Conflicts of interest. Sometimes illegal, but not nearly as much as they should be (almost always)

Like congress members being allowed to trade stock, which can then be affected by their vote

Or one of the specifically carved out exceptions to the medical kickbacks laws is for the people who negotiate drug prices for pharmacies

How do induction stoves work?

I think that just supports my point, that rather than survivorship bias this is a small group of companies owning the entire industry, and movies are just actually getting worse

Gaming is going through the same thing with Microsoft now owning most of the industry, but 1-5 people can make an indie game without leaving the house. There’s also a number of non-shittified stores for distribution, meanwhile media and streaming services are firmly in the stages of enshitification

I don’t think indie movies will be able to take over the way indie games seem to be - not without the streaming industry changing first

And here I was, pissed at the Democratic party for not having a transition plan after such a big fuss skipping the primary. Good thing the other side was even less prepared

How did we get here?

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

No, survivorship bias is real, but this is late stage capitalism. Disney owns it all, and the occasional worthwhile film sneaks under their writing by committee bullshit

There’s plenty of good movies that future generations would happily watch… But proportionally? The number of movies made a year has exploded, the number that make an impression for even a year has dwindled

It’s structural - you can be open or locked down, and it’s hard to decentralize if you’re not open

You can make it easier or harder to work with that data, but ultimately it’s obsfucation - you could make it hard to parse and obscure details, but ultimately if you want decentralized federation you can’t hide too much

Let’s put it another way. If you’re a trans-girl with a bulge, that’s your gender. That’s part of your identity

You’re a trans-girl - a subcategory of girl, and from there a sub-category of trans girl. Gender is a nebulous concept, there is no perfect form of any gender

You can’t line up a bunch of girls against a wall and arrange them by how much of a girl they are

Our brains are wired to categorize to take short cuts - but people don’t fit nearly in boxes

Getting less philosophical, for some people that might be a huge trigger, for others it’s just a trait. And if it’s just a trait…well people like being desirable, and people don’t generally appreciate traits of themselves they’ve accepted as part of them being tiptoed around like a taboo

I just remember the day, as a software dev with a solid understanding of Blockchain, my older dev neighbor started explaining how NFTs worked

I thought he was confused or stupid or something.

“Wait, so like you have these super rare images, proof you own it on a Blockchain, and a link to the place they’re all publicly hosted?”

Him: “Yep”

“And the only use for these right now is as a profile picture?”

Him: Shrug, “yeah, people use them for discord and stuff”

“But… Couldn’t you just download the image and use it anyways?”

Him: “Yeah, it’s all publicly hosted”

And it was about then my brain locked up. I did multiple hours of research later, sure I had to be missing something

Why? Fast food is just a starter job for high schoolers /s

There was always struggle over territory. Generally non lethal, just like predators facing off

There was no war. War requires agriculture - an army cannot march or camp without food constantly being shipped in

Famine also is usually due to agriculture - monocultures and short-sighted management of the environment.

There were hard times. Droughts happened, sickness happened, people were not always very cool to each other. These things weren’t done on institutional scale, because the only institutions were meetings between groups occasionally sending representatives

The more I learn about ancient history, the more I realize we fucked everything up societally. Technology is great, and yes we have a lot less mothers dying in childbirth… Except we didn’t for most of recorded history (and we’re backsliding), because literal childbirth in the woods was better than delivery in a hospital until a century ago

I no longer do this.

Not because it’s not delicious (it is), but because it’s a super cheap and easy way to eat 300-400 calories of straight carbs

I’d say don’t knock it until you try it, but just put in a slight effort and snack healthier

Nope, they just have money we don’t have

Because for most of it, we were living our lives, planting the trees that gave us food, protecting the animals we ate from other predators, and just living off the land. We spread over the entire world and shaped the land to better suit us

We weren’t primitive, for millennia we turned most of the world into a paradise built for us, then tore it down in a few centuries and are now flirting with extinction

Mr. Jones,

After due consideration, we have come to the conclusion the logistics of shipping make this purchase infeasible.

However, if you are able to transport this vehicle to our headquarters on your end, we are prepared to offer $3.50 in quarters for your vehicle.

Then, if the guy delivers, pay the man out of your own pocket. Turn it into a PR stunt and games some pictures of it in the parking lot before sending it home with an employee who has a kid. If the guy just reposts the response, your company looks fun without losing the professional veneer.

Even now, it’s not too late to offer about $2.50 for one of these cars

I too would’ve liked a temporary shutdown of society. Just as a little treat

A smarter person would have used a fake SSN then claimed success when it never worked