If you pay low enough wages and workers are too exhausted to do anything about it, lower productivity is profitable. It’s about the bottom line.

If the workforce makes a pittance and is too exhausted to rebel, the bosses win.

Stephen Miller. I’m hesitant to call people evil but… he is. He’s more or less the USA’s shadow president - he maneuvered himself to be Trump’s right hand man and has the clown president’s trust for many domestic issues, particularly anything related to hurting and abusing non-white people.

but I like to offer arguments I hear every day from working class people who are vehemently right wing Trump super capitalist/authoritarians

If they are “vehemently right wing Trump super capitalist/authoritarians” then they aren’t going to listen and, as I said, you achieve nothing but antagonism.

“I totally agree with you but I’m going to pop your bubble and remind you that people who disagree with you to the extreme offer ignorant talking points and won’t agree with you. I totally agree with your answers to but those people don’t.”

It sounds like you are trying to demoralize the left while pretending to be an ally. What are you hoping to accomplish?

If you think the majority of people would do things to better society rather than be lazy if they were given handouts…you dont know humanity all too well.

See, I don’t think you’re “being an ass on purpose”. I think you are either just an ass or purposely being difficult to no productive end.

Im being an ass on purpose, because these are real world arguments you need to convince real people of why capitalism is actually bad, because many people are not convinced it is.

I’m not sure which sentences are you trying to be an ass and which are legitimate ignorance. You literally said you don’t disagree? I’m happy to try to counter ignorance, even feigned ignorance, but it is a waste of time if you trying to be an ass or are just going to reply “Well I know that but…”

I dont disagree. The amount of people on lemmy that say they just wanna sit on their ass and smoke weed is quite high, and im convinced if they had their way all our infrastructure would crumble in a week (no one thinks about the sewer/wastewater, the electricity, and the food plants that need to keep running for your comfortable lazy life)

We would need a way to keep people working crap jobs, while also supporting them. We cant all be influencers and movie stars. Someone has to shovel shit.

Well…

“To each according to his contribution” is a principle of distribution considered to be one of the defining features of socialism

Socialism isn’t “everyone gets free shit and smokes weed all day”. It’s usually something along the lines of public ownership of the means of production under democratic control. Like, the factory is owned by the people who work at the factory instead of some rich guy that collects a check despite contributing no labor.

The shit people worry about is actually happening under capitalism, it’s just they get to pretend they deserve it because their parents were rich, or they got lucky, or they scammed someone (like their workers).

Your banal chattering is unnecessary. Are you able to grasp the importance of my experiments? Begone from my sensory range, lest I have you disassembled for servitor parts

Are we now protesting that they reversed their decision?

…no? I’m not really protesting so much as offering what I think the other person is trying to say. I think they are saying that Google crossed a line, and walking it back doesn’t change that fact.

In my opinion, Google has crossed countless lines over the last 5-10 years. I’m looking for alternatives that meet my own needs. That search has accelerated over the last few years, when the things Google has done have been most egregious. This isn’t a protest. This is disillusionment. I’m abandoning ship.

I think it was fairly obvious that the move was going to piss people off, they just misjudged to what extent. Modern business strategy is to claim to listen to customer feedback and just quietly plan to implement it anyway, just do it more subtly, more quietly, and more slowly.

It is very hard to make a device that is affordable, compact, efficiently cooled, and modular. Offering complete support is also infinitely more difficult when hardware is not controlled for. GPU and CPU are both customized AMD chips and the power supply is designed for their anticipated power draw.

If you want to swap your GPU, build your own SFF. Hopefully they’ll have SteamOS available for general use soon.

Had an issue with Comcast today. They forced me to use their Xfinity app, but what I needed to do wasn’t an apparent option within the app. The only option I saw was a support chatbot. The chatbot listed a link to the option I was looking for. The link opened a webview within the Xfinity app, in which there was a link to download the Xfinity app.

Unnecessary Apps and chat bots. Two of my least favorite things referring me back and forth, forever, in an endless loop.

So once again, it’s capitalism. Surprise surprise.

At least until the corrupting force of micro-plastic-capitalism causes your house to get seized and you must begin the adventure of a lifetime to retrieve it!

Lol, my partner loves BTBAM. I was going to mention them as well.

I know Plini, will check out The Omnific!

Another great band!

Arch Echo
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I’m also a fan, I just didn’t want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I’ll check out the rest.

Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics.

Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them and they do have deluxe albums with instrumental only versions which I really appreciate. I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.

I’m also a huge fan of Opeth, Caligula’s Horse, and TesseracT with vocals but I haven’t ingrained every track’s lyrics in my brain like I have PtH.

I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or “djenty” stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.

I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of “professionals” I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of “Oh, really, you too?”

Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:

• Their Dogs Were Astronauts -mostly instrumental.
• Wide Eyes - mostly instrumental.
• Caligula’s Horse - instrumental only tracks available.
• Polyphia - mostly instrumental.
• Protest The Hero - instrumental only tracks available.
• TesseracT - instrumental only tracks available.
• Apocalyptica - started covering Metallica as cello quartet instrumentals, now has a drummer and a number of original songs, often with guest vocalists.
• Collapse Under The Empire - post rock, mostly instrumental.
• Parhelia - post rock, mostly instrumental.
• Opeth - occasional instrumental tracks, started as death metal, evolved into more prog metal. Huge fan of most of their work in general.

Edit: I’m stuck at work with my PC being worked on so here are some more random artists whose music I appreciate:

• Anup Sastry - very djenty, mostly instrumental, some guest vocals occasionally.
• Scoredatura - djenty, mostly instrumental.
• Rishloo - psychedelic prog rock? not instrumental.
• HAKEN - instrumental only tracks available.
• Brass Against - brass and other classical instruments. They cover Rage Against The Machine as well as other random songs and make occasional mashups of them. Not instrumental.
• Pomegranate Tiger - prog metal.
• Modern Day Babylon - djenty, instrumental.

This was kind of me in early high school. There was this badass goth chick who, looking back, was very likely “flirting” with me quite a bit. Admittedly, I had my own absurd style that definitely had shades of goth too.

I recall she bit my arm so hard she drew blood… on more than one occasion. I absolutely had a thing for her so I didn’t mind. She was a grade or two older and had a boyfriend who was either from another town, dropped out, or already graduated. I’d never met or seen him though. Me and her did hang out a few times in random secluded places after school or during down time but nothing romantic ever happened - just talking.

Looking back on it as a more mature adult, and vaguely recalling her stories, I am pretty sure she had a fucked up childhood and home life. I wouldn’t be surprised if the boyfriend situation was more fucked up than I realized.

Shortly after graduating high school, I met some people who actually knew the guy (he had allegedly been their dealer a few years prior lol) and apparently I looked a lot like him, only I was a few inches taller and less skinny. The number of times I was mistaken for him was crazy. I guess she had a type? I hope she’s doing ok.