BartsBigBugBag @ BartsBigBugBag @lemmy.tf

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What an extremely bigoted thing to say. Most of the worlds indigenous people don’t “live in huts like cavemen”. Where they do have poor living conditions, these are usually a product of external colonization and/or forced migrations leaving them in lands hostile to human life. You realize there are still over 6 million indigenous people in the US, right? Almost 500 million worldwide.

Yeah, shrinking the population would totally help, if we shrank the population starting at the top.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/carbon-footprint-gap-between-rich-poor-expanding-study

Fun fact: Every mansion or luxury condo built is 100+ affordable units not being built.

We’re building at record rates in many places, but just building housing does nothing but line the pockets of developers, because they will always choose to prioritize more profitable ventures, and current methods of requiring a small single digit percentage of their units to be “affordable” aren’t cutting it.

We need to be specific in what we’re building, and who we’re building it for. People moving in from out of state with high paying jobs are often prioritized by city and county governments because they increase the tax base, but this simultaneously raises rents for all of the current residents in crises as the market is dragged up. If we’re not specifically building affordable housing for local residents within each effected community to the best of our ability, then we’re only going to exacerbate the issue further. I’ve lived through “just build more” in my state for 20 years, I know how it goes.

Till there be property there can be no government, the very end of which is to secure wealth, and to defend the rich from the poor. In this age of shepherds, if one man possessed 500 oxen, and another had none at all, unless there were some government to secure them to him, he would not be allowed to possess them.”

Adam Smith, “ Lectures on Jurisprudence” 1766

All states are unstable, because their function is to secure the wealth of the many in the hands of the few.

I think you’re missing it because you’re still thinking in a national frame. Capitalists do not. If US workers can’t afford their products, they’ll just sell to Chinese workers. That’s part of why they’re so desperate to get into that market. Capitalism always requires expanding markets. It’s why the web is going through enshittification, also.

There is no nation for a capitalist, they may play at patriotism when it suits their interests, but in reality they will go wherever they can to make as much as they can. If that stops being here, they’ll go elsewhere.

My family house that we sold recently, sold for $1.2 million. It was bought in 94 for $90k. Expensive town, but the cheapest neighborhood in the town.

There are 25 empty houses for every homeless person in the US. There are people like Bezos who own multiple $25 million dollar mansions, that sit empty 300+ days a year. There are places with housing shortages, but that is not the case nationwide. The problem is that our government cares little to ensure adequate housing for its population. It sees absolutely no issue in allowing property to be hoarded by the rich and used to strangle the poor.

Right, but in America, race and class are intertwined. Look at how they treat black tax evaders vs white tax evaders. Wesley Snipes spent 3 years in prison. Ja Rule got 28 months in prison. Lauryn Hill got 3 months. H Ty Warner got 0 jail time. Nicolas Cage at one point owed $14 million to the IRS and he’s never even been charged.

Rossmann was a lot better before he realized he could use his platform as a soapbox for weird right-libertarian politics. No, Louis, I didn’t come here to hear you rant about how much you have to pay in taxes, I want to know how you solved the problem of no power on this MacBook.

I also don’t get why he refuses to have accurate descriptions on his videos so they can actually be found when searching instead of having to skip through the videos to see, and instead just spams his parts store and a million other things on every video.

I had a chance to train with him, but went with Jessa at iPad Rehab instead, and I’m glad, because her class was an actual class plus dozens of hours of practical work, compared to Louis’s “come over to my shop for like 2 hours after we close and I’ll kinda just give you crap to do while bitching at you if you don’t understand my ineffectual explanations” that I’ve heard his class is from multiple people who took it.

The fact that over 50% of the population of the world has gone through or attempted progressive revolutions with the support of the majority of the populations within each revolting country in just the last century disagrees with you. Malaysia itself attempted to have a progressive revolution, and it was western meddling that overthrew the progressives in favor of hardline militant religious nuts.

The problem with that is you can’t rely on the old trusty tuck into the belt, because well, the belt is a lot lower…

As you can see in this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/632470/discussions/0/3080999687774982702/

Classic voice acting was not an option on the release of Final Cut. I’m glad to hear they added it though, I’ll probably have to give it another replay. It’s definitely one of my favorite games of all time.

Edit: sounds like I’m wrong actually, it was just hidden away where I couldn’t find it, nor could most of the people in that thread.

The consistency is a variable that depends on your diet. I used to have that problem too, but no more!

I took half that many years of Spanish, and that’s about all I remember too. Also, “tocar los pompes”. I feel like we do it all wrong here though. Language classes aren’t typically until high school, and by then your ability to learn languages is far less than when you are younger. It can still be done, but you have to want to, and teenagers have too much going on to care about speaking a language they haven’t used this far in their life.

When I use AetherSX2 on my Retroid Flip, games take longer to load than in PCSX2 on my gaming pc. I’d hate to see what the loading times are on my Retroid if they’re that long on your PC!

I haven’t ever tried out the network functions of emulators, except ZSNES back in the early 00s, and my internet wasn’t good enough then. Other than the loading, how was the performance over network? Was latency acceptable?

Crank the difficulty and play as a samurai instead of a ninja. Just straight rush every enemy you see. You’ll still probably have problems trying to complete all the assorted landmarks on the map, but the combat is way more fun when you and everyone around you die in 1-2 hits and you’re constantly swapping stances to stay alive.

Honestly, I wouldn’t do a replay, if I were you. I would just get the expansion pack and play that. If you’re really itching for a replay, you can do New Game Plus and at least earn New cosmetics instead of unlocking the same ones again.

Sign me up either way. I’ll gladly take democratic ownership of corporations over our current stage of managerial feudalism anyday.

Do you play on original hardware and justtunnel into a private MP? I really want to play that game again, it was such a great time as a kid.

My uncle came back from being a veterinarian in Vietnam shell shocked as fuck, and the only job he could get was at that very Greeley meat packing plant. He worked there until he broke down, and then he was never able to hold a job again. He had horror stories from both Vietnam and the meat plant, but he had a Vietnamese wife he’d married to get out and her GI baby someone had abandoned her with to take care of. A lot of peoples stories are like that, you don’t really have a choice, you’re in a bad situation and you take what you can get.

People in bad situations dependent on poverty wages are less able to whistleblow due to fear of economic consequences. There’s more abuse, more exploitation, and more harm done in any industry whose workers are dependent on their daily wages. That’s why even the most offensive, disgusting jobs in our country deserve a living wage.

California is a garden of Eden
A paradise to live in or see
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi

Woody Guthrie, “Do Re Mi”