OwenEverbinde @ OwenEverbinde @lemmy.myserv.one

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Maybe they're focused on playing for time so they can insure their assets and move to hedge funds that are shorting all of the above industries? I don't know investing that well.

Look: a lot of companies would suffer from an office real estate crash.

• the businesses that own the office real estate
• car manufacturers
• tire manufacturers
• petroleum companies
• coffee franchises
• fast food franchises lining freeways on the way to work

And most importantly, funds invested in all of the above.

People who own businesses also own stocks in other people's businesses. Meaning they all fall and rise together. Trying to keep the "work commute" and "office rental" industries alive is just an attempt on the part of those who hold capital to keep their portfolios growing.

In secret, they are probably also trying to hedge their bets, diversify and make themselves immune to the coming collapse. They'll try to position themselves and their capital in such a way so that the working class is the only group hurt when it happens.

But in public? They are not going to devalue their assets by standing by, complacent, as an office apocalypse approaches.

Pride is free marketing, building a ramp costs money

We're done here. We can close the thread. I don't know if it's possible to top that.

Oh! You could call yourselves

• "the slight right" or
• "right lite"

I don't know. The name feels weird. I could see calling your community,

• "moderates"
• "moderategop"
• "RINOs" (just like Trump's supporters embraced calling themselves "deplorables", non-Trump conservatives should probably ready themselves for turning enemies' insults into their own battle standards.)
  • plus RINOs also gives a decent logo idea for the community (the rhinoceros)

Owen sorry!

Owen edited out forbidden word. Not Owen's fault changes federate slowly.

Owen had serialized dream many years ago in childhood times. New dream chapters kept releasing for many nights. Dream parts were spooky. Owen was scared there, but felt like pain and fear was deserved.

However, when Owen was being pulled back to very scary place from earlier season, Owen chose instead to fight. Creature tried to pull Owen down, but Owen planted feet and pulled against creature. Creature fell into last season's spooky place.

Panting, Owen spoke, "I've been down there."

Weird dream stopped returning. "I've been down there" turned out being series finale.

Years passed. Owen decided to make anagram of "I've been down there."

Owen failed: "Owen Ever Bind Thee" was closest Owen could come to good anagram. Owen got bored of scrambling letters. Chose Owen Everbinde and abandoned attempt at making anagram. Owen's leftover 'T' and 'H' and 'E' will never have home.

It's my pleasure. I enjoy these discussions, and you brought a lot to the table.

Edit: oh, and the belief in intelligence as an immutable genetic trait is only social darwinism if higher intelligence makes people more likely to reproduce, which it doesn't. That's the premise behind Idiocracy.

That's what I thought at first too. But the definition, oddly enough, doesn't actually mention reproduction.

From Merriam-Webster

social Darwinism noun : an extension of Darwinism to social phenomena specifically : a sociological theory that sociocultural advance is the product of intergroup conflict and competition and the socially elite classes (such as those possessing wealth and power) possess biological superiority in the struggle for existence

It's most often used to describe Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" which was all about the superiority of some members of society, and the benefits society would reap by allowing them power over everyone else and over all of society's resources.

Yeah, it's heartbreaking to see stuff like that.

Eating local meat is also a good option, especially with many cattle farms beginning to capture methane and become greener.

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This right here! Specify!

Replace stuff like

"Marjorie Taylor Greene can't read"

with stuff like

"Marjorie Taylor Greene's remarks on "globalism" should be alarming to anyone who has encountered the phrase 'the International Jewry' as they studied history."

"Stupid" or "smart" or "IQ". Take your pick.

Intellectual capacity is a social darwinist fantasy.

That includes insults that go along the lines of, "Trump supporters can't read."

[Aside: I dislike Trump supporters, mind you. But if they couldn't read (especially reading Breitbart, or the Epoch Times, or the text part to Russia-funded propaganda memes) that would actually be an improvement right now. Lower cognition would be an improvement if it were real.]

Anyways my reasons are as follows: I've tutored quite a few people, and never found one actually incapable of learning a particular concept.

I have, on the other hand, found a large number who were underconfident about their ability, citing their "low" intelligence specifically. And unlike their intellectual capacity, this belief in IQ was actually limiting. And harmful.

I have also encountered people (outside of my tutoring) who thought their "intelligence" was a source of superiority over the masses.

They were not superior people. Their vocabulary -- which people often use as a misguided proxy for intelligence -- was offputting because they often used words they had clearly never heard used in context. Indicating these words were added to their lexicon unorganically, pulled from a dictionary or thesaurus rather than an adventure novel, highlighting a strange set of priorities that always made these people suspicious to me.

Every time someone calls me smart, I tend to suspect they're trying to scam me.

Every time someone calls me stupid, I shrug because they clearly haven't met all of the people who call me smart.

But in all cases, they are invoking the idea that some people are just capable of more, and others are just capable of less. It's social darwinism, like I said.

And I find it disgusting.

If you want my respect, never appeal to social darwinism in my presence.

Who the hell downvotes a person for saying "I have a hard time with Captchas because they don't provide accessibility options that allow entry to someone with my conditions" ?

Like, guys, Captchas being ableist is a well known thing. And they've only been getting worse, as they've been in an arms race with AI, trying to become more and more distorted, and most AI text recognition software is already better at Captchas than most dyslexic people.

Right. That is a good point. Although Marx didn't see the elimination of currency as a realistic goal attainable within the first few decades (possibly even the first century) of communism, he did believe a post-scarcity humanity would eventually transcend the need for currency.

However when it comes to barter, the thing is: even in societies dominated by barter, some commodity tends to become the standard against which the values of other commodities are measured. Cigarettes in POW camps, cacao beans in Mesoamerica.

By an admittedly-loose definition of currency, a currency does always emerge and end up being directly exchanged for goods and services, even in barter systems.

Depends on how you define capitalism.

According to the modern (very intentionally altered) definition of capitalism,

"a system allowing the exchange of goods and services for currency, where different skill sets can result in different compensation"

... everything, including the USSR [1][2] has been capitalism. And even most Marxists are pro-capitalists.

The definition above encompasses everything that ever was, and everything that ever will be. (And that's only a slight exaggeration)

Which -- just fyi -- makes the word one of the most useless words in the history of language.

If, however -- just hypothetically -- you wanted to have a productive dialogue with a self-described anti-capitalist, you would need to carry out the entire conversation pretending the word "capitalism" referred to something a hell of a lot more specific. A single mechanism within market society. A single kind of contractual relationship between worker and company.

Which is an exercise in imagination and in the algebraic concept of substitution that most people have a rather stubborn aversion to.

You have to unblock the user, come back to this post, and report one of their comments.

Then block the user again once you've done that.

It used to be a banner above the comments. Now it seems to be in the sidebar. That's a good design choice. It's an improvement. It might not have scared my friend so much.

Here's the screenshot he sent me a couple of weeks ago. I've thrown it onto some image pastebin called "pasteboard".

These days, apparently (I followed the link to your comment, https://feddit.de/comment/2020091), it's on the sidebar and says:

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

This is actually a massive improvement. It gives directions, and the earlier one didn't. It's friendlier than the earlier version too.

However, this evolution badly needs to continue (since I don't see how asklemmy's front page is going to tell you anything about the federated instance signup process or enough about the "home instance" concept for them to know they need to go to their home instance.) If I was given a link to your comment, and I wanted to upvote your comment, I would still need to 1) navigate to my home instance's search tool and 2) paste your comment's URL into that search tool. And that's still a complicated process for a lot of people.

I do really appreciate the direction the web app is going here,

• they have gotten rid of the "vote" buttons and the "reply" buttons if you're not logged in.
• the "not logged in" notification now tutorializes a little bit.

These are all very good developments.

But they need to continue. We need to tutorialize stronger.

The person hosting lemmy.myserv.one is trying to acquire more users because they want to take some of the load off of lemmy.world.

If you want something less burdened than lemmy.world, you should make an account over here. Do your Lemmy browsing from here, you know?