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Yeah cool! This is a bunch of ways that GPS has meaningfully improved the way some things work. I totally agree with that.
CarbonScored
joined 1 year ago
I'm really not, but aight, just assume bad faith I guess.
Either you're being obstinate or we're just talking across purposes. I'mma out 'cause this conversation now sucks :(
Instantly knowing where you are on a map has fundamentally changed several aspects of our lives? I really disagree.
I could well be the weirdo but it's fundamentally changed no aspects of my life. I would love to know how it has others.
This statement confuses me somewhat, is it a bit? The "crazy" difference in my life without GPS would be: I'd have spent some more hours of my life looking at maps to work out where I am. That's what we did when I was a child and it really didn't take long.
That's honestly it.
Well sure. But at no point in history did nobody ever have significant others. If you're including that in your assessment then only humans who've lived their whole life in solitary confinement have nothing to lose.
I'm very over the childish tendency to condemn colloquialisms as a lib/redditor thing. I'm using words to communicate a point. You understood that point. So they did their job.
Yeah sorry I don't buy this shit either.
You're basically saying "if you hate your genocidal society then why do you participate in it?" 
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Libs are just under the incorrect belief that by voting for the lesser evil they are "improving things somewhat" 
. Doubly so where in many (though definitely not all) cases, it's a factual error, not a values one. And I really struggle to blame individuals for that.
Newsflash: The minerals in your electronics were partially or entirely mined by child slavery, why are you willing to throw them under the bus??? Turns out participating in society is required, and so you just act within it in a way you think is best to improve things.
I'm not even sure this is true. I would give up all my shit in an instant if I thought it had a 0.001% chance of changing things. I think many people feel similarly.
Israel: Commits war crime that literally explodes a child.
USA: Why would Hezbollah do this 
Kamala re-uses stale "I'm speaking" line after being interrupted by protestors against Gaza genocide
Yes, we know you're speaking, that's very much the problem.
I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.
Or
Frogshallah lives on as my headcanon
An absolute many are neo-fascist libs, but some, I assume, are good people. 
https://lemmy.world/post/18545268
I thought it was nice to see a couple good takes out in the wild for a change (an anti-dunk tank?). Not all of the comments are perfect, but many are fighting the libs on the posting lines. 
@Rookwood
The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism.
There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less . then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.
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Dharma Curious
Some of the comments in this thread really tell you why it takes a novel laureate to say this. Some of y’all do not have a basic understanding of history, economic systems, or what the term reactionary actually means.
The correct response to “neo liberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascism” should be “no shit, Sherlock”
It’s truly sad that that isn’t 100% of the comments here.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleed, y’all. That doesn’t mean all liberals are fascist, that means that fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism.
And just in case y’all also don’t know what that means, “liberalism” in that context isn’t “Obama liberal, Bush conservative,” it means the political ideology of liberalism, of which both Bush and Obama were proponents of.
ETA: I’m not engaging anymore… it’s not my job to teach y’all the difference between an economic system and authoritarian states. Also, your magic has no power here, I am an anarchist, not a stalinist. Please educate yourselves. If for no other reason, do it to make it easier to pwn the tankies or whatever the fuck
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i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc.
Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit.
You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity.
Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way.
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@njm1314
Well of course it has, fascism is the end result of capitalism. Some would say it’s natural conclusion.
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BlackLaZoR
fascism is the end result of capitalism
I wonder what sort of echo chamber you must live in, in order to believe this
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This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes:
ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place.
perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks
They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them.
if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives
My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident.
One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.
Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.
Because it's bad. It's a bad place with honestly bad posts.
That's all.
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"Healthcare lines" as people in the UK horde to opening day at a new NHS dentist for the scant few places available
(hexbear.net)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls
"99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients."
Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.
This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?
You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???
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Yeah okay the doomerism is too much