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  • accusing them of “wanting too much”

    It’s not accusations, it’s a statement of a fact. How many smartphones would an average westerner own in their life? How much clothes? All other useless “things” that nobody can live without? When europoors were starving and couldn’t afford living in Europe, they moved and colonised America and Siberia, maybe it’s time to think about moving to Venezuela or something where you’d definitely be able to afford a house and whatnot?

    And on a slightly less vitriolic note, why blame corpos for inequality when you yourself vote for the officials who make the corpo dreams come true? I mean they do only what people allow them to do.


  • The real answer to that is, dear firstworlders, you want too much and you think you deserve it. For the entirety of history people lived in big families exactly because they couldn’t afford all the shit on their own, the couldn’t get more houses out of nowhere or easily get more land. The shithole countries live like that right now and nobody says I’m gonna stop reproducing because I can’t decide whether I want a steamdeck or like a child crib. Because of this mindset we do actually have the global warming, and no amount of banned (but not really) plastic straws will fix that.

    You want infinite expansion of wealth? Go to Mars.


  • grendel@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.worldWhat a good dude
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    5 months ago

    Sure thing! Just answer one question: why is there so many mentally challenged people (such as yourself) using lemmy? I’m really surprised to see so many idk who? Retards? Children? Manchildren? And I’m not talking about me being downvoted, I’m talking about people responding more or less like you en masse.







  • grendel@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.worldWhat a good dude
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    5 months ago

    Hurr durr default reply “open source do it yourself”. If the feature was requested over a decade ago with overwhelming support from users, if the feature is default behavior for many other opensource players, I can only blame dev team for being stubborn and not giving a fuck about users. When I attempted to switch to vlc I’ve encountered more than one example of this insanity - many old posts asking or reporting something with replies like 5, 6, 8 years later: “still not fixed”, “still no solution”.

    Also, if you take a closer look at how it’s developed, it’s not your normal OPEN open source community, it’s a walled garden as much as it can be while still being open source. Devs aren’t focused on UX at all.

    So why would I bother contributing to such project? There are better players, even if not cross-platform ones.




  • grendel@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksWords fail me
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    5 months ago

    Same argument was made about Jan 6

    cuz it was just a pathetic mob, not a civil war. Look up how civil wars/revolutions start. It is almost always a gradual process with enough time for escalation and enough time for people to pick sides. I’m not saying it’s gonna 100% start one day, but if it starts all your arguments about “future career” can go to toilet. People will be thinking about their careers under new regime or whatever.


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    5 months ago

    so what? What if a whole airbase chooses a side or side is chosen as a result of inner struggle and it falls under control of the guys you don’t like? You talk as if it never happened before, take a look at recent civil wars, government doesn’t always keep absolute control over its own assets.


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    5 months ago

    What if, and hear me out, what if the F35 pilot would chose not to bomb civillians even very naughty ones? What if, and hear me out, what it the pilot has the same values as the insurgents? You talk as if civil war means random people vs all might of the state. In reality it’s people vs people, and it can be anyone.