Marketing should be banned.
Its sole purpose is to get people to buy shit they do not need, in order to make someone more money than they deserve. All through manipulation of your brain.
It’s the sole reason we are over consuming.
Not as hot a take as you might think. It can’t happen of course, at least not under our current economic structure
💯 on point here. Everyone knows it and doesn’t understand why.
https://bettermarketing.pub/the-great-marketing-deregulation-2125a0efe094
I like the 1990s Super Mario Brothers movie
They went so needlessly deep on the world building while being completely disconnected to the IP.
I’m so glad I saw this cause I’m getting a physical copy of it soon.
It is far and away a better story than the new one.
Eggnog should be sold all winter, and not just during the holidays.
It isn’t too hard to make! Sometimes I make a jug in the off months when I want a hit of Christmas.
I was sad when I went to the store the day after Christmas for Christmas chocolate on sale, and they were all out. Like I’m fine with it being seasonal. It’s something I would really just want with sweatpants and a blanket. But I would drink it all winter if available.
I would even argue January is a better time for it. It’s always colder in January.
This but with glögg (christmas drink in nordic countries)
This but with Christmas cake, a fruit cake with white icing on top.
I’m not sure whether I should upvote many of these because I don’t agree with them, or down vote because I don’t agree with them.
You can upvote and downvite wether or not a comment is relevant to the discussion, instead of the classical facebook like (originally, reddit was supposed to work like that)
The unabomber was right, but his way of doing things wasn’t
I got an advertisement for “AI girlfriend service” and my first thought that followed was “You know, I’ve never read the Unibomber’s manifesto”.
You aren’t missing much. Mostly a whine-fest but retold by the most serious dry teacher you have ever had in your life. Me being really charitable here: modern STEM has not solved many of the problem that people thought it would solve, has created new challenges it is mostly unable to solve, and has created orphans of science education. People who had to spend everything they had to get to the position they hold and as a result are warped twisted unable to bond with other people.
This was really my best shot at it. He picks and chooses to make his points, he projects his life on other people, he demands thst modern society solve every problem even problems that the past had but didnt bother caring about. His points are very incoherent and it is difficult to pin him down to an actual argument, the few times you can a basic level of research shows how incorrect he was.
Example: a career in the STEM field can be demonstrated to be a wise choice. Low divorce rates, high employment rates, longer lifespans, and high salaries. Yeah he was fucked over by people that doesn’t mean life is shit it means nothing more than what I said. And if you think that people will be all nice and happy living in peace once we get rid of modern civilization well I suggest a conversation with an anthropology major.
You are on point with this analysis.
I hate Nutella, taste like greasy watered down cheap chocolate.
The EU version differs from the US version, and even the EU recipe was tampered with and now contains way fewer hazelnuts. The pre-2000 generation was peak nutella. No idea what letter you associate with those folks, I’m way out of the loop.
Copyright and intellectual property as a whole is actually bad for artists and authors and only serves the interests of large corporations.
The idea of
coffeecopyright is good, but corporate lobbying and the current most-money-wins legal system makes our implementation of copyright harmful. TL;DR: Interface good, implementation bad.I think even the interface is just intended as a band-aid fix for the current economic system (not gonna say the C word). In a better world art and media would be a public good.
But I do get your point. Could absolutely be improved for the current system.
While I agree that this is true currently, I do not believe that it necessarily must be. Life plus 70 years is some top-tier bullshit, and no one who isn’t a corporate bigwig will fight you on that. But 20 years from release date is not, especially if enforced equally on all creative works instead of just the ones made by artists who can afford corporate lawyers. Imagine if we had some way to protect against art theft or freebooting besides the honor system. Imagine if OpenAI actually had to pay artists to use their works to train Midjourney instead of just saying “it would be impossible to do this without massive amounts of copyright infringement, therefore you should just let us.”
Milk is delicious
I am the milkman.
My milk is delicious.
Special Delivery coming up!
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Warm or cold because I need to know if I should violently disagree
Warm milk is repulsive.
Except if it’s warm milk with honey. That’s your “hot chocolate” 2.0
Not a fan whatsoever, had to drink it as a kid, hated it, never changed.
Best glass of milk I had was at the top of Tokyo tower, filled with ice.
For the most part I do enjoy my job and have spent time with my manager outside of work just because we enjoy each other’s company.
Dude, I love my job. I mean, I spent 20 years working jobs I hated before I figured out why I hated working them, then found something that fit into the pigeonhole of all the parts I wanted, but once I did all that, yeah, it’s the best
The problem with democracy is, too many people are allowed to attend.
The actual problem is that most people don’t show up.
Edit: sorry for the long ass comment that you never asked for lmao
The problem with democracy is when you try to put too many people under the same democracy.
All the happiest, least corrupt, highest educated places in the world are small democratic nations.
I understand that this might be an oversimplification, they also tend to be rich, old, and have access to natural resources. You can’t just say “local government!” As a magic spell in the middle of the desert and solve everyone’s problems in a swoop.
On the other hand, maybe they’re rich and old because small nations work well.
In any case, the point still stands. If we were inventing democracy from the ground up today, and one man suggested that the best way to go about it would be for him to lead 330 million people spread across 4 different timezones, from mountainous and snowy areas to scorching desserts, people would probably put him on the list of people to never put in power. Because that’s fucking insane. But that’s how it ended up working. So then we’ve had to try to shoehorn in an entire bureaucracy of an institution behind that insane idea to somehow make this work for everyone. A huge, tangled mess of trying to be representative of the rural farmer with little education, the homeless in New York, and the actors in Hollywood all at the exact same time. People who will in all likelihood never cross paths, but will now all be forced in to the same marmelade jar. And then we just hope for the best?
I think it wouldnt take long for someone to instead suggest that maybe we should group people into more natural sections of people who live in the same area and generally need the same thing. And then make it work within that area.
I realize there are state laws and governments, which is good! I just think we need more of it. And more authority and independence to the local governments. Because we are putting entirely too much stock in one cake figure guy for anyone’s good.
I also believe other, huge nations would benefit from the same treatment.
The problem too is that too many people are too uneducated
There should be a legal minimum limit on the amount of education someone has to be able to vote. That education must include how to read and understand bullshit, how to see facts
Despite the major problems with modern society I think we’re still living in the best age in human history so far.
but it could be better!
Absolutely, and we should keep fighting to make it better. I think we should look at how things have improved over the centuries as inspiration that we can make things better and it’s not hopeless.
We do, everything is safer than ever before.
Climate change, however, will kill loads of us.
Almost nobody knows what Zionism is. The idf /= Zionism. All it takes is looking at the first result for when you search for “what is Zionism”
god i got really confused for a second because i thought you were divide assignmenting the idf by zionism
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_assignment
I typed that on a phone so I couldn’t type the does not equal sign On a separate note, thank you Lemmy, I completely understand this comment thanks to you
Honestly until this Palestine situation, I didn’t know what Zionism was. It was always just one of those terms that got defined as “anyone I don’t like” and it just kinda faded into a mental blindspot whenever I saw it.
The people who claim to fight the hardest for civil rights, actually wind up making the situation worse, not better.
I don’t mean the people who fight the hardest, but the people who are the most in your face about it…
Truly fighting for civil rights usually means defending some of the worst people that exist, and most aren’t actually willing to do that.
Reminds me of that guy who drove kkk members to meetings, he had a collection of kkk uniforms he was given as his friends quit. I cant remember his name, he was a guitarist or bassist I think. He stood for thier rights of free speech and ended up changing thier minds.
People who complain about 24h news networks often consume too much news themselves.
People should not be ostracized or even punished for liking fictional stuff. Yes, i am talking about Lolicon/Shotacon.
