davel

davel, 7 days ago

I like my games like I like my sex: casual, and over in five minutes.

davel, 20 days ago

FYI, we’re considering removing some/most/all Musk 💩, or perhaps creating a Musk containment community.

davel, 20 days ago

As the meme implies, stop and think about how to change tactics.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— (alcoholics) anonymous

davel, 2 months ago

We thought the country was getting better

Who the hell thought the country was getting better? No one I know. This is the same weak basket of deplorables excuse the DNC used for Hillary Clinton’s loss. Because they’ll blame anyone but themselves for their failures.

The Democrats fail because they’ve embraced grinding neoliberalism for an entire generation, because they abandoned the working class long ago. The DNC crushed Sanders—twice—because even a little social safety net, as a treat, is a bridge too far for them. Why the Democratic Party CANNOT and WILL NOT be Reformed

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a9e8b1a2-d44a-469c-ad75-adfb6282d55c.jpeg

I said that with an American slanted focus but sadly it’s worldwide too.

Fascism isn’t on the rise in the US in particular and the West in general for no reason. The cause is ever-worsening neoliberalism, which is monopoly capitalism in decay. I wrote about this two months ago, but I’ll spare everyone the copypasta and just link to it.

davel, 3 months ago

I don’t see why I can’t also be proudly straight

Do you hear yourself? “I don’t see why I can’t also be proudly white.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_pride

The only reason “gay pride” exists in the first place is in reaction to oppression. The straights have in no way been suppressed, and “straight pride” is nothing but a backlash to gay liberation.

davel, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the Straight moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Gays’ great stumbling block in their stride toward freedom is not the Super Straight or the Super Happy Fun American, but the Straight moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes they can set the timetable for another person’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Gay to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

— Martin Luther Queen Jr., probably

davel, 3 months ago

I wonder how Afro-Eurasia feels about being called old.

davel, 3 months ago

I knew a graybeard whose cable rack was too heavy for me to lift. 30 years of cable collecting.

davel, 3 months ago

I’ll play devil’s hide the salami.

davel, 4 months ago

I haven’t competed since the last time a high school phys. ed. teacher made me, and I never really cared if I won or lost. I guess I’m on a no salt diet.

davel, 5 months ago

the first hydrogen-powered, zero-emissions passenger train

That depends entirely on how the hydrogen is being produced: it’s an energy storage medium, not an energy source.

Though the onboard process does not directly emit greenhouse gases, the production processes to create hydrogen fuel in the US almost always do.

davel, 5 months ago

Well that puts a wrinkle in my train heist.

davel, 5 months ago

Wut. The reason we’re talking about it at all is because it’s a success, not a flop.

davel, 5 months ago

Yeah it’s not very impressive, electrifying one commuter line, when China now has 45,000 km of high speed electric lines.

davel, 7 months ago

Back in the day I played Hack until I noticed the sun had risen many times.

davel, 8 months ago

This shit is bananas
B-🍌-N-🍌-N-🍌-S

davel, 8 months ago

It’s an old South Park meme www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH3K2rkkU7g

davel, 9 months ago

@Pluto what is this spammy-looking YouTube video that you spammed to several comms? What are you doing?

davel, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

It’s a game about navigating the mission of publishing “all the news that’s fit to print” when your key demographic may not want to hear that news, or may want it softened or ideologically slanted for their comfort.

Yeah that’s not really what NYT editor Joseph Kahn or any of the other members of the Council of Foreign Relations are trying to do.

davel, 10 months ago

Yup, that’s how hedge funds work. Everyone and everything will be left even worse off, which is hard to even imagine given the current state of affairs.

I think this is critical infrastructure that we should nationalize via eminent domain. Given that it’s wildly profitable, what arguments can fiscal conservatives make against it? We can then make the capital investments and worker conditions changes to bring about the direly needed safety improvements. Nationalizing the rail lines could bring the costs down and safety & reliability up further still.