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[–] 64 points 5 months ago (17 children)

I love that the outcomes of capitalism are blamed on communism. Great shitposting OP, 10/10

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    [–] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Switches to Lemmy to avoid the doom Algorithms

    Immediately subscribes to boring dystopia and collapse

    Am I feeling better yet?

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    The iPod was not touchscreen.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Not originally, no. But they did make an iPod Touch. It was basically an iPhone but without the phone.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The image shows a classic iPod.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The image also says 2007 which is when the iPhone came out. The meme clearly does not mean an iPod.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (22 children)

    Id say consumerism played a big role but im also scared of phones and communists so i wont stop you

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (21 children)

    You're right, if we had an actual equitable society, technology would make our lives better rather than worse. Capitalism is the root of many of our problems, not technology itself, because the profit motive gives corporations all sorts of adverse incentives. If we optimized for human happiness and quality of life instead of profits we'd have a far better world.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (19 children)

    If we optimized for human happiness and quality of life instead of profits we’d have a far better world

    Let's respectfully leave the moralism in the church. We wouldn't have a "better" world, whatever good and better are, we would have a world (an abstraction, I prefer the term "set of social relations") that is in the interest of all that work, will work, and have worked to sustain reproduction of life, i.e. worked to continue to live.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (18 children)

    I'm not moralizing, I am talking about an improvement to material conditions, in real terms. We all know what the word "better" means, why the fuck would we not advocate for improvements to our quality of life? Why would you ever want to yield discussions of that topic to organized religions?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (17 children)

    It is exactly so that everyone does not know what "better" and "improvement" means. Someone who is of a more libertarian persuasion because they got lucky with Bitcoin might see talk about improvements and betterment that entails it being impossible to own a private recreational nuke as being inconsistent. Betterment in your case can mean that a small business owner has his property forcibly converted into communally operated MoP. Those that enforce change in their interest might see their concept of humanity warped beyond recognition in a most certainly traumatic process of historical necessity. It's kind of like saying the immune system is a good thing, for the viruses it's not and autoimmune reactions are a huge complication to the lives of organisms with immune systems.

    With good and bad any further explication stops. Something is good. Okay. Why is it good? Because it is good. It nearly always plays out circularly like this, except if there is a scientific process of criticism that spawns from this line of questioning. The latter almost never occurs. All of morality, and much of ethics is circular.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    Ensuring that everyone has access to food, water, healthcare, education and shelter is objectively good. Do you disagree?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I reject the notion of objective goods as that is a contradiction in adjectives and neither is it in my specific interests that everyone has food, water, healthcare, education and shelter.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    Thanks for your honest response. I think your values are sociopathic and destructive, but luckily, I also think you are a rare exception among our species.

    Thanks for the chat, I don't see how there's anything productive that can come from discussing this further, so I hope you have a great day and I wish you a lot of love and solidarity. All the best.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I think your values are sociopathic and destructive

    I'd like to carefully disagree here. If someone took a friend from me, or abused them terribly without any apology, I would want them to die. I think this is a very empathetic and prosocial reaction which is not at all sociopathic. Think of the time female bonobos brutally killed a member of their cohort for killing a defenseless baby that truly couldn't act in its own interest.

    What is sociopathic however is that we salute them troops because they keep the country safe by squashing alleged threats. Only a minority stands to benefit from what we currently consider good, those who make the world work in concrete terms will never meet those beneficiaries. Workers have their lives exhausted and brains forcefed with shit for a section of people that would forever remain abstract to them. A prosocial reaction by workers would spell Armageddon on the current state of the world, and believe me, that is most likely what you are pointing towards but still are too scared to consider the full implications of.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    How many of you are also trying to mindfully disengage from our phones, just pause for thought every time you pick it up?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I try to shut off my phone, then my brain starts worrying if some crazy shit is about to happen and I want time to run so here I am scrolling again.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I blame woke.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    My phone is fine and still pretty cool. Just put it away now and then. Also deal with mental health issues if possible, it works wonders for all parts of life

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Also 2007:

    Receive Skype message with link to "Cute Kittens" But it's actually gore from Live Leak.

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