SuddenDownpour @ SuddenDownpour @lemmy.world

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Get off the wrong internet spaces and you'll start meeting the right kinds of nerds.

There's nothing wrong with what you're saying on a vacuum. The problem is deciding what is actually a problem, and once it's been decided, which one solution out of many possible ones we're actually going to pick.

Is unequality a problem? If it is, up to which degree? Is it a problem that the richest person has four times as much wealth as the poorest person? Is it a problem that the richest person has x100000 times as much wealth as the poorest person? Are we going to solve that through redistribution? Through better public, accessible education? By empowering worker unions? By socializing the means of production in order to prevent capital accumulation?

Once you're perfectly aware of what values you're defending, you can find the most efficient way to let society advance forward according to them. But since not everyone shares the same values, even if everyone was perfectly rational and had access to all information, different people would still defend different solutions. Of course, people's values evolve all the time and everyone is irrational up to some degree, even if we put effort into perfecting our epistemology and use the scientific method to approach as many issues as possibles (which we should nonetheless do), so even that ideal state of things is very, very far away.

Because they're very vocal online, are annoying, and also give actual leftists bad rep. If you're promoting egalitarianism and distributing social power among everyone, you wouldn't like people who support authoritarism to share a label with you.

The only people capable of fundamentally improving one's country are those willing to see what's wrong with it. The very country of the United States was founded by a bunch of people so mad about their country that they literally revolted.

I have unfortunately spent a lot of time among certain kinds of nutjobs who don't want to support Ukraine, and they generally tend to avoid highlighting Putin's responsibility and sticking to the talking point of "sending weapons is bad". If you haven't seen those trends, great for you, unironically, because their hypocrisy is pretty annoying.

The idiots of Vox literally copy their ideology from the US far right. They are so extremely uncapable of thinking by themselves that they're trying to capitalize on transphobia in a country that is heavily supportive of trans rights:

As if that wasn't enough, the mainstream right-wing party is trying to appeal to them even though their average voter isn't that deranged out of some weird fear that they actually are.

Their food source is known to be moving further north

Why?

Sol's comment up above is a dogwhistle against support for Ukraine's defense.

They do have a mayor position, they just didn't care for it until someone decided to run for it.

forgot that Stark was charming and likable (in the movies at least)

But is he, really? I haven't watched much Marvel but I distinctly remember Tony Stark as a jerk, and that's even dismissing his bullshit ideology of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc8qbcIMZVg

I've Successfully Privatized World Peace

The comment above mentioned progressivism in general

my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr

Since you're asking, I find that blatant transphobia also tends to go hand in hand with some sort of sexism, but that's an unrelated point.

Depends a lot on which subreddits you frequented. Some subreddits were alright, but many of the largest ones would frequently have uncontested ableism and transphobia.

The prisoner's dilemma is a mathematical example to introduce students to different models where cooperation and competition have different outcomes. You can also design game theory systems where competition is generally a prefered action. The actual question is which model better reflects our contemporary realities, but regardless, there are great arguments to claim that cooperation is better most of the time if we assume that the participating actors are aware, intelligent and capable of taking free decisions.

But- But- But the memes of a Marxist-Leninist instance!!1!

The concept of fairness for Youtube gets out of the equation at the very moment we're talking about a natural monopoly with the capacities to accumulate immense wealth, for the mere virtue of having the lead, and bend the knees of anyone who thinks their policies are not fair, but cannot find a viable alternative.

Ah, yes, I can see the poor company is suffering, nevermind, I prefer my money to go to shareholders who have their life solved rather than towards creators who are making amazing content yet aren't making a living yet /s

So pay them directly or through other platform. Why would you pay them through Youtube rather than Patreon when using Youtube Premium is going to make them get a lower share of what you paid?

Yet in truth, the frog was perfectly aware of the wall. It had noticed it the first time. But it was not about getting anywhere, it was not about getting past the wall or tearing it down. The frog was just using its only tool at its disposal to get the attention of the humans, for the frog had a most important message to relay that the foolish humans could not comprehend, and that message was 'It's Wednesday, my dudes'.

"This woman stabbed me with a knife while I was trying to push her down! Why does she get a pass while I'm the evil one for trying to force myself on her!?"

China has stalled their CO2 emissions since roughly 2012; they mostly pollute so much because there's immense demand of manufactured goods in richer countries; they've been putting far more effort into transitioning to renewables than some Western countries; and they're still below emissions per capita than Canada, the US, Russia, South Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Iran, Israel, Germany and Japan.

If you want China to emit even less, support protectionist policies in Western countries and/or tariff reductions for products that may prove they've been produced with renewables.