IMO she lost because her entire platform was:

• i’m a woman
• i’m non-white
• support trans rights

none of that tackles the cost-of-living crisis, none of that gives people an economic future.

ah yes the fresh taste of that (checks notes) vinyl sticker air

reminds me of this meme:

cut and dry

four people disagreeing because they think if people’s place in society is not tied to their productivity, then all the lazy foreigners are gonna come in and take our spot. only our heroic (self-sacrificing) eternal push to increase our bosses’ pockets are enough of an excuse to consume oxygen and continue to eat (massive /s)

Mine even sold their nice old house to have a new smaller one

that’s exactly what my mother would do.

she has this mindset that we need constantly changing products. she says it’s like with clothing, if you always wear the same cloth, people will get tired of it and you need to buy new clothes all the time. she also says that spending a lot of money stimulates the economy. (she’s actually right about this, only that it’s her - no, our money that she’s spending and the rich peoples economy where it’s going to).

i hate these kind of people. in my experience, these are people who are unable to not buy unnecessary stuff and just be content with how things are today.

I think a better way might be that browsers can auto-decline all cookies.

Why would the user have to click on each cookie banner separately?

I’d say that reality exists because people have a desire to perceive the world around them. I.e. if people didn’t care, never opened their eyes, reality wouldn’t exist to them. Sometimes they would randomly get hit by a bus, but they would ignore that.

Reality only exists because people have a conscious mind that makes them perceive reality. As such, that necessitates that reality is guided by some principles, because even if reality had no principles, that in itself would be a principle. So, the exact way that electromagnetism works is only a detail, but that there are forces to begin with is solely dependent on your conscious choice to even look at the world around you.

Veritasium has a nice video about how magnetism is caused by special relativity and electric force

more like: every goddamn day the newspapers only report about the bad things that happen, because good things make no money.

well yeah in my personal environment, the people i talk to IRL, lots of people complain about the supposedly overly-strict GDPR rules and about the fact that it makes management quite a bit more challenging, because they have to be careful about what information to put/share where. Like, even if you make a public google sheets document as a calendar for a small company/school where a group of people can enter their email addresses, that’s already a GDPR violation, because personal data becomes accessible by other people. As a result, you theoretically would need very elaborate custom-forms, where only you can enter information but nobody else can see it. It’s a hell of a lot of work, IMHO. So yeah, people have semi-meaningfully complained about it.

oh yeah i’ve heard about it.

basically, people got pissed with cookie banners so much that they complained to the EU government about it.

the EU government said “well, if people don’t like the choice to allow or deny cookies, i guess we’ll un-do these regulations”.

I think this is a very good example how people are always complaining, no matter what the government does.

If the government makes a law, a group of people complain. If the government later removes that same law that people kept whining about, another group of people complains. What to do?

Btw, another nice example is worldwide free trade. When it was introduced starting in the 1970s, people were very loud about the fact that they didn’t like it because they feared competition from foreign markets, companies moving abroad (offshoring), and jobs at home being lost. That is largely exactly what happened (though free trade also had many positive sides like exchange of technology and culture). 50 years later, world governments (especially in the west) want to un-do free trade, and people complain again about it, citing a loss of free exchange of ideas as a reason. What to do.

the paradoxy of tariffs:

they’re at the same time high enough that the people suffer paying them,

but at the same time, if people got the money back they paid previously, suddenly everybody complains it’s so minisculely little that it doesn’t help anyone and nobody can buy anything with it.

It’s actually a bit more assuming wealthy people spend more on consumption than poorer people, and therefore also pay more import tariffs. If the tax credit is distributed to everyone equally, then poorer people get more than they spent.

Problem is, i really really doubt Trump is ever gonna help the people at all. He’s probably gonna say it a thousand times so his republican voters can say “he’s the good guy”, then he’s gonna deliver the thinnest of excuses for why he can’t actually do it and blame somebody else for it.

the exercise:

I’m thinking that the US needs to go back to A/B testing. The “christians” in the midwest think social safety nets and “free handouts” should be illegal? They can get that. The countries who want them handouts, however, get them. And in 30 years we compare how’s everyone doing.

I’m very not sure about how to evaluate the end of the shutdown.

On the one side, they didn’t pull through with playing hardball, on the other hand, I’m not sure whether people would have gotten better results if the shutdown would have gone on for longer.

thanks!

i guess it’s very similar :D

Yeah I’m personally tending to always separate data and processing.

Data means you have an underlying data source (in lemmy’s case the set of all lemmy servers hosting lemmy communities), and a separate system that does search/recommendation based on the data.

The search/recommendation system would not store any data itself, but only filter and sort and process the data from the underlying servers and communities.