If you’re saying they all work for Wall Street, fair play.

Wildly different on social issues though.

They’re pre-rinsed and clean enough.

If it makes you happy though, awesome!

I swear, the people obsessed with enforcing one right way to do… everything.

It looks exhausting. I feel kind of bad for them and when they start rearranging other people’s work I always think of this sad lil raccoon for some reason:

“Gas is a little more convenient, so lets destroy our sole, shared, communal ecosystem we all rely on from one breath to the next so I don’t have to wait for my car to charge.”

Oh humans, don’t ever change. For Earth’s long-term sake, we need to make sure we commit to our species’ mass suicide for short term profit and convenience. No half measures.

Don’t trust corporations, especially those where one egomaniac has all the power.

I disagree with the inference of the second part, publically traded companies are forced by shareholders to lay off workers and sabotage long term plans for short term profits all day every day, and they’re emboldened and desperate knowing their grift has nowhere left to grow/metastasize on a finite world they’ve already largely raped, pillaged, and conquered for it’s capital value.

The problem isn’t whether one egomaniac majority shareholder capitalist or 1,000 egomaniac shareholder capitalists let their insatiable greed disease do the managing.

The problem is capitalism and the worst of human impulses it stokes exclusively by design.

Fuck Elon Musk the blood emerald heir with a bachelor’s degree playing pretend he’s Tony Stark though.

Believe it or not, it is better for your credit score to carry a low balance on your credit accounts than no balance, because glue tastes yummy to the credit agencies, I assume. /s

The reality is that lenders would rather have customers that utilize their credit and pay a lot of interest than ones that aren’t lucrative and pay off their credit use immediately. They’re looking for people willing to fall into debt traps that are ALSO able to reliably pay the interest within them without ever defaulting. That is what a perfect customer/capital battery looks like to consumer lenders.

Which means that credit scores are just an arcane measure to determine the potential profitability of borrowers, NOT a metric of the most responsible borrowers at all, because that would mean utilizing the least credit.

Behold the “efficiency” of market capitalism the self-serving economists love crowing about.

Efficient at making wealthy sociopaths richer for doing nothing, using the value of your labor, and nothing else.

Our sole, shared environment is COMMUNal.

Market Capitalism requires infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world of finite resources. Its very nature is as impossible as one pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.

IF humanity cared about its own future, it doesn’t btw, we’d be focused on shrinking humanity’s footprint significantly over the next few generations to find homeostasis/equilibrium with this world, the only world we will ever encounter as a species that is naturally hospitable to us.

But that’s a non starter. Not only will we not do that, but we will refuse to so much as temper our reckless growth/metastasis, even in the face of oblivion.

It’s darkly hilarious how many unwashed peasants, losers of this rigged global economy, still RAGE against the concept of an economy that focuses on having everyone’s basic needs met sustainably, because there would be no room for the super yachts and private jets they would never be allowed aboard anyway under such an economy.

We’re literally gambling with our own extinction, and losing, in the name of “but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step!” It’s the height of pathetic.

Yo-ho, all together, hoist the coooolors high…

“You will pay out the ass for cheap to produce, incoherent, patronizing ‘Reality’ garbage, because you don’t deserve more, and you will be grateful.”

-capitalists

Hey, fun fact: capitalists and pirates are natural enemies. ☠️ Yo ho ho.

chugs down cool, refreshing, non-exploitative Lemmy.

Oh man, you guys still drink those pisswater flavors?

There is a paradox of confidence.

The people most confident in their competence tend to be the least competent in practice.

The Dunning–Kruger effect.

Self-cheerleaders tend to be morons, the most intelligent people by their nature tend to second guess their own abilities. Idiots just stroll through life taking whatever credit they can grab.

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”

-Socrates

"Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.’

-Donald Trump

See the difference? By genuinely doubting, aka examining your abilities, you are in more competent company.

The quintessential Walmart dilemma stops it.

You make a hardware store with knowledgable, helpful, well paid staff, ethically sourced quality products, and sell hammers for $20 because that’s what your buying power at your scale allows you to turn a reasonable, sustainable profit on.

Walmart pays overseas slavers to make 10,000 hammers at $1 each and they sell them at the new Walmart that just moved in for $7. Customers need to find it themselves because the employees correctly don’t give a shit as they’re paid shit.

Sadly, us peasants have proven, given the opportunity and out of necessity, we will support Walmart and their $7 slave labor made, slave labor sold shit hammer, before supporting a local business with ethical business practices selling a $20 hammer, even at higher quality.

Oh and after Walmart has put main street out of business with $7 hammers, they’ll raise that price to $18 and pocket the difference, as was the plan.

Integrity costs more to deliver than exploitation, and the less you have the less you can afford to support integrity in business. That’s why most of America’s main streets are shadows of their former selves, that degradation started far before Amazon and internet shopping started doing to Walmart what Walmart did to honorable entrepreneurs.

Americans sure do love a “great deal.” over time though, those great deals cost us all more than we could imagine. We never considered the inevitable outcome of those great deals we got by dealing with amoral, exploitative businesses. We were so short sighted that we just assumed that those amoral businesses willing to hurt anyone from employees to suppliers still had the customer’s best interests at heart. We thought we were in on the hustle with those $7 hammers, when we were just another mark.

Reminder, prior to the 1980s, America largely had an entirely different and actually equitable business model, even in large corporations: Customers first, employees second, investors third. This makes sense because if customers and employees are unhappy, the business will fail. It was well understood that happy customers + happy employees = investors make money and are happy too.

Then the greed class, led by people like John Francis Welch, apt last name, and sold by mascots like Ronald Reagan, waged and won the class war handily by convincing the laborers it would be unseemly to engage in class war while they were economically slaughtered. Unchecked greed went from being acknowledged as the vile personal failing and personality deficit it is to being America’s core cultural value, one we’ve been exporting globally ever since to my shame by association. The George Baileys appealing to basic humanity were snuffed out, and we now all live in Pottersville on Pottersearth. (These are It’s a Wonderful Life references, for the uninitiated)

Now business priorities are defined by truly sociopathic capital markets, and the global business model is now investors first, investors second, investors third, and fuck you your position was outsourced to an 8 year old slave child in Bangladesh so I can pocket an extra dollar lol.

That’s why you’re miserable as an employee, and why you can’t get service worth dogshit as a customer. Blame the capitalists who decided to cannibalize their own societies and planet for short-term profit. The ones that were already making a lot more and living larger than their employees, but demanded to live like modern Pharoahs on humanity’s back.

Because it’s worth you subsisting in fear and uncertainty, unable to afford to actually live a decent life, to travel to places and have experiences, so that the big mega yacht an oligarch commissioned can have a slightly smaller support mega yacht to tug it around and go where the big mega yacht is too big to fit. Priorities, duh!

Imagine being the poor bastard that has to hook a cat up to a milking machine.

“EEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRREIR!”

RIP

Therapist: Start with a story

Disney: No

Therapist: Then how did Palpatine return?

Disney: …Somehow!

The United States was dealt its final blow half a century ago at the hands of an Alzheimer’s patient by the name of Ronald Reagan.

This is the necrotic stage.

Humanity is doomed in the short term by its own hand, and that is the absolute best fucking thing that can happen for the planet and the other life on it medium to long term.

We appear to be a self-solving blight upon the natural world. As the late, great George Carlin put it, the planet is ramping up to “shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.”

As a species, we’ve proven beyond all doubt that we are too malicious to be stewards of this world, and too self-important to ever peacefully recede in numbers in order to find equilibrium with this world as inhabitants, rather than have dominion over it.

Our macro-cancer ass of a species has got to go.

Cloned, cultured meat just got FDA approval and I feel like im the only one excited about it.

I enjoy eating meat too much, but the cruelty gets to me. Grown, real meat would solve this at a fraction of the emissions to produce.

https://apnews.com/article/cultivated-meat-lab-grown-cell-based-a88ab8e0241712b501aa191cdbf6b39a