Part of me believes that we all have a sort of internal monitor for cost. When you’ve got less money your threshold for “expensive” is relatively sticky even if you gain more money and slowly recalibrates. The charts seem to show people got more money but also things got more expensive.

For decades, corruption was called corruption. Corrupt guy is taking a different approach (corruption).

I’m not complaining? I’m positing that the measures we have may not be adequately reflecting the experiences of a cohort of people. This is only to suggest that we may need new measures, what they are I don’t know and am not qualified to answer.

Yes, and I’m positing that perhaps the metrics we’re using aren’t reflective of the experiences of a cohort of people?

Is my post, not aligned with that position? In acknowledging that we have an SPM that came after the OPM isn’t that an implicit acknowledgement that things evolve?

I’m not questioning that they are valuable measures, I’m suggesting they do not fully encompass the experience of different economic actors. Much in the same way that we have both the OPM and SPM, metrics evolve over time in an attempt to more accurately describe the state of our economy.

The SPM was literally created to augment the OPM because it was considered insufficient.

That’s not the only question to consider. The way poverty itself is calculated is also worth consideration. If you’re curious the way it’s calculated is related to food costs for a household based on expenditure in the 50s/60s.

I’m a stupid bitch for sure; but the point is that neither is reliable to describe a macro experience of the economy for a broad set of economic actors. I don’t know what a better way would be, I didn’t claim to have this information.

I’m not clear how your reply relates to what I posted.

What those metrics are? Probably not individual experience. People are notoriously stupid and their experiences are unreliable.

FWIW it’s very hard to rely only on economic metrics because those metrics aren’t always very useful as measures for people’s lives. Like the poverty line, it isn’t really a good measure of poverty in the US as we understand it today. Sometimes you do need other metrics.

The bulwark are right wing, they smuggle right wing positions into the democratic ecosystem via opposition to trump. No different than abundance types pushing deregulation.

I just want to note that the situation with Iran is a wonderful example of how globalization and the interconnected economy brings forth pressure to influence against war. It didn't prevent it, and lives were lost, but it definitely appears the most salient factor was the price of oil.

It's simpler than that, they've read one too many quotes about amerikkka that they believe anyone that is an adversary must be valiant and honorable. These people are incapable of reconciling with a complex reality where both parties can be both positive and negative.

It really does seem so weird to watch it unfold repeatedly. I feel like when I came of age, it was a trend to be an anti feminist, and it died down a bit only to resurge like 15 years later.

Maybe it never died down…

Sometimes, it is clear, the internet is the intersection of a bunch of people with wildly disparate perspectives… with a low barrier to share those perspectives.

fun to see these things in a new light from my childhood

its crazy to watch us launch a rocket for the moon :O

funny to come across things no one was meant to see.

It makes one wonder, is Zuck a believer? Is Zuck a sycophant?

Rendering old game's scenes in @bevy.org is pretty enjoyable.

beautiful

Might also accentuate your nipples though so, be considerate of that I guess

Right is cuter, will seem more friendly to strangers imo

doing a misogyny to try to stick it to the misogynists!

It’s misogyny all the way down eh?

I do not understand the urge to call everything ai slop. Like we’re constantly inundated with the equivalent of “slop” produced by millions of people. Why is it remarkable now?

An interesting though, it does seem like “politics” has become “the customer is always right” but replace customer with which ever constituency will keep you in office.

I think this argument only makes sense if you consider AI to be a product for consumers. Long term, it seems unlikely to be the case that the corporations that can afford to train foundation models will find their most cost effective deployment is for consumer use.