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Interest rates go up which results in increased revenue (and money) for the bank, which doesn’t have value backing it. In essence it increases the amount of dollars in the economy, lowering the value of the existing dollars within the economy.

People don’t just stop borrowing money when interest rates go up, especially when the economy is so bad people can’t afford to live on their pay.

Keep in mind what interest represents to the bank.

Higher interest rates are just going to raise inflation, what the fuck

I do have faith in weird pockets of people who have niche interests like role playing games and people who create cool things and write, but the masses disappoint me.

I’m not worried about this tech replacing people, I’m worried about the fact that people are actively losing neural elasticity from using LLMs to think for them.

Ugh saaame

It’s both. 100% both. What kind of question is that?

They’re being sarcastic, they weren’t making fun of you

Autopsy of the DNC?

Literally! Restrictions make us more creative, I always loved writing prompts for this. You could come up with some elements and number them and roll a die to choose them

Loop Track - please go in blind

Best rear window I’ve ever seen was the Hitchcock one

The problem is capitalism and what it’s using AI for. LLMs and their pattern recognition could be very useful if we used them for what they are good at, but capitalists want to replace people with it to avoid paying wages.

Thank you. Idk if this will be beneficial to my emotional wellbeing or not so I will likely forget about it

Not arguing against you, just using your comment as a jumping off point:

If you are part of the owning class, you aren’t “earning” your wage. You are skimming the surplus value created by your employees and calling it “profit”

Capitalism not only encourages exploitation, but requires it. The whole purpose of capitalism is amassing capital, maximization of profit, and the way to do this is through taking the surplus value created by employees.

For example, when a car is created, raw materials go in and are assembled (at least in part) by people. The value created by turning those raw materials into a car is created by the employees that turned it into a car. The difference between the fair market value of that car and the raw materials put in is the value added by the worker.

If we were to actually pay these workers what they are worth, by the value they added to that car, there would be no profit. But because capitalism incentivises maximization of profit, the owning class pays you a wage that is always less than that value added, and they have incentive to make that wage as small as you are willing to take, after all, you can’t build the car yourself because you do not own the means of production

And therein lies the fundamental problem of capitalism. He who owns the means of production has the power.

Poverty wages are not evidence of a broken system, they are evidence that the system is working exactly as intended. We need an economic system that does not incentivize profit, period.

I’d hate to be the soulless fool who downvoted you

I just learned this earlier today! Fuckin weird people birdwatching at a dump.

Waow

Wait actually at a dump??

This makes sense! Those dang bird watchers shakes fist

Hantavirus is not nearly as contagious as something like COVID and requires close, prolonged contact and sharing of respiratory secretions or saliva to spread. Its important to be wary of hantavirus, but the best thing you can do instead of panicking is to educate yourself on it.

Ever swept your garage? You were putting yourself at risk for hantavirus. A lot of people don’t know this. Read up on the way it spreads and where it originates (usually rodent droppings – it’s no surprise this happened on a cruise ship as they are pretty well known vectors of disease), and how to properly deal with things like that.

I understand why you feel worried and that is valid, but channel that energy into educating yourself and those in your circles so you’re prepared.