the problem with market-oriented solutions is that they theoretically eventually work in the long-run

and in the long-run, we're all dead

I don't think people are super duper into crunchy wellness "healthcare," I think people are largely dismissed and under-served by the current market dynamics of healthcare (especially in the US, UK, and Canada)

and in that vacuum, they grasp for answers in unregulated areas of care

a good example is co2 credits and taxes

the resulting markets for those turned out to be overrun with fraud and ultimately difficult politically to fix, and have barely made a dent in the actual problem

my biggest problem with "people just hate science and what science has to say" is that most of it is downstream of "science tells us <thing> is bad, and the only way we address <thing> is by adding market-oriented controls to them"

then the market-oriented controls fail to make meaningful changes

yarr

strange they didn't ban tea imo

there's no secret list

they just go out in public and state, plainly, "they can't read"

in that space there will be plenty of "work," and humans will turn towards bartering to contribute to "earn" their spot in a larger communal group if they can't use money

one key point about ai, even if there's some super capable robotics in the mix, there will still be jobs/work that they suck at relative to humans

maybe it's sports or music,or it's serving people food, or it's programming or warehousing

but something humans do will "outcompete" them

UBI makes a lot of sense as a way of defragging an overly complex welfare state; it makes no sense as a response to AI.

some people long to be bullied

idgi

some people feel like "the walk" itself is to let the dog "be free"

while others keep it as a structured activity of movement and business

and yet dogs tend to like "the walk" with either approach ime

wtf why is he in a jacket? Guile is the kind of guy that's wearing a tanktop or rolling up his sleeves whether it's 100°F or -40°F

“Is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment?” No, the Tea Party was an astroturf campaign bankrolled by the Koch brothers, you’re thinking of something else I guess

A gray and white Aussie and a black and white Aussie tussle over a toy

Parish’s one brain cell is working overtime.

I hear he's taking up his next job as a cook or something?

the argument about not arguing with random engineers online ("it's like mud wrestling a pig" etc.)

also works with invested platform owners and regular users

these are lessons never learned by ppl like lowtax and look where he ended up

"Hey man here's a liminal space where you can get Shake Shack and sour candy and fuck around on your phone" ok hell yeah

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Mastodon.social is being DDoS right now. That's bad. It was bad when Bluesky was DDoSed. It's bad when open social platforms are attacked.

status.mastodon.social

hot dog

the fix is generally creating a block of time that the login attempt takes that assures all attempts, regardless if they're right or wrong, take the same amount of time (or are otherwise indistinguishable)

a form of security vuln that still crops up in some systems is similar:

when denying entry, a system will respond to a bad username with an "access denied" error *faster* than when the password alone is wrong

attackers use this to create a shortlist of usernames to try bruteforce attacks with

wow they're making him change his name to Cook from Apple

harsh

Once you recognize that the Supreme Court is a political enemy, the good news it's an extremely vulnerable political enemy.

would just like to add, when you decline a call without letting it ring out, it reveals your number to robo-dialing scraper probes that someone is on the other end

"a large portion of the remaining unions in the US are trump supporters" is far more an observation of the power of capital in the US today than it is the "natural state" of unions

why do you think reactionary and capital-friendly unions have such a sizeable influence while all the others died out?

someone in the upmost 3 ladder rungs at the company getting them to overspend on a pet project probably

guy that owns 150+ year old water rights that allow him to siphon millions of gallons a year for water intensive crops: "THE WATER WARS ARE COMING! ME AND MY 23 FAMILY MEMBERS WILL BURN DOWN THE STATE IF THEY TAKE AWAY MY ALFALFA AND ALMOND MILK OPERATION!"

tbh I honestly don't think we're on the cusp of so-called "water wars," as much as we're about to see *actual* governance of water supply/access in parts of the world that traditionally haven't given a shit about how fucked up the distribution and usage efficiency has been