slackassassin @ slackassassin @sh.itjust.works

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I understand and know about this stuff. But thanks for youtube vids. Gruyère has been making cheese continuously since the 12th century and is now available worldwide. That happened without this.

Not sure those numbers back some prohibition ice cream conspiracy to make everyonelove cheese. But industry certainly met demand throughout industrialization. It's sold to us like everything else, and maybe we shouldn't buy so much of it, but all it really had to do was be awesome.

Cool story, but the EU eats more cheese per capita than the us. Every country in Europe just did the same thing the us did, know that cheese is delicious. No narrative required.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/527195/consumption-of-cheese-per-capita-worldwide-country/

Ya. Everyone out here taking Satan's maggoty cum fart seriously on some "Colbert was for real you guys" tip is almost wholesome.

Ya, everyone has their "until" moments.

They're my favorite troll. Big fan.

Love Carlin. Hate this quote.

1. "Half of them are smarter than that" is just as true but doesn't have the same zing.
2. The zing is that the regurgitation makes everyone feel as though they are on the right side of the distribution and thus superior.

Truth is, we are all closer to chimps than Einstein. And Einstein still left some lingering questions for us to solve.

That's the distribution. Not "Everyone is stupid except me and you, dear reader."

So you don't have an answer, that's fine, figured as much. Hand waiving, indeed.

Irrational actors are unpredictable in compounding ways. The concept is a meta analysis of the individual and the masses. Biases, irrational fear, herd dynamics, etc. These can lead to unpredictable outcomes.

But markets can still function, sometimes, because of other factors. Leverage, venture investment, loss management, mergers and acquisition, etc. And learning from witnessing a counterintuitive market dynamic.

In this, most basic example, there are no compounding factors in either case. There are no buyers. So, their irrationally is not a factor. And there is only production of a supply that has no demand.

Someone producing a degradable product that has no buyers is not what is meant when discussing irrational actors.

It's not referring to some crazy person who will just operate at a loss forever. And even if it was, they couldn't even do it forever if they wanted to.

Dodging the question, plugging your ears, and saying, "I heard a term one time that says they could be crazy and would just keep doing it forever for no reason. Prove me wrong." Is not the gotcha argument you think it is.

Basic markets are not capitalism.

That's not relevant. This issue is more basic than that. It's the most basic.

Out of morbid curiosity. Hypotheticaly, why or how do you think a producer would continue to operate at full scale with no buyers?

You still don't understand basic markets, huh. That's unfortunate.

Waste of internet bandwidth. I don't like hearing about narcissists flopping their prangus around in their chairs.

It reads like a cutesy comment on the internet. Reading into it that way feels more unhealthy than the witty repartee presented, tbh.

And most of history is worse than any of that. Other than climate change, we are not living in unprecedented times.

I don't think bro was actually gonna be sleeping outside, gnome saying.

I don't get it. Why is it just the same image over and over again?

Best take, honestly. It's tribalism. People love to generalize and lean on prejudice to feel superior to a broad swath of people based on things largely out of their control. Which is exactly why the same approach also happens to work as propaganda.

Ya. It's more like "current go this way or current go that way" than it is high/low voltages.

You live in society. Hang your head in shame.

Yes, it is. It's absolutely is, and no one should be ashamed of it. That's counterproductive self-defeating nonsense.

Jfc, finally some sanity in this thread. Thank you. You'd think a bunch of supposed computer nerds would have done a fucking experiment before going off on some anecdotal bullshit.