Ecco the dolphin

I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: May 13th, 2024
  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Stalin the mysagonist
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    29 days ago

    I do believe that in order to achieve welfare/prosperity, not all the people have to work. And I do believe that there are more important things in life than working. I’d love to be a stay at home dad, but I can’t.

    Being a stay at home dad is work. Raising children is necessary work that capitalism requires, because it requires laborers. We have engineered a system in which this work is uncompensated, and if you gender this work, it causes gendered oppression.

    I will also point out that in America we have decided that unless you have a “job”, society has decided that you pretty much don’t deserve health care. Anyone who chooses a life of domestic labor in America puts themselves in a position where they are financially dependent on their spouse and their spouse’s employment status. It doesn’t have to be this way. We have forged these chains.

    Whether doubling the workforce is a good thing - that I’d keep up for a debate.

    If we had more workers, it could be that we wouldn’t need those workers to work as long. Earlier retirement, shorter work weeks, whatever. The issue is not the size of the work force, the issue is what is chosen to be done with it.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Stalin the mysagonist
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    1 month ago

    Are you trying to imply doubling the available workforce is not good? Its usually a good thing. While their motivations are cynical, those leaders are doing good.

    …or are you trying to imply that keeping women out of the traditional work force (by only allowing them to work unpaid in the home in domestic servitude, labor that capital does not value) increases the value of male labor through scarcity, which would be preferred?

    Sorry that second question kind of reads as an attack. A shitty coworker of mine said that to me unironically and tried to play it off as a joke when I pushed back.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•ghibli posting
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    1 month ago

    Ok… but is the picture art??? I don’t think anyone would try to argue it is. Miyazaki was specifically talking about how no algorithm can produce art, and I agree.

    What makes this screenshot funny is the human element, the performance! It’s all ridiculous.

    Glorified Matrix Algebra: [Presents an image of a caked-up gnome]

    Internet goblin: “Make it’s butt even bigger.”

    Glorified Matrix Algebra: “Sorry, that’s a bridge too far for me.”

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬
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    3 months ago

    The first day of his inaguration, Trump put forth an executive order that will attempt to make all federal employees Schedule F, basically, the same protections as a political appointee instead of a civil servant. This will make them basically at will employees.

    DunkinCoder is correct they are also making it really awful to work for the federal government with RTO and freezing of funding. And the hiring freeze. But it’s not the complete picture, its actually much worse.

    There will be court cases with federal employees trying to keep their jobs. I suspect they will fail, due to how the courts are republican controlled right now. The firings haven’t started yet. Expect them soon. There will be loyalty tests. There’s an email floating around asking federal employees to rat on “DEI hires”, whatever that is. Are minorities that are actually entirely qualified for their federal position a “DEI hire”? Do you get fired if you don’t pretend that they are?

    Edit - article: link

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•They just don't get me 😫
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    5 months ago

    I think this picture is a joke, however, some people have a sneezing kink. I am sorry to deliver this information.

    In highschool my friends and I challenged each other to find the worst fanfictions we could possibly unearth.

    Harry Potter sneezefic took 2nd place (looking back, it was about children… gross! but we were kids, and this was probably written by a kid? Life is mysterious.)

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Roblox's New Child Safety Changes Reveal How Dangerous It's Been For YearsEnglish
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    6 months ago

    There are no checks whatsoever, no email or phone number required, no verification options—it just hands you an account for a 99-year-old, with full access to all chat features. (It took maybe five clicks from having no account to being able to play Blood & Gore.)

    Come on now Kotaku. I was a kid once on the internet. I lied about my age once to sign up for Neopets, which had text forums, private messages and user-created pages. You could even use HTML and hotlink images. It really wasn’t a big deal because my parents paid attention to what I did online, and the audience of the website was just children or people who wanted to play a simple game.

    My mom ended up playing it, so she must have known I lied about my age to get access. She had hella neopoints.

    For content marked 17+, you do need to verify your age with documentation

    WHY IS THERE CONTENT FOR 17+ ON ROBLOX? Isn’t this the TRUE child safety problem? Why do this at all? Why attract people looking for 17+ content on a platform for children??? I read that Hindenburg report, the entire platform is a mess. This company deserves to fail and those investors deserve to be left holding the bag.