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  • Dasus@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•All Knights Were Rule
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    7 days ago

    The main advancement of capitalism was the rich handing their knights to the state

    Seriously, why do people think capitalism = market economy?

    How hard is it to understand that capitalism is only a single form of market economies, and literally the worst one?

    Capitalism didn’t bring down the concept of divine right, ffs.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue PlungesEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Only to be CEO of a massive capitalist company.

    I’ve heard a few tales of some CEO’s (of very small companies) here in the Nordics actually being generous to their employees. Like it’s most definitely a rarity, but I believe it is possible.

    Like a CEO who values profits but values employees and paying their fair share more and isn’t blinded by greed and addicted to money. A socialist, literally. A market socialist, but a socialist nonetheless.

    Everyone could have their basic needs met, and we could still have rich people. Just not filthy rich, not “rich-to-the-point-no-one-else-has-anything” rich.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoAtheist Memes@lemmy.world•And they never will
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    8 days ago

    They don’t read the Bible. They quote parts of it to suit their needs, the hypocrite fucks.

    Usury is banned in the Bible, but it’s essentially what the US runs on.

    Hell, based on the Bible no Karen should ever quote the Bible in an attempt to teach someone.

    1 Timothy 12 “I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet."

    Mixing fabric? That’s a stoning. (And not the good kind.)

    “Extensive knowledge of scripture” don’t make me laugh

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoWork Reform@lemmy.world•Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law
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    10 days ago

    Yeah, without paying it, so you save like 10 dollars by not paying for your shit, and then only have to pay 4.80 back in fines.

    Idk what labour laws they broke, but companies are always getting away with shit like this, or even if they’re penalised, they’re still left profiting from the crime.

    Hell I live in the Nordics with arguably one of the best labour protections in the world and like over half the jobs I’ve done have had the companies try to fuck me over with the compensation. From private people to large companies. Overtime, mandated breaks, whatever it may be.

    Fuck capitalism. (Love market economies though.)

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were offered knowledge of exactly when and how you'll die, would you take it? Why or why not?
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    10 days ago

    I don’t think you understand how posting hypotheticals on forums works; they get elaborated and “tested” by asking questions or positing premises. Thought experiments, as you seem to be aware of the term at least.

    OP used the word exactly.

    That means you have exact knowledge of it.

    Of course having exact foreknowledge of such a thing would affect your life. Would that effect then affect the thing being the exact time and date? If not, then it’s utter gibberish, because by telling you about it, they’ve already changed history and thus it won’t apply anymore.

    If however it won’t affect it, then you’ve gained immortality. You could play Russian roulette as much as you want and never have to fear dying. You can perhaps argue that maybe you survive a shot, but how would that be possible from a large calibre revolver aimed directly at the brainstem?

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were offered knowledge of exactly when and how you'll die, would you take it? Why or why not?
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    10 days ago

    Paralysed from the neck down.

    Then how am I gonna run the marathon?

    So you’re saying you have no free will whatsoever, but despite whatever happens, the prophecy will be true?

    That I could never drive an older car pretty much, because it’s easy to kill yourself with one. Much less a motorbike without a helmet.

    I can never hold anything sharp which could cut the jugular. Couldn’t manage to go swimming, because diving deep and inhaling would somehow have to fail?

    Either the prediction is bullshit, oooor it gives you magical plot armor (unless it’s extremely vague, but that goes against OP’s description),

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were offered knowledge of exactly when and how you'll die, would you take it? Why or why not?
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    10 days ago

    C4 is the easiest for this example. I can definitely manage explosives. You can rather easily make things which blow up.

    Let’s make this easier then, I go to the woods and set up a huge fucking boulder on an elaborate pulley system (don’t worry about me finding them, I live in Finland were boulders and rocky surfaces are a plenty. My cousins actually operate a gravel business, so they have lots of proper gear for breaking rocks into smaller rocks, and vehicles to do those things with. So let’s say there’s a pit. I lay a ton of harsh gravel on the bottom of it, a proper few meter layer. Then I take a loader full of massive boulders. And another. And a third one. Place them around the pit. Place myself in the pit, and remotely activate the loaders to drop all those boulders on me. Oh and I didn’t mention, but I put a bed in the pit with me. It’s a bed of extremely sharp knives, covered by a thin cardboard so I don’t get stabbed if I easy myself onto it. On top of that, there’ another bed, upside down, also loaded with insanely sharp swords. All of the boulders will fall into the pit, crushing the bed system, which stabs and slices me into pieces while the boulders to the rest of the work. (The bed frames are soft enough so that they can hold knives, but will be utterly deformed by the boulders so they won’t stay in the way.

    Then I’ve also paid for a crazy cousin to empty both barrels of a shotgun to my face with a full metal slug right as the stones start dropping.

    But… I’ll survive?

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were offered knowledge of exactly when and how you'll die, would you take it? Why or why not?
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    10 days ago

    In that scenario you can’t die of dehydration but you’re going to die of dehydration forcibly. So what’s going to happen?

    Youre going to die of dehydration, because you we’re simply unaware that drinking too much flushes the sodium out of your body which is what makes you able to retain enough water to function.

    Ironically people in hot environments and drinking a ton of water can end up severely dehydrated (mainly if they don’t eat anything, as food has a sodium and other electrolytes).

    Now if you drank mineral water (or sports drinks but they’re rather sugary nowadays) or just added a tiny bit of salt to the water you drink, then it would break the prophecy.

    Similarly ironic is that a lot of people who aren’t used to cold environments and get lost in the woods or something usually end up suffering heat stroke, as they’ve only a massively thick puffy jacket and walking still generates heat, which the jacket traps and your body can’t cool down and overheats. (Layers and breathing materials underneath the top layers is good, as then you can open or remove a layer as needed to regulate your body temp.)

    For the sake of the topic of the thread, I’d like to know what happens if I’m told I die in 50 years from a heart attack while running a marathon, and after hearing that I jump out of a window, try to blow my brains out or shove a block of C4 up my bowels and blow myself up? I should survive, yes? And in condition to (attempt to) run a marathon?

    Because if it’s not locked like that and can be changed then it’s more of a guess than accurate foreknowledge.