[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago

I do love the way old cars look, but in addition to the poor mileage, they're also deathtraps by modern safety standards.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago

someone needs to do work to get anything

The issue isn't that someone needs to do work, it's that some people are forced to do more than their share of work so that other people can do less. There's a class of people who get money without having to lift a finger just for owning stuff (land, residential buildings, companies, etc.). When there are people who get money without having to earn it through work, that means there must be other people elsewhere in the system who are paid less than their work is worth. And there's not a damn thing they can do about it, because the owner class can simply refuse to pay them more, so the workers' choice is between being exploited or starving. The workers can't just go and find some land to claim as their own, it's all owned already.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 11 months ago

I wish I could make YouTube "experience suboptimal revenue" in retaliation, but sadly I can't block more than 100% of ads.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Screws genuinely are better fasteners than nails, though...

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because that's what intelligence is. There's a very funny video floating around of a squirrel repeatedly trying to bury an acorn in a dog's fur and completely failing to understand why it's not working. Now sure, a squirrel is not the smartest animal in the world, but it does have some intelligence, and yet there it is just mindlessly reproducing a pattern in the wrong context. Maybe you're thinking that humans aren't like that, that we make decisions by actually thinking through our actions and their consequences instead of just repeating learned patterns. I put it to you that if that were the case, we wouldn't still be dealing with the same problems that have been plaguing us for millennia.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 year ago

Note the pattern: a willingness to ignore the details of what could go wrong, YOLO it and just test it out, and the assumption that if nothing goes wrong when you do that, it means that everything is fine and nothing else could possibly go wrong.

Did anyone else reading this bit immediately think of that other rich idiot that died in his ridiculous submarine?

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait, I thought he was just bullshitting his fans with that. He's actually serious? XD

Also, I don't understand what this has to do with bare metal construction of the Cybertruck and why that should present exceptional difficulties. DeLorean figured out how to make bare metal cars more than forty years ago, so it can't be that hard.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

So in other words, they can afford to pay damages for it. Make them pay!

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

Sudden? No, not really. People have sucked at reading comprehension as far back as I can remember (which is some decades).

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Do you get more science or less if you use a baseball bat?

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

You can apply a matte finish yourself with a piece of fine sandpaper.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Who said anything about changing him? I just wanna have fun.

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