I don’t know, my girlfriend bought me a coat.
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Vivek is is a fairly common name among Indians. It means “Wisdom”. Do what you will with that information.
Man, his parents really got it wrong with him then. The word(s) for “selfish immoral idiot” would have been more apt as his name.
Should I sleep with him
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(laughs in Dagoth Ur)
What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
THX Elon, you finally did one good thing: start rightist infighting
pssst - that flag and MAGA hat were made in China lol. Go USA!!!
The real comedy is that they thought they’d get hired EVEN IF Elmo hired Americans. Vast majority of the magats barely even have a GED, let alone higher education
Education has a known, liberal bias.
They didn’t think they would get hired. They just didn’t want any more foreigners let in.
The pump and dump tech bro immigrants. Fleecing America.
So fitting as DOGE is named after a literal pump and dump shitcoin.
Yes, and perfectly named because:
Dogecoin is an inflationary cryptocurrency, which means that its supply increases over time. New coins are regularly added to the system through minting and mining. Dogecoin’s inflationary system is unique because it adds a consistent 5 billion new coins each year.
It’s both inflationary and a rug puller’s delight.
I was in a band called Rug Puller’s Delight.
The first three or four songs of every set were excellent covers of chart topping songs and the rest was a rambling and dissonant 90-minute jazz opera about navel lint.
We never played the same venue twice for some reason… 🤔
Oh that sounds like a fun time!! Hopefully at good places where the patrons wouldn’t get too rowdy about it.
I worked with a heavy (very heavy and growl-ey) metal band that was mis-scheduled with a bar, they had advertised their Reggae night that weekend instead. Many many angry drunk patrons. Did not use that venue again.
More like a memecoin. DOGE was pretty fun until dipshit Elon hijacked it.
I remember mining it way back in 2015. The community was super fun and lighthearted. Nobody really cared about actually buying stuff with it outside of memeing about it becoming a serious currency. Apparently the creator is full MAGA now though which is sad
I did a bit of mining, too. Not with the expectation of any great profit, just for fun and the experience with cryptocurrencies. And if it should take off, even better.
The whole community reminded me a lot of the good old days of memes, not taking itself too seriously, being very helpful and positive. A stark contrast to all the crypto bros pushing other coins and looking down on Doge.
Of course, then the dipshit-in-chief started promoting it …
How was it fun?
It was just a meme at first mostly making fun of Bitcoin. The community made a lot of funny content and really didn’t take itself seriously. What it is now is a polar opposite of what it started as (including its creator)
Okay but that is all well before Elon joined, so how was it fun until then?
I can’t really speak for that
It was fun when it was just pictures of dogs and not a coin
Iirc it started as a joke. Then musk thought he’d make it cool.
It was originally created as a parody of Bitcoin. The Doge community used to be mostly people making fun of crypto “investors”.
Hardly. MAGAts learning the truth a couple months ago so what’s about to transpire over the next four years was something COMPLETELY different would’ve been the greatest gift.
They forget that in a day or two. They literally have the mental capacity of a toddler.
Toddlers eventually learn though, and progress. Trumpy people a more like dogs: They can appear clever, but only up to a certain threshold. They may even perform useful tasks and tricks for their handlers. But ultimately they need someone to feed and supervise them otherwise they’ll eat something they shouldn’t and get sick. That same contented trot, and look of purpose you see on a dogs face while their owner walks them is what a republican gets when they’re getting walked by fascists. Both the dog and the republican think they’re part of a pack. Both the dog and the republican will be euthanized by their masters when they become too burdensome or they’ve outlived their usefulness.
Not a meme.
I see a comment like this every day or so. Just make your own community if you don’t want to circle jerk with us until the masters cut our heads off to sell them as NFTs.
Why do people argue against community names (and words in general) having meaning?
They’re just using the original definition of meme - “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture”
There’s a problem with taking a one sentence definition out of context and then citing like that. You’re reading that definition here as though it were “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that can be spread from person to person within a culture”.
Whereas to me it’s clear that sharing a thing online at least once doesn’t make it a meme. If it did, the word loses any useful meaning and may as well be “thing”. Meme used to mean that the image or idea was so popular it gained a symbolic meaning that an entire culture could recall in a glance. Not just that it was a thing they saw on the Internet once.
If it did, the word loses any useful meaning and may as well be “thing”.
Look up the origins of the term. The word “meme” has always had this problem, because it was poorly defined in the first place.
For more about the full context, pick up The Selfish Gene, in which Richard Dawkins coins the term and explains it as a “gene” of information. Genes are genes whether or not they get passed on.
How is this not an idea?
Your MOM’S not a meme!
Nice
How do we know they realized anything?
As much as I want to enjoy posts like this one, I always ask myself this and it takes the joy out of it every time. It’s just a nice fantasy that reminds me of the “Nobody in this room know I …” meme.
It’s always “MAGAs are losing their minds over …”, but never any explanation or sourcing.
Elon is apparently censoring conservatives who disagreed with him over the immigration issue.
I don’t really see much change occurring though. Most conservatives I know will continue deluding themselves.
Thanks!
I’m with you on not expecting to see change =/
And they do so for two reasons. The first, and most important, is because foreign labor is cheaper than domestic by far. The second, and arguably the most important for you and I, is because our education system sucks and can’t pump out nearly as many well-educated folks in those particular fields at nearly the rate of countries with free, subsidized, or even just cheap education.
So the problem is twofold. The first, rent is too expensive and Americans know it. The second, school is too expensive and Americans know it. Americans also know that we can’t actually fix those problems without something changing with how our political and economic systems operate, and that takes a revolution that nobody wants because they don’t want to fight and die for their right to be exploited by an employer in place of an immigrant.
Another lemmy user also pointed out the very different power dynamic between normal US workers and H1B workers (which I think is a more “saying the quiet part” than the cost to hire them being less). This is that a normal US worker losing their job (state dependent) could mean wrongful termination suits, compensation packages, and other worker benifits. H1B workers, termination means the runway to getting deported is now very short (because they are no longer working for their sponsor). Its extra leverage against the employee, meaning they can take advantage of them in ways that would make US workers take action against.
The likes of musk and co want workers who they have more leverage over. They can ask them to do more things against regulations, ethics or their own well being, because refusal to do so means they might as well start packing.
Yeah, it’s less about education than it is control from what I have first hand experience in. Generally a us college grad is going to be a better employee than a H1B visa, although I’m sure there are exceptions. However, a college grad isn’t beholden to an employer for their right to exist in this country. So a college grad is more likely to change jobs or push back on the employer for things like vacation time, pay, etc.
Ready to fight and die if it’s billionaires were hunting 🤚
Take a guess whose side the militarized police will be on.
People say this, but I’m not sold on it. They’d be gunning down their own families and friends. Maybe I’m naive, but if I were in the service I think I’d be clear on who I’m supposed to be defending from whom…
If you have any doubts, look at who police murder, and who actually spends time in prison when convicted. It’s not rich people.
Lol
Badge:=morally right
Opposing badge:=Morally wrong
Morally wrong:=ok to shoot
Pigs are pigs
This happens in other countries. What makes the US special?
We don’t need to guess, we saw when that CEO was murdered
Lol this is a terrible take. You cant actually be an engineer, right?
I’m not really sure if education is the keystone issue, though. It’s a big part of the arch, for sure, but it’s well documented that economic stress and resource scarcity can take even smart people and make them drop-dead stupid. There are plenty of well educated people who have been so filled with hate and fear that they’ll believe anything and hate anyone so long as it makes them feel like they’ll have some financial security.
Does the education of other countries include “critical thinking”, “propoganda identification”, or a mandatory “basic economics for the regular person so they can understand the concept of indirect benefit”? Do their existing courses even touch on those topics indirectly in ways that someone “who needs a little help” can learn enough to keep themselves safe? Not really, and that’s why we’re even seeing Germany basically make the same fucking mistake as before and it’s not even been 100 years yet.
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You mean those who crave being fucked by the economy? :-)
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A pessimistic view of education is that it’s a subsidy for business. We use our taxes to train core skills in the workforce so it’s cheaper to hire and use us.
They don’t offer education as enrichment, and not even education as a competitive measure… like they aren’t grounded in reality and even their fantasies suck.
I heard that from Europeans talking about US schools. Anything in school that doesn’t directly help you in your job is a waste of time and money.
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While in Europe education is seen as something edifying that kind of raises you to another level.
I honestly think a big part of why we’re more susceptible to right-wing idiocy is that we don’t teach basic philosophy in high school. I’m talking basic things like how an argument is structured, deductive vs inductive logic, logical fallacies, theory of knowledge, etc.
Absolutely. Basic critical thinking should be fundamental.
Some scientific skepticism would be perfect.
Some schools do, but seemingly not most.
Maybe a nice TikTok series would help. Here’s 30 seconds on how to spot a fraudster: they are trying to sell you something very very complex in 30 seconds (or 280 characters).
Speaking from the UK: Yes and no.
After 14 years of Tory scum in charge, arts education in schools is on its arse, because it doesn’t provide workers to grind into a paste once they’ve left education. Indeed, most schools are struggling like fuck because funding kept getting cut while more was being required of them.
As a whole education here is seen as a civic duty to ensure our kids are well-equipped for life in the workforce, but the scope of the education isn’t limited to just what they’d need for that, even if the central focus is.
There’s plenty of education-based circle jerking about superiority on both sides of the pond.
Yes the idea that public education is free training businesses should pay for is a very transactional Trumpian outlook, and the official mentality of the Trumpublican Party.
We use our taxes to train core skills in the workforce so it’s cheaper to hire and use us.
Education that has any value beyond basic reading is college and trades, and you have to pay for that yourself peasant!
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Fascism will always exist as long as the “opposition” is also xenophobic, nationalist, etc.
