Lemmings.world

4,018 readers
54 users here now

General

A general-purpose Lemmy server that anyone can use.

Read the Code of Conduct and follow the rules. There's also the new user's guide.

We have a bot that travels the Fediverse and subscribes to the most popular communities, so that close to all Lemmy content gets synced here.

You can also go chat with others on our Matrix.

We're part of the Fediseer chain of trust:

Fediseer badge showing that we're guaranteed on the Fediseer network

A badge showing the uptime as a percentage

Donations

This instance is funded out of my pocket, if you wish to donate (or just see how much it costs), visit the donations page.

Other

Other Lemmy-related things hosted on Lemmings.world:

founded 2 years ago
ADMINS
1
 
 

TranscriptA microsoft store review. It is one star. It says: "Croatia will be a nuclear power before this app works. This app is worse than using Half-ply toilet paper." It was posted on the fourteenth of december, 2019. It has 211 thumbs ups out of 269. The user has not set a profile picture. Its username is scribbled out.

2
35
me_irl (lemmy.world)
submitted 25 minutes ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to c/me_irl@lemmy.world
 
 
3
 
 
4
 
 
5
33
GRUB King (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
submitted 49 minutes ago by FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to c/pbsod@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
 
 
6
 
 
7
 
 
8
9
 
 

Salesforce will increase prices by an average of 6% across key products including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, and select Industry Clouds. The change applies to Enterprise and Unlimited plans, taking effect August 17, 2025 for renewals, and immediately for new customers. Renewals before that date can postpone the higher rates for about a year.

10
 
 
11
12
 
 

And by haters I just mean folks who think $12B isn’t a low enough cap…

We are not focused on class war between the majority and the 1%, because (by the numbers) they are not the direct threat to the sustainability of the system. They are not where our money has gone to.

The difference between someone with even $12B and Musk level wealth is the difference between a single story house and a 36 story skyscraper. We are focused on tearing down the skyscraper and taxing the house appropriately. To be frank, the wealth of people with less than a billion dollars is not on our radar as a problem. In contrast, we would like their help in tearing down the skyscrapers. That is the point of our community. We are only after the excess wealth of 250 people in the world.

So again, I welcome you 100% to the tent if you are interested, but politically our goals will always remain simple and be augmented by simple arguments. If that means we are not the community for you, I understand. We’re seeking to act rationally in pursuit of a more ethical world, not to demand ethical perfection from the outset. To be honest I personally believe that ethical perfectionism, infighting, and shrinking the tent are major reasons why progressive movements to rectify wealth inequality constantly fail.

Louis Sachar once wrote an entire book based around the concept that “if you want to fight your way upstream in a river, you have to take small steps”. We arent looking at the end of the river, were looking at the first small steps. (Also that book is a great sequel to Holes for anyone who has never heard of it)

Our argument may seem reductive, but anyone can see the simple nature of the problem. The skyscrapers are a head and shoulders above the single story house. Its a simple problem to see, and an exponential one. 6 people in the world owned half of all the money before covid. Now the problem is even worse. I would venture that the richest 250 people in the world probably own 3/4ths of all the money at this point, at least.

Money was made to move. When that money is parked it doesnt change hands. When it doesnt change hands it doesnt get taxed, things dont get bought. When that happens the government doesnt have the resources it needs, and the economy goes out of whack as well. Its a simple problem that ties into literally every issue imaginable just on that basis. Climate change? We could use more resources to fight it. Materials science to solve the plastic problem? More resources to fight it. People cant afford rent? More resources to pay them. People cant afford healthcare? Do you wish we had bridges to drive over that arent 60+ years old? Are you tired of paying for a fishing/hunting license to subsidize conservation? Everything big and small is impacted in some way by the wealth of the richest 250 people not moving, both inside the US and around the world.

The goal of the movement is not to change the system, really. We arent arguing for moving away from capitalism, even if many of us would like to see that. What we are arguing for is fixing the most unsustainable problem within the system we already have, so that we can continue to fight for a better system in general.

A primary goal is to keep the tent as wide as is possible. The point being that we are fighting specifically on this one issue that should, at least hypothetically, bridge the gap between even people who want radical change and people who want to see no change at all. For people who want radical changes, this is the first step in the right direction. For people who want to see no change at all, this is a step that will prevent the collapse of what they dont want to see changed.

For anyone too broke to afford cost of living, this is what will raise them up to afford a base level of comfort. For the 1%ers, this is what will ensure they get to keep the standard of living they already have, as well as make a shit ton of money off the rest of us. If anything I see this community as an incubation for a political bridge party that can actually bring enough people under one tent to affect change, and breakthrough the various distractions that the richest people in the world rely on so we dont come after them. Red vs blue, black vs white, majority vs 1%ers, and so on and so forth. Its all just bullshit to keep us from paying attention to the 0.0001% who have almost all of the money.

This isnt about redistribution of much of anything from the 1% at large. Its about dislodging the 5 trillion dollars that sit largely in the hands of like 10 people. Just that $5T moving would be enough to allow the rest of the 1% unaffected. Thats like 1/3rd of the federal deficit.

The point of targeting that $5T specifically is because its $5T that is virtually guaranteed to never move otherwise. Its just feel good money for the mega billionaires, which even 1%ers cant relate to nor justify.

We are focused on making the system we have, flawed as it is, a base level of sustainable in the interest of everybody. Capitalism with the bumper guards up. Regardless of what they would want to see next.

To analogize: if were all in one car together right now that is a hunk of shit, and we got a flat tire, the goal for us is to fix the tire so we can make it down the road. Some might want to abandon the car right now even if it means chaos. Some might want to fix the flat so we can get a different car. And some might want to fix the flat so we can keep driving the same hunk of shit. But the goal of our community would be centered on fixing the tire, to avoid chaos and to leave our options open for the future

  • ToastedRavioli

https://midwest.social/post/30028880

13
14
 
 
15
 
 
16
17
18
19
 
 

Alt Text:

I would rather you help me with a small task than waste 20 minutes praying for me to have been born with a different genome

20
21
 
 

Now, I have a chance to work more on myself. I don’t think I was right for her or to have any sort of commitment. Plus, I couldn’t even appreciate the things that made her happy. I apologized but I felt so bad.

I just wanted to stop talking and leave her on read and not answer her calls but I felt too bad, but I don’t have to anymore now that we’re broken up. I don’t have to be there for her and commit to anything. I can play video games, watch TV, do what I want now.

I’m sad that we can’t call and watch TV together, but I was too unhealthy and I acknowledge that I need to work on myself. I love her but we can’t answer each other’s texts every second. I tried to be there for her, I just can’t. I hope she finds someone better and I can work on myself.

I won’t have to post about me being a shitty boyfriend because I’m no longer a boyfriend. Plus, I think she’s losing feelings for me. It will all work out in the end, it is what it is.

22
 
 

Wegen des Angriffs auf ein Vielfalts-Fest in Bad Freienwalde gibt es einen Verdächtigen. Er ist bei der Neonazi-Partei „III.Weg“ organisiert.

23
 
 

Gateway Church says donations, or tithing, have dropped significantly since the scandal involving its former pastor, Robert Morris

24
 
 

It does feel so good, just randomly getting referred to you to someone else by a friend in a game chat with the right pronouns.

25
 
 

Vor einem Jahr wurde Maja T. nach Ungarn ausgeliefert. Mehrere Abgeordnete der Grünen fordern nun in einem Brief die Rückholung.

view more: next ›