you’re gonna make a lot of people very upset with your attitude. you’re supposed to be against LLMs because (checks notes) idk something about electricity consumption (which is not actually that big) and water consumption (which is not actually that big). and of course making artists unemployed (which btw they largely already were, and you can still donate to them via patreon, just as you could before, just that now there’s more competition in the field, which is somehow bad, because for some reason art is only good if some human suffered through the process of making it. suffering builds character or sth after all, amiright? /s)

yeah ok that would make meat more expensive (which some people would argue is actually a good thing) but not plant-based food. (since plant-based food is less limited). which is an interesting observation …

yeah the housing crisis is something else. however i suspect that there are bigger factors at play here than just a limited supply … theoretically, the housing supply could be arbitrarily big. the land area is not the bottleneck here (around 1% of the settleable land area of the world are used for housing, 97% is used for farming) and neither are the materials available … it’s more about market expectation (declining birthrate) making new housing construction seem short-sighted and not worth it in the long run. but this is a bit of a different issue and does not directly have to do with the buying power of the people, i think.

I say outrageous things without being aware I do, or I know it is risky, but dismiss the unease.

What, for example, did you say? I’d like to know. because apparently i say some stuff too that other people don’t like. but i think that says more about other people (they are idiots) than about me.

thank you

i know what this is referring to!

Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers Lyrics i love that song 😍😍

that’s so me. i love talking to weird people.

i wouldn’t say “all” but some. i’ve gotten the compose key and some edits to my xkbmap working with it.

Just seeing all those thumbnails with the shocked face and stupid arrows makes me want to scratch my their eyes out.

Where are the random forums, personal blogs and the virtual world that used to exist.

they’re right here actually

the scythe was peak technology, actually

Even the simple process of returning a product to a store is now a lot more frustrating than it used to be, because the person running customer service absolutely refuses to interact with the customer.

i kinda assume that businesses give out the guideline to hesitate when taking back objects, as they lose money that way (lower net revenue).

oh interesting, this is the first time that i see this. but it kinda makes sense, thanks.

i think that it should be able to be sold, but not as food, i.e. only if it has special warnings on it that it’s not safe for human consumption.

feels like everything else should just be sprayed over with graffiti paint or sth

We already have vast plots of land being taken up by parking lots and buildings. There is a hospital in my area that put solar panels over the parking lot. It is really nice. Your car interior stays cooler. Many buildings have their AC cooling fans on the roof. Solar panels would also shade those and help make them more efficient. All of these areas already have a hookup to the grid. Substation may need to be modified but it isn’t as dramatic as you make it sound.

yeah but check the economics. climbing on roofs to install 3 m² of solar panels is just not worth it. the total cost of the system is not just the cost of solar panels + land area, but rather solar panels + land area + installation workers cost. and installation work costs significantly more on a roof than on a flat plain area, which is why the plain land is cheaper overall.

uhh i think these solar panels will be pretty distinct so they’re basically a way to give the police a clear proof that you did it.

solar panels have been used on communication infrastructure since 1960. for example telegraph wires and their respective later versions (copper cable, fiber optics cable, etc) because these cables often run through the middle of nowhere and need a small amount of continuous power to operate. so solar + batteries is the least-maintenace, highest-availability, cheapest option. nobody wants to travel 1000km into the woods to replenish a diesel generator.

–> electronics have been using solar panels since forever. this is nothing new.

as universal basic income doesn’t set universal basic buying power

i disagree. food prices would not go up. prices are set by supply and demand. demand would not change. imagine a society with 1 million people. all of them need to eat, whether they earn their money through wages or get it through UBI. the demand for food does not change. i don’t see a reason why supply would change either. so prices stay the same.

do you have any rational argument against this?

i’m just gonna say it: your assumption that everybody should work is harmful. there’s lots of people who can’t work for medical reasons, but can’t get a doctor’s note either. for example, psychological syndromes are notoriously hard to diagnose.

you’d just create another point of social friction with your attitude.

that’s not really how people are, though. if people are happy, they generally see little reason to change something about their situation. everything else is delusional