The first of many. Might be a good idea to brush up on Chinese, Arabic, and Russian so when civilizations that don't commit suicide roll over us we can make nice with our new overlords.
This feels like when Tom Sawyer convinced all his friends to pay for a chance to paint his aunt's fence.
I have to assume at this point pretty much anything good.
It's like in the 90s nobody wanted to play super Noah's ark, today no one wants to play the latest industrial woke simulator.
It's like in the 90s nobody wanted to play super Noah's ark, today no one wants to play the latest industrial woke simulator.
There's no way that 99% of the products on Amazon are not loss leaders. I don't think anyone else could compete.
Let's take two sets of low end earbud headphones. The same headphones, one of them is at the store in town and one of them I order on Amazon.
The earbuds in both cases start at a factory and then go to a distribution center.
From there, in one case the big box of earbuds travels to the local store where someone unpacks it and puts it on a shelf along with many other pairs of earphones. I walk in, I grab the earphones myself, I likely ring them up myself, I put them in my pocket and I drive myself home.
In the other case, at the distribution center they take out a box, remove my one pair of earphones, transport my one pair of earphones in a box to a distribution center in my city, and then pay someone to put them directly on my doorstep.
Now according to amazon, the latter costs exactly the same or less than the former. In my view there's just no way.
Have you ever sent out a package before? I know it's just a single package and there are probably bulk rates available for big businesses, but sending out a single package for me costs more than the pair of headphones costs in the first place, and not by a small amount.
So my stands for a very long time has been that there's something fishy going on. The biggest thing I can think of is that certain items make a lot more profit than others and subsidize the low cost items, and that virtually every part of Amazon's business is solely an advertisement for AWS where they make huge money at huge margins.
Let's take two sets of low end earbud headphones. The same headphones, one of them is at the store in town and one of them I order on Amazon.
The earbuds in both cases start at a factory and then go to a distribution center.
From there, in one case the big box of earbuds travels to the local store where someone unpacks it and puts it on a shelf along with many other pairs of earphones. I walk in, I grab the earphones myself, I likely ring them up myself, I put them in my pocket and I drive myself home.
In the other case, at the distribution center they take out a box, remove my one pair of earphones, transport my one pair of earphones in a box to a distribution center in my city, and then pay someone to put them directly on my doorstep.
Now according to amazon, the latter costs exactly the same or less than the former. In my view there's just no way.
Have you ever sent out a package before? I know it's just a single package and there are probably bulk rates available for big businesses, but sending out a single package for me costs more than the pair of headphones costs in the first place, and not by a small amount.
So my stands for a very long time has been that there's something fishy going on. The biggest thing I can think of is that certain items make a lot more profit than others and subsidize the low cost items, and that virtually every part of Amazon's business is solely an advertisement for AWS where they make huge money at huge margins.
I feel like that could be truly insufferable.
"Racistchatgpt, I was to talk about cars."
"Oh yeah, (((cars)))? I bet you want to talk about (((Henry Ford))) too?"
"Racistchatgpt, I was to talk about cars."
"Oh yeah, (((cars)))? I bet you want to talk about (((Henry Ford))) too?"
Well, I figure a human animal hybrid made up of a super dangerous animal and a dangerous human with weapons of mass destruction for hands would be the most illegal person I can think of. :p
Yeah, I could never get all 3 without some serious tinkering with prompts and pre-established images.
Ok, this is the last one.
But I have to admit, it was pretty funny in the house telling everyone what I was working on.
But I have to admit, it was pretty funny in the house telling everyone what I was working on.
That's a good point. I think the term "debunked" is thoroughly debunked at this point.
I did, that's how I got my image in the end.
Krita with the localdiffusion plugin is pretty incredible tbh.
Krita with the localdiffusion plugin is pretty incredible tbh.
You know, all I wanted was a picture of an adolf hitler/scorpion hybrid with atomic bombs for hands, but apparently that's to much to ask of most AI websites.
Dear @sj_zero
Why does my number of followers barely change from day to day, despite how often I post and how clever and meaningful the comment? Please be advised, there is deep state at FBXL Social and, with all due respect, you are so busy and distracted you don't even know it.
Why does my number of followers barely change from day to day, despite how often I post and how clever and meaningful the comment? Please be advised, there is deep state at FBXL Social and, with all due respect, you are so busy and distracted you don't even know it.
People think it's post pandemic that's been hurting views, but I also think youtube has been hurting because becoming a tool of the corrupt establishment is only as good a strategy as long as the corrupt establishment is overwhelmingly dominant.
Ironically, there's also a lot of problems right now that mean that Nations really don't have the bandwidth to achieve many of these things unless they are authoritarian dictatorships.
World war I and to a lesser extent world war II where eras that were much different than today. These societies were young and vigorous, they were making things within their own countries, and even with the horrors of world war 1, people had pride in their countries and wanted to fight for them.
Contrast that with today, most of the societies that one world war II have converted from building stuff to stuff that technically makes money but doesn't produce anything of value such as banking or stock trading, or managing factories in places like China. Gen z already isn't signing up for the military, imagine if waves of American soldiers were being sent off to die on the other side of the planet. I have permitted with you really funny watching the boomers come full circle in that regard.
World war I and to a lesser extent world war II where eras that were much different than today. These societies were young and vigorous, they were making things within their own countries, and even with the horrors of world war 1, people had pride in their countries and wanted to fight for them.
Contrast that with today, most of the societies that one world war II have converted from building stuff to stuff that technically makes money but doesn't produce anything of value such as banking or stock trading, or managing factories in places like China. Gen z already isn't signing up for the military, imagine if waves of American soldiers were being sent off to die on the other side of the planet. I have permitted with you really funny watching the boomers come full circle in that regard.
Some of the conspiracy theories out there are so stupid that it makes me wonder if they were put out there intentionally to deflect from the actual conspiracies that turned out to be true.
Like the 5G causes covid conspiracy. I mean that's such an easily testable conspiracy, do people in places that don't have cell phone service get covid? If yes then probably 5G has nothing to do with it.
It just makes entirely way too much sense. Just take a look at the tactic that we see almost every time where someone brings up a perfectly reasonable prediction of a conspiracy at work and immediately the tractors go to the craziest shit you ever heard in your life.
Like the 5G causes covid conspiracy. I mean that's such an easily testable conspiracy, do people in places that don't have cell phone service get covid? If yes then probably 5G has nothing to do with it.
It just makes entirely way too much sense. Just take a look at the tactic that we see almost every time where someone brings up a perfectly reasonable prediction of a conspiracy at work and immediately the tractors go to the craziest shit you ever heard in your life.
Distributism seems to be like capitalism where many individuals own the productive assets instead of concentrating them in the hands of just a few.
I could get behind that tbh. Higher risks for the individual but more freedom for more people.
I'm not saying you completely eliminate the concept of a corporation or of a large venture, some important productive facilities may require years of work and millions of dollars of capital just to get off off the ground, and generally speaking you're not going to get that out of an individual. But if we consider there to be a slider today that is pegged almost exclusively at corporate capitalism, I think we could bring that slider way back down to make it often smarter to just have individuals owning stuff and doing stuff.
I could get behind that tbh. Higher risks for the individual but more freedom for more people.
I'm not saying you completely eliminate the concept of a corporation or of a large venture, some important productive facilities may require years of work and millions of dollars of capital just to get off off the ground, and generally speaking you're not going to get that out of an individual. But if we consider there to be a slider today that is pegged almost exclusively at corporate capitalism, I think we could bring that slider way back down to make it often smarter to just have individuals owning stuff and doing stuff.