just_change_it @ just_change_it @lemmy.world

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Right... if one person owns a quadrillion dollars but doesn't spend it there is no inflation. They'd just spend a billion here... a billion there... buying up all those midsized businesses or swathes of land.

I honestly think their objective is to keep the state as deep red as possible. They want an owner caste and a worker caste and if you aren't one of the owners you're a dumb uneducated worker whom if you get sick you die so that you make room for more workers. Act out? die (executed) and make room for more workers.

0 sex ed, gotta get those dumb babies to do the dumb jobs nobody wants to do, then brainwash them with propaganda to vote red to screw those libs and "stupid" educators and educated.

We'll all be long dead by the time interstellar travel is here for a handful of individuals, and we may even be dead before we find another planet that could be habitable in a million years time.

You're realistically targeting ultra-long-term solutions, all of which ignore the fact that we're trashing this one pristine planet right now by filling it with billions and billions of souls more than it can sustainably support.

That won't stop population growth. Remember... the stress of work is gone. Now we all can have big happy families if we want without ANY pressure to ever juggle all those stressful conflicting priorities that take up familial resources. Voluntary contraception would not keep population stable or provide a sustainable ecosystem. I personally would have at least six kids. My wife would want more than that. You are free to be childless if you so choose of course, but statistically proven biological imperative drives us to procreate as-is, it's literally human nature.

The biggest problem will quite literally be real estate. Unless you can picture a fully urbanized earth where everyone lives in tiny little cubby holes and not much else as being some kind of utopia. Even then the land on earth is finite.

Any hard science fiction clings to the fact that taking people off the earth is a luxury only afforded to the most influential and powerful, unless you have critical skills to do a job that they can't find with space residents.

Imagine what would be needed to ferry a million people off the earth in one year. Then imagine that there are 20-50 billion souls eager to have that luxury off-planet destination life. The math never adds up.

You'll hear a lot of people talk about baratza models. They are great at grinding and are fairly low cost.

You will have significant issues with static electricity and every time you use it you will make an enormous mess. I have had limited success with water spraying which is generally considered to minimize the impact. You'll be sweeping the floor, using a wet cloth on your countertop, washing out the bin, and using a brush and cloth to clean out the machine. I have found the only way to clean out the chute where grinds exit is to use percussive maintenance, otherwise you have grinds just hanging out in the guts of the machine which are statically charged, just waiting for you to pick it up for next use.

After a while I decided I didn't think a $150++ grinder that needed so much attention and care for regular use was worth it and instead order my beans pre-ground every 1.5-2 weeks from a local roaster at a minimal price premium. I figure let them deal with the mess while I get fresh coffee far more often. My prep time and cleanup is next to nothing thanks to this.

It's all about convenience vs "perceived quality". I don't perceive the quality of freshly ground beans every day to be worth it vs avoiding all that mess, wasted table space and stuck with just one blend for weeks and weeks or very stale beans.

If you absolutely love the hour morning ritual of prepping and cleaning your coffee implements then i'm sure it's quite therapeutic. I just have other priorities.

ah no stress, no costs... perfect to increase the population and put more strain on the system.

I'll wait for you to solve the overpopulation crisis while giving us all a first-class work free experience.

There’s no number that is “enough”.

A quadrillion dollars per minute ought to be enough for anybody.

SEO, the methodology of ruining Google's algorithm and enshittifying everything for marketing gains.

Does this mean Biden is positioning to enter the Ukraine war? Would probably help his numbers in the upcoming election against Trump.

He doesn't need to own 25% of tesla's shares to be given 25% of voting power. It's very common for different classes of shares for a company to exist that have entirely different voting rights.

The young hate the old for having more than them.

The old hate the young for having more time left.

Probably this.

Laws are to protect the haves from the have-nots.

Seeing Vermont on the list and their rationale of it being very difficult to meet the legislative requirements to fulfill this makes me question criticism of not signing up.

I do see some of the rationales being bullshit for many states but it doesn't seem trivial to take advantage of this aid money from an organizational perspective.

you don't understand, after they gut the irs funding they'll replace all the management positions with politically chosen replacements, then force investigations to solely target their political rivals. No resources left to investigate their buddies.

That's the strategy now. All competitors are 'crooks'.

Hard work always pays off.

I'm completely for shutting down the affordable connectivity program

The ISPs should have to provide the service at a minimal rate to same said families and also offer 100/100 minimum service to anyone in the regions they operate. It shouldn't be subsidized by the government, it should literally be the cost of doing business for the business. Write up a bill, make it law, giant fines for not keeping a certain level of 9s in terms of availability and capacity.

Fuck government subsidies to big companies with huge profit margins. I work in IT, I know how the technology works. I know what it costs. I know that they do not need to charge anywhere near as much as they charge and they'd still make a killing, even with all the boots on the ground collecting paychecks.

I think it's pretty amazing when people just run with the dogma that empowers billionaires.

Every creator hopes they'll be the next taylor swift and that they'll retain control of their art for those life + 70 years and make enough to create their own little dynasty.

The reality is that long duration copyright is almost exclusively a tool of the already wealthy, not a tool for the not-yet-wealthy. As technology improves it will be easier and easier for wealth to control the system and deny the little guy's copyright on grounds that you used something from their vast portfolio of copyright/patent/trademark/ipmonopolyrulelegalbullshit. Already civil legal disputes are largely a function of who has the most money.

I don't have the solution that helps artists earn a living, but it doesn't seem like copyright is doing them many favors as-is unless they are retired rockstars who have already earned in excess of the typical middle class lifetime earnings by the time they hit 35, or way earlier.

I think law enforcement should mostly be based on a triage system. Biggest problems get the most resources. Minor problems get the backlog.

There are so many problems in prisons that actually need investigation that a single case of post-mortem organ harvesting is truly minor. This isn't a pattern of behavior, this is one single case. Prove me wrong.