Isn’t that a premium model then?

What you are describing sounds an awful lot like collapse to me. Your slavery South comparison is missing that a lot of what they produced was exported to places where at least officially slavery was banned. So that model is propped up in one location by areas with purchasing power from the general public elsewhere. The thought experiment was what if everywhere was the slavery South, in which case the economy will no longer be sustainable.

Apps that run entirely on ads will probably not make enough money so premium or freemium is where they go. If they have no ads in their app, they probably also have no money to buy ads on YouTube.

It’s not in the billionaire’s interest for us plebs to have no money at all. A lot of their interests are funded by us. Paying for power, food, iPhones, clothes, cars, holidays etc. So if they have it all and we have none, the economy will collapse, people will barter with vape juice and booze, and the billionaires will realize they cannot eat money.

When the economy collapses the question of who will pay taxes is a secondary problem. The primary one will be to rebuild the state and a new currency and then they’ll look at the tax code.

Any place with low taxes, low or rich people favorable oversight over the financial sector, or chance to park money anonymously is a place rich people gravitate to.

Der mit dem Schlumpf tanzt.

I’m also getting my tax advice from Gonzo on LinkedIn.

What a sad state of journalism. Celebrity posted something on social. Opinions are divided. Commenters said this. Others said that. Thanks for looking at our ads.

She may be right, I dunno. I’m criticizing the publication and quality of the story, not the actor and alleged AI influencer.

Would that mean I’ll be getting more in dollars due to that having high value?

You posted the answer yourself.

Every central bank designs its own bills. The US chose to be boring, bland, and hostile to people with visual impairments. The reason why they won’t change that in a hurry is because it would necessitate an expensive switch in vending machines to handle different size bills. They could change the color but greenback is their brand. European currencies have pretty much always had bills of different sizes.

The exchange rate of currencies depend on many things. Prices depend on many things. Comparing Swiss ones with American ones is almost pointless. Switzerland has high VAT rates (high taxes in general) and thus salary levels will be higher as well. Swiss tourist will go nuts spending stateside because everything will just be cheap to them. Because they won’t finance social security, universal health care, or a bunker place for every citizen in case of thermonuclear war in the US. But they do in Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraye

You might want to look into what’s called promession. It’s a way to turn you into fertilizer.

Your question is hard to answer. Because when it comes to how corpses are dealt with, the rules aren’t federal in the US. So you need to look at the states. And the rules for burials, release of the ashes, etc. are possibly set at county level. Likewise in Europe, the rules differ by countries and even within those by whatever subdivisioning applies. I looked it up for Germany, which has some federal rules about how to handle a corpse. But then 16 state laws on what is allowed in terms of final resting places. So far as I can see a Viking burial will not be allowed in places where cremation must happen at a specific temperature, the ashes may not be spread outside cemeteries, or other environmental laws forbid it. So that’s basically nowhere then. Being shot out of a cannon will probably fail at an environmental hurdle or the fact that civilians can’t own active military equipment.

Fans. Keep a paper/manual one on you are all times, as backup if you have a battery powered one. On those do your research to find one with a good battery.

If you’re running your A/C you can set it at a higher temperature if you run a ceiling fan or upright fan at the same time.

Don’t wear black or dark colors.

Cooling packs in the freezer, wrap a towel around it, put it on your head, hold it on your hands.

Just a wet cloth around your neck is great when you’re out and about.

Thank you. I already had sexual intercourse today. But I appreciate your concern. I’ll take your thoughts on the matter to my eLderS oF tHE fEDivErSE meeting and see what I can do for you. But temper your expectations; we were so happy to have picked you as a random victim to torment in our effort to stifle free speech, I don’t think much will change. In the meantime, give a thought to the adage that if you think you’re only surrounded by a-holes, you might be the a-hole.

A new account? Bitching about being banned? This must be credible.

@bradboimler@lemmy.world has posted a link in this thread that would be the next thing I’d try to investigate.

You can turn off read receipts in settings > privacy. So I think if the person you sent the message to has turned this off you won’t get the two ticks in a circle. Could it be that?

I think this is a common language divided by an ocean thing.

I grew up with # being pound as well. The use of the pound symbol to highlight shit came from coding. Hash is another word for the pound symbol. It tags stuff. Ergo hashtag. Born in the glory years of Twitter.

See you next Monday at the planet naming mocking society.

I’ve been using Signal for about 5 years, WhatsApp for longer, LINE for shorter. The only one that seems to get background process killed occasionally is the latter. I’m on a Xiaomi phone and their version of Android wants to kill everything, except their own apps. Signal stays up.

Nobody has ever complained about not getting Signal texts to me.

Have you actually seen evidence of missing messages? There could be human error involved or you caught ghosters red handed.

All the so-called AI companies are [expletive redacted] that often obtained their training data in questionable ways. And they should be sued and made to pay.

What is missing in my opinion from a lot of artists, who now hold one fist in the air and a pitchfork in the other marching on Silicon Valley, is an acknowledgement of risk that they took when they put their artwork themselves on the internet. The risk used to be other people could take, copy, duplicate it but this was balanced by being able to monetize it. That nothing that ends up online is ever safe was known two decades ago. If your stuff was stolen from galleries and coffee table books, I’m not talking about you. If you made your stuff available so search engines and social media sites could bring you costumers, you’re it.

Also, why are companies able to obtain training data in “creative” ways? Because you and me and all of us like cutting corners and getting shit for free. So we steal, copy, duplicate, torrent stuff. Sure, point your finger at Facebook for torrenting together their model. Also point your finger at the people who provided the training data this way. Many people will end up pointing their fingers at themselves here.

I think the author invokes the Luddites and doesn’t realize that we might just see history repeating. The Luddites were skilled artisans fighting against slave labor automization. They lost. Many were displaced by industrial progress, a smaller number remained. Fast forward to today and visual artists like the author fight the evil automated LLMs. They will also lose; a small number will prevail.

Every technical advancement has brought these upheavals and we are in one right now. There are far fewer landscape and portrait painters around today because they had to go Picasso or impressionist when photography rolled around. There are far fewer negative developer jobs these days as entry level jobs in photography because use of film has fallen off a cliff. We also have fewer manual typesetters and no cavalry to speak of. Shit changes. Shit is changing now.

Art will prevail. Human made one will be sought after. But there market will not be the same. The only thing we can do now is trying to catch all those people and jobs this technological leap will shuffle loose. Like we tried our best with coal miners or factory jobs that went to China.