It’s fairly mid traffic because it cuts across a part of the city, so you’re likely to run into someone on a bike or something every ten or so minutes
It’s fairly mid traffic because it cuts across a part of the city, so you’re likely to run into someone on a bike or something every ten or so minutes
I recently started jogging through this long, dark trail that hosts a nearby homeless encampment, and honestly didn’t think about it at all until my partner raised her eyebrow at where I was jogging. Just one of those little patriarchy taxes that I don’t have to pay.
Not that unhoused people are particularly dangerous or anything, but still you’re less certain if you’re going to meet someone on a really bad day there
My dad has been that guy! We sure ate a lottt of Silver Wok during that time 😋
Yeah if investors can’t make cartoonish returns for doing literally nothing what’s even the point of gouging customers??
People will be laid off
Spoils will be enjoyed
This great economy… it will endure
The working class will survive!
Yeah then at least everyone gets paid, and the workers walk away with a shitload of free pies!!
I think people miss an important point in these selloffs. It’s not just the raw text that’s valuable, but the minute interactions between networks of users people.
Like the timings between replies and how vote counts affect not just engagement, but the tone of replies, and their conversion rate.
I’ve could imagine a sort of “script” running for months, haunting your every move across the internet, constantly running personalised little a/b tests, until a tactic is found to part you from your money.
I mean this tech exists now, but it’s fairly “dumb.” But it’s not hard to see how AI will make it much more pernicious.
Man I’d be so mad if I’d built up a sweet severance, only to have to quit for better work
Fairphone looks really cool, but I feel like too big for my weak little hands
I’d probably just refurb an old old Android phone. Would love to buy hardware that is more ethically sourced though
I’m legitimately curious about their takes on this…
And yet you continue to order them
The connection is that they both require workers, but don’t want to pay them
Agreed those scare quotes confuse things. I read it as emphasis
And they’re sticking with that name? … huh
This is called the “network effect,” so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It’s what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so “sticky.” It’s what makes platform-capitalism work.
It also makes nice things work too, ofc.
And suffering! I know we already said that one, but I’ve seen a large farm, and it really feels like a black mark on humanity that these persist
Let’s do both! I welcome our imperfect solarpunk future with open arms
Interesting, I hadn’t really thought about how I perceive non binary people. Clearly you’re very well read on the topic. I think your comment might be coming out of left field for some people (heh, “left” field also kind of implies a binary - this shit is everywhere), but I appreciate you taking the time to share.
I mean the classic is that you must be “really good at computers” like I’m okay at debugging, just by being methodical, but if you plop me in front of a Windows desktop and ask me to fix your printer; brother, I haven’t fucked with any of those 3 things in over a decade.
I would be as a baby, learning everything anew, to solve your problem.