It’s no less compatible with capitalism than any other economic system. The idea that humans are no longer needed to do any kind of work is an issue the world has never faced before.

Mind altering substances and trail biking has worked well so far. Preferably both at the same time.

No… First of all: electricity is never free to produce. Running a powerplant costs the same no matter what price the electricity is at. The price goes to zero when supply greatly overceeds demand. That means I’m not paying to the electric company for the electricity but I’m still paying for the company that maintains the grid to deliver that electricity to me. It doesn’t just magically hop from the powerplant to my house.

In my view, it would be naive to assume that killing Hitler before he became Chancellor would guarantee the prevention of the atrocities that followed, and it might even pose the risk of something worse happening. Events don’t occur in a vacuum. It’s similar to how dropping nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific events in themselves, but who’s to say those events aren’t the reason nukes have never been used in warfare since? Preventing those bombings might have saved the people in those cities, but it also might have significantly lowered the bar for using nukes, increasing the chance of a true nuclear holocaust during the Cold War, for example.

So maybe time travel is possible, and someone did try to change history by killing Hitler, but then realized the outcome was even worse. Now, they needed an additional assassin to deal with the first one.

Eh, it gives me some faith to still see the occasional individual making sense in the comment sections. I’ve blocked close to 800 people on Lemmy, and on average, I probably block 10 more each day. It feels like it’s not making much of a difference, but it must have some impact. If the number of users here were on par with Reddit, I’d just be wasting my time. However, considering Lemmy’s low user base and the fact that most comments are written by a small percentage of users, I still have faith that blocking those who are just making noise has to improve the signal.

For me, it serves two purposes: less content to browse, which means less time spent here, and the opportunity to engage in thoughtful conversations with the remaining sensible users, rather than partaking in a shouting match with everyone.

Lemmy is effectively the left-wing equivalent of Gab or Truth Social. There’s a ton of extremists here, but they don’t see themselves as such because they believe their extremism is justified and that they’re on the right side of history. Ironically, that’s what all extremists think. Moments like this are the true test of one’s intellectual honesty. A rational, independent thinker should be able to condemn this kind of behavior even when it’s targeted towards their “enemies.”

They’re not against fascism. They’re against fascism from the opposing side. The level of hypocricy demonstrated in these comment sections is mind boggling.

There are a handful of instances here that reliably attract extremists. lemmygrad, hexbear, lemmy.ml, infosec.pub and blahaj to name a few. I don’t think I’ve ever blocked as many people as I have today. Even disabled my content filters to see those threads so I could do some housekeeping.

In case you’ve ever wondered what’s going on in the minds of Q-Anons, now you know.

He believes there’s some health benefits to it

It’s happening on a social media platform none of you has ever heard of before and will never hear of again. Calm down and move on.

You can. I know a guy who eats a birch log every year. He literally sits on the couch pulling splinters from the log and chews on them while watching tv. He also grinds his egg shells and mixes with oatmeal.

No, the prices are decided about 24 hours in advance and they don’t change after that.

I check sahko.tk in the evenings to see if it’s going to be particularly expensive the next day. This is mostly in the winter time, at summer I hardly pay any attention to it. They usually warn people in the news too for the handful of really expensive days in a year. Depending how high it gets I might turn off the heating for the peak hours but generally not because it doesn’t really make that of a big difference as the prices average out over a long period of time. Some people have automatic thermostats that turn off the heating after the electricity price passes a certain limit. My water heater for example is set to go on during the night when electricity is at its cheapest.

According to ChatGPT:

15% on the first $49,275 of taxable income.

20% on the next $49,275 of taxable income (over $49,275 up to $98,550).

24% on the next $19,170 of taxable income (over $98,550 up to $117,720).

25.75% on the taxable income over $117,720.

What’s so neat about it?

I live in Finland and me like a large number of other Finns have a plan in which the price changes every hour according to the market price. Typical price for electricity is around 4c/kWh in the summer and around 15c/kWh in the winter. However it’s not uncommon at all for the price to spike into 30c/kWh or even 70c/kWh. Last winter there was a day that it spiked to 200c/kWh.

How do we deal with it? By turning down/off the heating if possible and burning wood instead. If not then you just deal with it and have to pay significantly more for a few months. Then again if your plan has a fixed price to like 10c/kWh then that also mean you’re paying that even when the price drops to zero which also is not uncommon at all. Often happens several times a week during the summer time. Sometimes it even goes into negative. It’s still not literally free though since the transfer cost is around 6c/kWh plus energy fee and taxes.

Most layoffs are an effort to boost stock prices because some executives made a dumb fucking decision.

…what? You want to elaborate on that a bit?