Idk about MMA, but afaik his kickboxing record was pretty good, but essentially he was an average/slightly above average pro who had a massively padded record - he mainly fought people who were ranked far lower than him, won some low to mid level titles and didn’t take actual fair matchups or compete in tournaments that you’d expect actual highly ranked pros would compete in.

So, he was a perfectly adequate kickboxer and could beat a lot of pro kickboxers in lower divisions but nowhere near “best in the world” / “olympic level” or whatever else he claims

I think it’s a refutation of unregulated production & resource distribution in general.

In socialism, distribution would be handled by the state or locality, by the producers themselves, by a work coupon system, with money (a la market socialism), or theoretically in a sort of free-for-all all where people just request what they need. Only the last one is really implicated in a tragedy of the commons type scenario, with the money and work coupon systems potentially causing a smaller degree of that sort of an issue (as there would be less inequality, so less possibility of overproduction due to demand). Producers would, in that case, be encouraged to produce more to fill the increased demand, but there wouldn’t be a profit motive for doing so, and so a consumer-side tragedy of the commons is less likely. Also, producers’ access to resources would theoretically be more tightly regulated than in capitalism, but that isn’t necessarily the case.

In capitalism, distribution is dictated by the money system obviously and due the massive inequality there is a big disparity among people’s buying power - but more importantly companies consume the vast majority of resources and are encouraged to grow infinitely in a world of finite resources - creating demand where it doesn’t naturally exist to squeeze more profit out of folks’ savings, make them take on debt, or cause them to deprioritize other purchases.

In capitalism, people are not encouraged to consume infinitely more because it is not possible. You only have so many needs and so much income as an individual. The market invents new needs with advertising and such (you need makeup, you need the newest smartphone with ten cameras, you need glasses that let facebook spy on you), but consumers’ buying power is limited. People can’t really cause a market-wide tragedy of the commons, only companies can because they have the vast majority of the access to resources and the ability and motive (profit motive) to acquire them.

Tragedy of the commons, or some iteration of it, seems inevitable under capitalism, but is mitigated or eliminated under socialism

Yeah, Lyme Disease can potentially cause that. It’s weird they’re saying “meat allergy” and not lyme disease, but lyme is pretty bad and can cause lifelong complications (post-treatment lyme disease syndrome)

Edit: guess I’m wrong

Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism

Bro, it’s the original Lemmy instance. It does not matter what instance you’re on. I have two accounts with the same name one on dbzero and one on ml - feel free to peruse.

You didn’t give me anything to respond to except for: “MAGA and Marxist-Leninism are equally incoherent” - and you gave nothing to substantiate that point, ergo it is a “braindead take” because it required no thought. If you want it to not be a braindead take, then make an argument rather than an unfounded (and probably uninformed) statement.

Okay I’ll bite. Meet the burden of proof. Explain what you mean. How are the MAGA ideology (to the extent that there is one) and the Marxist-Leninist ideology equally incoherent? And, similarly, in what ways are potential views on this particular issue as expressed in that letter shared by MAGAs and MLs?

I am not an ML, but this is a brain-dead take

Fake: is living a lie

Gay: jerks off to guys

I appreciated the ball tanning context. Well anyway, gotta go tan my balls now

Sorry that happened. I get relatively minor tinnitus, but these exercises have helped. Dude’s a chiropractor, but this particular stuff is not chiropractic and is legit. The thing that helps me is the palms on ears and drumming with fingers on the back of your head (like 50% through the video or so)

I have gone off a few times over the years and didn’t experience many side effects/withdrawals, but that is definitely not always the case - I’ve heard that it reeeaaally does not work for some people. Ymmv

Similar to your comment about ADHD, I feel like it helps me with some of my autism symptoms (“low support needs”/aspergers)

If you have depression anxiety and find that Prozac (an ssri) doesnt work well, you might consider something that directly works on dopamine - like Buproprion (brand name = wellbutrin, a NDRI, norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor).

This could be a good use of AI. Since this regime is doing it, and since some of their claims are pretty unrealistic, it probably won’t be. But, ML has been used for a while to help identify new drug compounds, find interactions, etc. It could be very useful in the FDA’s work - I’m honestly surprised to hear that they’re only just now considering using it.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective uses some software from MIT ASKCOS that uses neural networks to help identify reactions and retrosynthesis chains to produce chemical compounds using cheap, homemade bioreactors. Famously, they are doing this to make mifepristone available for people in areas of the US without access to abortion care.

You can check it out here. It’s a good example of a very positive use-case for an AI/ML tool in medicine.

Gotchu

He has 15 total “experiences” (i.e. jobs/internships), all of which are either normal jobs a kid might have or interning in state government/working with trumps campaign for a couple months at a time, all of which you might expect of a kid who wants to get into law/politics. He started work 5 years ago mowing his neighbors’ lawns. Completely unremarkable. Education is a BA in “politics and law” from UT San Antonio and he did a summer “economics program” at George Mason.

Oh and his time working at the grocery store overlaps with his internships with politicians. So he either lied about the length of his employment, wasn’t doing full-time internships, or wasn’t working a significant number of part-time hours at the grocery store.

For your enjoyment and perusal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-fugate

I invite you to look at his work history, the closest thing he has to national security experience is as a “cross functional team member” at a grocery store 2 years ago

I guess, if they answer “No” or “Your simple rebuttal has made me realize the problem of free will is nbd actually”.

But if they say “Yes. It does matter.” Then suddenly it isn’t defeated and you’d need to provide a compelling argument for it not mattering, which would make for good conversation.

Add another one for the ugly fucking tailoring job on that suit.

True that. Our tax dollars could be spent much more effectively if our government was more focused on the wellfare of its people.

You get other benefits though. Like the few social safety nets we actually have, public school funding, social security (unless it runs out/gets cut), fire departments, regulatory agencies that keep your food, water, and drugs safe. Etc. It costs a lot of money to have a society. Even if you don’t directly benefit from them, they still make society less shit.

That said, it’d cost a lot less if we didn’t spend so much of it murdering children.

Oh I’m just… a … regular type dude >!.. with a big-ass dick!<