potatopotato

@potatopotato@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Of Billionaires’ $7.6 Trillion Has Never Been Taxed - Americans For Tax Fairness⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so interesting seeing the whole list. Most of these guys are around the same age and were the survivors of the dot com bubble. It really speaks to how economically inefficient things have become when one relatively isolated event in a particular (and at the time narrow) industry created a distinct economic class that now just arbitrarily runs the country despite being extremely detached from it.

  It feels a bit like the “paperclipping” AI doomsday scenario but instead of paperclips the tech oligarchs only understand tech and are just mindlessly trying to use all of the nations resources into more tech companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get. Out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I unfortunately work with AI and actually understand how it works. It’s going to replace workers the same way that cocaine replaces workers.

  It’ll make some knowledge workers moderately more productive but that excess will be absorbed like with any other tool and we’ll just do more shit as a society at the expense of continuing to destroy the environment.

  Once the bubble bursts and things calm down there will probably be some job growth as the economy figures out how to better utilize these new tools. It’s like if you invented a machine that could frame 60% of a house and brilliantly declared you’d fire all the framers but then realized you’re now building a lot of houses and need more framers than before to finish the remaining 40%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is building political pressure against them, they’re very clearly uncomfy within the administration. It may not directly fix all our fucked up shit but the admin blinked for the first time this cycle when it was looking increasingly likely that they had no limit and we were headed straight for a police state

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tells a true story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse yet a lot of mental health conditions have genetic components so the kids are basically getting the worst hand you can possibly deal them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tells a true story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay so yes it’s green text but…

  I know people who work at inpatient acute facilities and they are constantly having to cockblock people to prevent truly horrible things from happening.

  So while this particular story may not have happened, this general story happens daily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately this shouldn’t surprise anyone, it’s commonplace in investigations and trials. They will literally use your belief in equality as pretext and/or post justification to destroy your life be it on the street, in court, in prison, or in death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck it, I’ll upvote this, see you guys in CECOT, I call top bunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it fits...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He gets all the parking tickets for NA citizens parking like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it fits...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk if people are aware, but this is the original concept for the car. It was designed to be short enough to fit into parking spots sideways deliberately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No it won’t⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always love these AI generated “interesting looking objects”.

  What we have here is some plastic, aluminum or pot-metal frame with a piece of obviously fake suede screwed to it with undersized screws so that it’ll rip off at the slightest provocation. It then has some sort of shitty OLED display crammed inside of it for…reasons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ain't risking shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They rip them apart and use the non-serialized components as repair parts. If apple didn’t try to overcharge for and restrict repair parts this would be less of a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the point in this particular case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it the snails, the frogs, or the British food that’s doing it for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CQ: What's your amateur radio plans this coming weekend?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna go work on my encrypted VHF/UHF mode then maybe DF some [censored] HTs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let this be a lesson that nobody is immune to phishing or opsec lapses. It can happen to anyone, including security pros.