“free market”… oops, cept for those things.

you should check out the new Nova episodes on dogs and whether the dog buttons we train them on can be considered communicative.

its owned an run by a nazi who is best friends with a presidential fascist currently destroying all public media.

ya think?!

what planet are you on now? cuz i dont think we are on the same one.

anti-trans sentiment is still alive and well, and default for much of the planet im on.

pulease. long term plannig my asshole.

the modern world is littered with the failures to ‘long term plan’. i remeber thinking the world would be run by sears, ibm and xerox

the world has shifted to ‘just in time’ supply chains… warehousing is considered liability. the wealthy people youre referring to have globally diversified… it would take actual catastrophe to affect them because when youre that rich even a recession is opportunity.

these corps are run by humans who have sold out. they only care about the next quarter… the next bonus check.

the world is far more fragile than those in nice comfy cities could ever imagine

to mitigate real disaster on a global scale would take solving for human greed. good luck.

we were grabbin apps in the usenet binaries by the mid-late 80s

your zip code is prolly a bigger influence than anything

more of a rant than a showerthought… but i guess if this is what runs through youre head when youre wet…

moonwalker on genesis?? this game was so hyped when it came out. we all freaked hearing the soundtracks the first time. really kinda cookie cutter for the era, cept for the turnin-into-a-robot bit

the world needs ditch diggers too

hahahhahaha headed?? dude weve been heading that way for as long as ive been alive… the fact that we dont have universal health care and spend a trillion$ a year on a military despite being the biggest assholes on the planet is a giant fucking reminder that we literally are and have been for awhile now…

the public is now managed via fox news, all your ‘representatives’ could not possibly care less about anything more than their own self interests (bought and paid for!)

laws dont matter, rich people do not face any consequences for almost anything.

where arent we a plutocracy?? that we still pretend our votes dont usher in more big business??

florida rejoice!

i would expect there is a thing they would call the persons ‘effects’ or ‘estate’ which can have a negative valuation. the landlord could file a claim against the dead persons effects, and receive compensation from that… maybe

https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigate-milky-way

ha, k. i get it, and youre not wrong about gaining those skills.

I would think a good therapist would be able to provide exactly the kind of inter-human training needed to achieve what youre discussing. the tools exist, the people are out there. can any of those who really want that help afford it? prolly not.

we don’t have a ‘we need this thing to exist’ problem… we have a ‘no one wants to pay for that thing that already exists’ problem, as usual.

that said, you pointed out this causes a lot of societal problems though, and it seems many of the most vocal or problematic are those people (men) who dont think they are the problem at all. no amount draggin them to the help well is going to make them drink.

reminds me of the old joke… ‘q: how many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? a: only one, but the lightbulb has to want to change’

doesnt matter how good the training is if the person doesnt want it.

you misunderstand… he was convicted of 34 felonies. its the punishment phase that took his bank account and affiliates into consideration

thats the same for almost everyone who is a billionaire, its very fair!

lemmy does not federate with mastodon/the twitterverse…

i believe there is a one-way mechanism for twitterverse posts to be used an inbound content stream for lemmy (like rss ) but thats it… one direction.

i dont think theres anything you can do to make that happen short of some janky bridge.

i subscribe to lots of peeps from the twitterverse… i can reply to/comment on posts, see other comments, upvote/boost, etc… kbin is dead long live mbin.

unless somethin new has happened, lemmy doesnt fully federate to mastodon/the twitterverse. interaction is very limited.

its one of the reasons i use mbin instead of lemmy