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Because you literally act like a mouthpiece with your constant apologetics for the aggression and war crimes of a tinpot dictator.
Because you literally act like a mouthpiece with your constant apologetics for the aggression and war crimes of a tinpot dictator.
I went meatless for a year and discovered that a lack of animal protein seems to exacerbate my PTSD symptoms. It did make me a lot more creative with veggies, though.
I definitely think there’s something to be said for the average meal contributing to the torture and slaughter of less than one animal per year versus contributing to hundreds.
What a horrible equation to have to consider. We really are, as a species, pretty monstrous. We normalize all the horrible shit people do to other living beings, to the environment, and to one another, but it’s seriously worrying behavior. If you don’t grant us the charity of looking from within a framework of the primacy of human needs, we really kinda make our fantasy monsters seem pretty laid back and non-violent by comparison.
How much does Putin pay you?
The measures they use to say the economy is ‘good’ have one thing in common: they fail to account for value whatsoever.
They account for value in dollars, that’s true. But they fail to account for value in any sense that matters: the usefulness of a product or service on the one hand and the labor that produces it on the other. Instead, we look at wages, employment rates, profits, and prices. Those are admittedly easy to quantify and play around with, but they aren’t really anchored to anything meaningful.
For example, let’s say your company makes on-the-go smoothies, sold in grocery stores and convenience stores. You’ve got a quality product: a relatively thick smoothy with quality ingredients and a good variety of purees and juices. You product isn’t cheap, but that’s because you use quality ingredients, pay your employees a fair wage, and use reasonable labor practices in your bottling plant. As a result, people love your product and enjoy working for your company. Soon you come to take up a prominent position on shelves, because your regular customers will reliably buy up your stock.
Now let’s say you do an IPO. Once the board members have sway, they want to iron out some of these ‘inefficiencies’ in your company to increase their profits. First, they come for the ingredients. You wind up with fewer purees in smaller proportions, a greater proportion of inexpensive juices, and the most expensive ingredients dropping off the list entirely. Your loyal customers are annoyed that their smoothies aren’t as thick, but it’s still better than the other options, so they keep coming.
At your bottling plant, wages start to stagnate. Benefits aren’t eliminated, but a new management technique is introduced in which hours are spread out to make it difficult to meet the minimum to qualify. Shifts begin increasingly running on skeleton crews as hours are spread thinner. Of course, the same amount of work still needs to be done, so the employees are doing two to three times as much work as they used to.
Long-term employees who once made the company what it was start to see the change and look for other options before things get worse, leading to a fresh generation of new employees with no clue how much better the company used to be.
At the end your profits are up, employment is up, and you’re selling just as much or nearly as much of your product as you were before. If you only look at the numbers, it seems like this whole endeavor was a fantastic win for your company.
Except you’ve just made the world a little worse. The market presence you earned with your high-quality product no longer has an equivalent product taking it up, degrading the real value of the market itself. Employees are running themselves ragged making a perhaps flat or slightly rising wage per hour, but a wage that’s actively diminishing in terms of the labor required to earn it and the purchasing power it comes with.
Now what happens when you take this model and project it to the entire economy?
All the numbers say record profits, low unemployment, stocked shelves full of high-demand products. And yet the reality is that we have to work more to pay for less of shittier and shittier products. Even the people who win don’t really win, because they make a worse world for themselves where they can’t get a good smoothy.
The whole thing is a mirage that we’ve been killing our society chasing.
I’d love to see someone figure out how to up the player limit or link games. Baldur’s Gate would be such a great medium for a D&D roleplay server if it could be set up to handle it.
The Sega game was pretty cool. You could be a dinosaur!
Nah, it’s a subscription service, but it’s got a few notable YouTubers and they tend to drop extra content there. PhilosophyTube is on there, 12Tone, a bunch of people. As a platform it’s a lot less bullshit, but it’s also obviously less content.
Though now I realize you actually have to get referred by one of the other members in order to start posting, so I’m not really sure they stand to benefit that much. It kind of explains why the content has been lacking. It certainly won’t ever have the diversity of content that YouTube has with that approach.
Honestly learning that it’s more of a market stall than a garden makes me less enthusiastic. It’s there to curate what’s already on YouTube without YouTube’s limitations, not to create a better alternative that’s actually sustainable.
uBlock Origin works fine for me on youtube. Just make sure you keep it updated and don’t run multiple blockers.
This could honestly be really good for Nebula.
You have literally no idea who I am or what I do.
I used GIMP to make a mock-up of a sign for a restaurant just yesterday. Is it going to be the tool I use for the final product? No, because that’ll be in vector, but it’s a lot easier to slap something together in than Inkscape or Krita.
‘Killer apps’ are meaningless in comparison to useful apps. I’m an artist who needs usable tools for her work. GIMP qualifies. Personally, I find it way easier and more intuitive to navigate than Krita, Inkscape, or any of Adobe’s suite. It may not be for you, that’s cool.
But what isn’t cool is to pretend you know about other people’s lives and what they need. Speak for yourself, you are perfectly capable of doing that. If you don’t like GIMP’s UI, that’s great. If you think GIMP’s UI is absolutely horrible for every user and nobody would ever use it for professional work… you’re literally just completely wrong.
It’s crazy that people believe this shit. They just run with it, and don’t even do cursory research on what they’re going after. Trans minors literally receive medical care to prevent unalterable changes. Hormones triggering changes in the body is the whole damn point!
When I tell people I lost 3 inches to the shifting of my pelvis and spinal curvature, they’re mystified. Like, maybe they knew that estrogen could cause breast growth or changes to your body hair or your skin, but I don’t think I’ve met a cis person yet who was aware of the spinal curvature changes.
I think if people realized just how much hormones change, they might not only see that there are a lot of changes someone might want to avoid during puberty if they’re trans, but it might help them see that the most substantial changes to a person’s body that may happen as part of transitioning may have nothing at all to do with surgery.
It seems as though a lot of the thinking around trans bodies is focused on surgery, to the point that they don’t really necessarily know what else might even be involved.
This is a repost. Also, like, do we need to keep spamming Beehaw’s tech section with headlines that reference rape as like, a casual way to say that a company did something dishonest? Cause I’m not really into it.
Like, seriously, is there a creepier version of this headline?
It would be nice if companies like this came out with a budget model so more people could participate in supporting their products. Lotta poor folks into FOSS.
Do you subscribe to a worldview that includes compassion? This may disqualify you from joining our capitalist shit show.
5-7-5 is pretty stable tbh.
“Here I was, trying to burn down a building, and in swoops fucking Russia! Do prdele!”
I’m not sure I’d call buying up and burning other companies like furniture in a fireplace ‘sustainable’.
Headline reads like the PM is annoyed that Russia botched the arson.
Amazing that a system that grows like a cancer turns out to be unhealthy for everyone involved.
Is it?
I can only really guess whether they’re talking about one or two subjects here. In one sentence they call a six year old a man and gender them male, then in the next they gender them female and call them Tina. The pronouns keep switching back and forth.
Her team? Why does it show someone cared for the mother as well?
That all reads like bad AI writing to me.