To help contribute, here’s the only meme I’ve ever done, which I did in response to news that Abrams was working on a new ST movie. And after seeing how well the franchise is going with SNW and LD, I feel it’s even more appropriate.
I used to work near a shelter and I’d get chased and harassed for money, I got threatened and yelled at regularly, and I got mugged once. Now being around the homeless makes me incredibly uneasy.
I donate to food banks and the shelters, but no way am I ever giving some unaccountable homeless person cash. If they want my help they can go through the proper channels, I know many won’t, but I don’t have the tools to find or help those people.
I feel bad mainly supporting the shelters because there are a lot of stories about people who go in and get robbed or assaulted and they avoid them after. They tend to build camps which get perennially torn down by the city/cops. I wish there was a better way to help those people.
The problem is a train needs to transport humans, whereas the collider just needs to transport teeny tiny particles and keep a receipt of their arrival.
I do love the image of scientists constructing little half buckyball helmets that they lovingly wrap around a lead atom before yeeting it to .9995% the speed of light
I despise whoever made new Reddit. You can only view comment chains two levels deep in new Reddit, then replies at one level, which means you need to constantly keep loading a new page and ads to see each reply in a thread.
I heard one of these pulled a sled full of stolen presents up a mountain for a little angry green guy, who might have been a Ferengi, but I doubt it because at the end of the story he returns the gifts without acquiring any profit.
My issue is socialism doesn’t resolve centralization of wealth.
If you write a book and everyone buys it, you’re rich now. Your second book will do better with your name recognition too, so you get wealthier by reputation rather than effort or quality. This is the exponential/multiplicative impact of wealth.
You need janitors and sanitation workers society and I doubt most people will just want to do it. Cleaning doesn’t contribute to the bottom line, you can’t say you cleaned $30 worth of value, so how much do you pay the janitor under socialist models?
You can see the same greedy processes as capitalism in condo strata and other situations where people must share costs. We’re greedy shits and half of us will let the world turn to shit to avoid paying more than they have to.
And what happens to people who want to produce things nobody wants? Sometimes this stuff pays off hugely like the math behind cryptography (which was nothing more than an academic exercise for like 100 years), but sometimes a person wants to spend all their time making macaroni Squidward vore content.
I agree CEOs are overpaid, they’re overpaid because there’s a perceived lack of them because being a CEO is all about your pedigree. Shareholders won’t make Jeff the 18 year employee into CEO because they don’t know who Jeff is, and Sandy over there went to Harvard and has run 6 companies before, starting with the one she inherited or bought with her trust fund. That’s not really fair at all, and it makes capitalism worse too.
I like the ideas of cooperatives and all that, but in my cynical eyes human greed is the center of the problem.
JAPANESE KNOTWEED (mander.xyz)
Tears of laughter probably for her (lemmy.world)
One thing the fandoms can agree on. (lemmy.world)
To help contribute, here’s the only meme I’ve ever done, which I did in response to news that Abrams was working on a new ST movie. And after seeing how well the franchise is going with SNW and LD, I feel it’s even more appropriate.
Poverty isn't a flaw its a feature. (lemmy.ml)
bro pls (mander.xyz)
Marriage squabbles (startrek.website)
Q: What is vulcanized rubber? (pixelfed.social)
A: Spock’s birth control.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds of Starfleet- Real! (files.catbox.moe)
Mod removed my first post because “AI ‘art’ is for Borgs”. So here is a real life version!
My friend's reaction when he invites me to a bar and I order a root beer (startrek.website)
I quit drinking in my 30s, it was interfering with my Ketracel White addiction and had to go.
DISHONOR. DEATH TO FATHER. DEATH TO FATHER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. (startrek.website)
I won’t download your stupid app (lemmy.world)
🎵 You can slash, you can stab. Having the time of your life ♪ (pixelfed.social)
JavaScript's days are numbered (dormi.zone)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/…/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu…
Does anyone know what breed of dig this is? I want the one with the single horn and tail. (lemmy.zip)
Does anyone know where I could get a phone inserted into my body? (Example below) (lemmy.zip)
Its getting old. (lemmy.ml)
Almost a shitpost. (lemmy.ananace.dev)
Neelix putting Vulcan restraint to the test (startrek.website)
The Renaissance man (startrek.website)