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Cake day: November 30th, 2023
  • DogWater@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•war plans leak
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    2 months ago

    My guess is that people are nerdy and passionate.

    There’s going to be a lot of overlap of people who have access to the info and want to play that same tank/jet/boat/whatever in war thunder.

    And when the game isn’t right or someone is telling you you’re wrong the allure of playing the forbidden knowledge card gets too enticing to resist lol

  • DogWater@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•New retirement plan just dropped
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    6 months ago

    Its important to recognize modern capitalist control as a form of hostage taking. “Pay us the ransom or your critical infrastructure get its”, even as we’re receiving fingers and earlobes in the mail with every passing year.

    This is so fuckin true.

    Solidarity is about liberating these critical components of infrastructure and operating them for the benefit of the public.

    BINGO if we have the power to protest effectively then we can actually make them hurt. Right now I feel like we don’t have that power at all. Just citing my example of the railroads, they stepped in quick and made sure the goods kept moving.

    The goal isn’t to shut down these institutions, but to run them without profiteers leeching the excess revenue.

    Absolutely.

    That’s why some of the most effective popular economic protests don’t involve suspending services, but operating them while refusing to collect fees for service.

    This is interesting to me I always understood keeping services running for the sake of not harming innocent citizens But I didn’t really think it was effective. I could see a public transport rail system doing that and it working, but how do workers in other industries prevent the corporation they work for from taking in the revenue

  • DogWater@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•New retirement plan just dropped
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    6 months ago

    Remember when the railroad threatened to strike and nacy pelosi said they would throw them in jail if they didn’t go to work…fucking unreal.

    A few take aways:

    They need us so fucking bad

    They will do anything to maintain control

    No one at that level is fighting for you

    Solidarity will be hard to achieve because those threats will be too much for people on the ropes in their day to day life to endure.

  • DogWater@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Genie dislikes cloud
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    11 months ago

    The real answer has to lie in the definition of “nothing” in the context of what counts as having something to show for your spent money vs not having anything to show for it and succeeding.

    It’s most basic form is:

    If nothing means no physical products then you can’t buy a jet, but you can donate it all to charities.

    You win

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    So the next level of having nothing at the end may prohibit donations, considering that to be a type of “gifting”

    So now you have to spend it on a service. No holding on to goods, no donations.

    So you use AWS and set up a bullshit loop of web traffic that produces a 100M$ bill for server usage.

    You win.

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    So now we must ask if the genie considers the service performed to you by AWS to be “something.”

    What could we possibly do next?

    Set up a charity ourselves and use the 100M as seed capital? Maybe, but if you own it or gain the assets like buildings or something you might lose.

    Buy 50M lotto tickets and hope you don’t win? (Powerball is 2$ a piece I think.). Maybe…but that’s risky. That’s like a 1 in 6 or 7 chance to win at that point, plus you’re nearly guaranteed to win snaller prizes which would have to be dealt with.

    I think the answer is a boat. A fuckin huge one that’s a little older. This does two things, 1.) its a single object holding all the value. If we can end the month without it, then we win. 2.) it’s easy to get into dangerous and perilous situations in a boat.

    Sail that bitch into a hurricane and try to turn around. This runs the risk of failing if the boat lives, but all you gotta do is turn it sideways relative to the huge waves. As long as you genuinely were sailing the ship and not sabotaging it I don’t think it would fall under the “throwing money away” category.

    Idk. It’s hard I’ve you get ticky tacky with the definition of nothing. I guess you could just yolo options. Either you’re going to be broke or you’ll have billions of dollars by the end so you win either way? Maybe the boat thing ain’t the answer. Lol I’m gonna leave it anyway.

  • DogWater@lemmy.worldtoAntiwork@lemmy.ml•Fuck this guy.
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    1 year ago

    No, the automation technology gives them that power, ubi is a consequence of it. The more productivity per worker a company can achieve, the fewer employees they need.

    You really think as technology advances and companies implement more and more of it, that companies only end up with more leverage if the local government is doing UBI?

    UBI is welfare product that helps low bracket earners. If the tax code was functional it would be paid for by the corporations and 1% themselves and even so it’s still extremely helpful where it’s implemented.