KillingTimeItself @ KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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the unfortunate thing here, is that the US and the USD is so integral to global trade, that we would probably experience a global economic downturn similar to that of the great depression.

no, i'm not the government.

i think you should be required to demonstrate proof of your claim first, anything short of that is a failure in communication.

People should not feel comfortable saying things they have no idea the validity of. You're not far from being completely illiterate at that point. Have some decency and don't fucking say it.

its uh, definitely one of the feelings of all time reading through threads like this, assuming these are actual real people, spending their actually real time, talking about these actually real things.

science literally does.

Science says that if you fall over and hit your head on the ground you might fucking die also.

look bro, would i push for a law that allows raw milk to be sold? Probably not, if they push one, am i going to stop them just because they might end up killing people? Also no, collateral damage is still damage, and we're so far gone it's not gonna improve much at this point.

they can just outright deny them im guessing, the consumer bought it, knowingly.

honestly im at a point politically, where i think that it needs to happen to be able to knock sense into people.

it's eugenics, but legal, why shouldn't we? Clearly letting them live up till now hasn't served them well.

its because it is dangerous.

There's literally no point in selling non pasteurized milk, unless you want to waste money and cause potential health issues.

Literally all pasteurization does is heat up the milk, moderately, for a short period of time, and thats it.

It's more cost effective to do at scale, it's easier to regulate, ensuring consumer safety is easier, and ensuring that something happens if your dumbass doesn't do it properly, can also happen. The only reason you shouldn't do this is if you want to pasteurize your own milk, for some reason.

Maybe if you hate having free time, and need more responsibilities you should go synthesize your own fucking motor oil. Not pasteurize milk.

i feel like we should be able to beat the living shit out of people intentionally spreading political misinformation.

Like im sorry, this may not meet instance rules, or whatever, but like, holy fuck, the amount of shit you can just lie about, without people asking question, kneecaps should've happened years ago, what the fuck are we doing bro.

i hope she gets incumbency fucked, she deserves it for that one.

im not judging you for being incapable of using websites that dont start with amazon, and end in .com, you can do whatever you want, im just pointing out that you have a very silly opinion of how online retailing works.

It’s ok to lurk and just shut up.

yeah but then i miss interactions like this one.

three primary things.

Fucking coax, literally the bane of anybody anywhere, fucking horrible standard. Works well, which is the only reason anybody uses it, it's just a nightmare. (if you have ever dealt with a coax cable, you know exactly what i mean)

Offices were already wired up with phone lines, which often had redundant lines running to each endpoint, meaning you could just hook straight into the existing wiring infrastructure, and convert it to ethernet (very accessible and cheap)

twisted pair comes with the advantage of noise reduction over longer distances, cheaper construction, and significantly simpler wire structure, making it easier to route, manage, terminate, and just generally exist around. (basically the same as the first one lmao)

It was actually so much of a problem, that the original ethernet standard, based on RG-6? I think, don't quote me on it, ended up moving to a smaller coax standard and was referred to as "thinnet" as it was thinner coax and easier to work with.

w520 goes hard. Still a very capable machine with the sheer amount of cpu horsepower it has from that era.

Not comparable to modern chips of course, but for what you can get those things for, damn it's not bad.

if we're talking branding, AMD, EVGA, asus, and a handful of other similar companies. You could argue they're unethical if you wanted, but again, i'm literally not an ethical consumer. And also, there are no alternatives.

Buying things used/second hand subverts the ethical consumption problem from the get go. So.

What social media do you use?

lemmy and discord, i was an early adopter, and have given them 0 dollars.

What are your 5 major pieces of software?

90% of it is fully open source software. Very little is closed source, none is paid.

who are these amazing ethical retailers with a wide selection of available products that can be delivered virtually anywhere in the US in less than a week at a reasonable price?

why does this large conglomerate mega corp not have any ethical small business competition

you need to reality check yourself, and either pay more for shipping, or just accept that sometimes things arrive a little bit slower than convenient. If you have amazon prime you already know about this.

IDK why people expect services that are entirely separate and different to be the exact same, it's like they've never gone outside before.

As for your ethical reflection into my purchases, i do not care, as i am anti humanist. I simply do not have a leg in the race, whether i die or not is irrelevant. As for my phone, i didn't pay any money for it, it was free. And my computer, or computers, are built by me, from hardware that i bought, with my own money.

With the exception of my thinkpad collection (entirely secondhand) most of that hardware has been purchased new, as that is generally how people buy computer hardware.

Also to be fully transparent, i don't believe i ever stated that i am an ethical consumer (i am in some aspects, i just don't buy very many things, especially useless things, i'm a utilitarian) but for the things i do buy, i don't spend much time thinking about it for the aforementioned reasons.

yeah, if you're buying from a single retailer. There are a lot of places that sell products online, and they're all very accessible. The only thing stopping you from using them is literally your own laziness.

Physical retailers is more of a limit, since there are only ever so many. But that's part of the utility of something like the postal system.

that's definitely important, but there are two problems, not everything is important enough to even be discussed in the first place, especially under most contexts that political discussions happen within. It's a waste of time, you would be better off spending your time elsewhere.

There's also the problem of the echo chamber re-enforcement. Differing opinions only help in a productive and collaborative environment, without one, they do nothing and are meaningless. Politics entirely lacks this environment.

Where most people misstep in this hypothetical is they rarely try to look at it from their opponent’s perspective and/or from an unbiased third party perspective

I 100% agree with this, people need to spend more time conceptualizing issues, and thinking about them more thoroughly, that's a huge problem here. But again, does it really matter? Should you even care about it in the first place? Would you be better off if you had invested your time into becoming a better person, rather than a more argued person.

This is actually something i've been thinking about over the last few years, and i think i'm starting to finalize it in a semi consumable form at this point. You need a fundamental threshold of importance for the things you care about. Something like a family member getting cancer, probably pretty fucking important. You should probably care about it. Something like a random traffic accident halfway across the country? Literally irrelevant to you. Makes no fucking difference.

If you follow online politics at all, one thing you will notice especially among the right, is how much complete and utter garbage is talked about it on a regular basis. 90% of it is literally meaningless and doesn't have anything to do with you. And yet, people still care about it for some reason, why?

it's the foundation of the political brain rot this country has experienced over the past 50 or so years.