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Jimmyeatsausage

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Jimmyeatsausage ,

Wanted a post-scarcity world but ended up with a post-satire one instead.

Jimmyeatsausage , (edited )

He's not happy, but that's got little/nothing to do with his money. He's doing the same things and experiencing the same consequences as a lot of people who fall into the extreme-right. He alianted his family, he's in trouble at work and he's blaming everyone and everything but himself. Only difference between him and the qanon conspiracy-brain who got fired from the plant in some small town for saying racist shit on Facebook is that Elon's wealth and public status means his life falling apart is a public spectacle instead of a private one. That, and the fact that his meltdown impacts a lot more people.

Money actually does buy happiness for most people (up to about $75k USD annually, at which point the correlation fades). I suspect that happiness is a direct result of not feeling like you're 1 sick day from homelessness, but I don't think the data is there to support why yet.

Edit: $75k, not 7k

Jimmyeatsausage ,

MFer accidentally got "plum" right and didn't even know it...

Jimmyeatsausage ,

You know if it's that bad you can leave too, right?

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Neither does mine, but I'm still doing it. Worst cae, the popular vote being very far from the electoral college results highlights some of the absurdity in the system, which is a vital part of accumulating support for changing the system. Best case, I don't understand the political landscape of my state as well as I think I do, and I contribute to it turning blue, even for a single election.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

You really don't need anything near as complex as AI...a simple script could be configured to automatically close the issue as solved with a link to a randomly-selected unrelated issue.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Even that's not technically accurate. That's the kind of thinking that makes people think a snowball means the climate isn't changing. We'll still have some summers that are marginally cooler than some previous summer, but the average over time is gonna keep going up.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

I mean, the equation isn't wrong given that AI basically becomes a rounding error and can be safely ignored.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

I think there was an implicit premise (intentional or not) in your statement about there being no natural way to let kids develop, and that's what they were commenting on.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

If you think that's what's happening, you've been in an echo chamber yourself.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

From a shit survey misquoted by a failed Republican sycophant. Echo chamber.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2023/11/04/politifact-is-it-true-that-50-of-gen-zers-support-hamas/71436111007/

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Did you read the whole article? Newsweek misrepresented the results by leaving out other answers that clearly demonstrate the vast majority think Hamas is a terrorist organization and the Oct 7th attacks were terroristic and genocidal in intent. The sample size was far too small. You'll notice they didn't even tell you what the actual question asked was. There's a big difference between "do you support Hamas" and "do you support the Palestinian government" or "do you support Palestinian efforts to defend against Israeli attacks?" Surveys in general, and especially ones on politically decisive ideas, are notoriously easy to skew based on subtle differences in how you word questions. I'd recommend you be very suspicious of any report on a survey that doesn't tell you what was actually asked.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders%E2%80%93Trump_voters

I've never seen the Eiffle Tower IRL, but that doesn't change the fact that it exists.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Please don't take this as anything other than a legitimate inquiry, as that's how i intend it.

If we're claiming that all of this bad is by design, and the point of the revolution was to create this system, then aren't you saying that the revolution was wrong? Like, the founders intended to replace a monarchical people moving machine that killed some of the people and replaced it with a democratic one that kills some of the people. If they designed it that way, then the revolution was pointless, and if they didn't design it that way, then the argument that the suffering is a feature (instead of a consequence) is demonstrably wrong...what am I missing?

Jimmyeatsausage ,

The only way to kill bad fascism is with good fascism?

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Assuming they weren't all killed by the linch mobs. Mobs are well known for studious research into the claims made against their victims before they get the rope.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Guess we'll find out whether TikTok or reproductive freedom is more important...

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Pizza Party Fridays (5 pm - midnight, hackathon and 1/2 off pizza (plus tax))

Attendance mandatory!

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Totally replacing my snowblower with one of these

Jimmyeatsausage ,

We can never understand His (the artist, that is) will.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Weird that this one isn't filled with a bunch of instructions to be an unbiased raging white supremacist conspiracy theorist.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Best I can do is a Predator for $3mil.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Kudos to the person (or, ironically, AI model) who chose that picture, though. Pepto Popsicle is the best euphemism for LLMs as AI that I can imagine.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Then the cop shot him for resisting arrest. The end.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Worked for the average German in the 1930s-40s

Jimmyeatsausage ,

What's childish is not acknowledging the 2 facts that

  1. Trump will make the genocide worse. Abstaining from a UN security council vote is a pretty flaccid response, but it's the most any US President has done since since Israel's inception.

  2. The US President has responsibilities and influence beyond whatever Israel is doing. Biden losing increases the chance of a 2nd genocide in Ukraine and potentially an expanding war in Europe. That's not even mentioning how much worse things are gonna get here for anyone who isn't a cishet white man.

Your thinking is no different than all the women who kept voting on the single issue of overturning Roe and are now shocked they have to carry dead fetuses to term or be charged with a crime.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Why, indeed. Almost like it's a deliberate attempt to distract us from real problems...or, in the particular case of Elon, an attempt to make something that isn't about him be about him because he's the specialist little boy.

Neoliberal adaptation (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and...

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Yeah, but you don't need them on your phone...they have a mailbox.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

"You guys didn't support this creator when he was alive... all you did was consume his content so he could continue creating instead of getting an office job somewhere." At least it's not a take I've heard before...that supporting artists isn't supporting artists...

196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election.

I've been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can't believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C'mon guys

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Unfortunately, lots of folks here on lemmy seem antithetical to the idea that slow or minor progress still counts as progress. Maybe it's a communication issue inherent to this format, but the crux of the argument I see most often is "Biden did genocide, genocide is bad. Therefore, any support for Biden is support for genocide outright."

It seems like an inability or unwillingness to recognize degrees of tragedy...it's the worst case of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm getting pretty damn nervous about the number of folks saying outright that they won't ever vote for Biden because they don't accept the premise that, as long as we still have FPTP elections and the electoral college, voting anyone other than the mainstream Dem candidate makes a Republican victory more likely, regardless of the candidates either party puts forward. I know that at least some of these folks are just trolls, but we're on a razor-thin margin, and in a scenario where 100k votes across a handful of states will likely decide the contest, I worry about even a single person being talked out of participating meaningfully in the election.

It's exasperated by the fact that, for a lot of young voters, every election they've been old enough to participate in has been a boring old white person vs a wannabe dictator and so they've started feeling like "it's the most important election ever" is just a scare tactic to make them vote blue.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

This is actually very useful framing...I'm gonna chew on this for a bit and try to untangle some of my own implicit premises.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

It's just a shame we can't make him sweat without making the millions who'll be totally fucked if he loses sweat too.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Mmmm, lemon clams

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Unless you're using a VPN, the ISP knows, and I bet they keep the records. Even if you're using a VPN, they'll know what VPN server you connected so the feds go after them instead.

Depending on how many infringement claims they're making against OP, and I'm assuming it's a lot if they're asking for info on a specific user and not a whole sub, well, good luck OP

Jimmyeatsausage ,

They're likely asking everyone at the same time if they're serious about it.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

If only they'd had a policy in place!

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Yup... everyone thinks they're above average

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Rathalos nutz lol gottem

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Or they're like I was. No other option to get out of wherever they were born.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Seize the means of reproduction from the bouigious organelles!

Jimmyeatsausage , (edited )

And just like all the other horrible, one-line laws, it has catastrophic consequences. If you care about the people who will suffer those consequences, you have a hard time doing those things.

If you could just declare "no more fossil fuels starting now," and the whole world just listened (problem 1? They would not), you would immediately eliminate every nations military, the internet would shut down, there would be massive, world-wide famine (no way to transport food or store it reliability) , no hospitals, fire fighters, police or ambulances. I'm sure there's a million other knock-on effects as well.

That's the real difference...some people refuse to think about how policy (even well-intentioned policy) can cause harm. If the right is thinking about those kinds of harms, which I tend to think they are not, then they are clearly more comfortable with making the world worse for large swathes of the population. They either never considered or didn't care about the consequences of making women carry non-viable fetuses to term. They never considered or didn't care about the people impacted by their bathroom bills (both trans and cis individuals).

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

I saw the wing fall off a plane full of people but posted it for points instead of helping. AITA?

Jimmyeatsausage ,

I THOUGHT HE MEANT EVERY LAST LETTER...AS IN, EVERY ONE.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

That's the difference?

Jimmyeatsausage ,

"It's a good time to unionize tech workers right now..."

Best time to form a union was yesterday. Next best is today.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Too bad... I was gonna recommend someone to tell her Putin looked like a magician before the interview.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Ah yes, equal protection under the law... the true hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

Fiction can be fun!

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