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You could definitely train a dog to do this and it would probably have a blast doing it all day.

Not enough dog investors pushing dog-tech hype though. It is a shame though, have you ever read about what their noses can do??

Google please spend your money and time actually improving your absurdly dysfunctional products instead of wasting your time on thinly veiled AI hype advertising that everyone can immediately identify as smarmy.

Sincerely,

Literally Everybody Not In The Bubble Of Working At Google

I love how many doors termux forces open, it totally changes the fundamental capabilities of android.

yawn I’m sorry but why do we need a corporation to profit off of the social network we use? I am not excited for any new corporate social network because after using mastodon and lemmy it has become crystal clear that social networks as a “technology” are a terrible business. Either you make a social network healthy for its users or you profit off of them. Pick one.

It is like the concept of hospitals being privatized businesses. It is insane when you step back and actually think about it. Do I want the doctors, nurses, janitors and staff to get paid for doing hard work at the hospital?

Absolutely! Why does an abstract entity, the financial instrument of a private hospital, need to profit off of my care?

Hey I see a bright future for companies selling the service of turnkey lemmy, mastodon, pixelfed and peertube instances so maybe Facebook can get into that and be a nice little small reasonable company helping instance admins out instead of a monstrously poorly run corporation that tears apart the social fabric of society for profit.

:)

edit wait did this article seriously just call the guy running the open source project mastodon, “CEO”…?

We just need to move on from DnD to other IPs at this point, it is absurdly clear that everyone putting all their eggs in the basket with wizards of the coast and it is just a bad idea.

There are plenty of fantastic alternatives, we really don’t need the DnD universe. I mean, as highly acclaimed as BG3 is, people in general seem to feel that the dev’s previous game Divinity Original Sin 2 has better combat mechanics… so idk I just think it’s time to move past wizards of the coast and embrace better systems.

This really is the most salient point in this entire thread, there are piles of people commenting about this article with literally the same argument that was used to try to kick the can about ending slavery down the road.

I understand trees require maintenance to upkeep, but at the same time I actively avoid going to places and spending money there when it is hot (or cold and windy and exposed) and there are no trees. I get anxiety when everything is just large featureless concrete and asphalt expanses with zero shade or green color. I am sure I am not alone in this, so in a sense the presence of trees tends to bring in more shoppers to an area.

Personally I think it is kind of sociopathic when we build large population centers and plant zero trees or worse cut down old trees in an older town/city and never bother to plant new trees so that tree cover is maintained.

Super cool! A separate fan community like this is huge for longterm fan/community building. It also totally fits the ethos of star trek itself.

What is the point of making the data structure any more complex than:

  2011/03/15   Trader Joe's
      Expenses:Groceries   $100.00
      Assets:Checking
  2011/03/15   Whole Food Market
      Expenses:Groceries   $75.00
      Assets:Checking

I don't even need to explain the data structure to you, it is self evident. Any number of sophisticated functions can be built into an interpreter of the ledger data, but all of those complex functions never obscure the basic data which can be edited by hand in a plain text editor if desired. Or you can use ledger-mode in emacs and enter transactions through prompts so you don't have to manually structure the whitespace for it to look nice. However complex you desire, you can use ledger in that fashion, that is the strength of its minimalism.

Like I said elsewhere in this thread, I like to use ledger inside codeblocks in org mode (org-babel) in a simplistic application of literate programming. The extremely human readable nature of ledger's data structure is a natural fit for the similarly human readable org format, and in export of an org file into a website, html document, pdf or other media (via pandoc) ledger codeblocks remain human readable, even to someone who has never heard of ledger-cli. This means that an org file tracking a complex project with associated costs at each step (though ledger can track anything with units, including time) can be easily converted into a professional quality document that can be used in any number of contexts.

The professional outward facing document used for conveying information about a project to others can thus originate out of the same org file that is being used to work on the project itself. In other words, your notes are only a step or two away from a presentation in any number of formats.

When you want only the finances from the project file, just tangle it out and treat it like a normal ledger file.

I am not really sure if ledger-cli has any capacity to create compound units, so that if you say log that you have eaten one potato in ledger-cli, you would also have to manually log the calories and macro-nutrients of that potato unless you had kept a template for that potato's nutritional profile you could copy paste somewhere right? I suppose you might be able to make a "potato" ledger file with its associated nutrient profiles and just load it from a code block every time you eat one. Idk.

"And that kind of pseudo-telepathy might even require the meandering and the density and the apparent overcomplication to deliver you enough context to align your neurons into something approximating where the author's were at."

Absolutely, postmodern literature is an extension of modernism (i.e. To The Lighthouse or Ulysses) in that it is focused on describing the moment to moment experience of consciousness, except postmodern literature like Pynchon's work dials everything up until the replicated experience of consciousness is the experience of a psychedelic state.

This results in confounding literature where it is difficult to deduce what is real, what the point is, and to orient oneself. This is unavoidably a necessary part of inducing such an intense mental state in the reader.

Because large corporations are essentially trying to tear up the implicit contract that they must offer adequate compensation to attract workers to their jobs. "Nurse shortages" "Truck Driver shortages" "Railworker shortages" "Airplane Pilot shortages". None of these are actually shortages, they are just indications that the businesses involved in those industries are uninterested in offering wages and benefits that will humanely support someone working those jobs. I am no fan of capitalism, but this isnt even capitalism its just an attempt to bash workers into jobs they wouldnt otherwise take (or make it so 18 year olds can drive 18 wheelers commercially....?)

....what?

Bingo

Ok but I'd still rather have a building built with a bunch of useless copper pipes than have the plumbers union annihilated and then have plumbing get gutted as a good paying job and life... and then have plumbing systems everywhere made by people who hate their job and get paid shit?

That sounds like a recipe for a literal shitstorm.

This isn't a solution, its just hurting people who have been so hurt other places that this comparative hurt is less bad. How twisted is it that you see this as a solution? The solution is workers joining together to enact leverage over the wealth horders in society and demanding better wages for everybody. The money is absolutely there in rich countries like the US and Canada.

Some degree of support network, and when you get paid dirt and the cost to work is high itself (buying and maintaining a car being the big one) the tiny amount of money you get for a huge mental and physical toll just isn't worth it?

You are likely still going to be entirely dependent upon that support network job or no job. Jobs that are available to most people dont generally pay a living wage anymore, is that not sinking in for you?

Great you live in a bubble!

BEFORE the pandemic most americans couldn't afford a $400 emergency bill, people are pretty desperate in the US on average and if you don't encounter that day to day you are living in comparative luxury.

Immigration only inhibits wage growth when unions and workers rights are obliterated to the point that they can't fight back against corporations and make them pay a living wage to everybody. Don't act like immigration = wage growth being inhibited, that is absurdly fatalistic about there being no alternative to the status quo.

No, the issue is quite clear here, hotels dont want to pay a living wage for labor. How much clearer can it be?

This is the absolute bleakest angle to look at this from and honestly its pretty offensive.

Yeah you save money living with your parents, this has always been true.... but there is a reason most people move out and its because family living situation can utterly grind people to pieces. What does saving money matter if your quality of life is so low that you don't want to exist?

All those people arent living with their parents because suddenly way more people have healthy family situations to be around, ESPECIALLY given how many peoples lives are imploding every day in the US because of emergencies obliterating what little resources they were able to cling onto.

Seriously, I have zero time for the "glad millenials are smarting up and saving money by living with their parents" bs, nobody likes pissing away most of their paycheck every month to some landlord who wont even repair anything properly in the rental. This always has and always will be true, its just whether people become so desperate they cant make this choice anymore and they have to risk the consequences of moving home.

So this article focuses on how millenials are stress spending on luxuries to try to make their day to day life getting yelled at by their parents worth living and how that is good for the luxury market? What?

"$100 or $189 is trivial compared to all the plane tickets and other expenses of travel. Over a couple dozen trips a year, I’m grateful for the reduction in waiting time and stress."

Don't assume everyone else has the privilege of not being worried about an additional $100-$200 cost to airline travel, it isn't a cute look.

If Kissinger licked the right boot it is no surprise, he spends all his time bootlicking

I think one of the ways we could avoid wars is by putting war criminals like Henry Kissinger in jail. I hope when Henry Kissinger finally gives up his frail grasp on life that his departure to the next life is painful and drawn out.

Obligatory Behind The Bastards on Kissinger

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-kissinger/id1...

What that costs more than my car...?????

The Dollar General is basically a pickup with a machine gun in the back going from town to town obliterating local businesses, it is awful

The TSA and Department Of Homeland security have shown quite thoroughly that they are entirely unworthy of our trust. They aren't the good guys.

Or the pilot metropolitan! I think the pilots have the best nibs on lowcost pens. Stay away from most german fountain pen makers, they are superrrt inconsistent with whether their nibs are tuned well out of the box.

I think probably because "ridesharing" is a pleasant word that evokes a nice image of people carpooling together instead of conjuring up exploitative, shit companies like Uber

"Despite all its flaws, the DOD is putting on a clinic on superior training, logistics, discipline, technology and power projection. I shudder to think what the world would look like right now and in several years without the DOD. Europe would be getting steamrolled if not for the DOD and NATO and it wouldn’t end there."

For every bit of good the DOD does it kills, destroys and spreads enough suffering to AT LEAST nullify it if not vastly put it in the negative. That is without considering how all the money the DOD wastes on killing people and overthrowing other governments could be used to massively reduce suffering if it was put towards something more useful like infrastructure or healthcare.