OK, that’s fair. I’d forgotten about that particular detail. More fool me. But it’s notable that no such catastrophe existed in 2008, and no such catastrophe exists today, and yet we’re still struggling to put food on plates despite more than enough food existing for everyone.
It’s also a testament to Altman’s dealmaking prowess: a progressive San Francisco tech leader walked into an administration that opposed everything he publicly stood for, and within days, he secured a crown.
Bullshit. Absolute steaming mountains of bullshit.
These techbros don’t stand for anything. They’re a bunch of objectivist libertarian assholes who enjoy the aesthetics of being perceived as progressive because it’s trendy in the kind of social spaces they want to inhabit.
This isn’t about “dealmaking skills”, it’s about Trump being a giant baby who will do anything for anyone who kisses his ass, and Altman not giving a flying fuck about Trump being a fascist because sucking up to him makes him money.
Even the great depression was, itself, an entirely artificial crisis.
I’m not saying that it occurred artificially; the causes were all real, and happened naturally.
But if you consider for even a moment the idea that a stock market crash leads to widespread starvation, it doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.
Times of hardship used to be caused by things like droughts or harsh winters; stuff that actually impacted our ability to support ourselves in a physical way.
But how does someone’s investments failing prevent a farm from growing food? Does crop fertility track with the Dow-Jones? Does soil become less tillable because the FTSE is down?
The idea that people should starve, in a world that has no less ability to produce crops than it did yesterday, just because there is suddenly less money moving around, is absolute lunacy. In a sensible world, we’d think less about money and more about resources. Resources do not depend on the stock market. Resources do not become more scarce because a bunch of people made bad bets on the housing market.
No one should starve in a world with the capacity to feed everyone. And we have more than the capacity to feed everyone.
I both love and hate comments like this (and say that having made more than a few of them myself). It’s great to see people sharing advice on how to cook better, do more for yourself, do more at home, etc. I really enjoy making my own pickles, baking bread, making home made stock from scraps.
On the other hand, it disgusts me that comments like this are necessary. It’s the twenty first century, humanity has built flying machines, travelled into space and harnessed the power of the atom, and we’re out here sharing basic survival advice with each in the hopes of making it through one more day. Shouldn’t our basic standard of living be better than that of hunter-gatherers by now?
As funny as this is, in practice we want them coming up here to spend money.
What we’ll do, like last time, is tariff in a very targeted way, hitting specific products where consumers have easy access to alternatives. Like slapping tariffs on bourbon, for example.
“Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.”
A lot of Lemmy users really need to understand this. Far too often I see people deride any action that doesn’t immediately fix all problems in the world as worthless or meaningless, simply because they lack the imagination needed to see how small actions can add up to big changes.
Yeah, same team under a different name. Basically this is Rising Storm 3, but in Europe and with vehicles.
We had to put my dog on a course of antibiotics recently, and my wife was fretting over how we were going to convince her to eat them. We had all sorts of ideas like crushing then up in peanut butter, but I said “Hey, before we try any of that, let’s just put them in her food bowl and see what happens.”
Turns out the little idiot will eat literally anything you put in front of her, including medications. She’ll go back and specifically lick the tablets up out of the bowl if she somehow missed them.
The irony of this person having Spider Jerusalem as their avatar sickens me.
My brother in Christ, Spider would stomp your face into the pavement until you shit yourself and then leave you crying in your own feces. Take your entire Transmet collection out to a library and donate it, because you didn’t understand one single fucking word, and never will.
+1 for LocalSend. Well worth checking out.
The notion that in just 8 days things fell apart that quickly is a stretch. It seems more likely that this was happenstance.
It is, however, likely a preview of more to come.
Unbelievably excited to see this back from the dead. Rising Storm 2 was a superb game, and this looks to be even better.
Correct. Taiwan considers it a matter of national security to never allow their best processes to be exported. That monopoly is why Taiwan still exists.
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For Taiwan, it’s a matter of survival, plain and simple. They’re not going to give up their monopoly because without it they cease to exist. It does not matter how irrational the person they’re dealing with is, because for them this is life and death, literally. TSMC is the single biggest national security asset they have.
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My guess is that it’s set up to see contexts with conflicting positions associated as controversial but it will just go with responses that don’t have controversy associated with them.
This is significantly more reasoning and analysis than LLMs are capable of.
When they give those “I can’t respond to that” replies, it’s because a specific programmed keyword filter was tripped, forcing the model to insert a pre-programmed response instead. The rest of the time, they’re just regurgitating a melange of the most statically present text on the subject from their training data.
Sure, but that’s exactly why this is the right play. Reminding people that their groceries haven’t gotten cheaper doesn’t take any explaining. It’s simple, clear, and self evident.
Trump got in on a promise to make ordinary people’s lives easier, and it’s a promise he has neither the desire nor the ability to keep. Driving that point home, for every single day of his presidency, isn’t a bad plan.
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But not, notably, the US. It’s fine to tell people to seek refuge in other countries, as long as it’s not your problem.
LOL. I look forward to seeing them postponed again on Feb 28th.