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moate commented on Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers chicagotribune.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/NaOH

moate · a month ago

I think "insular rural folk" are often literate enough to see highfalutin dick-bags like yourself coming and don't want to be associated with that level of disdainful pretense.

I work in project management for a massive multi-national, about as "businessy business" as you can get, and my moon-shining, hog-raising cousins give me shit for being a sellout (we grew up showing and milking cows together) but we all still can sense a vibe about "certain types from the big city" that's more about respect and shared culture that any sort of financial, social, political, or other illiteracy/incompetence.

moate commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox

karaterobot · a month ago

> Younger Americans (millennials and Gen Zers) owned $1.35 for every $1 of wealth owned by baby boomers at the same age.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/community-development/publication...

moate · a month ago

Um, I'm going to go ahead and point out this, probably not super relevant data point

"While trailing Gen Xers for the beginning of their adult lives, younger American households’ average wealth began to exceed that of Gen Xers at about age 30, reflecting historically high wealth levels following the COVID-19 pandemic." I have a feeling that average wealth adjustment falls very heavily on the home owners, which is only just above half of all the cohort. Had a similar thing happened to boomers in 89, almost 70% would have benefitted.

I think it's also worth pointing out: The share of wealth held by boomers in 89 (why 89? Because they didn't have data before that. It's why the graphs start in a weird spot and why it's not a great study unless you're trying to pull out a "gotcha" stat) represented almost 20% of the total wealth in the country. "Millenials/GenZ" has a hold on only HALF that percentage.

Doctors may hate your one weird statistic, but socio-demographists probably don't...

moate commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox

eastbound · a month ago

It’s not generations, it’s age ;) Younger generations are still idealists. With age, you get betrayed in your ideals. You discover scientific studies weren’t so scientific as they get turned over one by one. It’s something like: Ice caps will still melt, and everything you did for the better, bad luck, they’ll have increased the warming. Same when we tried to eat better against cancer or raised or fists to defend gay people. I don’t want you to believe you’re generation won’t suffer the same fate ;)

moate · a month ago

I have to say, sample size of 2, but as we get older my wife and I get further and further entrenched in our idealism.

I was a center-left socialist as a kid and I'm a full blown anarchist in my 40's so, idk, "people aren't a monolith"?

moate commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox

jonplackett · a month ago

It’s an interesting comparison though because equally solar / electric cars only really went mass market when they became economically a good deal

moate · a month ago

"When a thing becomes affordable more people have access to it." nods nods

So is our conclusion "People talk a big game but their morality clearly fails based on how the market has played out" or "People want things but the market has competing forces and sometimes takes a long time to find ways to provide people what they want?"

My rephrasing to your statement is "It took the mass market decades to figure out how to deliver consumers the solar/electric cars they wanted at a price they could afford."

Also, points in the general direction of the established energy providers I think these assholes had some incentive not to let the market get out from under them and make sure they were the ones who continued to profit from it.

moate commented on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope wired.com/story/steam-itc... · Posted by u/6d6b73

some_random · a month ago

I do not give a shit about people responding to speech with speech. I am arguing that responding to speech by using your authority over the speaker to hurt them, or by lobbying an authority to do so is something different than speech. Did you see the context for this thread? This is the rhetorical question I responded to: "Do we have a right to object to speech that promotes and normalizes violence against us?". I hold that they absolutely do have a right to object to such speech, any speech in fact, but "objecting" is not the same as lobbying Visa/Mastercard to ban speech they believe "promotes and normalizes violence against us".

moate · a month ago

>>"objecting" is not the same as lobbying Visa/Mastercard to ban speech they believe "promotes and normalizes violence against us"

Why not? Like, I'm a full on anarchist, but how do you create any sort of functioning society without out people being able to say "we as a group don't like that shit and are going to do things to stop it from happening"? Like if burger king comes out and says "We sell dogs here now" am i not allowed to say "fuck this, I'm allergic to dogs but I loved whoppers, I'm going to picket outside BK until the king fixes this travesty of hamburgers?"

Again, I'm an anarchist so I have weird views on a lot of topics, but isn't this a problem that "the capital class wants to continue to have profit go up and to the right on their charts, they're cowardly and uncreative so they fear anything that destabilizes this movement on their charts, and large networks of people are the only thing that can utilize this fear to cause them to change their behaviors"?

moate commented on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope wired.com/story/steam-itc... · Posted by u/6d6b73

mywittyname · a month ago

Much like some people with drug addictions love Disco Elysium, specifically because of the authenticity it has regarding substance abuse.

moate · a month ago

That was part of it, as well as the idea of an RPG that represents skills as essentially "shadow work". Very much helped me on my mental health journey!

My pro-fascist brother-in-law with massive social anxiety hated it for some reason..

moate commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs

potato3732842 · a month ago

Miles are bigger than kilometers so the guy doing 90 among traffic that wants to go 120 might actually be worse in miles because it's a larger speed differential.

moate · a month ago

...that...that was his point...

moate commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs

azinman2 · a month ago

Why wouldn’t they obviously be?

moate · a month ago

I believe OP is lamenting the fact that we still need to have the "EV/hybrids's are better the ICE vehicles" discussion in 2025. That there's a segment of the population that needs a mountain of such overwhelming evidence to be convinced of the value.

moate commented on Why do victims of massacres go to their deaths? benlandautaylor.com/p/why... · Posted by u/jger15

bm3719 · a month ago

> This isn't even getting into the Jungian "death drive"

The death drive is Freudian, not Jungian. However, it might be very relevant here. Freud's conception of it would include passively accepting death. As you say, by the time the prisoner is about to be executed, they're often resigned to their fate, the death drive having overcome the id long ago. Contrast with massacres where the victims weren't expecting it (the Malmedy massacre of freshly captured troops comes to mind from the same era) and you see people trying to run away once it starts.

Lacan called himself Freudian, but I think his conception links the death drive with active desire, seeking a form of self-destructive pleasure by action. I recall from Écrits that he links it to masochism, for example, calling it an expression of transgressive jouissance.

moate · a month ago

Thanks for the correction!

moate commented on Why do victims of massacres go to their deaths? benlandautaylor.com/p/why... · Posted by u/jger15

datpuz · a month ago

If your situation is 100% totally hopeless, it's probably preferable to most people to take the clean shot than to try to escape and have a potentially much worse death.

moate · a month ago

There's also some bit of (ironically) survivor bias going on here: Most of the people sitting in front of the ditch didn't leave the country. They didn't join up with the resistance. They didn't try to escape 3 weeks prior. This isn't even getting into the Jungian "death drive" where, at a certain point, you'd rather just die than keep trying to struggle.

Some people make bad, illogical choices when the stakes are extremely low, and some do the same when it's life or death. The human mind is a wonder of inefficient perfection.