“Prediction markets” require insider trading in order to function. This isn’t a quirk or loophole, it’s by design.

https://youtu.be/A654vzQTGbQ

None of that shit has anything to do with running a country. That’s why you shouldn’t have been backing it.

https://youtu.be/lMy5YpJysy4

Better Off Ted called it

When developing code for first release, we had a dedicated HIP Sprint (Hardening, Innovation, Planning) and we had the most productive team in the company. Other teams were struggling cause they were just using the HIP as another Sprint. So what did we do? Got rid of the HIP, naturally. You see, some teams weren’t using it and it’s unfair to those teams that we’re not doing work when they are. Now everyone’s suffering!

Also had legitimate agile practices (budgets are for HR, work on what you need to work on and let someone else worry about paying for it) and we were the most productive team in the company. So, naturally, they need to get a bunch of C-suite guys to come over and run things cause it would be really embarrassing for them if they weren’t involved in the new hotness. Naturally, though, we gotta go back to funding buckets, cause those c-suite guys don’t understand why they got to talk to the developers when they want something fixed instead of handing things down from on high. Oh no! Suddenly all these issues are popping up in the workflow, guess we gotta force in ai to fix the problems.

Explain?

Yeah, unfortunately the marketing people have made the LLM synonymous to AI. It’s a damn shame.

It’s not the internet, per se. It’s the corpo owned hell pits of engagement time, data-mining, targeted advertising, and metrics that’s to blame. Forums were pretty cool. Had some bad experiences there, but nowhere near as bad as today.

Guys! Relax, it’s fine. We still have a VM for the Linux experience. It’s basically the same thing!

Attention economy, man. Being recognizable is an asset, this furthers recognizability for that piece of shit.

There is an Isekai where the protagonist is obsessed with mecha and he wakes up in a world where mecha suits are the dominant magic tool. He outright kills his rival at one point… but only because the dude was designing airships instead of mechas, and the protagonist knows how precarious the mecha domination is (cause humanoid robots are such a massive pain to work with/ use rather than specialized machines)

Holy ai map, batman. What the shit is that?

I’m on year 5 of mine. Literally no issues

It doesn’t even generate wealth, either. It just denies money to labor and that’s it.

This isn’t someone guessing, man. He’s citing research on the topic.

Essentially, these clouds are 50% opacity to visible light, but nearly 100% in infrared. So they block some incoming light, but reflect almost all infrared from the surface. It’s a net warming effect at these altitudes.

Yes, but the phenomenon occurs at specific altitudes, so you just fly slightly higher or lower.

No, you can fly to avoid the creation of contrails. Ironically, would actually be a boon for the environment, since contrail clouds are massive greenhouse generators https://youtube.com/shorts/qBPwloCdRKw

Dude, I told you I don’t understand how what you’ve written is different from what I’ve said, so maybe start there? I can see the literal words you wrote, thanks. I’m trying to get to the meaning you’re attempting to convey, dude.

Like are you saying “people shouldn’t have given their data to these companies”, then my entire argument until now applies. It’s not really an opt-out situation, unless you refuse to play ball with these companies.

Are you saying “companies shouldn’t have this data”? Like, fair, but I’m not certain how what you’re saying conveys this point.

What are attempting to say because I clearly don’t understand it with those words in that order. Give more context to what you mean, please. I genuinely want to understand but I can’t parse what you’re trying to say beyond what I parroted back at you. And it’s not some failure on your part, I am a certifiable idiot sometimes when it comes to this shit.

Which is why I don’t give anyone my phone number.

Happy for you, chief. I’m sure that makes it real useful to have, then, since no one knows it to call you.

Once again, that never happened, you just made it up, and I don’t appreciate it.

Cool, how am I supposed to read this, then?

I mean it’s a legit concern but, maybe don’t give them your data in the first place?

Does that not read “if they have your data, you’re the one who gave it to them”? Explain it to me, because I’m clearly not understanding

Taxes in the US are overwhelmingly used for the military and to enrich rich fucks, not to help the poor. Don’t be disingenuous. Rich fucks sitting on assets aren’t “not hurting anyone”. Their assets have real world value, that’s why they’re valued like that. By letting someone sit on them to “allow them to appreciate” is letting someone doing nothing accumulate the wealth gains of society that we all work for. Because those assets appreciate faster than inflation, they create inflation pressure as more asseted people have income to burn that doesn’t reflect actual economic movement. Decreasing the value of money that other people need to use to buy things to live.

No one lives in a vacuum and letting people hoard assets has a negative impact on everyone else. So yes, wealth redistribution is a net positive not because “it punishes rich people” but because it allows our money to better reflect who actually produces the value in society. The workers who do the labor of running everything, rather than rich fucks who normally reap all the monetary benefit of that with almost no actual contribution to the effort it required.

If everyone became a laborer with proper compensation, society would thrive. If everyone became an asset hoarder, society would break apart as there would be no one to operate the machinery of society. Increased wealth inequality pushes us towards the second scenario(asset ownership is rewarded over value producing behaviors, pushing individuals towards more asset accumulation in order to not be left behind, increasing the price of those assets, devaluing other ways of earning money, creating more pressure to own assets), reducing wealth inequality pushes us towards the first.