At the end of the day, a society like that would look a lot different than the our current one. Their would likely have to be some sacrifices. Maybe we decide that fishing in the Bering Strait isn’t worth it or no one wants to do it, I guess we’ll have to go without Alaskan crab. Maybe you couldn’t have a sports car. However, I think people would sooner go out and cut trees than go unhoused. We’ll just have to decide what we as a society want to put our efforts towards.

Your full days work presumably creates value for your employer, more than they pay you for. That’s what they use to cover their operating expenses and profit. Or maybe you work for a public utility that’s in debt. Regardless, imagine a society where all the value created by the people designing and producing Nvidia’s chips, Elon’s cars and spaceships, and the people mining all the materials for them, which we’ve decided is worth trillions of dollars, was used by society and in the pockets of people that actually spend it in the economy. A society with a work force like ours should be able to house and feed everyone. We already know there are more vacant houses than homeless people in North America, and we throw out enough food worldside to feed everyone. It’s hard to imagine how exactly a society would actually distribute all that to everyone like communism aims to do though, but I don’t see why it shouldn’t be possible somehow. If everyone had enough to eat, a roof over their heads, and time to do what they want why wouldn’t they be alright going without Alaskan crab and other luxuries?

Any organisation that needs to operate 24/7 with a work week of less than 40 hours would need to have more workers than they do with a 40 hour work week, simple as that. To oversimplify: we arrived at the 40 hour work week when business owners wanted people to work more and people rioted and formed unions to push back over 100 years ago. In other words, it’s arbitrarily set. We could organize society around a different length work week if we changed our goals from shareholder profit to better quality of life for all. Maybe being a lumbejack or alaskan fisherman wouldn’t be so bad if you only had to do it once a week or didn’t have to go out in storms and you still had food, shelter, and leisure activities provided by society.

I think it’s more nuanced then you let on. People in general have vastly different aptitudes, interests, risk tolerance, etc…, as I’m sure you’re aware. Not everyone would be a hippie artist given the chance. I don’t think it’s crazy to assume that when society provides for everyone’s basic needs, including the ability to pursue leisure activties, there would still be people that want to work in combined cycle power plants because that interests them and it’s something that provides real value to society.

I think another important thing to consider is that when the need for capitalist growth and profit motives are removed from society we wouldn’t need as much power and as many combined cycle power plants. People wouldn’t be addicted to hoarding shit and consuming, advertisers wouldn’t be trying to convince people to do so, and we wouldn’t be making as much stuff. We would be allocating resources in a way that is just and equitable for all members of society and the environment. Workers could work a few hours a day or a week a month, because the plant wouldn’t demand the maximum amount of labour value they can legally get out of each worker. That doesn’t sound like so bad a life to me, I think enough people would think so too.

At the end of the day, it’s like a lot of the other comments are saying: it’s hard to imagine a world without capitalism because we haven’t tried it.

Please keep in mind that I have read very little of the actual literature and am woefully uninformed on the topic of communism. This is just my interpretation of things might work based on the little I’ve managed to pick up on the subject, but I thought my input would still be valuable.

Edit to add: The job might not be as dangerous either. Without profit incentive you wouldn’t need maximum up-time. You could do more shut downs and preventative maintenance. Take slower/safer approaches to tasks. I’ve never worked in a power plant, but I don’t think I’m too far off what might be posible.

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Thanks for the input. I guess putting aside the intended use case, my thinking was getting the best processor the VRM situation would comfortably allow to account for all the unlikely what-if scenarios I might come up with lol. This seems like a case of not letting perfection be the enemy of good enough. Cheers.

It seems I have over thought things then. My thinking was I want the most performant processor that the 50 amps of VRMs can handle without being maxed out the whole time. I might be underestimating modern hardware and getting too caught up in spec chasing.

They added kernel level anti-cheat retroactively to all the modern Battlefield games like a year ago. It’s a game from 2018 that I was priviously playing an Linux, but it doesn’t work now.

Mulan. The live action remake was so bad, but I had high hopes because I like the original.

You’ll still be a shit person, likely with no meaningful friendships. That’s gotta factor into the equation somehow.

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I think they sold the rights to a Blackberry phone to Chinese company, TCL or Foxconn I think. They advertised a phone, but it was never made.

I was the exact same way. I could justify watching ads to support the people I watched, but then I learned how little compensation a creator actually gets from one view and decided my time was more valuable. Plus I just got too used to never seeing ads and could never go back.

This video sums up the sentiment you’re describing nicely.

I just got set up on Simple X Chat. From my cursory research it seems to have the best security going in a chat app right now. I find the UI really slick too. It has all the features I use in a chat app anyway. The only thing to be aware of is that all the messages are saved locally, so backup/recovery needs to be handled by you. There’s a couple videos an YouTube that go over the app.

All that being said, I still have WhatsApp on my phone. There’s still the same problem of getting everyone in your life to download another app.

Couldn’t have said it any better.

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I never considered this was a difference, interesting! For a lot of years in school I didn’t use a bottle and relied on the fountains exclusively. Also, the bathrooms usually always had the motion activated faucets that just spray warm water with no temperature controls so using them for drinking water wouldn’t work. I’m starting to think the way this works in NA might be somewhat overly complicated lol

For conveniently drinking out of them and filling water bottles in public buildings like schools and hospitals. They’re really common in NA, what part of the world are you in?

Someone will be smuggling microfiche behind the iron curtain…wait wrong century.

Never been happier to be on Lemmy ❤️ Well maybe it’s a close second to the day I switched!

Damn, it really is that simple.