Barking. It drives me absolutely mad.

Unfortunately in the US people are OBSESSED with dogs. Everyone has one and so many people just leave them outside to bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and… :/

I just think all of the minerals and gems look so cool.

That’s where I’m at too. I said mineralogy, but really just because I didn’t know a concise way of putting “I just like how minerals look” in terms of an interest. Lol

Definitely agree on the Smithsonian, such a cool section!

I really had to think just to come up with nothing lol

I get REALLY into something for 2 weeks then I drop it and never look back. I was into minerals/mineralogy for a few years I guess, but I’m not all that knowledgeable. I just really like copper bearing minerals like dioptase and azurite.

And if the university of Chicago is that “Chicago school of economics” then this kid is going to come out the other end repesting close to what you said, but as a positive. :(

We all own many battleships in America! The trick is having them let you on board at the right time. Lol

My stupid body took the cannabis away from me, now all I have is the passive suicidal ideation… It’s also my retirement plan! Good ol’ 409mm1k

Nothing totally outrageous as I’ve been pretty lucky to not need to request for a denial for anything major, but I had an issue with pain in a toe and went to a podiatrist who said they’d need an MRI to tell what was going on. UHC denied it and said that I should just do an ultrasound, which the podiatrist said would just be a waste of money as they wouldn’t be able to see anything there, but I wasted my money anyway and naturally he wasn’t able to see anything…

The pain eventually went away for a bit, but now it’s just an occasional reoccurring thing that I just deal with as opposed to wasting more money on copays for nothing.

The trajectory we’re headed we’re going to need it or something like it.

With improvements to AI and physical automation there will be a metric fuckton of people out of employment completely and there are only so many jobs for the rebuttal of “the people will still need to maintain the robots and check the AI”

Unfortunately with our concept of ownership there will be massive resistance to it as “I own the machines that make the products/increase productivity, why should you get anything from my profit?” They’re going to have to relearn the lesson Ford learned about “well paid employees are your customers” the hard way.

As it stands, at least in America, “The Century Of The Self” has lead to a complete atomization of society, every business is entirely independent from society, every individual is separate from society, so each individual owner won’t see the need for a well paid workforce/population at the owners “expense” actually being beneficial to their own existence. They’ll think “someone else” should deal with that issue, or worse “pull yourself up from your bootstraps” :/

Depends on the structure of the simulation. If it’s general enough then they didn’t specifically plan to have this capacity, it’s just the result of the inputs and constraints of the simulation. If anything it would be beneficial to see an outcome as to the types of intelligence that arise.

loving parents that supported me in all ways when needed.

This is the component that I was missing. I have the white male privilege, but I’ve always had split parents and 2 stepfathers that were always dicks. I had to move out at 18. My friend had the exact opposite situation where he could stay at home as long as he needed to and he spent his time studying towards a computer science degree. I always had to worry about moving and paying rent so I never pursued anything “difficult” or time consuming as I never knew when I’d have to move again so I’m now just a worthless, single, factory worker schmuck living in someone’s garage and my friend is happily married working from home making major money from a well known major corporation.

We couldn’t possibly have more different outcomes unless our skin color were also different.

It’s not something you actively use, it is just “there.”

For example: I applied to a job as a refrigeration technician and during the interview the guy actually fucking said “it’s really hard to get clean cut white guys to apply. I don’t want some Dominican (literally referring to their Dominican maintenance guy) walking into a store with our logos on.”

I had finished a tech school with some other black guys that I know also applied, I got the job and they didn’t. :/

I don’t think we’re headed towards that society. This was one incident. We’ve lived with the billionaire boot on our necks for decades and decades, I think people have become complacent if anything and the vast majority of us go to tictok or places like Lemmy to vent and then never actually do anything about it. We vote, the billionaire class candidate wins, and nothing ever changes. We sigh, vent, and go back to work.

I wouldn’t take this one incident to mean anything larger.

Billionaires: yeahhh I’m just going to buy all the media, all the politicians, and make sure enough of my guys win that they stop any legislation that would cost me anything. Nothing could ever go wrong with effectively taking away people’s choices right?

I’m thinking all we have left is roit. We’ve already lost the democratic process through propaganda outlets and bought and paid for candidates a while ago. There is no party for the working class. There is a party that likes to talk big, but when push comes to shove they don’t do shit and have their chosen “enemy of the term” to pop up and take the fall to stop anything from passing.

Apparently a big part of Elons attempts at voter outreach for Trump were to encourage “bullet ballot” votes (only voting for the president and leaving everything else blank), which is also what caused some scare about potential voter fraud when the very large increase of bullet ballots were noticed. He had teams of people reaching out to “low propensity voters” and trying to convince them to simply show up and vote for Trump, not to worry about knowing anything else. So that actually worked in Trump’s and Musks favor as far as simply getting them in, but there was little consideration for the state that would leave the party in.

(My personal bias would say neither Trump nor Musk give two shits about Republicans, or anyone but themselves, so Musk gets the position to further enrich himself and protection from investigation he wanted and Trump gets the same.)

There is also the issue of the media, when a fox news or the like paints Trump as dogmatic savior, only he can save you, then that leaves a lot of people feeling like only he matters so they don’t pay much attention to who else they should vote for.

“Golly gee, getting reprimanded that one time sure did stink. Oh well.”

Breaking news: yet another fox picked to lead one of many hen houses.

It’s not so much the money, the wealth in itself, that bothers me about them, it’s the mind boggling absolutely insane amount of power having that much wealth is capable of.

They literally buy elections, they buy media outlets, by their actions they buy the direction entire countries take. They use their money to fund the actions of others that work on their behalf. They can create a literal army of individuals to work for them towards whatever end they wish to achieve. That’s entirely way too much power for an individual or a family to have. Just imagine living next to someone who has a 500,000 strong army of militants just hanging out. Maybe theyre good, maybe they want to turn your neighborhood into a warzone for kicks, either way you would have no means to stop them.

Just look at smoething like the “tea party” movement in the US. Grassroots? No, try Koch brothers funded with the intent to install Koch approved representatives into the government.

I find “hot” is better than “new.” Still new enough so I’m not hitting the 2 day old stuff showing up in “active” and not completely flooded with porn, although it’s definitely there.

I’m a bit of a perv though so I don’t mind some of it lol

From what I understand the people individually would be responsible for helping each other which is why there’s a strong emphasis on an “armed proletariat.” An example, I believe from State and Revolution, was that of a common person helping someone who was being mugged. We’d all have a responsibility to help each other.

Not entirely sure on their concept of military protection though. Except for lenin they didn’t really live in an age of crazy military capabilities so it was always man vs man not man vs b52 bombers.

Now do CEOs and the other 3 letter jackasses you fucks.

How about the board of parasites directors?