ObjectivityIncarnate

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yeah, The Tale of the Terminally Online, lol

Anubis is so lightweight you’ll forget it’s there until you look at your hosting bill.

I don’t know if they realize this is implying it’s onerously expensive, lol.

Was wondering why this sounded familiar, saw the article was from 7 years ago (2018) and now I understand, lol.

When the fuck did Asmongold become the largest POLITICAL streamer?

He didn’t, not even close—the OP just made that up to augment the ragebait level of their post, lol.

and then goes on to say “why would you add people to your country that don’t speak the language” in English and not the native tongue of the tribe that the land was stolen from

The irony of this is that people who are hardline isolationist/against immigration use that having happened as fuel for their argument, because ‘look what happened to the Native Americans when Europeans were able to immigrate en masse’, and they argue that that’s what’ll happen to them if they allow immigration now.

Yeah, the voice someone’s born with is definitely what should be focused on, when it comes to criticism.

I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips.

This is why, lol. Since his videos are generally popular on YouTube, if you have no watch history for your recommendations to be based on, it’s just always going to feed you whatever’s popular, which will include his stuff.

You’re doing it to yourself, in other words. I actually have watched a couple videos of his in the past, and yet, because it’s rare, I never see his videos being recommended to me. Hell, in my experience, stuff recommended to me is rarely similar to things I’ve seen more than a month or so ago.

No, anyone whose brain isn’t addled by narrative-over-facts finds making up fake conversations to support a narrative extremely pathetic and cringeworthy. It stands to reason that if someone merits being criticized for acting a certain way, then you’re able to use actual examples of them acting that way to make your point.

You likely only say what you did because you and the majority of your social circle are part of the above-described addled category.

~$30 dollars an hour is, across the whole country broadly, just shy of a basic, liveable wage.

I do not live in a LCOL area (I’m close enough to NYC that a significant number of people around me commute there for their job), and at my last job, I was making ~$27/hr, and I was saving over $1000 on average every single month. That’s after bills AND discretionary spending.

The definition of “livable” (which never gets concretely defined, by the way) that results in $30/hr being “just shy” of it is frankly absurd.

By the way, it doesn’t fit the narrative, but the fact is that most people who live “paycheck to paycheck” aren’t people who barely earn enough to make ends meet, even though the desired implication is that that’s 100% of that demographic; in reality, in the majority of cases, they are people are able to save but CHOOSE not to. Reminder that 1 in 4 households earning over $100k a year live “paycheck to paycheck” in the US.

No, it isn’t.

The US’s incredible levels of prosperity back then was essentially a unique period of time created by extremely specific circumstances (i.e. the US was THE superpower, and the primary economic force on the planet for decades). There’s a reason the ‘baby boom’ happened then. It was literally a unique slice of world history.

It is unrealistic to expect to ever return to that level. Comparisons between now and then are all disingenuous for that reason.

Instead of framing the changes we want to make in terms of ‘but we had X back then’, they should simply be framed in terms of what improvements are beneficial, feasible, and sustainable, in the present.

There is no world where the retail cost of a software product was literally quadrupled based purely on demand, lol.

Accept that it was a ridiculous exaggeration on your part.

The funniest part of this is that it’s already ridiculous at the lowest end of the range you gave, but you went up to $240/year. “Oh yeah, if lots of people buy it, we’ll just 8x the price, surely that won’t torpedo the sales numbers”.

Why did you jump from $30/year to $120-$240 a year? You seriously think Microsoft would just randomly quadruple (at least) the cost?

Jerk off before you write your comment next time.

Community can suck too. Fuck collectivism. “Simp” for those individuals (actually, more accurately, for the good acts) who deserve it, and not a single person/act more.

whatever the number is now, it’s going to climb a lot.

But, again, it’s literally doing the opposite of climbing, and hasn’t been climbing for ~15 years.

It’s a near-worthless figure anyway—if I have 100 apples and 15 of them are rotten, and you have 5 apples which are all rotten, then I have 75% of all the rotten apples, while you only have 25%. But only 15% of mine are, while 100% of yours are. Which figure is more useful in gleaning information about how rotten person X’s apples are on average?

An actually-useful figure for a country is what percentage of that country’s population is incarcerated.

still climbing

It’s literally doing the opposite, liar (and/or reposter of ancient memes), lol.

It peaked around 2008, at ~24.7%. By 2015, it had fallen to 21%. By 2020, it was 20%.

Data from 2022 indicates the share has continued to trend downwards, though apparently most countries don’t report these statistics as often as the US does, and that seems to be the reason I can’t find a more recent ‘percent of the world’s’ figure. Still, given that it’s been less than the 22% in the meme for at least a decade, I can confidently stand by the first thing I said here.

Yeah, I get the point they’re trying to make, but this is a pretty silly comparison. It’s like “oh, so you can eat a 6” sub but not an 18" pizza? Pff, fake hunger".

The last sentence of my comment is my contradicting an assertion they directly made, with the information that backs up that contradiction above it.

we just barely squeaked Obama into office

???

Obama won in 2008 with 52.9% of the popular vote, a larger % of the popular vote than any President since.