andallthat

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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

you can actually use them for useful things, like purchasing on such leading ecommerce sites as.... uh.... gettrumpfragrances.com and.... er... gettrumpsneakers.com.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Says you, my trolley is pretty hot!

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the (false) sin/cos dichotomy

but... but.... if sin/cos is false, that is literally tan ! (yes, I was frequently bullied in high school, why do you ask?)

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What is drawing top comedians to Saudi, a place where you get killed for saying or writing things the ruling family doesn't like?

I see a trend there but I can't quite.... Wait, could it be loads of money?

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Legal loophole: it's not anti-capitalistic if you are just stupid

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I track the location of hundreds maybe thousands of phones every day for minutes at the time. I see people using them while I commute. Where can I collect my fee from the US government for my services?

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

"Not with that attitude, you can't!" -Lego

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

no. no, what she was trying to say is that we are 100% shooting Russian jets IF they are on the table. Unless we're having dinner, in which case we'll invite them at the table because hospitality is sacred if you are armed and not an immigrant.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

No, there are at least 2 of us. Even the concept that it's somehow a useful measure to anyone else than your local tax authorities (except maybe for people running for public office) sounds a bit iffy to me.

So you are right that giving it a name that ties it to your "worth" as a person is terrible.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

ah I see you're still using "person" as a measurement unit instead of the more modern "net worth"

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It's more that each person will have a moment in their life when they are at their gayest

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To be fair all kings initially became kings exactly the way Trump is trying to do. No matter how they try to paint it as a God-given right or create elaborate origin myths, it all started with violence, marrying into power, betrayal, political scheming and a lot of inbreeding.

It's kind of appropriate that a kingdom recognizes this (although that was probably not what they were trying to do).

 

Most of our financial decisions are already algorithmically driven.

Now with this vision of the near future where e-commerce uses only AI-generated content on apps built by AI developers and AI-agents (soon?) buying it independently, money does not need a human in the middle any longer.

 

I have posted this on Reddit (askeconomics) a while back but got no good replies. Copying it here because I don't want to send traffic to Reddit.

What do you think?

I see a big push to take employees back to the office. I personally don't mind either working remote or in the office, but I think big companies tend to think rationally in terms of cost/benefit and I haven't seen a convincing explanation yet of why they are so keen to have everyone back.

If remote work was just as productive as in-person, a remote-only company could use it to be more efficient than their work-in-office competitors, so I assume there's no conclusive evidence that this is the case. But I haven't seen conclusive evidence of the contrary either, and I think employers would have good reason to trumpet any findings at least internally to their employees ("we've seen KPI so-and-so drop with everyone working from home" or "project X was severely delayed by lack of in-person coordination" wouldn't make everyone happy to return in presence, but at least it would make a good argument for a manager to explain to their team)

Instead, all I keep hearing is inspirational wish-wash like "we value the power of working together". Which is fine, but why are we valuing it more than the cost of office space?

On the side of employees, I often see arguments like "these companies made a big investment in offices and now they don't want to look stupid by leaving them empty". But all these large companies have spent billions to acquire smaller companies/products and dropped them without a second thought. I can't believe the same companies would now be so sentimentally attached to office buildings if it made any economic sense to close them.

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