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GreenShimada

@ GreenShimada @lemmy.world

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  • It's been YEARS

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  • I agree 100%, that's what I'm saying. Don't let the compassion for your family overwhelm your rational thoughts that confirm Boomers have fucked Earth royally. Millennials aren't far behind (said as one).

  • It's been YEARS

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  • They had their shot, and this is what they did with it. I agree, but just because they're our parents doesn't mean their generation made good decisions.

  • It's been YEARS

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  • We're in the first third of a generational transition phase, which happens throughout history all the time. The changes over the next few years will take a generation to remediate. Which, at that point, means the goal is not "going back" to something remembered, but seeking stability based on the context of 16-25 year-olds that are kids now who will need that stability to build on to survive. The Olds won't be in any shape to rebuild anything.

  • It's been YEARS

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  • I would bet close to then things are returning to a form of stability that might resemble something livable and where one would want to raise children. Sorta....

  • It's been YEARS

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  • 2040-2041, give or take.

    I'm not even kidding.

  • Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman

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  • And of those that do, I'm sure there's large corporate contracts, negotiated with OpenAI and not going anywhere. Which is why they tell you how many paid subscribers they have, not how many contracts and then individuals.

    The US government subscriptions would account for maybe 1 or 2 million paid users alone, and that might not include Palantir's use of OpenAI models in their systems which then get contracted out.

    This random website claims 44,780 companies reporting using ChatGPT. So entire small companies of 5-10 people might be using it, and then a thousand people at larger companies, that might get you to 10 million users right there.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Yeah, and Marlo Stanfield was very one-dimensional. That being said, I think it stopped far short of jumping the shark, and with the newspaper angle, made sense that a cop might leverage information asymmetry to get what they want by taking advantage of a bad journalist making mistakes. The core concept is solid, and maybe there's some moving pieces that don't quite work.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Since it's not mentioned, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you liked Firefly, you'll like Buffy. Yes, it has baggage, but that doesn't prevent everyone else in the cast from having their work appreciated. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll dabble in witchcraft.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • I recently re-watched The Wire, and 100% agree with it. It's at the cusp of being so outdated that only olds will get it and technical elements seem quaint, but wow, it still hits so hard. 25/10, I'll probably watch it again in another 20 years and enjoy it all over again.

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  • That you have an excess of Ret, not Wet.

    C'mon, retard, figure it out.

  • Freaky

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  • "Remain perfectly still, their vision is based on movement."

    "Nah, fuck this bird." Kicks swan to the moon

  • Freaky

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  • I hope what you're implying is that swan feathers are a suit made to deceive humans from their obvious lizard people pet agenda, and that Big Feather needs to be held accountable. I've already booked guests for the podcast and have 17 articles in my substack,

  • Is there currently an influx of bots in the Fediverse, or is it just that the usual patriotism is kicking in?

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  • Just my guess - meant to bait people into making various threats to see how well Palantir's social media monitoring works at the fringes.

    Be careful out there, y'all.

  • China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine

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  • Not necessarily. It's not about the boom factor alone - hydrogen is a small atom, and so under pressure, most commonly used materials are permeable to it. It leaks through every material. It really takes something as solid as steel pipes for hydrogen atoms to not work their way through and escape. So while hydrogen would be cheaper to produce at scale, it's also constantly leaking out of any container.

    For wind turbines, static electricity and storms would be huge risks as well, so the application of a floating wind turbine would not be ideal.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • For everyone trying to figure out how this would be enforced, it's not about being proactively enforced. (and data collection is 99% of it)

    It's about adding a double-tap "Well, these people also violated our age verification law, so they have to pay a fine," added to any incident where it's convenient to add this in. If a minor sends another minor a snap that would trigger CP laws, and one of the phones isn't age verified correctly, fine to the parents and hands up in the air "We tried!" A minor is involved in torrenting movies? "Look, kids using illegal OS! Fine to the parents!"

    This is how laws work across a lot of corrupt developing countries. There's laws for everything, but they only get applied selectively as authorities find they fit the situation. It's hard to actually be 100% above board and do everything legally because of a few little things meant to be impossible to actually do bureaucratically. So in every situation, any set of authorities start in with the endemic leverage of "Well, we have suspicion of you selling ketamine out of your apartment. Did you do age verification on your laptop? No? Then we can seize that as a crime and see what's on there. OR you can give up your supplier."

  • big facts

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  • The irony of finding two other woo-tolerant Lemmites in this comm.

    Once I learned that astrology points to themes of influence on a time frame, it made a lot more sense. Taking it literally and thinking everything is confirmation bias is how people dismiss it. There's more than a few people that have correctly nailed a lot of big events, it's more about technique it seems. Nick Dagen Best published a book I think in 2013 or 2016 that is hitting hard right now - totally called Trump 2 and stuck to his guns on that.

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  • Some of the more storied and out there reports of what happened with the remote viewing program in the 80s and 90s pretty much get close to this.

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    TIL that Elon Musk controls 90 companies. When he buys land, when he orders food, or when he gives money to politicians, he uses shell companies

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  • I can think of a dozen ways around that, and I'm sure a competent lawyer could find a million more.

    What might work better, and something that Americans can wrap their head around, is tax implications around ownership base for publicly owned companies, and every company over $1 million in non-asset value or 50 employees becomes publicly owned. This would only be around 6-7% of companies in the United States - 96% of American companies are smaller than 50 people.

    A good example is the Green Bay Packers, which is a fan-owned non-profit, and fans are the shareholders. Americans can comprehend fractional ownership like that. So you start with the lowest tax implications for modest profits per year as long as no individual holds more than 2% of stocks, and tax incentives to operate as a non-profit. So two potentially different tracks for a company to operate which is simply about employing people and doing a job well, with worker ownership fundamental to the company itself.

    Then, once you get into Succession-style stock grabbing BS, taxes quickly skyrocket as the company grows. Taxes go up for the whole company if an individual owns more than 2%, 5%, 10%, etc. Once an individual is holding 51% of a company, the company gets taxed at a high rate proportionally to profits, (worker median salary-worker mean salary), and number of workers. So small and medium-sized companies don't get trashed and are incentivized to pay people better, and hire more people, before laying people off simply to make money. Then the incentives structure would grow proportionally for large companies where factors like CEO pay and CEO stock ownership or stick dividends are what trigger taxes.

    I'm sure competent lawyers would also also find ways to loophole that structure, but the for-profit-only-at-all-costs business model is not sustainable or even all that beneficial anymore other than for TV drama.