Because doordash works and delivery doesn’t.

I haven’t heard shit about Venezuela in months. Dafuq is going on?

probably a goof making fun of brainworms guy.

yup, that’s the one

escalators are actually a bad example of this. What you describe is what is supposed to happen, and they’re supposed to be built with mechanisms to ensure that’s what happens, but there’s been examples of escalators failing in such a way that the weight of too many people on it makes it go faster and faster and people get crushed and deadified.

I watched a youtube video about a famous example a while back, don’t remember the channel that did it though or I’d find and link it.

edit: I’ve been proven wrong but I’m leaving my comment because it’s a learning experience for anyone who reads this thread.

If it’s the one I heard my maga coworkers giggling about, some guy shot at a cop (unsure if missed or non fatal wound), another cop ran the person over (instantly fatal).

yeah, that sounds about right.

Why? because characters in blazing saddles were racist? No, that movie was great and doesn’t fall into the issue I’m complaining about. Now, if the main character was a racist characature, then I’d take issue.

Blazing saddles makes fun of racists. Spaceballs makes fun of women.

Knowing how beloved the original was, I finally watched it recently. In order to like it I’d have to overlook how offensively the Leia parody was written. It’s a depiction I’d expect from a boomer chud who can’t get laid.

I do not intend to watch the sequel.

sweet, new phone background

That’s why I advocate for capitalism with significant socialist policies, strong safeguards, and extreme restrictions. Tax the rich and give everyone UBI. Make the minimum wage a multiple of the inflation factor (and fix “inflation” to actually measure how the cost of everything has increased over time).

Knowing lemmy, most people will stop reading six words into this comment.

I would prefer a better system from the ground up. I’m willing to compromise for making the existing system not suck (which would actually take more work but I think will be easier to sell to the general populace).

Of course, this is the overly idealistic side of me, the part that still believes that playing by the rules is the correct thing to do. I’m more likely to believe the anarchists these days. It’s amazing how far left I’ve moved In the past handful of years, I used to think of myself as liberal (actual liberal not what most people who call themselves liberal are).

At this point I’m willing to try just about anything else, and that includes burning it all down and starting over.

Objectively false, and propaganda to preserve the sate’s monopoly on violence.

Part of what I’m complaining about is that groups following an ideology often give themselves names and descriptions that do not accurately describe the ideology. If we accept that and use the labels they gave themselves, then we distort what those words even mean and language is useless.

Imma cherry pick some definitions in order to best make my current point.

Liberal. Adjective.

Favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.

Open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.

Conservative. Adjective.

Disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.

I don’t think I need to do a section on “fascist”.

Also also, the word “neoliberal” is absolute syllable salad to me. It’s like it’s trying to pretend to be one thing, but is actually the polar opposite of it. It’s a case of a movement naming itself without regard to what the fuck the word actually means and therefore it doesn’t mean a damn thing. Neoliberal is a name, not a description, for diet republicans.

At first blush that sounds insane, but reality these days is giving The Onion a run for its money.

Not liberals, democrats. Let’s use labels that actually describe the group that’s being discussed. Democrats for the most part are conservative, ever trying to maintain the status quo and unwilling to try anything else (meanwhile republicans are fascist not conservative).

Of course, democrats will continue to call themselves liberal and republicans will continue to call themselves conservative no matter how much I insist that they’re wrong, but I’ll continue to assert this point whenever a convenient opportunity arises.

I’ve mostly accepted that everyone is a piece of shit if you go digging hard enough. So I really don’t care unless it’s really bad.

I’ve never looked into it, but whenever I talk about factorio there’s a 50/50 chance that I’ll get shat on for supporting him.

Well, you’re almost there. And you responded with a link. The topic at hand doesn’t matter enough to me to pursue this further.

You didn’t read my comment.

Capitalism is the best system we’ve got because capitalism killed every other system, not due to any virtue on capitalism’s part.

I’d be down to try just about anything else at this point.