You WHAT???

“If you’re unhappy, just work for a different company!!”

The problems arise when people start to take more than they give. (…) or someone who can contribute chooses not to and still receives the benefits.

Not a problem exclusive to socialism. Capitalism has plenty of very obvious such examples. Amazon is clearly taking in a lot more money than it is giving its workers or the govt. Bezos and others of his ilk can contribute more to taxes, but don’t, they evade them all thanks to legal loopholes and still receive govt benefits.

That’s obviously not true because 99.99% (I’m being dramatic) of owners work an equal or greater number of hours per week than the rest of the employees.

Maybe true for smaller companies. I doubt Musk, Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Zuckerberg or similars even work 40h a week. MAYBE they did, many years ago. Nowadays? Doubtful.

And there’s also the fact that while needing to know how every aspect of the company operates the owner is the one who takes the biggest risks and has the most at stake so it makes sense that they make more than the new hire who has no work experience.

Do you really think that a single person’s work can be worth more than 1000x the work of someone else? To put some perspective: someone who earns 20 million a year is the equivalent of having a hourly salary of ~10,500. What kind of miraculous, one-of-a-kind work is worth that? Bezos doesn’t know how “every aspect of the company operates”, nor do any CEO of any megacorp. Or, to give a better example, no general or field marshal knows “every aspect” of the platoons and soldiers under his command, they rely almost entirely on his subordinates’ reports, which may embellish or hide details.

technically all costs of the company can and are taken out of the owners paycheck because the lower profit the company makes the lower the owners paycheck can be

Except when it’s taken out of the workers’ paycheck who get fired to ensure those above don’t lose their bonuses

The PS2 alone has over 4k released games. Even if you remove all the gacha bullshit (there’s A LOT), visual novels, re-releases, Phoenix Games shovelware and Japan exclusives, it’s still over 2k games. That alone is enough for a lifetime.

I’m doubting I’ll even play all my steam games for at least 1 hour…

Without food, ~2 days, give or take.

Most important context regarding Brazil: the majority of judges see themselves as little gods. The absolute worst thing that can legally happen to one is being retired early.

By Brazilian law, this should have counted as rape, end of story. The judge’s reasoning is more twisted than a sailor’s knot: “consensual affectionate link” because the mother was “ok with it”. This wasn’t a case of a judge being bought (which happens a lot aroud here), because the perpetrator is poor.

Now, the really interesting thing: said judge, Magid Lauef Lauar, is a sexual harasser. Due to the CSA case gaining large media attention, some victims of his advances have decided to finally break the silence. Two women that were interns in 1997 and 2009, the third is his nephew, in 2016, when the boy was 14 - https://www.estadao.com.br/politica/raquel-landim/vitimas-de-desembargador-que-absolveu-estuprador-vem-a-publico-e-a-justica-vai-ficar-omissa/

That too, but also the USS Gerald Ford, which is named in the image, having toilet clogging problems

Guys, there’s EXTRA CONTEXT for this one!

https://www.whro.org/military-veterans/2025-07-17/overflowing-toilets-are-hampering-uss-fords-recent-deployment

To facilitate cleaning: wipe with the underwear, remove it, wash on the sea, wear it again

A lot of AI shit nowadays can make readable text.

I know there were two F18s that subgraded into submarines, one in April the other in May

People don’t want to work. They want to live and pay for shit. Work is the only way for people that weren’t born rich to get money. Well, either that or crimes, but some crimes can be seen as illegal work.

Most people don’t want to feel useless, so if you cut their access to cheap dopamine (phones with internet, social media) they might seek out some work out of boredom.

What really sucks is that society expects us to be “specialists” in one thing for the rest of our lives, as if we are fucking ant drones or gears in a complex machine. It’s great for economists and the rich and awful for our individual wellbeing, though some people do enjoy doing the same thing over and over for very long periods of time.

“Slower economy = more unemployed people. More unemployed people = easier conscripts. Absolute profit!” - Putin, probably

Bro it totally can, we just need another billion Nvidia chips running on a megaserver farm, eating up twice the total energetic output of the sun bro. It’s easy bro, don’t be such a downer bro

If only real life AI was anything close to sci-fi AI. We expected cold, calculating computer psychopaths and we got overly enthusiastic yes men that get in a ditz if you ask it about non-existent emojis

We need more RL interactions to escape the internet nowadays. Depending on where you live, that can be challenging, as smaller places are less likely to have people aware of how awful the current internet is

Leave it running an i2p node

So, you’re telling me I can copypaste 100% some of the ai slop books on amazon and resell it as mine? Brb, gonna make a shit site an absolute diarrhea

Fucking magnets heatsinks, why won’t they work!?