camelCaseGuy 8 months ago • 100%
Quino was a philosopher in disguise. Most of his cartoons reflect reality in such a funny and crude way.
camelCaseGuy 8 months ago • 16%
I don't understand that point of view? Why would they pay their CEOs less than any other company? If they did, then they would either not be able to hire CEOs, have the shittiest CEOs or have CEOs that wouldn't give a crap. People don't live on welfare, especially highly connected, highly educated people like CEOs.
camelCaseGuy 8 months ago • 100%
I think the new Reddit logo is hilarious. It looks like Snoo has a stubble. What's up Snoo? drinking much?
camelCaseGuy 9 months ago • 100%
camelCaseGuy 9 months ago • 90%
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
camelCaseGuy 9 months ago • 62%
Oh... believe me, me too.
camelCaseGuy 9 months ago • 80%
Well... Actually, they are. They were poor money lenders, and gave money to the neighbourhood junkie, expecting he would not buy crack. It is Argentina's fault to be in the position it is, but it's also the money lenders' to enable it.
camelCaseGuy 9 months ago • 26%
You, this was already happening and bound to happen with or without Milei. The difference is that, while Milei's approach is to deregulate the economy, Kirchnerism/Peronism's way was to hide the head underground and pretend it never happened.
At least now there's a plan to do it.
camelCaseGuy 9 months ago • 100%
I mean, I love ska. But a whole eternity of it? It's just way too much.
camelCaseGuy 9 months ago • 100%
Now you'd technically be a professional runner.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 100%
Pfft... Mouth-breathers
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 100%
Goddamn, this is fucking wholesome.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 100%
That looks that it came straight out from the History of Torture Museum.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 100%
Then why not to? I've just saw a video from Jeff Nippard about why he's doing full body workout instead of doing leg days, then back days, then chest, and such. Very interesting take that can make us, leg boys, have fun every day.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 83%
I do expect that. I expect teachers to be very well compensated. You are talking about educating future generations and the sustainability of the country. Not about selling microwaves (nothing against it, it's just that I consider teachers to be as important to society as firefighters and healthcare workers).
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 50%
Great discussion and arguments, mate. Top level. e/π levei.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 50%
You've got to understand that politics are never so straightforward. Bolsonaro's premise might have been one, but the execution might have been another.
So has come to pass with many presidents in Argentina, promising to solve the issues, and making them worse.
Not everyone might like Milei, but the truth is that he was the lesser evil, and by a long margin.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 100%
AFAIR, Thatcher wasn't half bad. I mean, she was elected three times.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 41%
As an Argentinian living abroad and having left the country for how unbearable it was, I can tell you it's true. I'm not saying some of those things aren't important, but Argentina's Government is like a crackhead. You give it some money and expenditure capabilities, and the next thing you know is at the shadiest dealer, buying as much of the worst stuff.
You need to cut the vicious cycle somewhere. Unfortunately for Argentina, that place is Welfare State.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 100%
:x and be done.
camelCaseGuy 10 months ago • 88%
I'd smack the shit out of that ass.
camelCaseGuy 11 months ago • 100%
Wait, are you telling me I shouldn't keep throwing these anvils to that damned roadrunner? Because I frigging despise him.
camelCaseGuy 11 months ago • 100%
You look great, wiatch!
camelCaseGuy 11 months ago • 100%
It could work surprisingly well at some extent. I mean, Spaniards are hard labouring people and they put hours to work. But they also like to live the life (you know, paella, siesta and stuff). So the first couple of times it may come to pass, but things may hit the fan really quickly.
Also, cheap labour force and laws very favourable for the employer.
camelCaseGuy 11 months ago • 100%
You know, most countries that have strike laws forbid this. In Spain, for instance, if the workers are on a strike, the company is forbidden to replace those positions in a strike. Neither with temporary, nor people from other places. And the company cannot fire them. Basically it's a shackle, either you solve your strike or you are out of business.
camelCaseGuy 11 months ago • 100%
I know my sources are kinda lame, but I trust them. First, is this video from Kurzgesast that comments on if, how and why nuclear energy is a good strategy for long term improvement on greenhouse emissions and energy sourcing. Second, there's this other video from nuclear physicist Elina Charatsidou.
Again, not papers, but words from reputable people that I imagine have read enough. I know, as hominen fallacy and all that. But there's a point where I don't have the time to read papers about EVERY interesting topic.
camelCaseGuy 11 months ago • 60%
And even then, although there's a finite amount of Uranium on Earth, the amount there is could last us thousands of years. Enough for us to get a replacement, like fusion, working.
camelCaseGuy 11 months ago • 66%
Yes, by Argentinian standards. That is not much, taking into account the left bias that Argentinian politics have at the moment. By most standards, Juntos por el Cambio are a social-democrat solution. That is pretty much left in most countries.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
- Yes dad! I'm a sissy removed, and I like to watch man like me getting steamrolled by big black hunks!
- I came to ask you if you wanted a slice of pizza... but okay.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
See? That's where I get confused and I end up with the "that can't happen" attitude in my head.
If you abolish private property, then who has that property? Someone will always have some of that, at least. Let's imagine that it's seized, by whom? How? And why wouldn't that be thievery in the eyes of those who don't want it? Because if I want it to happen, then it would be relinquishing, but if I don't it would be coercive, because I cannot pay anything to that person, otherwise it would become a "haver" against all of those "havenotters" that gave their property for nothing but good will.
And then there's the redistribution fact, of how to do that? Equitable? By some principle? Depending on who you are and are not, you get X o Y amount of "property"? And then it's the issue of how do you measure that "property"? Because two cups of sugar can be of similar value, but not two houses. It's not the same to live in downtown Manhattan than in the middle of Saskatchewan.
Finally, who does that? We? And who is "we"? Who organises "we"? How is "we" not anarchist? And if it's anarchist, how do we ensure it's just?
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 75%
"Planned by the libs", as if the "libs" were a single entity that have a homogeneous plan. Let's stop giving entity to stuff that never existed and realise that there is a structural problem that occurred because of bad management of our economy and policies. Because we had mediocre actors and in some cases actors with bad faith.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
I don't hate the human race. But I cannot stop pointing to our flaws. Not understanding our flaws, will lead to keep having them and the problems they carry.
On the other hand, what you are saying will be valid in any system. How do you propose to have a completely egalitarian society? It's nearly impossible, there will always be people wanting more than they have and won't care about the consequences of it.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
Don't blame capitalism for something that's at the core of any political system: Greed destroys it. Greed and humans are intertwined. It's not capitalism's fault. The same happened across history even when and where capitalism didn't exist: the Egyptian empire, the Roman Empire, the Soviet block and even in China now. Greedy people that can be bought will exist everywhere. The wish for power is not inherent of capitalism, is inherent of human nature. Failing to see that will lead to the same issue over and over again, in democratic or autocratic regimes.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
Yes, of course we do. We just need politicians willing to do that. I thinks that's the most difficult part.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 50%
Yes and no. Capitalism without regulations may bring this kind of issues. But capitalism with regulations shouldn't. The issue is that the required regulations are not being applied or do not exist.
We should not blame or put the weight of the issue in capitalism, when we clearly know we don't live in a perfect capitalistic world, and very few markets are like that. The issue is with politicians.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 60%
No, that's an effect of collusion and cartelization of the economy. It's because you have very few actors supplying the product and the barriers of creating a similar product are too high, so new competitors cannot access the market. Then the current suppliers can sit on the product and wait for it to be at the right price, as long as it doesn't go to waste.
As you can see, all of this screens about real estate:
- Cartelization/collusion: The aren't that many companies that have properties on sale
- High cost to enter: Building is pricey, and it depends on the location of the property more than anything. So a building in one neighborhood is not a direct replacement of a building in another neighborhood.
- Real estate does not go to waste. Unless bad luck or poor choices, your building should work fine for a couple of generations. And worst case scenario, the land already has a price.
This is the time when governments should intervene and come up with a proposal to solve the cartelization.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
Have a big population, season it abundantly with poverty and low social mobility, add a dash of ignorance and low education, et voilà! A magic cauldron where this and other horrific shit happen on a daily basis (if not hourly).
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
This is mostly an American problem. Here in the EU it's less of an issue. Even here in Spain, where we work 9 to 6 or 9 to 7, is always because, either we have a big break in the middle of something. And regarding kids, I don't have them, but those who do in my company usually take the time off to go, pick then up and get them home or something if the school is nearby. Otherwise they arrange some home delivery or something, as I recall.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 100%
What about the respect given to an individual because of its status in society? There are certain people that have a base level of respect because of their seniority, job or role during a period of time.
Those people may or may not show the same amount of respect towards others as is shown to them in general. And I dare say, there will be people willing to defend them even if they are not up to expectations, just because they have that seniority/job/role.
Take for instance:
- Some politicians
- Some celebrities
- Some senior members of an organisation, like CEOs, CTOs, senior managers, etc.
camelCaseGuy 12 months ago • 90%
It doesn't make sense because it's some conspiracy theory level bullshit. It would imply that big CEOs or board members either:
- Possess a big percentage of the current real estate properties (and I mean, huge, like 50%)
- Big part of their assets are in real estate (again, more than 30%)
And, that of course, they are all colluding. Meaning, there is a kind of Illuminati kind of society of all the CEOs that get together with pie charts and excels to see how to maximize their profits.
It's a delusion that people with a low grasp of reality are using to cope with the fact that:
- Economy is shit
- There are people that, because of connection and money, are unscathed by the economic shitinnes we live in
- Because the economy is shit, companies are grasping to get out of red numbers
- Because we have had mediocre to sheerly bad managers in almost every industry for most of the last three decades thanks to some economic bonanzas, the only way they see they can improve the margins is by doing stupid things like back to office
I like Hanlon's razor for these cases: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I this, I feel, is indeed that.
X-Post the !lemmyshitposting@lemmy.world original
I've been wondering about this for a couple of days. Having users-only instances could help with moderation and content visualization (think in beehaws.org pulling the plug on lemmy.world), while giving the freedom to different communities mods to treat their content as they want. This would lend to three levels of administration/moderation. 1. At community level: Mods can let their communities be run as they want 2. At content-server level: By letting content-server admins run their instances with their own ethos. Letting people from certain users-only instances post, while other only read, and others are simply blocked. 3. At users level: By letting users-only server's admin to let their users access certain instances that are aligned with their own interest (no-porn instances, no-nsfw instances, etc.) This can lead to a kind of meta-db, where instances can declare their ethos, and then be automatically peered, or automatically severed. I think that the main benefit for this is that it's easier for newcomers to visualize. While having mixed instances removes redundancies, having this separation allows for more streamlined experience for the users.
Replico el thread de /r/argentina porque me parece que está bueno para sumar gente al bardo. Abajo respondo con mi contemplación de la semana.
Stolen from [/u/UralIveGotTonight](https://www.reddit.com/user/UralIveGotTonight) from Reddit, but it's a real TIL for me.
Basically this. I have just realized that as a guy whos teens where in the 00's, my musical ear has been groomed by awesome videogames with great soundtracks, like Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Gran Turismo, later Need For Speed and some FIFA. But what's the equivalent in today's time? I've bought a FIFA and a NFS recently, but the soundtracks are... OK-ish, I guess? I enjoyed the some Rocket League's season, though.
Linked it in a comment, but might be interesting to someone else. I know I used this a couple of times when I couldn't go to the box and had to do the WOD in the streets. It's not scientific nor mathematical by any means, but at least it gives you some rules and comparisons.
Esto! Creando un post para ver qué rediturros se están convirtiendo en lemmings (?). De paso, podríamos habilitar los mismo threads que habían de manera diaria. Hoy es martes de debates, no?