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Viking_Hippie ,

seems to mostly offset the loss of total productivity with better productivity-per-time

Actually, it MORE than offsets it, leading to MORE overall productivity from not having exhausted and unhappy workers

Viking_Hippie ,

*Americans who eat potato salad.

In Scandinavia and Germany, it’s popular amongst all sorts of people, not just megakarens…

Viking_Hippie ,

Idunno. Why is her elbow just the right size for her elbow?

Viking_Hippie ,

The United States. Apparently it’s a very niche thing over there 🤷

Viking_Hippie ,

That’s actually not a very good comparison since, decibels being a base 10 exponential scale, the loudness of 133 and 155 decibels are not at all comparative.

A much better comparison is a 1984 Motörhead concert:

Lemmy and co.’s set was allegedly measured at 130 decibels, before it was cut short as plaster from the ceiling started to rain down on the audience below.

And that’s still MUCH less loud than a microwave eggsplosion!

Viking_Hippie ,

Government official affirms that fascist war criminal isn’t arbitrarily exempt from international law. Zionist genocide deniers flip out. Film at eleven.

Viking_Hippie ,

Californication?

Viking_Hippie ,

“Motherfucker”.

It was since removed, though.

Viking_Hippie ,

🙋

Viking_Hippie ,

Well that’s just fucking great!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0f898d96-f317-4cae-b2d2-5f4da8c007bf.png

Viking_Hippie ,

Or rather imagine the horror if the earth accelerated at such speeds DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SUN 😬😂

Viking_Hippie ,

won’t accept any answer that isn’t literally bulletproof

Quite fitting, then, that the Venn diagram of people who would literally shoot bullets at a question and people who are religious is pretty much a circle 😉

Viking_Hippie ,

Hare, bear

Viking_Hippie ,

My bad

Viking_Hippie ,

“But do you condemn Hamas?”

Viking_Hippie ,

Lucky!

Viking_Hippie ,

It’s the only way real ones shit at Applebee’s.

Viking_Hippie , (edited )

Islam used to be the forefront of scientific and mathematical discovery.

No, Islamic COUNTRIES did. They didn’t achieve excellence in science because Islam benefitted science.

They achieved excellence in science compared to Christian countries in large part because their religious authority figures didn’t stand in the way anywhere near as much. Not because religion helped.

Believing in god have nothing to do with science

Not true. They are polar opposites. That’s why scientists are disproportionately atheist and agnostic: the evidence based mode of thinking employed in science doesn’t mix with the superstitious and unquestioningly convinced thinking of religion without some SERIOUS cognitive dissonance.

it’s that irrational thought that make us human

No. That’s not being human, that’s being brainwashed and/or obedient to authority.

You’re right that it’s irrational and that irrationality is an inherent part of being human, but the SPECIFIC irrationality of religion is learned and enforced, NOT inherent.

Viking_Hippie ,

Bog drinkers and heavy dwellers?

Viking_Hippie ,

I’d like to propose a change in the word order:

“By God, live! By God, get fat!”

Viking_Hippie ,

I felt this one lol

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/73335cd7-6f26-401e-8b46-5d064fcf213d.jpeg

Viking_Hippie ,

The latter is excellent advice that should be heeded at the ballot box!

Viking_Hippie ,

I’m not sure that’s allowed at the ballot box, but it’s worth a try 🤷

Viking_Hippie , (edited )

As bad as Trump is, he isn’t championing and encouraging extrajudicial killings (at least not yet) like Duterte

He IS praising Duterte for it, though. As you implied yourself, Trump getting back in the white house will guarantee extrajudicial killings. Probably as a matter of stated policy rather than just something cops aren’t discouraged from.

That is however something your average Filipino voters were drawn to and supported with thunderous applause.

The country fell for the rhetoric of a demagogue. The US, Russia, Hungary, India, Israel, Belarus, and Japan all elected a fascist demagogue as their leader within the last 10 years.

I’m sure you consider some of those shithole countries but would you say that they all are, or do you admit that a country’s demagogue leader isn’t 1/1 indicative of the country as a whole?

Viking_Hippie ,

You’re not wrong, no. Price controls are ABSOLUTELY necessary. Even without basic income, but of course especially with.

Corporations have demonstrated time and time again that they’ll profiteer as much as they’re allowed to.

In recent years, they’ve even stopped caring about whether people are able to afford their prices.

They cynically but correctly assume that people will spend more money than they have when the alternative is them and their families starving on the street.

Corporations are getting increasingly brazen about not valuing the lives and well-being of their customers anywhere near as highly as short term profits, and the vast majority of politicians are as spineless in regulating their own owners as always, if not even worse than they have been since almost a century ago.

Viking_Hippie ,

Yeah, that’s how under-regulated markets inevitably work: someone who has no incentive to prioritize fairness or the common good accumulate too much power and use that power to gain more power etc until only the most powerful remain and everyone else, especially consumers, suffer immensely.

Viking_Hippie OP ,

Char is totally judging your choice in games and movies. totally.

In my defense, most of the movies are from a box of DVDs a family member wanted to get rid of, rather than anything I’ve actively chosen lol.

That being said, all of the games except the first Guitar Hero (came with the Wii), a few of the movies and all of the burned discs under Gandhi are all me 😄

Viking_Hippie OP ,

Since I have one of each, Torties and Calicos are my joint favorites 😁

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5df8375f-db09-46a9-986f-31ad3ae5d464.jpeg

Viking_Hippie OP ,

Thanks! Yeah, they probably do, the way I spoil them 😁🥰

Viking_Hippie , (edited )

I’m a Democrat and the mayor of the largest city in the state, and we’re proud to host the Republican National Convention.

They really shouldn’t be proud of hosting an event that amounts to a cross between Comic Con and a Nuremberg Rally. FasCon, if you will.

Btw, Cavalier Johnson is a magnificent name for a porn star who’s either unbothered, a knight, or both 😁

Viking_Hippie ,

Of November? I remember something about a gunpowder treason and you should too! 😛

Viking_Hippie ,

While we’re at it, the Beegees have a question for you

Viking_Hippie ,

Nope. It’s literally impossible to become and remain a billionaire without a ton of abusive behavior.

Viking_Hippie , (edited )

Yeah. Do you have any idea how much societal damage money hoarding does across the world?

Tens of millions of people dying needlessly every year from lack of resources hoarded by a few people who’ll never be able to spend it all.

And that’s not even getting into all the underpaid and overworked people who have acted as anonymous stepping stones on his path to obscene overabundance.

Or the fact that the richest 10% in the world, which includes all billionaires, are responsible for 48 times as many tons of CO2 per capita as the other 90%

Viking_Hippie ,

He just got rich because he’s very good at what he’s doing. He didn’t have to abuse anyone for that

Bullshit. You don’t become a billionaire by just being good at what you’re doing. You seem to not grasp the enormous difference between being successful and being one of the 3000 or so richest people on the planet.

Just like you don’t become a millionaire by working really hard and well at a paper route, you don’t became a billionaire without doing a lot of sleazy and selfish stuff to amass more wealth than would otherwise be possible.

Besides, even if you hypothetically COULD become a billionaire by ethical means only, keeping that much unneeded wealth in a world where artificial scarcity is killing millions is in itself extremely unethical.

Maybe you are not good enough to be as rich as he is. Have you considered that?

Ah, the old “you’re just jealous” adage of the worshippers of unethical success 🙄

Viking_Hippie ,

You’re just framing people without actually knowing them.

I don’t need to know them to know the harm of their actions.

my grandma who worked 60 hour weeks for 30 years as a weever and living in poor conditions

Was NOT a billionaire or anything even remotely comparable. I don’t have anything against people who work hard and honestly achieve wealth of non-absurd proportions like her.

However, this doesn’t make her a cutthroat.

Again, you can work hard without being cutthroat about it. Not so with becoming and remaining a BILLIONAIRE.

Hearing you say these things is a disgrace to my grandma and to everyone who is like her. To honest people doing hard work and getting a bit of luck.

No. If anything, the disgrace to her and everyone like her, who achieve wealth and success honestly, is to compare them to billionaires.

As I expected, you have no understanding of the vast difference between millions and billions, so here’s a visual aid:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3793e119-9f07-429a-bdbb-17848ffe8cb4.jpeg

The first two, and even multiples of them are within the limits of “hard work and a bit of luck”. The obscene hoard that is the third isn’t.

If you still don’t understand it, it’s probably because you don’t WANT to understand or are pathologically UNABLE to, in which point there’s no point continuing to waste my time explaining what is obvious to a third grader but not an adult with decades of brainwashing to erase all sense of proportion.

Viking_Hippie ,

Eat 19 avocados a day.

Viking_Hippie ,

You might, but a life without avocado regrets is a life avocado-unlived 🤷

Viking_Hippie ,

I’m not torrenting anything rn for reasons

Saturn in retrograde?

Viking_Hippie ,

And you’re not so big!

Viking_Hippie ,

Home ownership is 65%.

That’s 65% of homes are occupied by the owners, not 65% of the population owns their home.

Those are wildly different things and people keep using the former in a likely attempt to portray the latter as much higher than it really is.

In fact, that second statistic is impossible to find as every article or study from a mainstream or even semi mainstream source uses only the misleading one.

Tl; dr:

“How many homes are occupied by their owners” ≠ “How many people own their home”

Addendum: That almost 35% of all homes are owned by someone who doesn’t live there shouldn’t be a point of pride…

Viking_Hippie ,

In my defense, Pallet Jack is a notoriously unruly guy…

Viking_Hippie ,

Rock Manager. It was very limited in scope and quite short, but it was a really fun game with tons of potential.

I’ve been unsuccessfully looking for games like it that are as good as it could have been or even as good as it was for over 20 years now.

Viking_Hippie ,

OMFSM YES! I’d forgotten all about that great game!

Viking_Hippie , (edited )

I’m currently playing Yakuza 0 and planning on playing the Kiwami editions of 1 and 2 afterwards. Would you recommend going back to the 2009 Yakuza 3 for the intended story progression after that or skip ahead?

Edit: found out about the 3-5 remasters, definitely gonna do those after Kiwami 2. Guess I have a couple of hours of aggravated assaults and saving damsels left. Gaming too 😛

Viking_Hippie OP ,

My first through eleventh thoughts exactly…

Viking_Hippie OP ,

I’m not actually in Raleigh, just headline shopping 😁

It was like the 12th article about the same thing, selected because the group rules say that the title of the post should match the headline and the national and international outlets all spelled it out too much like Politico, or AP

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