Sprawlie

This post had me thinking and reminded me of something I wanted to share in relation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

It is even possible in nature, for evolution to meet at the same place, despite isolation from eachother.

There are some things in the world that just "make sense" from evolutionary, or invention stand point. Coincidence CAN happen without it needing to be the work of some aliens, or conspiratorial nonsense.

Religions don’t tend to spring up from nowhere.

Let me introduce you to our good friend Ronald Hubbard and this pesky Religion called "Scientology"

I came in way too late to read the original reply.

Did this user actually think stacking stones into a wall was hard?

"Battle of the Bulge" ironically sounds like a great name for a battle around Trans rights.

Simple Answer: Yes.

Everytime we launch something into space the mass of Earth itself decreases by that amount. There is also energy trade off with the mass stealing a bit of earth's momentum/energy for it to continue as well.

Overall, we're talking about absolutely micro, if not smaller changes in mass and energy and it ultimately has zero affect on anything.

Zero. The answer to this question is Zero. There is no amount of Ketchup that should be added to Kraft Dinner.

nice attempted rage bate

There's a massive difference between sharing views, IE: "I don't like billionaires", and Making threatening remarks, or calling to violence (not ok).

trying to frame me pointing out that calls to violence are NOT a good look for Lemmy, is not me calling out censorship. That's you trying to rage bate the conversation into some argument about your rights (which ends where my nose begins)

Short Answer - Money.

Long Answer:

Money and Greed :p

But in reality, it's usually just money. Ultimately if a company has decided that it's sole purpose for existing is maximization of wealth for it's owners, it will inevitably tend to go to the traditional business routes and hire executives who are educated in doing exactly that.

Technology companies in particular are prime for that because everyone hopes to eventually either become the next Apple/Microsoft, or be bought out by them. It's fast, short term and big money.

Only time in my career I was laid off was because of this. Brother owners had been running their business for 40 years very well and very employee friendly. We got lots of bonuses and pay outs based on revenues and was an awesome place to work.

one of the 3 died and so the other 2 decided it was time to retire, and they did exactly this. Went out and hired a CEO who came from a reputable business school, who has done nothing but "be an executive" since graduating, and was purely a sociopath.

within 3 years the company was a horrendous place to work for. our bonuses nearly all disapeared, or started getting pegged to arbitrary company performance standards and other bullshit. by the end of 3 years 30% of us were then let go.

All because this shmuck's primary objective was "maximize the value of the company above all else" and for him, that meant going after the employees. Since we released ZERO product in those 3 years since he took over.

How much did you smoke.

A lot of the same opinion based rage baiting articles. same as we've seen spammed on Reddit communities.

I'm fairly new. Finding it hard to get truly into the experience given some of the more extreme takes that Lemmy seems to allow (or at least some federated servers)

Seems like Lemmee is sadly becoming a fairly isolated echo chamber for certain opinions only.

edit: An example of "Extreme takes". Not linking the post. it's been upvoted 17 times, and online for 18 hours unmoderated: in the post, the user encourages execution. Murder and destruction of property:

so, as an actual radical:

yeah pretty spot on with healthcare. this is basic ‘having a society’ shit.

I don’t want a job that pays so much as an actual society I can contribute to and nurture and be a fucking part of that will take care of me some noticeable fraction of how I take care of it. I’d rather not have money involved, if its all the same to you.

I do actually want a free place to live. I’ll help build it or whatever, but I’m fucking done compromising with landlord parasites; watched too many of their victims die.

I do not want corporations to be unprofitable; I want them dismantled and their boards executed. worker co-ops are cool. individual enterprise is cool. no more exploitation, no more not having a voice.

I think the entire concept we have of ‘democracy’ is absolutely cucked. I could write some essays on what real democracy looks like, but the short version is: fuck your bourgoise elections.

kill the billionaires; tjwyre literal monsters who drink children’s blood steal and transfuse the blood of the young to grasp vainly at eternal youth while burning our futures. no problem with your party yacht if its green and you built it with your friends, but I think we need a reset on ‘wealth’.

Reading shit like that a LOT on this site is a massive turn off to the average user, and why I have a hard time truly diving in and giving a shit about it.

Edited once more: Bolded the problem points I have with above. My issue is not the message itself, but the words and what this user encourages. Don't gaslight that the language used in that post was beyond reasonable and encourages violence

I rarely touch the App store to "find" something. If I discover I need an App for something, that's when I just go grab it from the App store.

Trying to peruse the App Store is a nightmare. there are numerous things wrong with it, especially the rating systems and how ratings keep certain apps constantly in everyone's faces, despite getting horrible recent reviews.