dukeofdummies

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[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You don't share food if you're starving. You don't share time if you work 12 hour days, every day.

If you spend all your energy on survival, you got no energy to spare on anyone else. I bet our hypothetical starving person would be moral and share, if they had the chance and materials.

If they don't... then it's not a matter of won't it's can't. People are more likely to share food they have excess of, time they have excess of. If they can't spare it, they won't.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

So what, then bribes and intimidation just... aren't actually effective ways of bending morals?

I gotta say I have 0 papers backing me, but I feel like the fact that the very concepts are words in the English language carries some weight.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sadly it was only 4 years ago. But Iowa does feel like that sometimes.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

... How much are you willing to overlook to keep yourself from going homeless?

There just ain't enough protection for whistleblowers right now.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Jesus Christ, that tops the worst thing I've ever heard a therapist say.

I heard a tale about a therapist in Iowa who after talking about issues with anxiety recommended eating brains shaped foods like, broccoli and walnuts.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I'm not. What do you get as a reward for blowing the whistle? Genuinely?

  1. There's no bounty, even if there was you wouldn't get it for at least a year after you blow the whistle.

  2. Once it's discovered it's you, you're fired. There goes your paycheck, your health insurance. Now your home is in jeopardy and you have no decent income verification to get a new one.

  3. Good luck working in any job even remotely related to what you know. You now have a stigma in any background check and while a privately owned mom & pop might look at you favorably, there ain't a single corporation who will take pride in hiring you. You're risky.

The most ethical person, is one with no debt, who owns their home, and has 8 months expenses saved up. That's not most Americans right now.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

... Ok well here's the link to the moment (in the video you watched) where we have one **staff ** member giving an official response to how LTT interpreted the problem in a forum post on their website.

https://youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk?t=811

And here's a link to their youtube channel where they talk about honey

https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips/search?query=honey

You'll notice. There isn't one.

So for at least two years, they knew honey was stealing affiliate links and considered it a big enough problem to end their partnership, but did not consider it a big enough issue to make a video on it.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think what was truly surprising is that they were bought for 4 billion.That much money for... basically an out and out scam. Paypal is that sure that it's:

  1. entirely legal

  2. Will never be stopped

  3. will return on a 4 billion investment.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

seriously... did you watch the video?

https://youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk?t=785

Here. Here's a link to the exact moment that entire chapter starts.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think it's an unreasonable ask either, but from what I understand, Valve is incredibly libertarian, like more than the libertarian party libertarian. Their politics and policies are freedom freedom freedom, and any form of regulation is sheer anathema to them.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, never even heard about mbin. I just now the same error has been on kbin for 8 months now

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

maybe, but I came from kbin. which I now consider dead and gone.

RIP

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