Lyrl

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[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

You are probably being sarcastic, but for those who haven't come across it - operating rooms are often called theaters.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

There are an infinite number of ways to set up UBI, and without ongoing results from studies like this - a 12-year study that just reported in year 2 - no one knows which structure works sustainably.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I work for a manufacturing company, and during the demand boom our customers wanted way more product than our facilities are physically capable of producing. I suppose sales could have complexified and ratcheted up our existing rationing process (have to have one at some level when it takes months to produce an order), but raising prices made demand go down so it matched our actual ability to make stuff.

Given the wild increase in demand beyond the infrastructure capabilities, the only alternative to inflation was rationing, and I do not have enthusiasm for ration lines.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Eh, witch hunts are a big risk in the immediate aftermath when crowd tension is the highest. It has been three years, at this point I expect the sleuth work on suspect identification would be all upside.

The bigger security concern is sleuths figuring out all the camera locations and, by deduction, the blind spots. Johnson is setting up the next Congress to be much more vulnerable to violent attack.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe in the short term, but ultimately companies make profit when there are lots of consumers with the resources to buy their product. Squeezing employees makes them unable to consume as much, which slows the economy. Ten thousand people buying a $300 TV makes the company way more profit than ten millionaires buying a $30,000 TV.

GDP is a bumpy measure that tries to sum up a lot of complexity in one number, but over time (years) it grows faster when the middle class does well.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 70 points 8 months ago (8 children)

75% of women killed by intimate partners are killed when they attempt to leave or after they have left. Getting away is in no way, shape, or form a path to safety.

https://domesticabuseshelter.org/domestic-violence/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20a%20woman%20will,have%20left%20an%20abusive%20relationship.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

In sports, 'trash talk' is saying mostly untrue negative things about the other team as part of pumping up your team. Maybe it has different connotations for people who don't interact with sports culture, but for me it strongly implies rhetoric and hyperbole.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Not a hypothetical: Hostess folded, as did Yellow trucking. Unions can't save a business from bad business decisions or destructive market forces.

But businesses fold all the time, union or no union. When business is good, unions make sure the employees get a fair piece of that.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

With a housing shortage, say 10 people needing a place to live in this space, renting 2-3 houses leaves 7-8 people homeless. Making progress can't be just a rejection of sub(sub)standard solutions, it has to also be building acceptable but dense housing.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

They did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

It's almost certainly unconstitutional, but there's not specific case law so it has to be litigated to know for sure. So there needs to be people charged who have the means and willingness to go through several years of trials and appeals. And they have to maintain that motivation for a long time - some cases drag on for a decade or longer.

The point isn't to make it illegal forever, it's to scare people and organizations without the resources to engage in a legal fight to stop supporting interstate care for the next three or five or ten years.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A spoof of Seinfeld runs 24/7 from only AI input after the initial prompt. It is bad, but exists. Depending on your quality standards, we are there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing,_Forever

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