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- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Cool. I’m down with that.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
No minimum parking, no height limit, no maximum FAR, no maximum unit count.
yeah get rid of these next and you’re set.
- Comment on Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. 10 months ago:
This is literally my ideal world.
- Comment on Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. 10 months ago:
They’re not replicating OF, their advertising their OF, and there’s nothing about twitch or these streams that explicitly advertises to children.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
This is specifically about Australia, but essentially all 3 parts of this piece (and related linked essays) sum up how to solve the housing crisis worldwide.
…substack.com/…/how-to-solve-housing-unaffordabil…
Boils down to:
1: change zoning laws to allow more multifamily construction
2: remove incentives for homeownership and generally disincentivize single family homes
3: build for density in ways that reinforce and support density
If you want more info, basically every mainstream economist in the world agrees this is the solution, and that this is a manufactured problem. It’s a result of regulatory capture by homeowners, essentially. There are many, many papers about it.
Here’s an easily-digestible article
businessinsider.com/economist-how-to-fix-america-…
And a well-cited study in an economic journal:
…umich.edu/…/the-economics-of-the-housing-shortag…
All these sources agree, because this is the solution. Realistically, the only bad solutions are subsidizing more demand via things like rent control - these will only make our problems worse.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Unironically the answer is “shop less.”
Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.
Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it’s just that you have to encourage building rather than “live somewhere less” because the second option really isn’t tenable, for obvious reasons.
If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.
- Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 10 months ago:
Dude what’s neat about this is Oxygen on Venus is like Helium on Earth so your balloon doesn’t even need to be hot, just really sturdy.
- Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 10 months ago:
That’s true about their upper atmosphere, but we’re nowhere close to being able to capitalize on it (as in, no missions even planned). Closest we’ve got on paper is an orbiter by the early 30s.
Hopefully in my lifetime we see an upper atmosphere balloon or something. That alone would be unbelievably cool.
- Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 10 months ago:
NASA plans to have a manned mission to Mars in the next 6 years.
- Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 10 months ago:
Venus is significantly more hostile than Mars, so while we definitely want to do more with Venus, Luna and Mars are clear next-ups for manned landings.
While all of Mars is hostile to human life, Venus is also incredibly hostile to equipment, and thus requires a different approach to even unmanned launches.
Current maximum lifetime for any unmanned craft in the Venusian atmosphere (to say nothing if the ground) is only 2 hours.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 10 months ago:
That’s exactly what I said in my OP
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 10 months ago:
Yes I’m aware but it’s an empty point.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 10 months ago:
This post is a meme tho
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 10 months ago:
It’s not wrong to enjoy things, but it’s ok to laugh at it too.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 10 months ago:
People are pretending like this is a big deal when it isn’t, and Mickey mouse memes would never have resulted in any sort of action by Disney because they’re memes.
Here’s an old as shit Mickey mouse meme. Note how it is still online and no one is in trouble for it, and it isn’t even Steamboat Willie.
Expect this to continue for a while because people love feeling like they’re “sticking it to the man” even though they could’ve been doing that for ages and none of it matters.
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 10 months ago:
It is not doing that today.
It is absolutely doing that today. From medicine to fucking call center QA.
That you don’t know about it is further evidence of my claim - AI is currently being leveraged within existing toolsets that you also do not know about.
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 10 months ago:
if AI can’t find its market (which for all the hype it hasn’t thus far)
AIs market is every market, which is why it seems like AI isn’t “doing much.” The primary benefit of AI in its current form is finding and driving efficiencies.
It’s much more like the internet in the early 90s than it is the block chain. AI hasn’t had its “dot com bubble” begin yet, because right now it’s all targeted services.
- Comment on 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free 10 months ago:
we need to reel in the international shipping industry, the fashion industry, and also the global war machine
Believe you mean “modernize” and not “reel in,” because ending international shipping would be catastrophic worldwide.
- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023 10 months ago:
“This actual data isn’t data. My personal anecdotes are data”
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Idk why anyone would downvote this. This is literally what happened.
If it just like, makes you mad, cool - this dude’s mad too. You agree with each other.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
so it does have to grow every year to have value for investors
This gets said a lot but it is not true for a couple reasons.
1: With an IPO you’re not as dependent upon individual investors, and as your value grows - which often has nothing to do with your company’s performance, you obtain additional funding.
2: private or large-scale investors will literally have you sign contracts stating X% return on investment is what you owe them - once you surpass your return on investment, unless you seek additional funding, significant growth pressure is gone. Most companies immediately seek additional funding, which is how this gets interpreted as “requires perpetual growth.”
People usually only care about your growth as a function of how it correlates to a rise in your value. Most stock growth is entirely based on feels - it’s closer to social media than it is to any sort of accounting.
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
It’s wild you are so desperate to defend these out of control capitalists wanting to do literal human experimentation.
This is not a remotely sane reading of either my comments or this article
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 10 months ago:
Father Christmas by The Kinks is my all-time favorite Christmas song.
youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk?si=8V0_zTG1MOv2luIx
I have a very weird history with and a love/hate relationship with Christmas, but this song is always atop every Christmas playlist I’ve ever made.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 10 months ago:
I am amazing at geography, so that’s not an issue.
The real problem is getting around once you land, and I can say with absolute confidence that is universal.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 10 months ago:
Right? So many unique challenges lol
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
Do you not recall the literal trade war we were in before COVID?
Theres still onsistently high tariffs on imported goods, and the US government is even considering planning the sale of US steel to Nippon
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
Agreed. That’s my point.
People really are afraid of things, or not afraid of things, all across a spectrum, and people rarely agree on everything that is serious.
Policy shouldn’t be shaped by fear.
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
Like data privacy concerns?
See the problem there? We disagree on what to be afraid of.
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
Yes, absolutely. Look at the current insane level of protectionism.
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
This seems like a policy problem and not a tech problem.
