The public is catching on to how sucky it is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo...
They’ve rug pulled on users who got wise. Now on B2B. Sundar is a sus CEO. Ballmer of the decade, knows how “Google works”, but was riding high on money printer going brr. He does not seem to have a clear vision forward…
So we could let them keep their stocks and not trade them for dollars; they own 100% of their company and the public is no longer obliged to acknowledge outsiders have ephemeral value beyond their direct contribution to…
Unless the entire production pipeline, from mining to machining parts and tools involved in making a plane, no. Planes literally in the air are not the only source of green house gas connected to flying planes.
I mean do you seriously believe office life is some immutable law of nature and without it humanity will stop being social? You have heard of neighbors, yes? Just had “block party” with my wfh neighbors. I learned a…
So “think of the greater good” hokum? You have the spoken traditions memorized, that’s for sure.
Good point. Why enrich them beyond other human beings? One of billions is a much more reasonable view of who they are.
What’s this have to do with being ruled by rent seekers? They don’t have an absolute plan, but Powell has been projecting his goals for months; stop the rise of wages. Deflate asset prices. That sure sounds like a plan.…
Essentially the government is setting market values through mathematical indirection the general public cannot grasp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33031466 Basically, fu Main Street, got mine. I wonder if they…
Yeah in the US we’d never curtail industrial food profit to overhaul the state of store shelves being full of easily consumed crap packaged in plastic waste of enormous energy and material cost. The health side effects…
I am a “personal cognitive freedom across contexts should be protected, full stop.” For example, that means opt-in social healthcare should be a thing that resources are provided for. A minority in charge saying “no” to…
The opinion this is cheap talk might be a shitty one? Gas line works fine for years, suddenly during regional conflict it goes tits up? A dying country whose leadership seems intent on putting it out of its misery…
I know there have been gamers like this for years but in this case 2 of the 4 years were during a mandatory isolate at home public health crisis. It’s possible this was actually a positive escape to help cope.…
I maintain that this Fed tightening is manufactured consent to be ruled by an aristocratic class in charge of government. Rent seekers in their twilight years convinced future agency must directly build upon their…
Big corp foisting social agency change on people has biological effects. It rather highlights the lack of free agency and self determination our society is built on. Go ahead and be academic but you’re one of billions,…
I think the idea is disruption of online livelihoods comes along with unseen and ignored externalities. Loss of online exposure will push online sex workers to make up loss of income to less safe sex work environments.
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... Agreed. They were more frank about it back in the day. If everyone has enough money the masses can create/buy assets to capitalize on rather than merely be…
Cable news has government officials on spewing government talking points all night. That’s government propaganda. Suuure it’s not “official” but wtf does that matter when it embeds itself in our inner monologues?…
The US relies on private propaganda to normalize attitudes to its goals. Given how chummy politicians and “journalists” and corporate owners are off camera it’s laughable to think there is a real separation of power.…
Google works on interesting things? I guess to PhDs into ML. They scrapped cutting edge R&D and became a one-trick ad-pushing pony. When the companies trajectory has been away from interesting ideas into ad laden messes…
Fear and group think have not gone anywhere. Society is “group think”. Try paying rent in bottle caps, and telling your boss to go fuck themselves when they ask for something. Fear of unemployment and homelessness make…
Write it into the contract daily deliverables are not the goal which is software that aligns with the original agreed upon design/spec/goals. Also it’s illegal to not pay at least minimum wage for “piecemeal work”. I…
The public is catching on to how sucky it is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo...
They’ve rug pulled on users who got wise. Now on B2B. Sundar is a sus CEO. Ballmer of the decade, knows how “Google works”, but was riding high on money printer going brr. He does not seem to have a clear vision forward…
So we could let them keep their stocks and not trade them for dollars; they own 100% of their company and the public is no longer obliged to acknowledge outsiders have ephemeral value beyond their direct contribution to…
Unless the entire production pipeline, from mining to machining parts and tools involved in making a plane, no. Planes literally in the air are not the only source of green house gas connected to flying planes.
I mean do you seriously believe office life is some immutable law of nature and without it humanity will stop being social? You have heard of neighbors, yes? Just had “block party” with my wfh neighbors. I learned a…
So “think of the greater good” hokum? You have the spoken traditions memorized, that’s for sure.
Good point. Why enrich them beyond other human beings? One of billions is a much more reasonable view of who they are.
What’s this have to do with being ruled by rent seekers? They don’t have an absolute plan, but Powell has been projecting his goals for months; stop the rise of wages. Deflate asset prices. That sure sounds like a plan.…
Essentially the government is setting market values through mathematical indirection the general public cannot grasp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33031466 Basically, fu Main Street, got mine. I wonder if they…
Yeah in the US we’d never curtail industrial food profit to overhaul the state of store shelves being full of easily consumed crap packaged in plastic waste of enormous energy and material cost. The health side effects…
I am a “personal cognitive freedom across contexts should be protected, full stop.” For example, that means opt-in social healthcare should be a thing that resources are provided for. A minority in charge saying “no” to…
The opinion this is cheap talk might be a shitty one? Gas line works fine for years, suddenly during regional conflict it goes tits up? A dying country whose leadership seems intent on putting it out of its misery…
I know there have been gamers like this for years but in this case 2 of the 4 years were during a mandatory isolate at home public health crisis. It’s possible this was actually a positive escape to help cope.…
I maintain that this Fed tightening is manufactured consent to be ruled by an aristocratic class in charge of government. Rent seekers in their twilight years convinced future agency must directly build upon their…
Big corp foisting social agency change on people has biological effects. It rather highlights the lack of free agency and self determination our society is built on. Go ahead and be academic but you’re one of billions,…
I think the idea is disruption of online livelihoods comes along with unseen and ignored externalities. Loss of online exposure will push online sex workers to make up loss of income to less safe sex work environments.
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... Agreed. They were more frank about it back in the day. If everyone has enough money the masses can create/buy assets to capitalize on rather than merely be…
Cable news has government officials on spewing government talking points all night. That’s government propaganda. Suuure it’s not “official” but wtf does that matter when it embeds itself in our inner monologues?…
The US relies on private propaganda to normalize attitudes to its goals. Given how chummy politicians and “journalists” and corporate owners are off camera it’s laughable to think there is a real separation of power.…
Google works on interesting things? I guess to PhDs into ML. They scrapped cutting edge R&D and became a one-trick ad-pushing pony. When the companies trajectory has been away from interesting ideas into ad laden messes…
Fear and group think have not gone anywhere. Society is “group think”. Try paying rent in bottle caps, and telling your boss to go fuck themselves when they ask for something. Fear of unemployment and homelessness make…
Write it into the contract daily deliverables are not the goal which is software that aligns with the original agreed upon design/spec/goals. Also it’s illegal to not pay at least minimum wage for “piecemeal work”. I…