HrabiaVulpes

@HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👴☝️I did that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If production of cars and oil were the same companies, cars would be as cheap as TVs and gas for them would be 10x current price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👴☝️I did that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  TV is cheap because you are the product. CEOs want you to see their ads, their propaganda.

  Gas is expensive because they have not yet found a way to stop car-owner from leaving the sofa in front of TV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On average a person will rather share negative things than positive things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self sacrifice is honorable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People in my country in my job type tried to make an union, but other unions complained that we have too good to be allowed a union and initial members quickly dwindled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Explanations why space expands are way more crazier than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I honest to god used 10% as an idea of “ridiculously low tax” but I guess the topic of problems with billionaires may be too american for me.

  Stocks should be taxed on buy/sell and yearly hold though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay a history lesson on how capitalism started and feudalism fell.

  When you are “rich” in feudal society it means you have land. Land that everyone sees, that gives predictable income and even least educated peasant would be able to tax you reasonably (reasonably = as high as possible without you starting a rebellion over it). But then come merchants - they can have a wagon full of wood or just a small pouch of spices and it would be worth the same. Nobody really knows how much their wares earn because it fluctuates and every goods transport is a huge risk. So the merchants gain wealth indefinitely because king can’t see how much they have ant tax them accordingly, while landowners get poor because they are taxed to oblivion.

  Now who is the modern “nobility”? Who has wealth tied up and measured in such a way that government knows exactly how much to tax them? Wage workers. In fact your employer rats you out to government on how much you earn. In exchange things like companies, banks, stocks, loans etc. are in the “nobody knows how much they are worth” category. Say you are taxed 10% on the value of all the stocks you own, this means you have to sell 10% of your stocks annually, and by selling stocks you make those stocks less valuable for everyone… so technically they should be taxed less because value drops down? Generally speaking if taxing something changes it’s value drastically then governments avoid taxing it.

  My personal solution - outlaw stocks, bonds and loans for fucks sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds just like an excuse to hate one more person…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps it is my bias as someone who studied AI at the university, but I never believe it when someone claims to loose job due to AI. AI never fired you, AI never managed to replace you. Your manager is just bad at making business decisions, as most managers are nowadays. Current rich world of big successful companies was built on competent managers, those people are now either dead or too old to work and their replacements will drive us back to the medieval times while pretending they know best.

  There are good, valid, profitable uses for AI. They are not pushed by big companies, rather utilized by small actors who fly under radar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m asking about changing consent retroactively.

  Say I consent today, we have fun… and in a few days I get informed that I could earn some money by claiming I did not consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am saying, that a person can consent now, and then claim no consent and sue you later. Which I hope never happens to you, but the idea is quite an useful loophole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but what if a person decides that while they may have consented originally during the act, they benefit more from saying they have not consented later on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I’m gonna bite this bait - isn’t consent something decided later? Nobody can prove they said “yes or no” later after all so usually it’s based on who we decide to trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… LLM is literally that. There is a reason why it’s called AI among marketing buffs, not among serious researchers or at the IT-specialized universities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My original reaction was quite similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Last week highly-upvoted comment on reddit claimed that environmentalism is nothing more than russian-bot fueled fad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨References: [1] out of his ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, this is the level of physics where if they discover things right out of fantasy book (teleportation, mind reading, transmutation etc) I wouldn’t be even surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The last part is not an intellectual, the last part is just depression nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American workers are tired of waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe get rid of parties altogether? They already have one representative per state, why not go with that and elect one of them a president?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No shareholders - no primacy. Just saying…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I must try that game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I don’t think it can. In USA there is this shit called “law of precedence” and also there is this precedence that means companies are liable in court if they don’t prioritize shareholder profit.

  Any reform that could possibly work must probably start with outlawing stock markets and loans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I fully expect that as a last resort Iran will just try to damage permanently the strait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has anxiety⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Check yourself for ADHD.

  One of symptoms is that supposed stimulants have calming effect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also another similar trope, defined by “Any problem important to the plot that can be solved by 5min honest conversation between participating parties”