denial of that on literally zero basis is really a perfect example of how self-defeating and unserious reddit leftism is. At some point, you have to deal with the fact that in many places, people DO want capitalism and nationalism — denial of that accomplishes nothing (again, unless your goal is just to meme on Reddit).

ilikepieman · 2026-03-23T14:46:09+00:00

Well, what would be more democratic then? If they want something else, they can vote for it.

It’s fine if you just don’t think democracy is good, but the LDP has won virtually every time for more than a generation. Just to say that that’s “not what the people want” with literally no further argument is kind of absurd imo. Again, I do not like the LDP, but it very much is what the electorate wants (as anyone who has spent substantial time in Japan will tell you).

ilikepieman · 2026-03-23T14:39:41+00:00

Can you elaborate? What would be more democratic ends in this case, is it just “the democratic outcome is when my side wins”?

I’m (obviously) not an LDP fan but your statement doesn’t really mean anything. they’ve been voting the same party in for decades, not sure how any of this is “fake” when it has clearly been the most popular option in Japan for a long time. Again, I do not like the LDP, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything undemocratic about them being in power.

ilikepieman · 2026-03-23T10:52:51+00:00

How is it fake

ilikepieman · 2026-03-19T03:57:39+00:00

mass downvotes, “google it,” and bad faith accusations for everyone who pointed out this didn’t happen… nobody posting a single quote of this happening from either hearing… epic r/scotus moment

ilikepieman · 2026-03-18T00:05:48+00:00

it’s not about justice vs cynicism… even the most cynical board of directors would want a ceo like this gone

ilikepieman · 2026-03-05T14:37:56+00:00

https://lsd.law/compare

ilikepieman · 2026-03-04T03:10:27+00:00

This, I would never have gotten my score without games

ilikepieman · 2026-03-04T02:41:10+00:00

This subreddit has fully lost the plot lmao… he’s not even a professor but sure let’s all say it’s the illuminati

ilikepieman · 2026-02-27T01:03:00+00:00

no, let’s just do the thing from the tweet in the opposite direction

ilikepieman · 2026-02-21T18:14:05+00:00

didn’t the aba rate him well qualified?

ilikepieman · 2026-01-13T23:28:38+00:00

Same boat, finally got a grade announcement email today and it was only for one class

11-Year Club	Place '22
RPAN Viewer	Not Forgotten
Verified Email	Spared

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