Recent comments in /f/Showerthoughts
Dwarfdeaths t1_j6ktuop wrote
Reply to comment by LegitimateAsk7824 in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
I think the problem most capitalist countries are struggling with is the failure to distinguish capital from land. Capital - that is, wealth reinvested to improve the productivity of future work- deserves returns. Instead of enjoying your wealth, you gave it up for a time to be more productive.
Rent seeking - that is, the withholding of land from those who need it to live and work - is pure parasitism. No one created land, they just found it and claimed it. (Similarly, old capital that was made by someone who is no longer alive is indistinguishable from land.)
Henry George proposed a solution known as the land value tax. It effectively rents all land out, and distributes that rent uniformly among citizens. While the owner can still choose how to use their land, the economic value of that land is owned by everyone.
Capitalism in its pure form, i.e. privatized rewards for private investment, is probably fine. But land is not capital and we can't continue to treat it like it is.
HEpennypackerNH t1_j6ktsvd wrote
Reply to There is an age for each candy when you're too old to eat your age # of candies in one go by wisdom_and_frivolity
Maybe not nerds. There’s gotta be 100 of those in the little fun size box.
starlightchaser60 t1_j6ktq6c wrote
Reply to The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
The world gets something with infinite untapped potential. Then, the world ruins it by being extremely greedy and selfish. Then, after a few years, what could have made human life insanely better is now mostly toxic, with a few good things strewn in here and there.
Multiply this by every potential Earth shattering invention.
ObligatoryOption t1_j6ktn0v wrote
Reply to comment by Openly_Guarded in Not being able to verbify 'efficient' is very.. inefficient by inomorr
Ah, then an equivalent verb is "optimize", which means to modify (a process) in order to achieve maximum efficiency. The existence of this verb eliminates the need to verbify "efficient" without loss of efficiency.
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sunflower_jim t1_j6kth0m wrote
Reply to comment by khamelean in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
I think for the vast majority this sentiment holds true. Just look at your phone time app to see it’s true.
It’s the same sentiment as a library. Vast wealth of knowledge but most people are there to read comics or use the PCs to game online. I’d wager some very good and important books have only been touched by the library staff for decades. Yet if somebody said “libraries are basically pointless these days” I’d have to agree, yet your comment would hold true there as well.
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sir-lags t1_j6ktf3q wrote
Reply to You know you’re old when your birth year starts being used as a flashback in movies by Ocars22
Literally just happened with The Last of Us. Guess it official
NorthImpossible8906 t1_j6ktavu wrote
there is a verb form.
eff you (or commonly, "F U")
it means efficiencify yourself.
Openly_Guarded t1_j6ksyt4 wrote
Reply to comment by ObligatoryOption in Not being able to verbify 'efficient' is very.. inefficient by inomorr
They're talking about not having a term like efficient-ize, the way you do with other adjectives like legal.
sunflower_jim t1_j6ksu69 wrote
Reply to The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
I miss the flash days. The days of stumbleupon and the days when Google seemed to actually work.
Showerthoughts_Mod t1_j6ksp4c wrote
Reply to The amount of people that do not know that a cold sore is herpes is surprising. by BellyScratchFTW
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[deleted] t1_j6ksbly wrote
Reply to comment by mayormcskeeze in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
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Obiwan_ca_blowme t1_j6ks5ra wrote
Reply to All of us have direct ancestors who survived 5 global mass extinctions and outlived the dinosaurs by Arinupa
And not a single one was gay.
I know, I know, you can be gay but be in a heterosexual relationship out of fear or whatnot. What if I said “a practicing homosexual.”?
Eggplantosaur t1_j6ks519 wrote
Reply to comment by mayormcskeeze in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
>It really is a shame how completely useless the internet has become.
Get over yourself. The internet is a fantastic resource
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dark_afternoon t1_j6krsm6 wrote
Reply to comment by yeahwellokay in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
Replace Youtube with facebook and ur good
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Ravore t1_j6krih2 wrote
Reply to comment by raisearuckus in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
The literal point of the shower thought is the screenshots and sharing them.
jamiecarl09 t1_j6krgme wrote
Reply to comment by icelandichorsey in All of us have direct ancestors who survived 5 global mass extinctions and outlived the dinosaurs by Arinupa
I'd prefer they anti-vax crowd thin their own herd. For the good of the species.
FrostedJakes t1_j6krcxq wrote
Reply to comment by mayormcskeeze in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
Depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for legitimate information regarding things that have been researched and studied, Google Scholar is a great option.
raisearuckus t1_j6krcgz wrote
Reply to comment by Ravore in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
What does screenshots have to do with anything?
ObligatoryOption t1_j6kr8tg wrote
You can't verbify "efficient" because you can't efficient something without saying what you're doing, and what you're doing is the verb, not how you're doing it.
numbersev t1_j6kr5d9 wrote
Reply to The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69
It was originally decentralized and gradually became centralized out of necessity. For example we as in humanity don't need 5 different Facebooks, YouTube's or Reddits. We all just use the same one and that's where it strength kicks back as well.
Web 3.0 is said to promote innovative concepts that decentralize power again, but I don't know how it would change the internet as we use it.
ToxicSnake48 t1_j6ktz3f wrote
Reply to It is much more socially accepted for a baby boy to be naked than for a baby girl to. by Plotees_the_third
Why does reddit keep recommending me post from this braindead subreddit!