MolochAlter

The media goes poof anyway, there’s plenty of NFTs that point to dead links on domains that expired once the grift was no longer worth it.

Personal backups are the only real way to protect media for yourself and those around you.

The “reason” not to is that trees need tending and cobblestone does not.

It’s a stupid reason, but you know…

He’s saying that’s not useful information, not condescending you for buying a low spec machine.

What is your hardware configuration?

The answer is probably “no”, but let’s show the work, just in case.

He has been caught, multiple times, disingenuously embracing positions and politicians that contradict his own prior supposed “strongly held beliefs”, only ever really strongly condemns his own side if it benefits him, or at least if not doing so would harm him, his show is boring as shit and his streaming service a transparent propaganda vehicle devoid of artistry or craft.

He may be a good husband and father behind closed doors, we have no way to verify that at this time.

Yeah I’d say he’s morally absolutely mercenary and spineless which makes him a pretty worthless person, in a “banal evil” kind of way.

But I don’t appreciate your tired arguments that privatization of public utilities is a necessary good

Fucking hell man, are you absolutely sure you’re not American? Your reading comprehension is on par with their shittier states.

Where have I argued for privatization? Logistic concerns apply regardless of who is providing a service, even the state still needs employees to provide a service with their fucking work.

In fact, I’m from Italy, our healthcare system is public and subisidised, and I used that as an example because the state struggles to fill positions in rural and mountainous areas even though it has a mandate to fill them and no profit motive. At some point, if people are not willing to relocate to the middle of nowhere, they just aren’t gonna.

So that’s strike 1.

I don’t appreciate the reality of millions of hands that extend to reach safe borders to be told “no, we have too many workers already” when the issue isn’t “enough work” but private profit and governments colluding around the gold pile they’ve built.

AAAH I see the problem, you are arguing with your imaginary friend who is some insane neocon, and not someone with a basic grasp of liberal economics who defended the concept that richer people should pay more taxes than poorer people with an economically sound argument.

Gotcha. Say hi for me.

There is no societal burden except the ones we create for ourselves.

Right.

Infrastructure needs no maintenance, logistics aren’t real, people don’t spend their time and energy to make the things you consume!

Food materializes out of nowhere, no labour is involved in maintaining power plants, roads, bridges, hospitals, all the things that apparently come for fucking free.

And certainly not through paying fucking taxes.

I am not allowed to use words that better describe you on this site, so I will use what I can: American lefty in spirit.

Arrogant, self assured, catastrophically wrong, and you will never need to pay the price because you are surrounded, undeservedly, by people who know better and will prevent your cancerous ideas from being implemented.

Better lucky than smart.

Featuring Dante from Devil May Cry

do you really think that’s healthy?

Yes? My labour, my earnings, my debt to society for what society does for me. Hence why my taxes include infrastructure costs that may be different from yours, since we live in different places.

Seems perfectly fair to me. I do more than a lot of people, so I earn more, and, as a result, the aid society gives me that allows me to work and earn is also more valuable to me.

I would incur more of a loss than someone who earns less, if I suddenly could not access my job which I go to with public transit, for instance, so reasonably I also pay a somewhat higher (but not proportionally higher) share of my income.

How about the alternative where everyone has the same investment and therefore the same access to public goods and services?

Ah you mean la-la land where logistics don’t exist and everything is equally accessible to everyone without coercion or forced labour?

I come from a country with very uneven, complex terrain to navigate.

The towns on the mountains are small, hard to reach, even with modern technology.

Do you think they will magically have equal access to hospitals, when there is physically less space for them to be built? When there is less room for people to live, and fewer people to begin with, how are they supposed to have equal access to services that require people to deliver them?

It’s a nice fantasy, but the reality is that equal theoretical access means jack shit. I know you’re probably american and your big issue is now people don’t even have theoretical equal access but, trust me, once you get past that barrier people don’t suddenly magically get everything they need. People need to be there to provide services and, short of enslaving them, they won’t necessarily be there, and if they’re there they will be more or less competent.

people arguing the necessity to own debts incurred on them from a structurally unsound social and economic system.

There are a lot of ways society may be unsound depending on who you ask, taxes being tailored to the income of people is the one thing even commies like you should be in agreement, since it’s literally “from everyone according to their ability, to everyone according to their needs”, as long as there is a functional safety net.

In fact, big safety net neoliberal countries like most of northern Europe have done more measurable good to help raise the floor of quality of life in their own borders than socialism ever did, thanks in no small part to the understanding that society’s job is indeed to help fill the gaps where markets are inefficient, and not simply to go “ew, markets” and proceed to fuck up their own economies for fun and lack of profits.

If we had a mandated wage that everyone got, regardless of job, that would mean a flat tax makes sense, in his defense.

Why would you pay tax at all in that scenario? For all salaries to be equal they basically must be doled out by the state, otherwise it implies employment, competition, markets, etc. so why would you need taxes as a system to begin with?

How is this proving anything about broader economics? Or any of Marx’s boondoggle social claims?

This just says that calculating the summation of all labour costs is a good predictor of the overall cost of production and thus price, Marx makes way broader and wilder claims than that.

Defending marxist views on the LTV with this paper might as well be a motte and bailey; there is no substantial dispute that the sum total of costs is a decent predictor of an industrial good’s price (industrial production per-product margins are notoriously slim), while there is plenty of dispute that the generation of “surplus value” causes “alienation” and “dehumanization”.

That’s wrong.

The current economic model is based on the Keynesian model, popularised by explicit detractors of the Austrian school.

Right, the labour theory of value is not pseudoscience then? It’s based on empiricism? Care to substantiate that with literally anything other than “Marx said so”?

1 was purple and 2 was orange, green was the last color left.

Most people still don’t know anything about AI, whether it be llm based or otherwise; they just think it’s magical, knows everything, and they should use it for absolutely anything without any discernment.

Because less and less legitimacy and authority is vested in the individual and their bloodline, meaning even dictators can be replaced.

I assume “how” is referencing the “change your habits” part, because getting off social media is simply a matter of choosing to do so, so I’ll answer accordingly.

Changing habits is not easy, in my experience finding hobbies you like is a great way to get out of your routine which then helps you notice what habits make you less happy since you’re no longer just going with the flow, but YMMV on that.

In general, it takes time and effort to vet your habits.

I’m not a professional, so I don’t have concrete methods other than my own, which is to “test” them: stop doing the thing for a week, assess how you feel afterwards, then go back to it and see if you feel better or worse.

Sounds like some shepherd reference could be good, since it’s herding the agents.

1. It does not matter if you look at twitter on the official app, a frontend, your neighbour’s door’s peephole, it’s still twitter, it’s still a cesspit, curate your feed better or leave it altogether.

2. Socialism is an adventist secular religion. It provides no tools to alleviate suffering because it is based on the whole concept that problems will be solved “when the revolution comes” and “when we abolish private property” and so on (see this comment for a perfect example).

If you want to feel better, do what you can to improve your situation now. This means: find a better job, change your habits for better more fulfilling ones, stop doomscrolling social media designed to rot your brain keep you engaged, find a better friend circle if the people around you reinforce these feelings of doom.

The feelings of “can’t find love” have a lot to do with the people you hang out with, or lack thereof if your social media diet takes up enough of your mental energy to impact your feelings.

Go touch grass, find a hobby to do with others, preferably groups of mixed age, background (sex, race,etc), and beliefs.

Usually, financially stable parents who pay for their kids’ clothes, phones, cars, etc. will say, “I paid for it, so it belongs to me.”

Financially “stable” just above the poverty line or formerly poor parents, yes.

In my experience, rich people don’t look at the bill or who owns what.

They will occasionally use the concept of having supported someone financially as a cudgel, depending on the person, but they will never go “well those shoes I bought for you are still mine because it was my money” cause the shoes don’t matter nor does the money used to buy them.

It is literally “the thought that counts”, because the dollar amounts are trivial.

As for who owns what in the broader sense of family fortunes, that really depends on what kind of wealth and the culture they are from. Are they old money? are they nobles? are they new money? This will largely dictate who is actually in control of the “family” holdings.

They meant artistic quality, not resolution and bitrate.

I bought a WiiU for Bayonetta 2.

Not only was the WiiU itself little more than a paperweight beyond running it, the game itself was extremely lackluster and simplified.

I didn’t even bother emulating bayo 3.