Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
22hr ago
We should wait for audio analysis. The timing of the switches being turned off critical. To the precise millisecond.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
And yet no one thinks about the dogs in Kharkiv and Kiev ... somehow they have not committed group suicide after 4 years of war. And somehow the dogs survived somehow for a hundred years of fireworks before 2015 when this madness started in earnest. And to think that almost all breeds have started as hunting dogs... I find the efforts to ban fireworks extremely annoying. The fact that they have limited success even in my god forgotten eastern european country is troubling. The more working class neighborhoods are still using a lot of fireworks but posh places are silent on new years eve.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Never half ass a genocide. One of the most important lessons of history.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
"up to a third of programming is now done by AI" does seem to be a straw in the wind. Yes? No? Just means they're not hiring new junior staff?
It is a bit like saying a third of programming is done by hibernate and spring. Even if true, doesn't mean what you think it means.
Lizzardspawn
11d ago
Nevertheless, there are no white poor performance countries and no black high performance countries.
Argentina?
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
This is for an effortpost that I am not qualified to do. But I think it is combination of two things - women entering the workforce and being single - they just have different buying patterns than men. As every geek that has been forced to buy more expensive and with shittier spec laptop for his girlfriend just because this is such a nice shade of blue. And the other is that marketing stopped selling products, they started selling desire, status, dreams.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
In a free market the better product wins. In the last couple of decades the better marketed product wins. Which is not optimal for customers
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Not quite. The first part - selfishness is usually nudged to be somewhat aligned with the society's interests by the free market. Before Madison avenue takeover of the american economy companies were actually competing with producing better and cheaper items. We had similar boom with electronics in the 80s and 90s, game industry in 2000s. We have such with chinese phones and cars. All those people may have been passionate about their products, but they were passionate about money too.
The second part - yes there is also tragedy of the commons, but just by the nature of the system - the commons are smaller. So there is less tragedy to be had.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
The Juche (kim whatever) guy said it straight face. And in a way the stick works ok up to a point. You can squeeze more productivity. But you rarely can squeeze passion, innovation, and creativity this way - so probably you are doomed to stagnation.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
You can read the guy's program yourself
rent freeze, state built housing, free public transport, state owned grocery stores, free childcare, - all of this paid by wishful thinking and unicorn dust. Close enough to socialism. His tax plan is for 10 billion from my understanding for his whole term mostly by the rich.
I really wish he will win. And I really wish he succeeds in implementing his program, just so that USA will see first hand the results of those policies.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
One of the most common jokes in the soviet bloc was - we pretend that we work, they pretend that they pay us. And neither GULAG or their equivalents in eastern europe were productive. And they beat up people.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
That clip from step by step perfectly illustrates my opinion on what essays usually degrade to https://youtube.com/watch?v=l9RPNH7YhtU
And don't get me started on Java. My opinion of the language and the ecosystem is not as high as the one about the essays.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Road to hell is paved with good intentions. I am fairly sure that Marx's ideas didn't include people being boiled alive by NKVD but that is what we got in the end.
The problem with socialisms are two - people are selfish and tragedy of the commons. For the first the only socialist solution that works so far is to beat them into submission. For the second - there is no found cure yet for people not giving a shit for the common good under socialism.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
High school teachers say most essays are now written with AI
They should also be banned with the Geneva convention. Making students write essays is probably the most wasteful way to use a functioning brains.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
(Drinking cum out of skulls is, uh, certainly a choice).
This guy is a reverse duke nukem.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
Since their parents did it the same when they came, why not?
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
The idea is to find some sympathetic plaintiff who would be affected by a statute or executive action you don't like, shop around the whole country until you find a judge who agrees with you, and then get that judge--before the case has even been tried--to indefinitely prevent the government from applying the challenged law/regulation/action to anyone, anywhere in the country. This opinion represents a potentially huge obstacle to progressive activist's attempts to stymie Trump's immigration agenda.
I think this is the right decision, BUT need some safeguards. First one is the government should be mandated to appeal or accept the outcome as nationwide precedent. A situation in which there is lawsuit in the middle of nowhere and government loses, but doesn't appeal and do what it feels in the other circuits is probably not an optimal one. Right now by not appealing the government can decide what kind of cases come to the supreme court. There must be a way for cases to percolate to SCOTUS that the government itself doesn't want to be heard.
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
This period was not because of the amnesty but because of the win of the cold war.
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
Unfortunately, the other end of the spectrum is a permanent generation-on-generation underclass of non-citizens like Turkish and Arab immigrant communities in Germany.
I see no problem here. They can always return to turkey or whatever.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
I was talking about the whole food chain. And that small and medium farmers are squeezed on both input and output is well known. And this is why I think that those kinds of experiments are worthy. The government has enough heft to shake things a bit.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
Not a market theorist but rent seeking is extracting value and not generating. I have never seen consumers being better off when there is lack of interoperability, DRM, vertical integration, walled gardens, monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, drm on printer ink and other anticompetitive practices.
So it is not the best use of the capital in the society.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
There's simply no beating capitalism at making interchangeable consumer goods cheap, it's the one thing it's incredibly good at. Food supply chains are at once critical, complex and old, which means that they are very highly regulated, involve a ton of actors and have been optimized to absurdity.
Good rule of thumb is that whenever you look in any complex system in the USA of lately usually you have shitload of rent seeking and not capitalism. I am not sure that the food chain is an exception from this - I already know that farmers have great problem with rent seeking behavior from John Dreeres and Monsantnos of the world.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
wants to create public supermarkets (horrible idea all around, supermarket margins are very small)
Then who makes money from the food industry. And this is a very serious question. Farmers are on thin margins, Supermarkets are on thin margins and yet you have manyfold increase in the price from farm to table.
I actually approve this as an experiment. Create couple of stores. Cut direct deals with some farmers in the Midwest, olive oil produces in California, the big corn and wheat mills. Organize distribution and see if you can deliver fresh produce and other staples, pay wages and sell at near cost. And if the whole operation is financially sane - scale it.
Also when will the Dem party figure out that their tactics for stopping Trump like figures don't work as good as they think? People are tired of economic stagnation and hate the establishment.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
I am not sure he has the mandate of heaven, but the bastard has barakah. If you had to write Trump bio so far as a movie script - no one would buy because it is too implausible
Bring back thin/fit/toned women. Make waist great again.
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