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- Comment on 'Does Everyone Hate Real World?': Ghost In The Shell: Arise Director Bemoans The Rise Of Isekai Anime 3 days ago:
“Recent anime works will show things like a level-up gauge that appears when characters tap the air, even though there’s no in-setting reason for them to have a personal interface like that. I may just be getting old, but it really makes me wonder: ‘What is going on here?’ It just doesn’t work for me.“
My idea on what’s going on here is, people find it impossible to imagine what is entirely alien to them. Fiction uses various tricks to bridge this gap for its audience; by describing familiar experiences in a fantastical context, it draws you into its imagined reality. But for people who exercise little actual agency in their real lives, don’t go outside much, and play a lot of videogames, the traditional material probably isn’t stuff they can relate to as well as people in the past could. A fictional world that has the mechanics of a videogame is a natural direction to go because it will be easier for modern people to imagine than a fictional world where nobody uses phones or computers.
- Comment on Japanese Govt. & Major Manga Publisher Invest Heavily In AI Translation To Boost Manga Export Overseas 1 week ago:
This could have been a free browser extension
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 week ago:
Well first off, being a man is not an immutable characteristic, because transgender people exist.
The aspect of being a man that makes people consider you a threat by default is an immutable characteristic though, if you are a trans woman people will treat you that way even more than otherwise.
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 2 weeks ago:
Check out Nostr, ActivityPub alternative that does authentication separately from content, works more like that.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
idk why everyone is angry about pointing out the limitations of contextless garbage content that asks the audience to substitute filling in the blanks with your imagination for journalism. Though tbf it seems like doing actual journalism on this kind of thing is a very dangerous occupation right now.
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 2 weeks ago:
shouldn’t
I’m not really making an argument about what should be done
*growing deficits = throwing money into the economy
Not sure that’s really equivalent since deficit growth could also be contributed to by other factors, like reduced revenue. It’s also not a fair expectation that government spending should always be followed by a rise in inflation, because that spending is likely to be an intentional stimulus effort made to counteract expected forces going in the other direction.
Could you say more about why you think Russia and Japan’s recent history represents evidence (I’m assuming you meant this instead of absence of evidence which would be confusing) that spending does not cause inflation? I haven’t been following it much, but I heard Japan’s currency is devaluing hard against other currencies atm.
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 2 weeks ago:
What scrutiny? Your only criticism of the widely accepted, evidence backed idea that putting money into the economy is a cause of inflation seems to be that companies you don’t trust are supposedly saying it, but that isn’t scrutiny of the idea itself.
If you accept that markets are real, and that supply and demand works roughly the way it is understood to work by the field of economics, it should be very straightforward why adding money causes inflation; in dollar terms, it increases demand, while supply stays the same, moving the equation towards higher prices. There is disagreement about whether all forms of adding money cause inflation; I’ve heard reasonable arguments that the money supply itself is not important but rather the velocity of money and whether people who will spend it are getting it is what matters, which I’m not sure I fully agree with, but since we’re talking about government spending, that is well known to be one of the most direct forms of economic stimulus and those arguments don’t apply.
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 2 weeks ago:
How does it imply that? What do you think causes inflation if not money going into the economy?
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 2 weeks ago:
it will never make a lot of sense because the leaders who control a currency always use it to their benefit
It is true that there is a lot of misleading propaganda about money in the media. It isn’t true that money is purely a conspiracy of the wealthy and follows no other logic than their interests (though, granted, government economic policy does prioritize their interests). Economics is real.
Taxes never fund a government. Taxes are one of the tools to create demand for a currency. But a government creates it’s own currency, why would they need tax revenue to spend when they are the ones creating money? This would be like saying we can’t mail anymore because we ran out of stamps. The limiting factor for how much we produce is manpower, never money.
Does this contradict what I’ve argued? I’m not seeing the connection.
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 2 weeks ago:
How does having international trade and loaning out money make it so increasing the money supply doesn’t cause inflation? And since we’re talking about government spending, this isn’t just adding to the money supply in a way where those dollars will sit hoarded in a bank account somewhere, with government spending people are being paid to do something, that’s going directly into the heart of the economy, and more dollars flying around -> economic stimulus -> inflation.
That isn’t to say I think the measures the government takes to fight inflation are justified and without blame. That thing about the fed fighting high wages is true and they literally admit it probably because wages and inflation are associated metrics so fighting high wages and fighting inflation are basically the same thing.
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 3 weeks ago:
No, new money entering the economy comes from the government and government spending is one of the ways that happens.
- Comment on House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment 5 weeks ago:
Every surveillance state has the problem of being a surveillance state
- Comment on House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment 5 weeks ago:
If someone is actually a fent dealer I expect they would be able to easily get a warrant. The only reason they need this is so they can spy on the rest of us with no record of it.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
I don’t buy it. If you have examples of someone successfully suing to be unbanned because the ban was beyond the terms of service I’ll be convinced but I don’t think that’s ever happened or would ever happen because I don’t think terms of service waive any rights to deny access to servers the company owns, especially when it’s free to begin with.
From the article:
At the end of the day, platforms like Discord have no obligation to host anything they don’t want to host, as we discussed back when GitLab did something similar by deplatforming Suyu’s code.
“Their first email was that my account has broken the TOS, with no additional information.” He claims Sudachi wasn’t doing anything infringing. Later, he was told it vaguely had something to do with intellectual property but says Discord still hasn’t given him any details.
The bans I’ve gotten myself are always like this when it’s a big company. No real explanation given, no recourse possible, I don’t expect a lawyer would tell me differently. IMO the only solution is to stop focusing on the “rules” they have written entirely for their own benefit and start using systems that are more decentralized in terms of who is actually in control.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Well yeah. Terms of service don’t exist for the benefit of the users. If the company doesn’t like what you are doing, nothing stops them from banning you, there’s no reason to expect them to try to be fair about it. This is why these sites/apps having a dominant position is such a problem.
- Comment on This is at Jorvik Viking Center. 1 month ago:
I need more context regarding the poop viking’s illness
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
would see a rise in rent as the market of people looking to buy nicer places increases quickly
I think it would rise some, but not enough to absorb the whole UBI, because not everyone is looking to throw all of their money at living in the most fancy place they can, most people I think would prefer to do something else with most of their money. To me at least ‘niceness’ doesn’t matter that much if the living space is functional.
but actually increasing the housing stock in desirable areas takes some time
Also takes political will to overcome protectionist policies preventing new construction and preventing denser housing. My ideal combination of policies would be UBI plus reforms and subsidies to increase the housing supply and intentionally crash the housing market by doing so. As for direct price controls, I don’t think the economy works in a way that it could ever be effective beyond the very short term and a majority of economists tend to agree.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No, because having money is power. The more money you have, the more leverage you have, in general. This argument comes up a lot and I think it’s mostly coming from a widespread attitude of learned helplessness about money. Especially a UBI that is funded by some form of redistribution would mean a lasting shift in wealth inequality that could not be undone just because some businesses would like it to be.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“In the absence of knowledge about competitors’ pricing strategies, property managers can only make their best educated guesses and set their prices at optimal positions, usually a bit lower than what offered by competitors—to attract renters in the market,” the lawsuit argues.
The complaint quotes Yardi marketing materials that say landlords who use the service “beat the market by a minimum of 2%” and “gain on average more than 6% net rental income.”
This is a problem, but the claim made in the lawsuit is pretty far from saying that the market might as well not exist and this company is able to arbitrarily choose prices, they’re talking about a slight edge gained by shared information.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 2 months ago:
I feel like it might be better to think about whether your specific words and actions are manipulative than whether you’re a psychopath or what your identity is in general. Is that person justified in feeling gaslit? Are you in fact manipulating people or not? That’s a question that can be looked at more objectively.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 2 months ago:
What other mechanisms exist to compel people to do work they wouldn’t choose at unrewarding wages?
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 2 months ago:
It isn’t that strange if you think of us as being in a sort of situation of soft indentured servitude which is intentionally maintained.
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 2 months ago:
Doubt that’s going to be enough, I think if you want to make a sexually objectifying 90s magazine ad that appeals to female nerds you’re going to have to break out the homoerotic innuendos
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 3 months ago:
I think you are right, and it would be better not to focus on trying to micromanage specific business practices. You cannot write a good set of regulations that will prevent companies from siphoning wealth, because profit is the entire reason for existence of a company to begin with. Instead I think they should be allowed relative free reign, and the market allowed to do what it does, except that in the end a portion of the wealth extracted is taken and given back to the people, such that the level of concentration is kept stable instead of perpetually increasing.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 3 months ago:
It’s wealth inequality. Capital accumulates capital, and it actually means something because wealth is control, and things like housing that determine control over people’s lives are forms of wealth that get concentrated away from regular people along with everything else.
IMO two main things need to happen:
- redistribution of wealth
- increase housing supply
- Comment on Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores 3 months ago:
It makes sense financially if the game is expected to have a big spike of sales initially, and after a while have very few sales, so the expected additional lifetime revenue is less than the cost difference between a temporary and perpetual license.
- Comment on Grieving Louisiana father faces $18,000 bill to access state records of son’s case 3 months ago:
Maybe it could be a separate system and they just have to duplicate stuff into it when it becomes public
- Comment on Grieving Louisiana father faces $18,000 bill to access state records of son’s case 3 months ago:
It should be a legal requirement for every document that is public record to be available via a standardized API, none of this shit with paying tens of thousands of dollars or only being able to look at it in person
- Comment on Outrage as Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’ 3 months ago:
No State shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
- 14th amendment
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 3 months ago:
Why do you think those letters in the mail can be ignored?
I forget the exact reason, I researched it at the time and don’t remember well now, but the other comments are probably right. Anyway I know they can be ignored because I ignored them and nothing ever happened. Was more than a decade ago so I think I’m good.