morgan423

Remember that scene in The Shawshank Redemption where it establishes that the corrupt warden was ruining local businesses because he had no labor overhead costs when deploying prisoners all over town to do project work? And then the local businesses started bribing him to stay away from their livelihoods so that they wouldn’t go bankrupt?

Same as modern times: except, it’s 10,000 times larger in scale now, and the smaller businesses can no longer afford the bribes. But that’s okay, because the government stepped in to pay instead.

I’m still trying to figure out how every CEO wants to replace nearly the entire workforce with AI, but somehow still thinks that anyone in society will be able to buy their products after they do that. Make it make sense.

Amazon has been such a terrible employer for so long that they’re almost forced to do this, any other concerns aside.

They’ve burned and churned such a large percentage of the American population that would ever potentially work for them, that they are legitimately going to run out of people to hire. Automation is going to be their only possible way of getting their grunt work done.

Less people watching on desktop can also track with less people actually owning desktops or using them to watch YouTube

Not what’s happening. The change can be pinpointed to an exact specific date for everyone. It’s just statistically impossible to explain that away as “fewer people are watching”

It’s not related. A bunch of different content creators across a bajillion different genres have publicly shared that it’s one specific type of view (desktop views) affected in their analytics (no other view type shows any statistical difference), and it’s acting the same way for everyone.

It’s just not that total views are down… it’s evidence that YouTube has changed the way they are counting the views of PC viewers. Why, or exactly how, no one is sure of yet (pretty sure YouTube has been silent on it and the reasons that it is happening are all speculation).

Jury nullification says hello.

Yep, it’s this one dude who’s inspiring the besieged middle class into increasing action over time, and it’s totally not the entire systemically rotten core of big corporate America.

You absolutely nailed it NBC, spot on.

“Remember to believe in magic… or I’ll kill you.”

If you want a similar relative tuning, you can go with DGBE and use the highest strings of a six string guitar set.

This is also baritone ukulele tuning; you don’t get the same exact chords, as this is a fifth above the standard tuning of the other ukuleles. But you do get the same chord shapes.

If you’re trying to get to GCEA, I’m not sure how you get there, as I haven’t tried to play in it on my tenor guitars. Maybe someone has made custom strings? The closest tuning I use is ADGC with the middle four strings of a six string set, and you’d have to go pretty floppy on the strings from there to get to GCEA, it probably won’t sound great.

Unless the money they are spending is on secret unbreachable fortified bunkers or on technology that lets them live in space or on another planet, I don’t think it’s going to be enough for them.

When the overwhelming majority of the population decides that they’ve had enough of you and you’re done… well, you’re done.

I do a job in which I produce countable digital product for my employer. I keep records of everything I complete (it only takes a couple of seconds per item).

I went back and looked at my logs for the last six months (to shake out any “on this day I was working on Xs, on that day I was working on more time-consuming Ys” biases) and wouldn’t you know it…

The three days a week I’m at home working alone and not getting interrupted every five minutes by a coworker, I’m almost 20% more productive on average than the two office days where that’s not the case. I know, I was as shocked as you are.

And guess whose employer just announced a third office day per week upcoming? It’s almost like they’re saying, “Oh boy, I can’t WAIT to get less worker productivity! But at least they’ll be collaborating!”

Oblivion isn’t as scary as one thinks it is. Science actually believes in a reincarnation of sorts, and oblivion would help us easily pass the time in between lifetimes.

Basically, with no ability to experience stimuli or the passage of time, and no way to have any thoughts or experiences whatsoever… the quintillions of years until the end of the universe, and potentially through universes beyond where you don’t exist, would pass in what would feel like the blink of an eye to you.

It’s thought that after an absolutely ridiculous amount of time, we’ll have a Poincaré recurrence of the entire current universe, history and all, and you’ll end up being conceived to live your life again. The good news is that once you have died, oblivion would make it so that you don’t really have to experience that in-between period at all.

Well if you’re going to get eaten by a giant spider, I guess that’s the best way for it to happen.

When I hit the mid-40s, I realized I was running into at least five things a day that turned me into the “man ages 50 years in five seconds” meme from the end of Saving Private Ryan.

Ah, yes, writer of the movie that has a plot hole for its entire premise.

The premise being: dude who is intelligent enough to transform a Cessna into a time machine (something likely requiring mastery of every aspect of physics and a 200 IQ) is not also smart enough to fly briefly into the future for next week’s Powerball numbers, and instead makes a deal with Evil Inc. when he needs more funding.

Plenty of issues overall, sure, but I’m speaking specifically about the statistical inability to vote for third parties and have it mean anything.

First past the post voting is the sole issue that is keeping legitimately contending third parties off of our ballots.

Installing ranked choice voting (or one of its very close cousins) is the the number one reformation change that can be made to give the people their voices back. So of course, the powers that be are terrified of it… no surprises here.

Didn’t Futurama answer this question 20 years ago?

Right? You know you’re pretty morally horrendous if during a you vs. UHC matchup, we’re all cheering for UHC.

I don’t see much talk of Lemmy on Reddit, but I’m primarily only on Reddit for a small handful of niche subreddits where no one talks about these things anyway.