intensely_human @ intensely_human @lemm.ee

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Right, and he thinks that this could interfere with access to alternatives.

If you don’t understand how, I’m happy to explain.

You’re looking back in this very comment

What happened during covid was the forcible closing of thousands of small businesses. Corporations don’t cate about excuses they only care about opportunity. When their competition got forcibly closed by the government, their opportunity appeared.

We had major big box stores staying open while mom and pop shops were closed.

This wasn’t the market in action. This was the government forcibly closing these businesses by centralized decree.

The lockdowns actively killed competition. Competition is the natural check on greed in a free market. The market was enormously consolidated during the period when small stores had to either survive on their savings or perish, while large stores were allowed to remain open.

How can people wear hoodies without zippers? I just don’t get it

When you scroll back in chat history you don’t see the actual chat history.

I recently realized bosses have an existential fear of their employees being able to be productive without them. It makes their job unnecessary.

Ugh. They make this same mistake in Battlefield, where after a respawn your gun’s firing mode has persisted from before your last death.

I keep mine on full auto by default, then occasionally switch to single fire. Then I die and respawn, unaware my gun is still on single fire, and I die again because I try to open up on an enemy and it just goes “pop” and one round goes off and then I’m dead.

Bazdu

My dog lives on nothing but cigarette butts. I haven’t had to buy any dog food in months. He just gobbles them up along the paths in the park.

“You’re biodegradable kid, so don’t ask so many questions”

Much like all other creative endeavors

When a reader reads someone else’s work that’s called “reading”. But when an AI does it, it’s called “training”.

This new system with the app is a hydra

When you die you simply wake up in the nearest universe where you didn’t die.

Death is an objective event. It never happens subjectively.

In everyone else’s experience, you die. Your body becomes a corpse and you are no longer there.

In your own experience, you don’t die. The gun doesn’t fire. The car crash never happens. You somehow walk away from the train derailment. Your cancer clears up.

Death exists for other people, never for the self.

Eventually, you become the only living human. You are eternal.

After millions of years, you accumulate enough power to create new people. You do this so you don’t have to be alone. You are now God.

Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.

Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.

Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein

Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.

what?

Slam the door on slamming

I read that in Trump’s voice lol