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  • Ignoring the odd idea that this hypothetical person is somehow completely unemployable regardless of industry or upskilling

    You’re so stuck in a capitalist mindset that you view people being “unemployable” as a personal failure on their part, rather than a success of society as a whole…

    Were you out there screaming “think of the children” and “they can do anything they put their mind to” when people banded together to say maybe 7 year old children don’t have to work in the fucking coal mines anymore?


  • Last names weren’t really a thing until very recently in human history.

    That’s why a lot of last names are places or jobs.

    You were Chris the Farmer, or Chris from Cleveland. And when your king wanted a last name to tax you more accurately, you likely didn’t give a fuck and just said whatever.

    But the thing is people would say names/jobs in different languages.

    An immigrant from Germany who spoke mostly German would say “My name is John Deutsch”. if they were fluent in English they may say “My name is John German”.

    Same guy. Describing himself the same way, just in two different languages.

    Fo Colombus specifically, that’s not even his name in his native language. It was Columbo, which meant Dove and given mostly to orphans, but at least his dad had the same name. Whenever last names became standard, Columbus’s oldest living direct ancestor was an orphan

    So like, it’s not asking why just the places named after him are different, it’s why he had different names.

    And the answer is people just really didn’t care that much about names until very recently.


  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldBlock US within Lemmy?
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    I left /microblogmemes and /political memes

    If there’s anymore left they’re just flying under the radar.

    But those are “memes” by the Richard Dawkins original meaning of the term. Not “memes” as in “haha, guys like how stupid I am, don’t you think I’m stupid” humor.

    Memes aren’t just shitty jokes, but thats all that’s in the shitty meme communities.


  • Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

    A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

    And then keep blocking them.

    It’s not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

    Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.











  • Not so. The Tesla safety operators appear to always have their thumb on the “Open Door” button of their door, which is sort of weird to see. It’s like every safety operator is getting ready to say the Irish goodbye to their passengers at any given moment.

    Turns out, Full Self Driving disengages if you open the door. So that is probably being used as a janky, factory-standard kill switch for the autonomous driving system that causes the vehicle to come to controlled stop.

    There is absolutely nothing stopping the human employee from sitting behind the wheel except optics…

    Like, if there’s three passengers, does the employee keep shotgun?

    Does a passenger get the driver’s seat? Or do they all have to sit in the backseat so people can see it’s driving itself?

    Is the plan for highspeed situations really just opening a fucking door at speed?

    The level of stupidity is, as always, fascinating…