if you heard about the recent wave of theft from department stores like Target, it’s been theorized they wouldn’t have that if the stores had more staff, even if they weren’t working security. Many tech companies have gone way downhill after removing jobs they thought they could automate.

ah, yeah that makes sense to me, together with what another commenter said:

Because workers, and not just bosses, will get a say in where, when, and how technology is introduced. That’s what the Hollywood writers’ strike was largely about, and they won important restrictions on the use of AI, as did the screen actors guild.

together with

There’s a hidden price to AI, and companies see it when they’re forced into it more and more.

explains why an union can keep the management of companies from making short-sighted decisions.

i don’t know what buddhism has to do with that? apart from that, buddhism is a great worldview in my experience.

Unionize your workplace instead.

and how does that help? serious question, i have no idea. don’t tell me to “read it up on the internet”. how do unions help when the demand for human workers is decreasing?

under capitalist logic and current law, the company is legally required to maximize profit, at least if it’s publicly traded. it’s because the CEO has a responsibility to the shareholders, and shareholders typically demand maximization of profits.

sticker i made. feel free to use it wherever you’d like.

Also that sugar isn’t good for the body, at least not for mine. I get rashes and a dry throat when i eat too much sugar. Fruit and vegetables put me in a good mood, but i try to reduce my unnecessary sugar intake anyways.

well then it’s good that Trump always adheres to the law

it would be a lot of work

no, locking itself doesn’t wipe. unlocking wipes. at least on most devices.

i get that he was good at getting people excited for electric cars and space travel, but that’s no excuse to slashing social safety nets. and that’s definitely what he intended to do when given the chance. it was only due to public backlash that it was stopped. sociopathic behavior.

Musth, not Musk

also btw i read somewhere that Musth (the manic episode) can be shortened down to approximately 2 weeks when the elephants are restrained (with a metal chain) and practically starved a bit (given very little food) for a while. (they survive ofc)

the cycle between the day and the night represents the cycle of mania and peace

I guess the dollar might need to end, but for different reasons.

As long as Trump is in power, he can in principle just print as many dollars as he wants to and spend them on what he likes.

The mechanism is by (ab-)using the Federal Reserve bank. It hands out “loans” to the government, the government never really has to pay them back. (it’s called national debt)

Ending the existence of the dollar seems to be the only real way to take a money-printing machine out of Trump’s hands.

I’m not saying this lightheartedly, just considering the options.

the world is a drama and reality is the stage

no, CP is copypasta, the thing you put into your food boxes.

this looks amazing! (from the youtube video. also the controls/features seem to be well thought-through) i’ll give it a shot tomorrow

time doesn’t determine who is right, only who is left. that’s why the future is ours

you have to go there in person to cast a piece of paper with your account name on it, similar to a vote in a ballot. it’s anonymous because the pieces of paper cannot be associated to a physical human, just like voting ballots are anonymous, but it still transports the information that a human registered this account.

Cameras (or human observer) undo any sense of anonymity. A bad actor could link participant with account.

hence the mixing (shuffling) of paper cards before they are being registered. so there’s no one-to-one mapping of humans and account names anymore.