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Disneyland with the death penalty is the Singapore vibes per a famous journalist article. Is this what you mean by dead inside?

I was drinking 5 cans of mt dew a day and tired and sad and anxious. I have advice (if you want it)

I fasted for 24 hours and got the worst caffeine migraine. I have fasted before and only felt mildly blood sugar tired, so I know the difference. Also I had weirdly high sadness and anxiety. I think that if you fast from all food and flavored drinks for 24 hours to get rid of cravings, you could wake up the next day and not use energy drinks.

I still have bouts of sadness, but almost no anxiety. Good luck breaking the addition!

Some of you should try

I think by "some of you" you mean "heavy printer users", and if so I agree.

The typical use case for most folks is infrequent (maybe print 100 pages 1 month and 1 page each month otherwise or less) and works when you want to use it.

The two features you describe do add value, but are anti features when an in

• lots of ink paying for more than you need
• sometimes gets clogged

The article discusses this, current white paints reflect 80-90% of sunlight. This ultra white paint is able to reflect more heat 98%.

Downsides are some ingredients are mined, but current white paint has some ingredients mined.

Microsoft has been known to detect unencrypted passwords on storage or emails and try them on the encrypted zips that are stored. It may be standard practice to operate across borders.

The gulf of Mexico is a warm body of water. It regulates the temp of the land up to 120 miles inland such that it almost never freezes (or stops being humid)

Clear cookies related to lemmy (or app data in lemmy specific apps) if you do this it fixes most of the issues while logging in.

I haven't engaged in long form debates in years. This is fun for me too.

The fundamental unit of Capitalism, the thing that drives everything, are Capitalists (investors) investing their capital (Money) with the intention of receiving a return on their investment (more money than they invested). ... People who are not capitalists in capitalism are workers.

The idea that investors are the only "capitalists" and workers have no ability to leverage their assets (time, money, health, etc.) to get more return (work less or more luxury) is a little flimsy:

• Every person in any government/land/time (including workers in capitalism) has had scarce resources that they had to allocate in order to better their life. Scarce resources like health/time, calories, fair weather, the merchant is in town for only x days, etc.
• Haggling, inventing, and working with tools have existed in every society (including capitalist ones) for the last few millennia.

under capitalism the only way that a worker can have a decent standard of living is through selling their time to a capitalist enterprise

Hard disagree there. I see two assumptions there:

• decent standard of living
• the only way ... is through selling their time

Regarding a decent standard of living, 200 years ago the greatest of kings couldn't have imagined indoor plumbing. Food that keeps basically forever in a small package? Well it is probably jerky or poison or in a plastic wrapper. Food that keeps after you cook it? It must be in an ice box. We are living above the class of kings but we have tunnel vision due to a hedonic treadmill. Some people take up hobbies to remind themselves of just how luxurious daily life is: camping.

Regarding the only way, tunnel vision occurs when all known generations have followed the same path. For example, if your dad was a farmer, your grandpa was a farmer, and all of your friends are farmers, would you think of becoming a train engineer as you grew up? No? What about if the crops didn't do well when you are about to get married, would you start thinking about train engineering? Probably no as well. But if the crops do poorly and you move to the big city to try to find your fortune, you might stumble on a classified ad for train engineering.

• Right now, we have immense pressures for de-urbanization where we migrate back to the farms where there is no "enterprise", but as a society, we had a generation and a half with blue collar jobs, then a generation and a half with white collar jobs, and nobody remembers the brown collar jobs (also technology in agriculture is such that a farmer with tech is doing 1000 the work of farmers with only livestock, so perhaps we should start our own businesses where we are).
• Right now, to start your own business, there is a lot of risk. The chance of someone suing your pants and shirt off is percieved to be high. Years ago, you were an apprentice for a few years, you started your own business as a journeyman, then you were declared a master by your guild (if you were in the city) so you would be spending ~3/4 of your life as a business owner. I don't know of many business owners other than plumbers, contractors, local restaurants, and landlords (renting out basements). I have tunnel vision and when I try to break out and plan starting a business, people around me get anxiety worse than me.

only due to the nature of capitalism would labor saving technology be a threat

Labor saving technology is always a threat to the status quo especially so because it calls into question society's assumptions. The worker (numerous and easily isolated) feels the anxiety from threats to the status quo the most as there is the most uncertainty (isolation increases uncertainty). The investor who doesn't do his due diligence is soon parted from his money, so he is constantly doing market research, labor research, and assessing competition (or delegating this to CEOs, external auditors, and other decision making management).

So what are the assumptions in society regarding economics (management of scarce resources like time, money, food, energy, etc.)?

Capitalism (where all individuals are owners of scarce resources) incentivizes people with promises of future stability (pay to be specialized, then be paid in increased wages). Socialism/communism (where community/governments are owners of scarce resources incentivizes people with promises of "taking care of you".

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1. an individual can increase their capture of value via specialization,
2. an individual can invest scarce resources freely into growth/innovation due to the implied promise of future stability, etc.

then there will be unrest until people adjust to match the new normal of society's assumptions.

Every theory I have explored on this subject has used the assumption that "effort is adverse" therefore some kind of payment must be made in order to incentivize more than zero effort from someone. When workers expend effort, they look for ways to not have to expend as much. Workers with no incentive to work more efficiently will not do any inventing/innovation.

I think that one of the primary causes of rapid growth is the application of the scientific method to everything. We have statistics (probability), engineering, etc. all growing at lightning rates (compared to the millennia long agricultural revolution). One of the ways that worked to prevent power consolidation was death of those in power and a subsequent war of succession. We currently have LLCs that are owned over multi generations with boards of directors and CEOs that are increasingly proficient at power consolidation (governmental, monetary, environmental, health, etc.). My one final thought is from the bible: Isaiah 5:8

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.

The context as i understand it is Isaiah is speaking about people merging lands & businesses and wealth then producing almost nothing with it. I think that mega corporations are leaving no space left for an inheritance, and shortly they will produce nothing and fall.

When someone expresses a concern about the underlying culture of a community:

the milk propaganda community

You respond with a personal remark that was not kind

someone is insecure

I respond with a remark that calls into question the validity of milk propaganda being a requirement

get calcium from broccoli

Then you respond

you don't know how to take a joke".

As you are the creator of the community, this display shows how you will handle the culture of your community. I don't think I want to be a part of a passive aggressive milk propaganda community.

Or they would rather get calcium from broccoli and leave the cancers associated with mamary gland excretion food alone.

Not sure if this is inviting advice.

Here is my advice: weight is a function of net calories being positive or negative. Therefore some tricks to make it easier to no longer have to outrun your fork:

• try fasting 24 hours of all calories then cutting all salt, oil, and sugar ever after (the fasting is so you don't have cravings). There are a few recipe books out there that cater to vegetarian people with no SOS.
• try intermittent fasting. Not starting a day with food such that you don't eat until 18 hours since last meal can shrink your stomach on the daily.
• walking is a valid form of exercise. A 15 minute walk is enough for many people.

I think i understand your point. I think you are conflating the definition of "capitalism" and "specialization". I could go to the agrarian lifestyle right now and use a stick instead of a shovel to dig and give up other conveniences of specialization. Because an accountant specialized, they are gambling that the cost of specialization is better (income growth) than general skill, but for the duration that the specialization is better, they get better pay than an unskilled worker and have the money to buy imported tools (like shovels) or houses with indoor plumbing.

Counterpoint after exploring your full argument: Capitalism is an incentive system to take advantage of Human's desire to do less effort for more return. People start inventing in all sorts of ways when in a capitalist society such that specialization happens. People wait in bread lines and do society level "malicious compliance" when other systems like socialism or communism are in place. (except anarchy, but i have never seen an example of that working at scale of 1M people or more)

My argument is that the anxiety is misplaced if it’s directed toward technology

I agree with you there.

The anxiety should be directed at the institution of capitalism itself

I don't see the connection there. Perhaps Human Nature? Perhaps governmental structure? Perhaps social programs failing the groups i care about (including myself).

It doesn't take strong AI to have a significant negative effect on the common person. In the same way that "self checkout robots" removed 9 of 10 cashier's (one left to monitor the machines), chatgpt and other LLMs have the ability to remove much of the time composing executive summaries, and other time consuming activities. The average person will be let go from communication heavy companies and there will be a few very rich individuals capturing the increased productivity until the market adapts across 4 years (unless another tech breakthrough happens while the common person is retooling through university). The anxiety is not without cause. The cost of university is 1 year of gross wages.

Jerboa is a 3rd party Foss app.

Reddit had a few and lemmy has a few.

Currently you can use:

• Mozilla Firefox
• jerboa for lemmy
• liftoff?
• wefwef?
• other forks of the above?

There is no official app and probably won't be.

Well, if you intend to use the potion glitch, alchemy.

Otherwise, it depends on your build. A mage probably won't grow in heavy armor (smithing). Enchanting is pretty great all around. Also filling your own soul gems ( or completing azuras star black) would be good for your income.

I want users to be able to flag comments as "jokes" or "serious" on lemmy, so it is easy to sort by relevant comment thread. Especially inside jokes.

An ai that has been trained on all the videos of Putin takes over as he is "sacred of in person COVID transmission and nobody except his in group" has seen him in person for years. Everyone nods at zoom meeting calls as the real controller of this "yes man ai" is Luka (a CIA agent).

I think that this is a free app made by volunteers. I think the type of quality assurance that you are describing is from something called "unit testing". If you want to create some unit tests, and submit to the code base, I am sure it will be appreciated.

Well, I didn't want a meth lab requiring me to replace all the drywall. Having the seller get scared when their sweet tenant left marijuana residue everywhere was a side effect that allowed better negotiation. Shrug, I was just doing due diligence, and the seller (via the tenant) left a few things I didn't actually realize were problems until later: a section of uninsulated attic that was unclear without actually crawling in it (my inspector didn't do it), a 240 volt oven whose breaker melted and was only supplying 106 volts, and dog pee infested 2nd story subfloor needing carpet to be ripped up and the floor sealed with paint. Also within 1 year of purchase I had both the shower tub crack and leak into the walls which was both an insurance call and a "restoration company" call, and not 6 months later, a sewer pipe for a sink broke inside the wall. I then said let's sell this place. So shrug, negotiations only go as far as the info you know.