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“for the most part” - did I stutter?

For the most part we need the factories, it’s the distribution and allocation of the produce of the work that needs enormous change. Usually this change doesn’t happen voluntarily. Save the factories, put the owner class to the guillotine decision and see if they agree things should change.

“why do they hate us?”

Rule of thumb? You sound like some radical socialist. Jobs are to provide services and utility to the capital class to help them further their wealth concentration. Allowing serfs to even associate with the product of [our brand] by permitting them to work for often the lowest wage we legally can is privilege enough.

Good to know Republicans are focusing resources on things that matter to vets while cutting doctors and nurses in the VA

Won’t someone think of the architects and engineers and the burdensome regulations and testing red tape that they suffer under? I’m all for it. How much faster and cheaper could US get bridges to market if we let high schoolers design and test them? Think of the wasted cost in education having to pay and train people who had to become experts in their fields when you could just substitute in snake oil “media personalities” for an MD or LPN? I know I want my care and life to be completely shaped by whoever is willing to cut corners the most.

And plurals are possessive!

It’s min-maxing. They already commit to the time for exercise so if they could be productive with it somehow why not? “Productive” here more of a 2 seconds of Internet fame than “this has general application”, but just like a daily commute being limited mostly to music/podcast/phone calls as far as being “productive”, if someone introduced the ability to prep dinner while commuting many people would take them up on it.

It might not be the traditional or most perfect place or time to make “x” but if it buys you time elsewhere and there aren’t other consequences or side effectd, well everyone is pretty maxed out in the world and doesn’t have time.

The average American waistline is now "family sized”

Scintillating is uncommonly used but does appear occasionally in things I’ve read but I didn’t know the latin root or connect it when I saw the noun used by Op, so thanks for the link and chance to learn!

Durant’s comment is a backhanded compliment if one ever was made. “It takes a lot of stamina” is what his comment boils down to which points to the volume of the shots rather than talent–which seems pretty clearly supported. When your own team decides to go for it, when the other team is The Wizards who care nothing for the sport, when refs decide to play along, when you’re a has-been playoff threat 6th ranked team in the east…it all has to line up. Some "moment”. Big asterix to me.

It’s 100% the end goal. The shortage driving ram prices is to build data centers; it’s not just to hold LLM compute power but to centralize (meaningful) compute power.

Humans are powerful with open information, the ability to communicate, organize…better rip all that down and give consumers what they want; easily clickable funnels into your compute power, your data harvesting, your political and information control…it’s the techno fascist fantasy.

I’m shocked by the number of adults 20-40 who don’t own their own computer at home. Even when computers are dirty cheap in the US compared to their information, record keeping and economic vitality to modern living at ~$400-$1,000, tons of adults simply walked away from computing or never started it as smartphones were already here and were easy to slide into instead of having to learn.

Lemmy worries about windows users but I worry about people who don’t have ANY understanding of how special this moment in history has been when plebs had access to the same technology that oligarchs did (broadly). It’s historically an anomaly that the wealthy and powerful would like to correct. Literally the means of production.

Schools already were largely propaganda machines for corporations. Though this bigger brother is of course far worse.

By state not really that useful. Much like US politics, it pretty much comes down to urban or rural? All states have a massive urban/rural earning divide that would probably show a more useful contrast; debt where income is lower has significantly higher impact.

They people who wave away bombing a school and killing 175 because “it’s war”(that we unilaterally started). These are definitely the people who you want to trust on child safety and well-being.

Plausible accountability

Correct, because it’s important that only large corps with access to resources to create widely used LLMs have unfettered access to the minds of our populace in a completely open way. Random humans being able toaccess and exchange information adhoc, independently without prior approval is of course incompatible with the first amendment.

They aren’t going to be able to retire anyway so it’s almost moot. The average amounts saved by age are predictable and depressing. Anyone would have predicted and did that voluntary retirement contributions and management by underpaid laymen would be something the general public failed at compared to a world where pensions were something companies managed to say nothing of the fact they were guaranteed.

This paired with refusal to fund social security–but always plenty for wars, tax breaks and surgeilance–is deliberate, designed and depressing. 95% of Americans will work until they die.

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