I mean, sure, and American Psycho is Mr Bean but Wall Street.

Even the non-AI stuff looks AI now.

Microsoft is betting on technofascism. On an economy where labor - and most importantly military-industrial labor - has been automated to such an extent that consumption is irrelevant. Consumers won’t have money to buy their shitty software anyway and governments and private military organisations will be running their increasingly automated mass murder programs on Azure servers. As they already did for the Palestinian genocide.

Yeah. I’ve been in a collective that stopped facing their problems, and I’ve seen others. That shit gets toxic.

Depends on the model and training regimen. So likely no; it’s an engineering problem and they have good engineers and money to burn.

I’d like to see an increase of the welfare rate, but that seems to be a hard sell at the moment.

Daily reminder that welfare states save countries money immediately by preventing people from getting sick and becoming unable to work. You just need the country to capture a fraction of the increased profits companies make because they lose fewer people to illness and disability.

I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over* the hardware I fucking purchased*.

Open source android forks exist. Open source operating systems exist. Phones that natively run both exist. Do you mean that you specifically enjoy having maginal control, no more, no less?

Capitalists don’t want you to know this, but the distractions in the park are free. I have 200 distractions.

You chose to write a comment to another human being about how you would like to be treated. Imagine if, through doing that, the people you still have to interact with in your daily life learn to actually treat you that way - that too is community.

A neighbor getting groceries for you so you don’t have to go for an overstimulating store and so you can have them arrive at your door within a one minute interval from 10:00 to 10:01 on tuesday and friday is community. Someone tailoring your shirts so you don’t notice any friction against your skin anymore is community.

The tools that capitalism can provide are depersonalized, poorly fitting, and often malicious, but a community can work with you can come to understand you and learn to fit your needs better than anything you’re likely to be able to buy.

I didn’t intepret it as multi-layered so much as generating a new “layer” when the previous one ended. It’s like how false awakening doesn’t actually require multiple layers of dreams, it’s just you dreaming about waking up in the same way you might dream about going to the beach.

The card does specify “in the city”

For saving him from his antizioni *cough* pardon me, from his internalized antisemitism?

I mean, he can certainly try.

On the other hand, they actually get to talk to the people they make food for which is a nice human moment, the restaurant doesn’t lose money to some shitty app company, you might be more likely to give a good tip to somoene you speak to, and the workers get paid by the hour. As long as there’s at least one worker who enjoys taking calls as a way to get a break from the kitchen, everybody benefits.

My condolences. That does not look fun in summer.

At 20°C!? Is this some kind of Df climate thing that I’m too Cf to understand?

I considered that, but then how is there a foot of snow? Snow melts above 0°C

What’s 20c?

The Dutch postal service treats letters and packages differently, and electronic greeting cards are processed as letters. They probably didn’t formally recognize letters could contain electronics.

Dutch bureaucracy also tends to have a lot of tolerance/leeway (gedoogbeleid), where rather than fix bad policies everybody just sort of agrees to do things a “reasonable” way. Attempting to fix bad policies can be seen as an expression of mistrust, a threat to whatever people have been getting away with so far, or general narc/snitch behavior. So even if someone realized that electronic greeting cards could be a threat vector, it would have been rude/socially isolating of them to bring it up and deny everybody on board their cute electronic greeting cards from back home.

I’m saying to check theory when and only when you have a problem you don’t have a satisfying answer to. That will happen a lot, but each time you will be motivated by the problem, and eventually you may learn to trust a theory enough to appreciate reading about problems you haven’t faced yet.

You would have to be intentionally consuming a LOT of Sodium Flouride to cause issues.

- The person I first replied to