psivchaz

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[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't even think capitalism requires infinite growth. It's just how we built it. Not even since the beginning. That is, you could buy stock in a company to help them grow. Then they make a profit, and give you a share of that profit. Everyone is happy. You could sell that to someone else, and maybe they pay more than you'd get in a year, but they'll make more in a long run as long as the company stays alive and can keep distributing profits. Everyone is happy.

It's this idea that the money you make from investment should grow exponentially. This demand from professional stock traders that they be able to sell for obscene profits. The company must grow, and those profits must grow, or the shareholders will all sell in a panic and abandon them, and even a profitable company may go under.

Like why can't the company just make some profit and distribute that profit among shareholders and employees and everyone be happy? It doesn't HAVE to be more profit next year than last year, we just made it that way over time.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

TBH this isn't a great argument for open source code. You know it's not doing something stupid in the exact same way you know a human written application isn't doing something stupid.

1- You review it yourself to double check OR

2- You hope that the community is reviewing it and that you would be made aware of problems OR

3- You just don't know.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago

We also underestimated the number of idiots in the population. Or their ability to find little niches in which to congregate.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

Was thinking my response would have to be something like "hold up while I Google something real quick." I know Ariel is supposed to be 16 but that's the only one I know.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

I interpreted it as general disgust that this is the only thing that seems to have put a real dent in his support from the Republican base. Maybe I'm projecting. Don't get me wrong, I get why people are upset about it, but it just strikes me as crazy that "oh no, the man who's a petty tyrant and obviously a rapist and probable pedophile won't release the files about the pedophile human trafficker" is the straw that broke the camel's back for so many.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 37 points 4 months ago

I'd want to know what they count as bullying. The days of movie stereotype bullying like shoving kids in lockers or whatever are gone. Modern bullying is either excluding, underhanded comments, or social media harassment.

Schools haven't kept up, either. Suppose kid A goes on a targeted harassment campaign online against kid B. B gets mad about it and confronts A at school, maybe even gets in a fight. B will be labeled the bully and aggressor.

Source: Have kids and live with a middle school teacher and attend social gatherings of middle school and high school teachers.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago

I'm exactly the same. I get that it's not for everyone. I understand that, and respect it. But I hate people framing this as you having a trust issue.

It's the opposite of a trust issue. I trust my wife to be responsible with my bank accounts. I trust my wife to see my location because I also trust my wife to only bother checking if she has a reasonable reason to do so, and to not be a weird paranoid freak if I'm somewhere she doesn't expect. I trust my wife with the password to all my online accounts because it's easier to just share a Bitwarden than it is to segregate everything, and I completely trust her to not invade my privacy.

The thing is, our lives are online. If I get hit by a bus or something, I don't want her to have to deal with my death while ALSO figuring out how to convince banks and insurance companies and whatnot to let her in. Much easier to just share my Bitwarden with her.

I'm not in some panopticon, worrying "Oh no, what will my wife think about me being within 500 yards of an ex's house" or whatever because I totally trust her to trust me. It's just not an issue.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, just because he already did it doesn't mean it's too late to stop. I'd argue that stopping immediately is still a good thing.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

Sadly this is rapidly becoming untrue. There are at least two small mom and pop restaurants near me that have gotten rid of their delivery driver and just deliver via one of the app services.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

I'm so used to him being wrong about everything he says that it feels weird when he's right.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago

Regulating demand like this is supposed to be like the one thing a free market is good at, isn't it? Supply can't go up, so prices go up until demand evens out. Am I supposed to believe that all the free market stuff I hear about isn't working?!

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

Reliable public transportation that doesn't cause or get stuck in traffic jams, also.

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