Only do it if itâs supposed to be part of the wedding. Otherwise, donât do it. It would be very disruptive and distracting and could make an otherwise beautiful moment very awkward. And itâd be something the bride and groom would have to remember for the rest of their lives every time they put on their rings.
Weddings have too much going on for anyone to keep track. Itâs not a concert. No one is checking for tickets. After the wedding, receptions have assigned seating. But by then, youâd be long gone and planning the next Tolkiened wedding.
Just curious, do you want everyone living in cookie cutter multifamily boxes or are people allowed to have houses and different size pieces of land and buildings in your utopia?
A fan of Zizek film analysis? Thatâs definitely one of his positions, related to how much post-apocalyptic media still portrays capitalism in practice post-apocalypse.
Tell me what type of society you are imagining please, in the real world it is already difficult for the average entrepreneur not to evade VAT on at least 30% of his purchases, because if we donât talk about Nordic countries or Switzerland then I donât see it feasible how people can accept even more interventions from the government in their lives.
Didnât the bailouts return less money with inflation though? We canât even give students less interest than inflation with student loans. If the tables were turned the banks wouldnât have taken less than 5% interest.
Its not economically feasible because modern economics functions to create monetary value not tangible value for our society. You shouldnât view it through the lense of what is âeconomically feasibleâ we should view it through the lense of what we should value as a society. Homelessness exists as a motivating coercive force to keep us buying into a system that would kick us to the curb if any of us were dealt a few bad hands in life. Its why our insurance is tied to our employment. The system is fundamentally broken for humanity to exsist inside of healthily, so much so that alot of us cant even imagine a society outside of it.
My guy, you are aware the the whole point of the solar punk movement is about using daydreaming and art about an ideal utopia to help bring it about right? Imagination is one of humanityâs superpowers, and Iâm currently building the class conciousness necessary to have an actionable future, where the end goal is an extremely solar punk esc future, I am not under the illusion that I will live to seek the future I am fighting for, but that doesnt mean Iâm not going to keep working towards it by spreading its message.
USSR style. We can all be our ideal selves. We can finally be writers and artists living in our own large single family homes who teach children on the side, but only when we feel up to it.
And no one has to be the guy who works on the sewers or anything unpleasant like that. Plus, maybe someone wants to do that work, idk. And if not, uh⊠robots can do it. Who builds, programs, hauls around, and uses the robots whose sole job is to unclog sewers? Uh, nerds, I guess. Or⊠other robots, maybe, idk.
There will be no need for forced labor at all under this new system.
Single income families should be allowed to exist, families are more important than corporate profits. Furthermore it is unrealistic to not work and just collect rent from folks who do
You lack vision here. If weâre canceling mortgages, then why not get rid of other expenses? Surely water heat and electricity are human rights and should be covered by taxes. And we could all likely agree on food as well. Why would we coerce people to work jobs they dislike? We could live our ideal lives if only we dismantled the economic system one layer at a time.
âŠjust donât think about the details of how weâll encourage people to do dirty jobs or youâll get downvoted. Thatâs bad vibes.
Or just build a neoagrarian economic system that doesnât require people to be coerced into doing shit jobs, as they now have high technology to help them build their own shit.
Even septic tanks could be dug, installed and pumped through automation if we all branded together and invested the time and effort into building it instead of being discouraged by people like you.
But you know, why try? After all, someone has to be a slave so letâs keep enslaving each other so you can be comfortable, right? Fuck everyone else. Only you matter
So if I wasnât here- yâall would up and start building the utopia and get the septic robots working.
If you say so. Hey, you know what? Please go ahead and start working on those things regardless. If you manage to build an autonomous sewage worker, you could probably make a lot of money while you wait for the economic system to change. Feel free to comment with your progress, I wish you luck.
All Iâm hearing is fantasies from people who canât pay their rent/mortgage and would rather burn it all down without a plan than work a 9-5. But sure, weâll automate everything and no one will have to work and we can all live in big houses and play video games and post on social media all day.
I mean, obviously, I wonât be automating everything. That sounds like work. Someone probably wants to solve all the problems, though. We can let them do it in their spare time while we chill. I presume thatâs you?
Honestly, it sounds awesome. Lmk when I can quit my job and not pay monthly bills.
No, youâre literally not listening. I proposed not one but two pragmatic suggestions to implement what weâre asking for, and instead of thinking about what Iâm saying, youâre just laughing me off and dismissing me because you donât care about having an honest conversation. Youâre just here to vent your emotions and pick on left-wingers who you view as beneath you.
You forget that my suggestions arenât actually for you. Theyâre for the benefit of everyone else in the thread. Youâre nothing but a springboard for us to jump off of to think and actually make what we want happen.
I guess sitting on your rotten, cigarette hole filled couch in your rotting Alabama trailer and putting down anyone who is different from you is better than actually doing anything to better your life. Like getting a GED, or actually doing honest work instead of living off of government benefits and hypocritically attacking anyone who supports government programs to help the needy like yourself.
Iâm from the North and vote Democrat. I just like to live in reality. You know, where we think about things like who is going to do the dirty jobs when no one has to work unless they want to.
What was your solution for that again?
⊠And when that half assed solution doesnât work, are we gonna go without sewers, or are the people with guns going to force someone to do it with the threat of violence?
Bruh, its about valuing the people who work on the sewer more than the people who work at banks making money out of thin air. Its about shifting the whole paradigm of our society and focusing on what matters, I wouldnât expect a âtoryâ to understand that though.
So why do folks who speculate and gamble with more money than a plumber will see in their lifetime make so much money while providing effectively nothing of value to society?
The ideal world isnât a realistic world unless you can solve for plumbing, etc. If the meme was tax the rich, Iâd have upvoted and moved on. We should improve the world we have rather than strive for dreams.
My guy, we have solved plumbing. You lack vision, i dont want to tax the rich, I want to abolish the system that allows the rich to exist in the first place.
To each according to their needs from each according to their abilities, and I love how you are just going to ignore how labor is forced in a capitalist system by the threat of dying on the streets if you dont show up to work. Labor is forced in America every damn day.
Iâm not ignoring it at all, I even highlighted it in another comment above.
It is hard to beat the current system that encourages people to work a single profession for ~30 years 5 days a week in order to foster expertise. And somehow, (rightly or not) manages to make most of them feel like they do it willingly.
I am highlighting the very much more clearly forced labor that arises in communist systems. The kind that people canât gaslight themselves into thinking they do willingly. Which you seem to be ignoring as hard as you can. Stunning projection tbh.
Youre comparing making monarchists and nazi POWs (and due to corruption other folks getting caught up in that) work to repair the soviet union to making slaves out of drug addicts in the United States and somehow thinking the former is worse.
No no, I definitely do. Iâm not the one willfully ignoring the reality of how ridiculous âeveryone can be artists and writers and no one has to workâ sounds.
Having worked for the MTA on the subway system years back, I invite you all to remember that we built one of the very first subway systems in the world, definitely first in scale, knowing weâd make mistakes in implementation, along with a lot of successful ideas.
Everyone else learns from our mistakes, we gladly hosted the engineering team from Los Angeles and Bangkok when they wanted to share notes with us.
With almost 200miles/320km of public tracks, this is easily the most successful mass transit system internationally. "BuT gWaFiTi BaD :( "
One could make a similar post of a clean American city and European cities with graffiti everywhere.
Most all major cities have graffiti. I will say that Iâm pretty surprised at the number of EU cities that have massive graffiti everywhere. The US has issues, but a lot of larger graffiti is limited to poorer, less-traveled or more inaccessible areas. EU? Huge graffiti right across shop fronts roll-down shutters on the Main Street. Surprising.
France is a shit hole compared to most US cities, and Iâm VERY well traveled. Spain? Absolutely the opposite. Cleanest cities Iâve ever seen and some of the nicest architecture too.
This crap isnât a monolith, and the US has plenty of good mass transportation systems.
Hi friend, please reread and note the caveat, âone of the very firstâ, which position number 5 certainly includes.
Also, a bit childish to want to rank systems based on creation date. If you feel like âlosingâ, please read on:
NYC total system length is about 800 miles (1.1km)
yearly ridership: 1.8bn rides
If we count the elâs (elevated rapid transit, which is still running), first ride was in iirc 1868.
But look, the important thing is that both our countries (presuming you live in the UK) have nice mass transit systems to keep cars off the roads. I look forward to visiting your country and riding its underground system at some point.
When somebody says one of the first it implies by time (and US was 30 years later. ) Thus why that link I posted rates them by creation date. If you had claimed by best subway by milage I would link to which one ranks them by order of mileage. If I feel like losing. LOL It isnât a zero sum game we are playing, Just facts I linked. Sorry you feel so offended. Hope you have a good new year.
Yeah, by saying first it would mislead people into thinking USA were pioneers, but they were actually fifth because it took USA longer to institute. Not judging, just sayingâŠand it makes sense because UK has been a country with cities for thousands of years, while USA is relatively newâŠwith a slower need to get people moved
What idiot thinks anyone wants âstuff for free.â What the fuck do you think taxes are? We arenât expecting people to shit houses out of their asses. Weâre expecting our government WHICH WE PAY to provide us with basic dignity
Also, Iâm not sure why you think the government owes every citizen a house.
Iâm not arguing against social safety nets, but straight up paying for housing for every citizen is how you end up with everyone living in shoebox apartments.
Iâm sure that you havenât even considered the numbers at all on this. If you think the current taxes will pay for it, youâre mistaken.
Even if we took the entire military budget, that would be less than $2,500 per citizen per year.
âit took me three seconds to come up with a BAD implementation, which not a single person in this thread asked for, which doesnât work! Therefore ALL implementations are bad! Ha!â
Thereâs a huge gulf between what this comic says (essentially housing, a basic human necessity) should be free, and what youâre attacking (everything is free). One of those is ABSOLUTELY doable. We live in a world of gross excess, if we stop arguing over how to kill people more efficiently, stop worrying about printing more money, we could give people a small home. Of course someone still has to pay/work for it, no oneâs stupid lol.
Even if itâs a âshoebox apartmentâ itâs better than streets. Itâs one of the basic requirements for life. And whoâs to say that provided home has to be your only option?
Honestly, even if we replaced current employment with a 10-year indentured servitude contract with a guaranteed 1000 sq. ft. home and free utilities and maintenance for the rest of your life, thatâd still be better than what we have now in a lot of ways.
People only like the system weâre in because it provides the illusion of choice, not actual choices.
So far the people advocating for communism ITT are not even sly about shifting goalposts with the wind.
Specifically OP, OP responded to a comment about free housing being unrealistic with âsingle income families should be allowed to existâ followed by something else that wasnât relevant to free housing being unrealistic.
At this point I just think theyâre big communism shills. (I shouldnât have to say this is a joke, but I know that I do.)
Theyâre just children who expect everything to be hand fed to them by the government and have no sense of nuance. They look at the utopia that communism promises without realizing that humans are selfish and greedy animals, so itâll never work.
These people are a good example of why echo chambers are a bad thing. They donât stop to think about why their beliefs might be wrong.
Also if humans were naturally greedy it would make sense for 99 percent of humanity to overthrow the 1 percent and distribute the benefits of society more equally.
Thereâs an entire corpus of books and documents critiquing the current system and on how a society based on mutual aid would work. None of them âexpect everything to be provided for freeâ.
Considering you cant name a book, i doubt it. Iâm currently reading The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato and Yurugu by Marimba Ani. I cant recommend both of them enough. Its about culture as much as it is about economics.
If one is a student if economics, naming a book on economics to confirm your bonafides is as low a bar to jump over as humanly possible. Books arenât cringe, you are just basic.
I mean, no. Iâm not going to go dig up the syllabus for my econ classes just to prove a point.
You clearly donât understand economics if you think paying for housing for 335,000,000 citizens is even remotely feasible without a major tax increases on everyone.
Communism is a nice thought experiment, but itâll never actually work because humans are awful.
I am not aware of a way to have coercion free society. But I am very sure we can massively reduce the amount of coercion necessary to keep our current society running well.
The general reaction to this post being âWhoâs Matpat?â is super interesting to me. And the comments saying that Tom Scott and Matpat arenât old are also interesting since they follow the trend in Lemmy of the average age being a lot older than any other social network. Iâm Gen Z and primarily consume content via a very Zoomer-heavy platform, YouTube, and the only other social network I have is Lemmy, which Iâd say is very millennial-dominated. Which is why I stayed on Lemmy when I first got on here in June, since I liked the difference in opinion on the same topics on Lemmy and YouTube. Nothing related to the post, just something Iâve noticed for a while but never shared.
To be fair, I didnât know his handle was MatPat, because I only knew about him as âthe Game Theory guy I stopped watching almost ten years agoâ. If you told me Game Theory was quitting the internet , I would know who you meant.
I remember YouTube being millennial dominated. I wonder if itâs just a phase before realizing youâre throwing comments into the void and by being a central social site that still allows anonymity, it just invokes trolls - like xitter.
Wait till you find out YouTube isnât that old and came about because some horny dudes couldnât find the video of Janet Jacksonâs boob. I mean, 18 is ancient for the internet and other tech, but Iâd say it goes beyond just being a website with its social prevalence.
I feel like people not knowing this Matpat person may also just be a case of the channel being called âThe Game Theoristsâ.
I have seen videos of that channel suggested, but never clicked on any, because it looked like typical content mill stuff to me. If you donât watch any videos, youâll only ever read âThe Game TheoristsââŠ
Iâm trying to figure out what X-ray equipment can be stolen that is worth only thousands of dollars. A case of those films you bite on when they x-ray your teeth?
And to think someone might post a comment on lemmy and capitalize every word! Nobody makes stuff up on the internet. Nobody capitalizes every word in a sentence. Sheeple will believe everything these days
Yeaaah probably fake, but given that it could be easier to just get it back by asking rather than rescheduling patients, dealing with the police, and waiting for insurance to cover the expensive equipment itâs⊠possible that this is legit (probably not, but possible)
Beat me to it. I havenât had an unsupported file error in the decade Iâve been using VLC. Maybe one time I had to download something to support a rare file type
Something I donât see a lot of people do but totally should is get a really long HDMI cable and snake it around the room. You can then hook up a laptop or hell even your desktop directly to the TV. Think my cable is around 20 feet and I got it off Amazon for dirt cheap. Works wonders when I want to watch something on Plex (a lot of smart TVâs have trouble with Plex)
20 feet is fine unless you want 4K 120 Hz and stuff like that. I'm which case 20 feet may also be fine with a passive cable, but a bit on the edge of where AOC starts to make sense.
As for 1080p and 4K30 I think 10 meters can work passively.
Edit: My in-head unit conversion was a bit off, 20 feet is probably a bit over what's sensible for 4K120. But it's probably fine for non-UHS HDMI.
This! 10meter hdmi cable came in really handy in my last apartment for connecting pc to tv while having the cable completely hidden all thr time. Now I would need like 20m cable and I would have to drill it trough walls. Just laptop and chromecast now. Itâs a bit sad that I cant just open any game on my tv without carrying the pc from another room
My gaming PC sits on the other side of the wall of my living room. Iâve got HDMI and USB going right through the wall. Wireless keyboard and mouse on the coffee table. Itâs worked great for years, and for couch gaming I generally use a Steam Controller or DS4 in Bluetooth mode.
My living room TV is smart but I donât use any of those features and keep it disconnected from a network.
Happened to me a few months ago. Had a ticket for our District Attorney office, trying to playback a security camera footage from a parking lot or something. It would open, but, the person that was supposed to be seen would show up for a few frames and glitch out.
Turns out the cam system it came from uses some very proprietary codec. So the footage was effectively useless without their special sauce player/codec
I guess. I tried everything within reason to play it. VLC, mpv, windows media player etc. all with various degrees of failure. Even went down a rabbit hole of trying codecs from websites that looked frozen in time from the late 90âs, as it was an old cam system.
Iâm working in live video and thereâs a lot of proprietary codecs out there that vlc doesnât play by default. Most of those are lossless/very high bitrate lossy formats designed to be encoded and decoded quickly for things like instant replays, so not something the average consumer would get their hands on.
I recently downloaded some YouTube videos that my dad wanted to play through USB with his Android based projector, as it doesnât have the PlayStore and the videos didnât want to play (and I knew they worked fine on my mac) I went quickly to its store just to find out VLC wasnât there, and I didnât have time to sideload stuff (I didnât even know if it was possible), hopefully there was FX File Explorer and that one comes with a video player which was able to save the day.
âTechnology bad! Oh no muh manual labor job!â -everyone throughout history
AI isnât the issue, itâs the fact that we donât have any kind of system set up to handle the eventual takeover of the economy by robotics and AI.
Nah, coming from data and signal processing fields, I think AI is overused by ppl that are incompetent. There are much more elegant, measurable and efficient ways of signal processing.
Anybody can use AI, okay. But is still a shitty solution.
AI works like a black box for regular users and top AI researchers. Thatâs why is not a good design. As a researcher you cannot obtain direct information of what the AI model is doing inside. Just results.
Idk why you all know AI so much now. You know that AI existed since the 80âs right? xD.
Now everybody fan of it because we can waste ton of resources to run this technological abomination thatâs basically the difference between now and then.
I donât! I want people who are concerned about the misuse of AI, particularly by corporations and world governments, to learn how to use AI to fight back against our oppressors or at least make AI-powered technologies that are helpful for common people, and to archive how it works, particularly how it fails.
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