Prices continue to rise, while economic activity in general continues to drop. That's stagflation, and it's what I predicted way back in 2020, and it's what we've got today.
People are struggling to not die, and they can't afford to spend money on frivilous things. I mean, some people are buying new smart phones, but a hell of a lot less than there were! (besides which, why would you buy a new smart phone? What specifically does a new phone have that a 5 year old or even 10 year old phone doesn't?)
People are struggling to not die, and they can't afford to spend money on frivilous things. I mean, some people are buying new smart phones, but a hell of a lot less than there were! (besides which, why would you buy a new smart phone? What specifically does a new phone have that a 5 year old or even 10 year old phone doesn't?)
This is never going to work. I tried to get GPT to create an article saying that air is racist, and it told me this instead:
tbf, there's always medical risks involved with pregnancies since humans are genetic freaks. Just... more in this case.
You're right, and it happens every time. When you read the history of a lot of authoritarian regimes, that's what they do -- they use the freaks to get their foot in the door and those same freaks are always the first against the wall because they're no longer useful.
That sort of thing is why I'm not strictly libertarian. Producing a public good that improves the sustainable quality of life for everyone is a positive thing I've seen make everyone's lives better regardless of ideology. It's easy to say the market will provide the solutions, but it they don't because there's a more efficient allocation of limited capital, where efficient means return per dollar. Thing is, what is profitable is not necessarily what is good or what is beneficial for people. The most profitable things are playing magic tricks with money in the stock market, which produces nothing of value.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/AFRICA-HUNGER/lgpdkknwlvo/
Darn it COVID! Starvation is a symptom of COVID, right?
Darn it COVID! Starvation is a symptom of COVID, right?
As nice as it is to think, I have a sneaking suspicion some of those are bots, since they look like bots.
On the other side of this, lawmakers sure seem to think that social media is dangerous and harmful, since they're sticking their fingers in at every opportunity to try to regulate it.
Especially since it isn't like any of it is causing taxes to go down or debts to stop accruing. Government is at historic highs in terms of the amount of economic activity going on, yet despite making up so much of the world, they're doing so much less that's actually useful for common people...
With the rise in violent crimes in the past few years, the lawmakers in the UK (and Canada, and the US, and elsewhere) need to get their heads out of their asses.
They're so busy worrying about hypothetical violence that might happen because someone said something mean on the Internet that they're ignoring millions of cases of actual violence being perpetrated against people in the real world.
The cynical part of me thinks the reason is that they know people who say mean things on the Internet aren't a threat so it's much nicer and easier to look like you're doing something by going after them. You don't need to worry about anyone shooting back, you don't need to worry about them fighting back, they're just people saying things on the Internet! You don't even need to leave your office until you make the arrest!
They're so busy worrying about hypothetical violence that might happen because someone said something mean on the Internet that they're ignoring millions of cases of actual violence being perpetrated against people in the real world.
The cynical part of me thinks the reason is that they know people who say mean things on the Internet aren't a threat so it's much nicer and easier to look like you're doing something by going after them. You don't need to worry about anyone shooting back, you don't need to worry about them fighting back, they're just people saying things on the Internet! You don't even need to leave your office until you make the arrest!
This moment reminds me of the mid to late 90s when the religious right and the moral majority as the political bloc were deep in decline. It didn't look like it at the time because they were pushing hard and sometimes succeeding at stuff, but it was the fact that they had to push hard that changed, and that marked a change in trajectory a lot of people didn't recognize at the time.
Can confirm, am retarded and brainwashed and look! It's a watch, and it tells time, but it's also smart! Hey Alexa, order me 20!
Bill c11 and c18 are just codifying the full control of the internet that was already there. It's all just one guy.
I had the first manga and read some of maximum but this was before you could just buy it online so I havent seen most of it
Honestly, the art is different but it's fine. It isn't distractingly bad or anything. The story problems seem much more important to me.
I'm keeping an open mind about the new Trigun, but the story has some serious pacing and structural problems.
They went through the Nebraska arc without even having "that moment", and E.G. Mine is already dead but the whole point of his death is negated because Vash didn't know or care (and I'm pretty sure Vash learned about it and got mad in the original)
I'm guessing next episode is the lost July incident which they're gonna probably use instead of the 5th moon incident to tighten it up, skip out on Elizabeth and that arc, skip out on the BDN arc, they'll probably get Wolfwood in the episode after that.
I'm guessing they'll probably skip the initial Wolfwood arcs for that and probably shoot directly to the last surviving ship arc and close out the series with fights with the gung ho guns, show the story of knives finding the chopped up sentient plant in episode 11, then a big final battle in episode 12 and both knives and vash disappear.
A lot of the key events of the series will have to stay on the cutting room floor. For example, I don't see how the events of Diablo can happen now because the whole point of those events is that Vash snaps from witnessing a mass murder, but he's already witnessed a mass murder.
I don't expect the series will be able to stretch its legs, it's too crammed into its 12 episodes. I don't think they've got a plan to stretch it over 2 seasons and only announced the first 12, they're doing everything too quickly.
Anyway, it's not bad right now, but it's like the difference between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross: Chrono Cross was a great Final Fantasy game, but it wasn't a Chrono Trigger sequel. This is a fine anime, it's just not a remake of one of the greatest animes of all time that passes muster.
But we'll see. Maybe it'll get better.
They went through the Nebraska arc without even having "that moment", and E.G. Mine is already dead but the whole point of his death is negated because Vash didn't know or care (and I'm pretty sure Vash learned about it and got mad in the original)
I'm guessing next episode is the lost July incident which they're gonna probably use instead of the 5th moon incident to tighten it up, skip out on Elizabeth and that arc, skip out on the BDN arc, they'll probably get Wolfwood in the episode after that.
I'm guessing they'll probably skip the initial Wolfwood arcs for that and probably shoot directly to the last surviving ship arc and close out the series with fights with the gung ho guns, show the story of knives finding the chopped up sentient plant in episode 11, then a big final battle in episode 12 and both knives and vash disappear.
A lot of the key events of the series will have to stay on the cutting room floor. For example, I don't see how the events of Diablo can happen now because the whole point of those events is that Vash snaps from witnessing a mass murder, but he's already witnessed a mass murder.
I don't expect the series will be able to stretch its legs, it's too crammed into its 12 episodes. I don't think they've got a plan to stretch it over 2 seasons and only announced the first 12, they're doing everything too quickly.
Anyway, it's not bad right now, but it's like the difference between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross: Chrono Cross was a great Final Fantasy game, but it wasn't a Chrono Trigger sequel. This is a fine anime, it's just not a remake of one of the greatest animes of all time that passes muster.
But we'll see. Maybe it'll get better.
I don't know for sure. There's obviously an overwhelming amount of data in there, I've had conversations on a wide variety of topics from law to history to chemistry to biology to space exploration and it didn't always have a perfect answer, but it had a decent answer.
My dad got his ham radio license just recently. There's some really neat stuff out there. There's special low signal strength signalling standards that dramatically increase the amount of distance you can communicate over using a PC as a signal processor. A PC is practically mandatory equipment.
One thing I didn't realize is that you only get to talk to where you get to talk to. Solar activity has a large bearing on where your signals can hit. In a time with few solar flares (like the past decade) it's much more difficult to bounce signals over to the other side of the earth.
One thing I didn't realize is that you only get to talk to where you get to talk to. Solar activity has a large bearing on where your signals can hit. In a time with few solar flares (like the past decade) it's much more difficult to bounce signals over to the other side of the earth.