ALoafOfBread
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- Comment on Might be reality sooner than you think 1 day ago:
True
- Comment on Might be reality sooner than you think 2 days ago:
Yeah - that’s why I put “fly” in quotes
- Comment on Might be reality sooner than you think 2 days ago:
The “flying” tesla exists, though - there was a demo recently.
Now, it only has 1 seat, isn’t street legal, is being sold on a invitation only basis for an undisclosed price, and uses compressed air to “fly” so it can’t do so for any sustained period - so you won’t see what the meme describes.
Also the versions that are legal and actually would be sold at best have some jets of air on the back to make them go faster, but that coats like 250k USD.
- Comment on Me Making Friends 2 weeks ago:
L o n g u i g i
- Comment on You hate Corporate Memphis eh? 5 weeks ago:
Peewee’s-playhouse-core
- Comment on Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing? 1 month ago:
Good post, op. I had no clue and had been thawing fish in the plastic for forever.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 month ago:
The reputational aspect is definitely a big part of it - they want to be seen and remembered a certain way. Bill Gates is a good example, but he blew all that up by raping children (maybe). Before the Gates Foundation, he was viewed by the public as a typical evil miserly cutthroat businessman who was also a weird nerd. Gates Foundation & making sure everyone knew about it did a lot to sway public opinion.
And the actual people at the Gates Foundation did great work - they helped to control and eradicate deadly diseases in the global South. But it isn’t like Bill was doing that work, he was just allowing someone to cut the checks.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 month ago:
It used to be philanthropic stuff - because buying public opinion/legacy is pretty expensive. So you fund a big charity, do some speeches, and are celebrated for being so generous.
Seems like the major expenses now are donating money to fascists and buying big boats.
But $1B (at today’s levels of value - the number isn’t the issue, the relative value and lost opportunity cost of distributing some of this back to the people is the issue) is an obscene amount of money. You could invest it in some safe asset making 2% per year and yearn $54k per day ($20M/year)
- Comment on Bring it back 2 months ago:
lol get rotated commies
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
But not one that relates to the thing that we’re trying to stop them from doing. Cashiers aren’t paid per item scanned, they don’t get commission. They are paid an hourly wage.
If you wanted to pay customers a rebate for their labor at the market rate for a cashier, or one set by the state, that’d make sense to eliminate the gains the company receives from automation.
So 5 minutes of work at $15/hr = $1.25. So not much, but it mitigates the benefit of not hiring people.
Though, it’s still a benefit because you pay a person whether they’re actively working or not and you have to pay tax on human labor (contributing to social security, etc) so maybe hiking it higher than whatever the typical wage is for cashiers would make sense.
But either way, 10% doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
We’ve given up so much as consumers. There was a time when people would be pissed that the store was making them do unpaid labor. Now we don’t bat an eye.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
Cost of labor, overhead, and profit are already accounted for in that $150 price of the goods. That’s why the store charges $150 for them - because that’s what covers the wages, overhead, and includes the maximum markup they can get away with (~3% margin for grocery stores afaik).
All I’m saying is, they do have to be able to cover costs. So because of that and their thin margins, they’d just hike prices (probably more than they’d need to take advantage of the situation).
So it makes more sense to either tax them for avoiding using human labor and passing that labor on to customers (to help pay for the drain they’re placing on the economy by not hiring people), or just ban the practice outright. Couple that with price controls to ensure they can’t unfairly inflate prices. Things they can’t avoid rather than a fee they can hike prices to avoid.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
It also doesn’t really make sense to do it as a percentage. A cashier’s wage is hourly, and the labor market has settled on a particular wage for cashiers in this area - say $15/hr.
If I have a $150 grocery bill, a 10% discount would be $15. For maybe 5 minutes of work. Working out to an hourly wage of $180/hr (60/5 = 12, 12 * 15 = 180).
So if they’re saying “we should be compensating customers for being made to do labor”, they’d be compensating them at roughly 12x the going rate for cashiers in this example, which doesn’t really make sense.
Now if it’s just meant to be punitive, OK. But then why not actually address the real issue: displacement of workers by technology and passing the labor burden on to unpaid consumers - either make that illegal or tax the company to help mitigate the harm it’s causing by eliminating jobs.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Seems maybe to come originally fromsome guy’s interpretation of an Arab interpretation of the passage:
H.C. Trumbull contrasts the expression with a comparison of blood and milk in the Arab world:
We, in the West, are accustomed to say that “blood is thicker than water”; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother’s milk. With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; and the tie between such is very strong. […] But the Arabs hold that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast; that those who have tasted each other’s blood are in a surer covenant than those who have tasted the same milk together; that “blood-lickers,” as the blood-brothers are sometimes called, are more truly one than “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; that, indeed, blood is thicker than milk, as well as thicker than water.[16]
- Comment on Every fucking time 3 months ago:
It’s also normal to become less accepting of change as you age. I think this has to do with decreasing neural plasticity and the “crystalized” intelligence (accumulation of information) that comes with age even as “fluid” intelligence (processing speed, etc) declines.
Synaptic strengthening happens as you age - you will lose neuronal density, but the neuronal connections you still have are stronger and more efficient. The myelin sheaths around these neurons thicken well into middle age. The distracting neuronal channels, things that didn’t serve you over your years of experience, have died off leaving only the most effective connections.
So, you’re old, you know how stuff is supposed to be. You work well within that framework. When things change, it’s harder for you to keep up with it. It puts your brain under proportionally more load.
So you get mad when the bread aisle moves.
- Comment on I'm just a big toasty cinnamon bun that isn't fatally trapped in a crevice. 3 months ago:
I get vertigo when I’m high up - ain’t no way I’m getting within like 2m of an exposed ledge. No sirree, the view is fine from back here thanks
- Comment on Dicks out for harambe 4 months ago:
Dicks out
- Comment on 99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years 4 months ago:
CEOs also have zero idea how AI/LLMs work. They are shockingly clueless.
What I think they’re really saying is: 99% of CEOs expect to blame layoffs on AI in the next 2 years
- Comment on [title] 4 months ago:
Yeah - reducing things to material components isn’t absurd and doesn’t destroy subjective meaning.
Like, I don’t believe in free will, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find life meaningful - it’s just a fact about how the world works. I still perceive choice, I perceive meaning - it’s a subjective and phenomenological matter, not an objective/material one.
- Comment on Remember to follow OSHA 1904.39(a)(2) and report any loss 4 months ago:
I never upvote loss memes just on principle, but this one was pretty good
- Comment on Gurll 5 months ago:
Damn. Thats a fisher price ass watch.
- Comment on Gurll 5 months ago:
Is that what’s happening? I thought the person in the image was just holding up their left hand to show their watch for some reason
- Comment on Banane logic 5 months ago:
Also those bad boys ripen faster when they are laying flat vs hanging. Getting a little hook to hang the bunch of bananas on makes them ripen more slowly
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
“Oh, I mean, in Minecraft obviously”
- Comment on Always take credit for the good work that you do 5 months ago:
Dogs “smiling” is typically a stress/fear response. Pitties kind of look like that a lot of the time, just because they have tight skin on their face/lips. But, this is more than that as far as I can tell here.
- Comment on Need a AI update 5 months ago:
I doubt the vibrations would do anything to make it cut better, but to make thi gs not stick you could also just put little dimples on the side like tose of a santoku knife. So goofy.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 5 months ago:
You have to disengage once you know they’re actually doing it. Same with any manipulative behavior. But if you’re really not sure, I’ve had luck pressing them on why what they’ve said doesn’t make logical sense. If they can’t support it, I can dismiss it and disengage.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 5 months ago:
The funny thing is when people say “you’re gaslighting me”, but actually you’re the one being gaslit.
Really the problem with things like this is just when they’re used in bad faith to gain rhetorical advantage. It’s fine to say something to the effect of:
“I believe you’re gaslighting me. Here’s what I remember happening, and here’s some supporting evidence. What you’re saying is that it didn’t happen that way. If your intention is not to intentionally try to mislead me about how things occurred, can you explain?”
But just saying “You’re gaslighting me” when really what’s happened is that the way things actually happened is inconvenient to their argument - that’s the issue. It all comes down to their motivation
- Comment on 謝謝（不,我沒有精神分裂症） 6 months ago:
Oooh new vocab, thanks comrade.
精神分裂症 Jīngshéng fēnliè zhèng Schizophrenia
精神 - mind/mental state 分裂 - split/divided 症 - illness
謝謝（不,我沒有精神分裂症） Xièxiè (bù, wŏ mĕi yòu jīngshéng fēnliè zhèng) Thanks (no, I don’t have schizophrenia)
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 6 months ago:
That’s just what has happened on Earth, though. Also I didn’t specify they’d be coming to us - if they landed here in something we’d recognize as a rocket, then I’d suspect we’d have a lot more in common with them.
But what if they evolved in gas clouds? Or hell what if they perceive higher dimensions? What if it’s a 4D being, capable of instantaneous long distance travel through spacetime - they don’t need math for that. Or even language. Those are far-out scenarios, but I’m just saying that it takes a very earth-centric, anthropocentric view of intelligent life to assume the sorts of things that’d make communication possible.