outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Preferably after enslaving them and sucking out as much surplus labor as possible
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
So many don’t understand just how wildly inefficient bureaucratic hierarchies are; what happens isn’t the most profitable thing, it’s the whim of whoever managed to claw their way highest up.
Basically, the decisions are the manifestation of the artificial stupidity of brute force.
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Yeah, I was pretty much at the stage of end it, or try SSRIs. That was 10 years ago, and you can see what happened!
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Well, everyone is going to have to get to the last stage of grief and accept that leading a normal life in western countries just isn’t possible anymore. Infinite profit seeking is a cancer that’s currently killing the host, and traditions of bourgeois paths to success just aren’t viable. Everything’s coming right on down and so many people are still in the stage of denial, which sucks because they always make it everyone else’s problem until they get past the bargaining phase (which sort of seemed like what you were talking about here in terms of “role model example” being sufficient to save their kids from the total societal collapse in-progress).
So very well put. Right, the pyramid scheme seems to be toppling — in the metropole, it was sustainable for a generation or two, but even then only given the somewhat extraordinary circumstances (expansion of the neocolonial empire).
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Good idea with voice-to-text notes to populate the list.
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
The second-highest hit gives a clue as to why:
Relevantly to Lemmy’s existence in the first place, it suggests Reddit as a pretty pivotal training data source, which Reddit tries to cash in on while also killing 3rd party apps due to apathy
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Wow, the most recent GTA game is still ten years old?
outdated_belated 1y ago • 75%
Because liberal mystification with fancy-sounding concepts made to make you feel dumb so you don’t realize it’s just creative surplus labor value expropriation
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
The "you would be good for my kids!" incident happened twice. One time the kid was late teenaged; another time there two elementary school-aged children. Both of these rentals were in-law units.
I think both times, the idea was that I could be some kind of role model because I did empirically have a job that allowed me to rent at that high rate they were charging? Parents, especially those that can only afford a house here because they bought in the 90s, realize that their kids will have to move away (or live at home), and are foolish enough to think that (1) kids will be inspired by me to be, essentially, bougie, and (2) even if they were, they'd have some reasonable shot at doing something beyond just… renting here.
Both times, they tried to 'set me up' with the kids by having their kids come out to intercept me with small talk as I walked to the unit in the backyard (the kids themselves seemed fairly uninterested), and it was uncomfortable both times.
Both times, I sort of politely blew them off and just went in my unit.
One of these places, I had to leave when it turned out there was also a pitbull they pretended wouldn't be loose in the back yard, but, turned out, was, and attacked me every time I went to the unit. (The pitbull was set loose a few weeks after the kid intercepting incidents abated).
The other, I left for mostly unrelated reasons.
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Also experienced at least three situations where landlard was insulted that I wouldn’t befriend them. When I was torn to see it, they even said stuff like “oh, you would be good because you could spend time with my kids!” Like, no. Leave me the fuck alone. I’m not buying my way into some NPC petit bourgeoisie family, I’m just looking for a roof over my head
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Deepwater horizon side plot
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Ah, I see, basically, by being reformist, it’ll ultimately amount to naught. Fair point.
Refreshing to be critiqued from the left — it’s so good to have hexbear federated here now
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Same — I don’t recall a single sports-related post — not even a meme. Maybe my instance already defederated from all the home servers of these communities (I think that’s how it works?).
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Wow, I thought for sure this was DALL-E.
Shows, I suppose how the existence of these things cheapens what would otherwise be a sense of awe or appreciation.
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
if y o u e v e r r e a ll y n e e d
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
This may come in handy 🏀
outdated_belated 1y ago • 100%
Holy shit the reason for tee
never really clicked until I saw this post. I’d used it in pasted commands, but it had always seemed superfluous.
A scale that connects to a calorie tracker app, working as follows: 1. Pressing a button on the scale transmits the current weight to the app (although obviously, not the actual name of the item, at this point). 2. This can be done repeatedly, until I’m ready (usually, after sitting down) to annotate the items, where I’ll see a list of weights and timestamps for un-annotated items 3. For each item, I can then assign a food to it (and meal), populating the calories Absent this, I find it extremely annoying and tedious to add an ingredient, wash my hands (depending on what it is), find an appropriate food in the app* and log it, then add the next ingredient, etc. The alternative is try to remember both the ingredient name *and* the weight, in order**. If this *does* exist, or something sufficiently similar, I’ll be thrilled; I looked a fair amount and it didn’t seem like it, however. \*related, but different— I should be able to filter for foods that have a weight unit; it’s extremely annoying to have to; one by one, open entries for “New York pizza” and find that they have the useless unit of “1 slice” (and commensurately varying calories between 200 and 700). **my ideal workflow above does involve remembering the ingredient still, but that’s much easier than also remembering the weights, especially when the number of weights in the inbox will be a good mnemonic to not forget any ingredients. `___`