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orrk ,

you will sit down and be quiet, all you parasites stifling innovation, the market will solve this, because it is the most rational thing in existence, like trains, oh god how I love trains, I want to be f***ed by trains.

~~Rand

orrk ,

go read rand, her books literally advocate for an anti-social world order, where the rich and powerful have the ability to do whatever they want without impediment as the "workers" are described as parasites that should get in line or die

orrk ,

ya, but as an LLC you get a lot of rights that you didn't have before!

orrk ,

there is "easier" and then there is just mathematically impossible.

a house used to be less than 5 times your yearly salary in any region, now we are looking at halt a million+

orrk ,

Crypto is worse tho, it requires about the same amount of energy as the entire global banking network, but only serves less than a percentage of the transactions

orrk ,

again, what use does it serve over traditional banking?

even PoS requires a lot of resources in comparison, for a system that literally exists to funnel money to a smaller group of people

orrk ,

like any true Liber-crypto-bro-tarian, your understanding of crypto is only undercut by your understanding of economics

orrk ,

why would you think that any of this effects prices?

orrk ,

why? what mechanism forces them to lower prices? the same that keep corporate profits at record highs year after year? we recently saw just how silly the idea of competition making anything cheaper is when every, even tho, there was no reason for doing so, started upping the prices of groceries, because they could.

orrk ,

damn, imagine we did any other medical research with that attitude!

orrk ,

I mean people are surprised that autistic people dislike autism speaks

orrk ,

so, hate to break it to you, but we in fact don't take that attitude with medical research, anything that had a tendency to kill the pre human control groups generally doesn't keep going, Musk can do this because he is a high profile case, ironically it's how he slips regulations all the time, because there would be backlash from the musk sycophants, but also the general wealthy community who use people like musk as a barometer on how much corruption they can get away with

orrk ,

not the silicone valley "keep breaking stuff until it works"

orrk ,

oh, ABA, you mean the "therapy" that for some reason causes a suicide rate of over 70%?

tho an "ABA tech" is cheaper than an actual medical professional since they just need a few weeks of training instead of several years

orrk ,

no, not really, that's just a commonly believed myth

orrk ,

it's not really that fascinating, of course the cheap and easy answer is a derivative of "beat it until it behaves", a large part of the states still have the paddles in school

orrk ,

ya, nothing was learned in the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study"(see racist torture), Vaccines also didn't one about because we just started injecting people with random shit, and we knew of Anesthesia for a long time, it just wasn't seen as something you use in medicine in more recent history because of religious superstitions in medicine.

again, Myths, just like the idea that we learned anything from Mengele's horrors

orrk ,

do I have to go into the levels of fucked your comment still leave the US at? most of the first world has not just stopped school corporal punishment, no it's just straight up illegal to beat your child as punishment.

If a parent here gave consent to corporal punishment, with a paddle no less, they would soon see their child in foster care and themselves in front of a judge.

orrk ,

the IT wages in Germany aren't as high, you're looking at €3000-€5000 above your typical factory worker for the type of work they seem to be looking for, BUT therefor they also have German levels of workers right XD, just wait 5 years when Google decides to outsource somewhere else again, and realizes it can't afford to pay the severance of all those employees

orrk ,

College will once again be only for the wealthy.

you make it sound like that isn't the point. welcome to the new cast system

orrk ,

ya, phone typing is a bitch at times

orrk ,

to be fair, it doesn't help that some very prominent "leftist" "feminists"(see TERF) are signal boosting Nazis, or how for some reason we still allow tankies to call themselves leftists because of American Cold War propaganda (this 1950s-70s Cold War cartoon said the USSR are clearly left, since they are "communism", so anyone supporting these "communists" must also be a leftist!)

orrk ,

yup, there is, but tankies aren't it.

auth left looks like some form of highly self-regulating society, the problem is the inherent instability in this type of system almost always ends in auth right as a group of elites takes control, or breaks down into non-auth-left when motivation for said society dies down.

orrk ,

to be fair, nothing you just did was actually make a case for how common it is, you just pointed out that mass media exists in the modern day and age, by that logic I, as a disabled person, should never leave my house

orrk ,

you use anything other than cash?

if the answer is yes, you don't get it

orrk ,

I invite you to not look at your phone, the internet is ironically not a private place

orrk ,

that's the cool part about "representing" and "racism"

I don't hate POC, I just hate the "urban", "lazy", "criminal", etc...

you know those KINDS of people (look, I can't help it that the terfs who made this shit also happen to side with nazis)

orrk ,

Funfact: domestic abuse is strongly tied to a previous history of abuse, or simply put, the perpetrators learned to do it while they were the victims, often from their parents.

And in a society where mental health access is practically nonexistent, there aren't many ways for someone to break the cycle. I guess pretending it's just a personal failure instead of a societal one is nice because it eliminates any burden on oneself.

Amazon — like SpaceX — is the latest company to claim the U.S. labor board is unconstitutional, after receiving numerous labor complaints from employees (www.theverge.com)

Amazon — like SpaceX — is the latest company to claim the U.S. labor board is unconstitutional, after receiving numerous labor complaints from employees::Amazon has accused the National Labor Relations Board of being unconstitutional in a new legal filing, according to a report from The New York Times.

orrk ,

that is not what it was designed to do, I don't know exactly where that little truism started, but that is bullcrap.

it started as a way for a privileged, wealthy minority to make decisions on how to run a nation, and it still is doing that to this day.
Separation of powers was nothing new when the founding fathers axed the articles of confederation and replaced it with the constitution.

then again, if you think the US labor board is "individuals amassing too much power" what do you call the significantly smaller group like the speaker of the house/senate, a position the republicans have used for years to act as a veto stronger than the president by just not bringing up legislation?

orrk ,

you can support the Amazon workers unions in a multitude of different way, depending on the exact structure, anything from donating a few bucks to the strike fund too righting a letter to your local representatives, or just informing those around yourself to why unions aren't literally the devil

orrk ,

well, I think he meant: Per aspera ad astra

just remember that almost all older languages had fewer nouns and verbs, so "thorns" here is referring to difficulty and obstruction

so more meaningfully translated, this old Latin saying is closer to "through great treachery is the path to the stars"

orrk ,

my god, like, could you stop using the genocide logic to do this shit? you see "the people in Gaza deserve to be targets of a genocide because they didn't rise up against Hamas"

orrk ,

no, that's the magic of speculative market financing

orrk ,

no, it is exorbitantly higher for a single crypto transaction

orrk ,

nah the power use numbers you gave are not on an extreme scale, the point of how the bitcoin and most cryptos work is designed to keep using more and more power

orrk ,

no, the US dollar is backed by the fact that you can use it to pay your taxes to the US government, and interact with the US government in general, quite literally backed by more than crypto.

and I hate to break it to you, but all currency, ever, is fiat.

all that gold standard stuff? you just abstracted the fiat nature from the money to the metal, there was never any actual basis for the value of gold outside its value, and there are plenty of more sparse metals that people don't value as highly

orrk ,

hey, most of the crypto fans are all temporarily embarrassed billionaire libertarians anyway, so the bottom 99.5% can all eat shit and die

orrk ,

yup, tho they also serve more people than crypto bros, about 100,000 times as many

orrk ,

dude you can totally ban it, it's not even difficult, you just don't let them suck up infinite power

orrk ,

seeing as everyone starved before the advent of capital... oh wait

The reason we don't have famines isn't because of money, it's because of one Jew's patriotism to what he saw as his German fatherland.

The reason we have the internet is due to an organization need in warfare, not a profit motive.

The reason we have modern medicine was because people wanted to help other, even if they went broke to do it, sometimes even being outcast from society.

The reason the Nazis were stopped was not because it made a lot of profit, but in spite of it.

do not conflate the achievements of modernity with the inherent economic system you ascribe to.

orrk ,

image magic

orrk ,

better than what we had before the whole government thing, if you think this is bad, wait until the warlords come kill you, enslave your children and use your wife as a baby production machine

orrk ,

see FTC anticompetitive-practices

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