Jmdatcs

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[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I had coworkers from Europe visiting the U.S. asking for advice on places to go that thought you could hit New York, Disney World, New Orleans, and San Francisco in a long weekend renting a car.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fuck AI and all, but to be faaaiiiiir, if you take away most people's computers they would be far less efficient than someone that did the same job without one 50 years ago.

In the profession I recently retired from, if they suddenly went back 50 years in tech the global economy would crash, and even a 20-30 year regression in tech would seriously fuck things up until people adjusted. And even then they wouldn't be able to reach the same levels of efficiency.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You emigrate from. You immigrate to.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, but then we would've just gotten a regular old run-of-the-mill jerk-off Republican like Romney or Jeb, and we would have spent the next 4-8 years saying "holy shit, this guy is so awful, how could it be any worse," just blissfully unaware.

How do I immigrate to that timeline?

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

They went through all that trouble and didn't get taxidermied bear claws or something else to approximate what the damage would look like. They used some sort of kitchen tool or something and all the "claw marks" are equally spaced and start and stop at the same place.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Peter Parker's big friend from the most recent Spider-Man movies was photographed at an event looking dapper in a suit. It led to a lot of memes, one of them calling him "the CEO of sex," which itself led to many spin-off memes. This one (which doesn't include him in the suit) references spawn camping, a video game term where someone "camps" at a place where the opposing team "spawns' after being killed to kill then again before they can get going, and uses it as a metaphor for going after underage girls. It then continues the video game metaphor with Sex 2.

So, The CEO of sex says Epstein can't participate in the new sex because he rapes underage girls.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

For a lot of people, when they say they hate country music what they really mean is they hate Nashville pop. There is still a lot of good country music out there, you just won't hear it on CMT (if that's even still a thing, I don't really know.)

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last one then I got to go.

You try to excuse the wealth hoarding of China's parasite class in part by taking about the rising standard of living of the poor.

That is no different than right-wingers saying wealth inequality isn't a problem because poor people have a higher standard of living than decades ago. There was a famous example not too long ago (I guess not too famous because I forgot the details) where some republican in the U.S. minimized the struggles of the poor because they all had refrigerators now. What you do to minimize the struggles of the poor in China is no different.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I already said, I love China, it's great and getting better. It could get even better if it actually worked toward socialism instead of falling into the trap the people that used to exploit it did, trying to exploit other poorer countries.

You haven't done anything but list twisted versions of right-wing taking points. "Billionaires aren't a problem because poor people have refrigerators."

There is no defense for China's system, at least not from a communist.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No. Again, I know this hard for your kind to understand, but you don't to get to dictate how things go.

[–] Jmdatcs@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What points have you made? All you've done is fail to make any excuses for the staggering and growing wealth inequality in China and fail to drag me into an unproductive argument about definitions.

If I were an anti-communist (an actual anti-communist, not anti-whatever China calls communist)I would love it when people like you try to tie China to communism.

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