To clarify, I’m not saying that this proves correctness of a particular economic theory, more that your (probably?) implied claim that pandemic money printing didn’t have a big negative impact on the value of the dollar is very much not self-evident given how things went.
IMO the big thing is just to broadly remove corporate influence and control. Almost everything that is wrong with the internet has roots in profit/power seeking megalomaniacs thinking up ways to make the technology we use serve their needs exclusively and manipulate everyone’s interactions to cater to that. Tech utopia would be everyone using systems that are designed for organic human interaction, organizing and information exchange, and the people who want to corrupt that being unable to do so.
It might not have fully collapsed (yet), but I think all the money printing had a lot to do with the subsequent relative price boom of various assets. For instance if you had bought gold and waited a few years it would have worked out pretty well. Inflation relative to stores of wealth has been a lot higher than inflation relative to consumer goods.
Going forward they should do it think it through,
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This is reality if you’re using an mp3 player instead of a phone
Don’t worry it looks like they intend to proactively restrict your right to ride a bike:
Focus solutions on expanding and maximizing roadway capacity for driving. This includes building new roadway capacity or applying operational strategies and technologies to maximize existing roadway capacity. You may also need to recover roadway capacity from other purposes to support driving.
No, I disabled that in the settings so I don’t see it
That’s true but you can mess up pretty bad if you don’t know what you’re doing and aren’t carefully following a recipe. One time I wanted a stir fry to be more filling, so I added flour, which apparently gives it a uniquely unpleasant slimy texture and is basically inedible. Never did that again but that kind of stuff can happen more often before you have much experience cooking. Even if you are following a recipe sometimes they can be ambiguous or give wrong measurements (especially for the amount of salt to use).
Speaking only about the porn, I like drawings, and real images of real people usually make me uncomfortable for whatever reason. The quality and volume of the art has increased dramatically over the years, lots of furry nsfw artists are really, really good at what they do.
What makes it seem that way? Doesn’t read like AI to me, not a lot of vague fluff, consists of salient points and claims backed by links to relevant sources.
So if there is a tornado coming, should I run around opening windows?
I feel like this comic is bait
Here’s how I see it: the more you contribute to the economy, the more harm you are doing. Therefore the most ethical thing is to organize your life in a way that minimizes your participation, and spend more of your time and energy doing things unrelated to earning or spending money.
That implies the existence of special people whose moral choices matter, and a larger population whose choices are irrelevant. Not sure that makes a lot of sense either.
The main reason it’s confusing to me is, what kind of circumstance would mean you can buy kegs but not bottles of beer? Was that common? Intuitively it seems like some kind of shortage should hit them both at once.
I like what this project is trying to do, self hosted security cameras need to be more accessible to get people to stop using corporate spyware.
I think it boils down to things that get your imagination going, where what is presented lines up really well with what you are thinking and are inclined to be interested in, and avoids stuff that prompts you to discard your own thoughts as irrelevant. There’s also a sleight of hand factor; one thing I notice in a lot of good writing is that it draws your explicit attention to one thing, while simultaneously giving you the more important (for immersion purposes) information indirectly. This mimics how things work in reality, where you experience a lot of things that prompt you to passively piece together what is happening. That indirect information should be both dense and intuitive, there’s so much there that you can’t see the seams where the creator intended to present a piece of information, but you also can absorb it without explicitly considering each detail.
Is there a reason to believe they don’t use the same models? You wouldn’t necessarily need something specialized for ‘curating data’. The drug identification stuff is definitely separate though.
I always watch subs, that thing they do in dubs where they say words in a weird cadence to lipsync better is really offputting to me.