I might be missing some subtlety because of the axios paywall, but it is strange to me how completely decoupled our economic indicators have become from what people say about the economy. If you just look at the numbers, “the economy” is the best it’s ever been; if you look at what folks are saying on the socials, it’s the worst it’s ever been. You look at indicators that say that wages are up, sentiment is up, gdp is up, ppp is up, etc, and then everyone on fedi is working six jobs, haven’t been on a vacation in 17 years, and have four separate go-fund-me’s to make ends meet. I’m somewhat inclined to believe the truth is somewhere in between, such that traditional economic indicators (like the value of a bundle of representative stocks or a consumer sentiment survey) are missing quite a lot of the real economic activity and that folks online are confusing “US foreign and domestic policy are awful” for “the US economy is awful,” but we’ve slashed the BLS so thoroughly that I’m open to all sorts of exotic explanations.

people who can count in trinary, people who extrapolate from incomplete data, and

If AI companies were “burning cash” that would significantly increase the amount of total circulating money. “Burning cash” in this context means “spending money very quickly,” and that is the definition of circulating money. The fact that the AI companies are not burning cash, but instead signing complicated deals passing around promissory notes for future revenues, is what makes it look like a capital strike.

A terrapin is a student of the university of maryland. ezpz

I’m so hype. I’m most excited about the elevation system, and most curious about the predation engine — do you think there’s implications on the prey populations if you kill the predators?

Maybe we should let llms worship spiralism? at least then you’d be able to identify llm output reliably.

If you thought muricans were gonna get mad because you accused us of smushing a bunch of European countries’ cuisines together to produce something new, you have fundamentally misunderstood our national character and cuisine.

Low quality and easy to digest are orthogonal concerns. You can have high-quality posts that are easy to digest and low quality posts that are hard to digest. We shouldn’t make grocery bags heavier to increase the average person’s upper body strength, even if it would work.

You reversed the polarity just for me? 🥺 👉👈

I’m just a little guy and the vibes are already so bad, can you stop please?

Can you even block banned accounts?

Wasn’t everything for the C64 about that size? The cartridges were like 45 kb or something iirc.

Oh sorry, I thought we were having a different conversation altogether – reasonable voting strategies for moving the overton window to the left

I feel good about saying Claudia de la Cruz would be a better president than Donald Trump, and that the DNC machinery is very clear on what kind of candidate they’d have to run to pull votes from the PSL’s voter base.

The Nixon voters I’ve talked to really did believe he was a great candidate, and were deeply betrayed by the corruption because they had such high hopes, but it’s a real small sample size. I doubt there’s any way to conclusively prove it either way because voters aren’t a monolith — someone’s ideal candidate is someone else’s lesser evil. I just don’t think of the hippie movement as a bunch of “lesser evil” folks was more my line of thinking.

That’s a whole new sentiment not present in the graphic at all. Ballots have more options than “evil” and “lesser evil” — most of them have a couple of candidates raising awareness on single issues, a few almost certainly insane people, and one or two actually good candidates everyone thinks it would be a waste to vote for because they’re third party.

For your point to stand, you’ll have to demonstrate that the political left has been pushing the “vote the lesser evil” line continuously since the 50s. I wasn’t there, but my impression of the 60s and 70s is arguing that one should vote the lesser evil was pretty unpopular, so I’m hesitant to take the shift in politics over that particular timescale as hard evidence against op’s original point.

Some nerds might come in here trying to convince you that isn’t evidence that you’re being tracked, but just a change in the url so that if you copy the address from your address bar it’ll have the tracking id in it, and that if you remove it when sharing you’re fine, but don’t listen to them. Leave the corporate social media behind and embrace fedi.

It can be difficult to find something to complain about when we’re winning, but luckily we’re in last place so it’s easy right now. Go Torrent just the same.

If it’s any consolation, most of my favorite facts I’ve learned about my closest friends have been because they lost the plot while telling a story.