I like how there’s just no bar at all for real estate. You can commit outright fucking fraud in your listings using AI and worst you get is a “whoopsie daisy” style article written about you.

Still funny to think about

Sure, but I’m not particularly interested in UBI. I think it makes the status quo income and wealth inequality permanent and sets it on a course to be ever expanding.

If the overwhelming majority of able-bodied and sound-minded people cannot be organized to do useful work in the system you have, the system is inadequate, and needs to be supplemented.

This country is falling apart physically and psychologically. There’s enough work for anyone willing to do it to repair this place for a lifetime.

It’d be hilarious if bad bunny ran for president.

I have a different idea. The government should provide a jobs guarantee. There are plenty of things that need to be fixed in this country, and Jim can apply whatever skills he has to fixing some of them.

What we’re becoming is a straight bullshit country

I hate it, but it’s not a bad way to crowd out the competition over time, Idiocracy style.

Love how we’re setting a low bar for 2028 two years ahead of time and without having a candidate first. 👍

I just realized while walking my dog today that a new hard line for me with Democrats is that if you accept corporate / billionaire PAC donations, I’m not donating to your campaign.

I cannot continue to pretend like you will actually give a fuck about my interests when you got into office using mostly money from sources that are actively working against my interests.

I’ll still vote as left as possible in both the primary and the general regardless, but I’m through giving campaign contributions to candidates where my money – and therefore my influence – is a drop in the bucket.

And I will seriously consider voting for just about anyone else left of him in the primary. No offense to him, he seems like a very solid dude, but the time for half-measures, centrists, and people that believe institutions will save us is well beyond over.

The infinite scroll goes hand in hand with that type of algorithm. Even if there isn’t more content, some versions of the infinite scroll keep loading assorted shit you’ve already seen before.

It’s also part and parcel of a mindset switch from looking at some content on a fixed number of pages and then moving on with your day, to pushing the screen up forever even if you’ve already seen most of it.

It also usually makes it so that you cannot bookmark the state, and the state often reloads fresh when you hit back and you’ve lost what you’re looking at.

In other words: it fucking sucks and I hate it.

Because all infinite scrolling does is remove to annoyance of hitting next page

That is definitely not all it does.

YouTube comments are almost never worth reading in the first place (top comment is usually: who is here in <<current year>>? 😆). I never look at the descriptions, and the only time I watch YouTube is for either music videos or concert captures or links someone has sent me. Congrats YouTube, I don’t care about any of the features you turned off.

We don’t have an election integrity problem; we have a most people in this country have no integrity problem.

Just too old, and just too sold.

I think this is mixing things up a bit. At least some of the cases there were fraud based.

Sure, but since it’s an unfalsifiable proposition, good luck proving it in court for any specific action.

Lots of them have fiduciary duties, meaning they’re legally prohibited from doing anything that doesn’t maximize the value of the stock from moment to moment.

Overall, I agree with you that stock price is their motivation, but the notion of shareholder supremacy binding their hands and preventing them from doing things that they want to otherwise do is incorrect. For one, they aren’t actually mandated to do this by law, and secondarily, even if they were – which to reiterate, they aren’t – just about any action they take on any single issue can be portrayed as them attempting to maximize company value.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/18/falsifiability/#figleaves-not-rubrics

I thought about lying on my last report but decided to not. At this point they’re going to have to fire me if they can’t accept the truth. I’m not lying to save my skin.