jareklupinski

> For more than a century, the prevailing fear, dating back to English economist Thomas Malthus who lived between 1766 to 1834, was of a booming population outrunning its food supply.

thank goodness george washington carver showed we could feed the world using just the scraps of our ingenuity

next

XY problem

paint them so they look undesireable

that's already priced in

i think i saw a digital billboard swinging from a helicopter yesterday :(

yea i hope they never see what Red Bull gets up to with their ad spend :P

that would imply a reverse audit of the responsibilities of the job to make sure it matches the unknown candidate

i dont think anyone would ever want a role once given _that_ level of precision of what you'll be asked to do :(

> a life that doesn't "revolve around money", but who can't afford to stop working

i dont think anyone wished for entropy

and if they did; to heck with them

> two sound engines, one licensed from NEW AUDIO TECHNOLOGY

is this why i have to log in to an account to use Virtual Surround on gaming headsets

> can translate that paper wealth into actual wealth by selling their home

looking at the housing market currently, that actual wealth is 40% off what they thought it was, going by starting asking price -> actual cash in pocket after taxes, fees, and points paid to all involved

> moisture attacks you from two directions: external rain pushing through your outer layers and internal sweat building up inside your clothing

has there been a brand that tried to sew dessicants inside the jacket? ive got these bags of moisture absorbing beads that i microwave to "revive" their powers; imagining a thin layer of these inside a thin shell would work for a while

> homeowners are generally wealthier than renters

on paper; remove the 'value' of the home and the typical home "owner" (mortgage means bank owns your home) is more likely to be paycheck-to-paycheck

the phrase "workers took my work" <-> "robots took my job"

yea, there's also the fact the public entities have chosen to use this avenue for disseminating legal information

you can "de facto" a lot from this arrangement :(

> they post something (very often media-based) and very often others see/respond to it in their own leisure much later

who pays for the storage to keep the file on a computer somewhere, and the network to serve the file to the internet indefinitely? in Discord's case, it's the users

usenet iirc tried to do a sort of "torrent" the data across enthusiasts' / participants' computers?

> THe breeding has produced a fruit that is just a skin holding water.

i'd blush but im not a tomato :P

> I get so curious about people’s financial situations when they’re able to make such asymmetrical moves like that. He lives in a rural town near Pittsburgh, does selling $10 zines afford that lifestyle? What about healthcare? Does he have a trust fund? A recent inheritance? Bitcoin? Years of an early retirement strategy paying off? I shouldn’t ruin the anti-capitalistic vibe with such trivial capitalistic questions but I love it and my brain jumps to trying to make the math work for myself.

peoples' true natures/intentions make more sense when you remove "because money" from the equation

but it's hard to see through it when your own life revolves around "because money"

US had Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boww2fJUEHc

strange Poland didn't have one...

only if you're trying to sell ad space

> This is an entire business model.

was this how those 'free newspapers' back around 2005~2010 worked?

they should just increase the cost for people who choose to make their interactions "non-monetizable"

i'm doing my part!

> In short, there's already a divergence, and you're already paying for it.

even with your optimal strategy, you're still paying for it: those points might as well be already spent at the network of vendors you've agreed to sell your purchase history to

it says so in their balance sheets :)

> It’s not really that I hate tech. It’s that I hate what most ~tech~ products are.

most products aren't made for every one of us; i think i've only ever truly made things for myself when i was not being paid

dont you just love being an occupant

honestly if youve lived in nyc through the 90's and stayed, the city should be paying you haha

> sinusoidal

> OTOH, stabilizing

any function is stable; im just dissppointed if its predictable / manipulable / only has 2d

maybe it'll go backwards? or the direction is chaotic / tick-tock

humans also change over time

in batman, bruce wayne shuts does the massive surveillance network, seeing it was problematic (2008)

in spiderman, peter parker just shrugs off being able to know where anything is happening anytime (2026)

personally have been ripping 60/90 minute youtube sets to cassettes using a really nice automatic cassette recorder/player i got for cheap because no one uses cassettes anymore i guess