This just makes me think of eBaum’s world.
This just makes me think of eBaum’s world.
Hey, this isn’t me.
I described the primary feature I’m looking for: a way to make calls based on a motion more complex than just clicking a name, and preferably one I can do without looking at the screen.
Gestures would work.
FOSS is honestly a secondary concern to not constantly dialing random numbers every time I brush up against my phone.
Nah, I’m good.
Of course he looked lost, he had to make sense of what Trump was saying and be ready to respond to it.
Not running the incumbent is why we got the first Trump term. Swapping out your incumbent is like hitting on a 19 in blackjack. It’s not the play.
Is that Emily from Adam Ruins Everything?
Y’all. You run an incumbent if you have one. I don’t know in what world you think getting someone new is a better shot than keeping a standing president in office, but it isn’t this one.
If the DNC had run Biden in 2016 we probably never would have had Trump.
Because you literally act like a mouthpiece with your constant apologetics for the aggression and war crimes of a tinpot dictator.
How much does Putin pay you?
Look, just because the AI says it doesn’t work doesn’t mean you should stop using it! Things not working is normal in technology! It’s okay if everything gets worse!
The measures they use to say the economy is ‘good’ have one thing in common: they fail to account for value whatsoever.
They account for value in dollars, that’s true. But they fail to account for value in any sense that matters: the usefulness of a product or service on the one hand and the labor that produces it on the other. Instead, we look at wages, employment rates, profits, and prices. Those are admittedly easy to quantify and play around with, but they aren’t really anchored to anything meaningful.
For example, let’s say your company makes on-the-go smoothies, sold in grocery stores and convenience stores. You’ve got a quality product: a relatively thick smoothy with quality ingredients and a good variety of purees and juices. You product isn’t cheap, but that’s because you use quality ingredients, pay your employees a fair wage, and use reasonable labor practices in your bottling plant. As a result, people love your product and enjoy working for your company. Soon you come to take up a prominent position on shelves, because your regular customers will reliably buy up your stock.
Now let’s say you do an IPO. Once the board members have sway, they want to iron out some of these ‘inefficiencies’ in your company to increase their profits. First, they come for the ingredients. You wind up with fewer purees in smaller proportions, a greater proportion of inexpensive juices, and the most expensive ingredients dropping off the list entirely. Your loyal customers are annoyed that their smoothies aren’t as thick, but it’s still better than the other options, so they keep coming.
At your bottling plant, wages start to stagnate. Benefits aren’t eliminated, but a new management technique is introduced in which hours are spread out to make it difficult to meet the minimum to qualify. Shifts begin increasingly running on skeleton crews as hours are spread thinner. Of course, the same amount of work still needs to be done, so the employees are doing two to three times as much work as they used to.
Long-term employees who once made the company what it was start to see the change and look for other options before things get worse, leading to a fresh generation of new employees with no clue how much better the company used to be.
At the end your profits are up, employment is up, and you’re selling just as much or nearly as much of your product as you were before. If you only look at the numbers, it seems like this whole endeavor was a fantastic win for your company.
Except you’ve just made the world a little worse. The market presence you earned with your high-quality product no longer has an equivalent product taking it up, degrading the real value of the market itself. Employees are running themselves ragged making a perhaps flat or slightly rising wage per hour, but a wage that’s actively diminishing in terms of the labor required to earn it and the purchasing power it comes with.
Now what happens when you take this model and project it to the entire economy?
All the numbers say record profits, low unemployment, stocked shelves full of high-demand products. And yet the reality is that we have to work more to pay for less of shittier and shittier products. Even the people who win don’t really win, because they make a worse world for themselves where they can’t get a good smoothy.
The whole thing is a mirage that we’ve been killing our society chasing.
I’d love to see someone figure out how to up the player limit or link games. Baldur’s Gate would be such a great medium for a D&D roleplay server if it could be set up to handle it.
The way to fix it is for developers not to sell out. When your small studio’s game blows up, you’re left with a choice. Do you care about art and making quality games, or do you care about making money and appeasing corporations in exchange for empty promises?
Are you going to leave you work in the hands of its creators, or are you going to hand it off to someone whose entire path in life is centered around squeezing as much money as possible out of every product with no concern for its quality or integrity?
It’s just Garfield under an assumed name. Probably the one who engineered the things to begin with.
That’s all we get from the Onion now? A paragraph? They set up the premise and then just… wandered off and called it a day? Okay I guess.
That’s horrible. Haldol is like a punch to the brain. They’re going to turn these poor kids into chemical zombies.
Good. I’m not usually one for wanting to see someone lose everything, but if anyone deserves it it’s this asshole. Imagine knowingly lying about dead children for a decade.
How the hell do these kinds of people live with themselves?
Who cares? It’s run by reactionary incels, transphobes, and racists. https://cmdr-nova.online/2024/07/03/serenityos-and-ladybird/