I read some researches about certain genes making it more likely to be gay. Though it’s been a while, can’t remember the specifics.

Another interesting research I read (which I need to check for new info) was that each subsequent male child was more likely to be gay and it was actually the mother’s body that caused them to be gay because that lowers the competition for the oldest children.

Hmm, that reminds me I should check whether Berserk actually moved somewhere, the quality went down since the author died.

Definitely, it was the best season so far. I really hope they’re renewed for another season, this has been the best fantasy series I’ve watched in… Maybe ever?

Now I can go back to the last remaining two books.

According to his point of view, they are constantly conversing about him. Or they are making plans to use him in one way or the other.

I mean, they literally are making plans to use him one way or the other, presenting it like it’s just his opinion doesn’t make sense.

Well, me neither, but they’re on season 3 so they must have enough viewers to be satisfied.

And if nothing else, at least I discovered the books thanks to the series.

But yeah, I realistically don’t expect there to ever be the 10+ seasons to cover all books. I just hope they get a chance to wrap it up consistently even if it meant diverging more from the books.

I hate watching stuff get cancelled. All the series I watched lately were either cancelled or turned to shit because greedy idiots wanted more money but were out of ideas.

J2ME are old dumb non-touchscreen phones. My last one was Sony Ericsson j108i. And just now reading the Wikipedia entry, it was actually the last non-smartphone phone by Sony Ericsson! Nice.

Damn, the nostalgia is real. And the design still looks much better than smartphones which look pretty much all the same. Back then, phones had personality.

The Sony Ericsson phones in particular had very advanced J2ME support that I didn’t see that much difference between that and my first smartphone (Nokia C5-03). Not that there weren’t differences, the smartphone was definitely more advanced, but it wasn’t that huge of a leap.

I did want to and as you can see in a sibling thread, we actually did discuss with someone who didn’t decide that calling people idiots just because you don’t have anything smarter to say is appropriate.

Nope, it doesn’t have a controller built-in and its main purpose isn’t gaming. You can’t run PS games on a Switch, does that somehow magically make either not a console?

True enough, though I meant it more in the sense of the graph. People can rarely be satisfied.

I’m not disagreeing, sorry if that was the impression, I was merely pointing out that the passive-agressive “someone’s American dream, just not mine” does not really apply to the graph.

I mean, that’s not necessarily bad, right? 80% people think that it would be better for them if someone worked in a factory and 25% think it would be better if they personally worked in a factory. So, if the 25% get a chance to work in a factory, they’re satisfied and the 80% is satisfied as well.

I’d prefer a world where people are guaranteed the basics to survive without having to capitulate to the system, we have the technlogical progress and productive capabilities to do this we’re just not there in terms of societal progression.

I get that and I agree, but I don’t think giving everyone money that can be stolen by the usual suspects is the solution. Safety nets are the way to go, not UBI.

If someone some day proves me wrong, I’ll be happy to admit I was wrong, though I’m not gonna support UBI until that happens, because of the issues I outlined.

Artificially inflating prices to cancel out UBI would create economic incentive to undercut those corporations in a free market.

That hasn’t worked historically for any reason and UBI is not so magical that the whole of capitalism will sit on its ass and stop doing what it’s doing.

Government intervention could also be used in a less free market to ensure subsistence items aren’t artificially inflated, after that who cares if some company inflates their price? Go work if you want a new shiny thing.

Pretty much the same response as above, good luck with that.

You know what’s really good? Having a safety net to prevent the lowest suffering class of our society dying from things that we’ve been able to prevent for decades.

Having reduced crime because people aren’t fighting over scraps.

Having more mobility in society so people can pursure careers and education that aligns with their own self fulfilment goals.

Fully agree, I don’t see how that relates to UBI, though.

Stop fighting against a better world for all of us please.

I’m not, I’m just trying to explain that while UBI sounds good on paper, it can’t work and never will. It’s free money for everyone who owns capital, be it landlord or huge chains. They’ll have your UBI, you’ll have nothing and you’ll pay for it from your taxes, because rich don’t pay their taxes, definitely not the amount they should. So, where in that is your better world?

Oh, you’re not wasting my time, I decided to waste it myself. I just don’t understand how “you can host a server in your garage” is even a seriously meant answer to replacing AWS.

Like, at my day job I’m responsible for managing an AWS stack that costs the company upwards of $20,000 per month. And we’re far from the largest users. You can’t store that in a garage.

You can play Mario on old dumb phones using J2ME emulators.

Another likely cause: you’re posting to a non-local community and you got hit by federation issues, while your instance thinks the post got created, the target instance doesn’t know about it.

Happened to me a few times.

We live in a real world, not a hypothetical scenario. There are multiple stores and they’re all either in a cartel or just blindly copying each other in extracting the maximum value out of their customers.

This brings them more money, they pump more into marketing and voilà, only the shitty stores remain. If a newcomer joins, you can enjoy a few pretty good years until they inevitably join the shitty cartel or cease to exist.

So yeah, that’s a problem of capitalism but that doesn’t mean it’s not a problem preventing UBI actually ever being implemented.

Just a side note, if you want people to even consider your point of view, don’t call them idiots. Off to blocklist you go! Bye.

Oh, so you’re putting unrealistic constraints on it. Then yes, it has value. But no, the rich are using it, too. And because for them it’s such a small amount, they’re extracting your UBI as well.

Well, definitely more than you understand economy, it seems.