agitatedpotato

@agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that membership into suicide pacts will increase dramatically within the next decade because the world is falling apart at the seams?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why join a suicide pact or death cult when you could just buy a SUV and eat Meat every day? Take the whole population with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Las Vegas sphere reports $98 Million loss, CFO quits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Early operations losses are normal, the CFO quitting after a yelling match with the CEO is though.

  If this went anything like the yelling matches I hear in local companies between CFOs or even CPAs vs the CEOs, it likely boils down to the CEO being ingorant of the finer details of financial law and reporting practices and insisting that the CFO or CPA do something that’s either against best practice, or flat out inappropriate or borderline illegal.

  The CFO I know personally gets yelled at consistently for doing things that are the se reason outside financers still work with the company. They’re the sole reason the IRS isn’t levying hell against the buisness and the owners wife grovels to them to assume that at least she knows how important the work is.

  The takeawy is CEOs are pretty dumb and hate being told no, and I’d honestly be surprised if the reality of the situation is much different from the one I described.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just GM, if you tried ro question the safety of these cars on even Lemmy before these revelations came out your ve brigaded by people claiming they were safer than humans and thats all they needed to be in order to be acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, now I’m more interested in finding that out than anything about the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by online dating, AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable foster kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Babe wake up, new way to sort and shop for adopted kids just droppd, just swipe left or right on this orphans face . . .”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing legal we can do anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Politicians Would Like to Speak With You Now - Politicians are using AI doppelgängers to reach voters. It’s a trend that’s about to explode.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man there’s absolutely nothing I can think of that would go wrong with this, and I’m also quite sure only the office of the politicians themselves will be able to generate these doppelgangers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fox News was founded October 7th 1996.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I was a judge I’d tell meta their attempt to buy what they wanted, then breaking IP law as soon as money couldn’t get what they wanted in hopes money in court would get them what they want is enough guilt for me. You really don’t need a degree in behavioral science to know a tantrum when you see one. This is a money tantrum by meta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, the climate wars will absolutely start before we even know they are the climate wars, that’s basically a fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think were gonna see climate wars kick off before any kind of mass realization happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve killed dozens of journalists and even the family of a journalist. That family was staying in a building that was marked safe by the IDF for exactly these kinds of people. The US didnt let Saudi Arabia live down the bonesaw incident for years, have you heard any ranking politician in the US speak about the press slaughter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Hamas had a long term goal here. I think Iran had the long term goal and shared intel with them and goaded the on to the attack. That’s not to excuse anything or one, but in terms of startegy and blowback, I think Irans the one whos counting on that, and Israel is providing it. So all in all I’d say Iran got what they wanted and we’re gonna see what they choose to do next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you target Hamas but bomb an innocent family of five killing three, you probably just made two new Hamas members. Especially if the parents didn’t survive, they know exactly whos gonna ‘take care’ of those orphaned kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Google Mondragon corporation and you can see a co op scaling up over history. You dont have to imagine, it’s already happened and you can read about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Co ops directly reeard increased production, increased production would lead to increased surplus, and the surplus is democratically allocated, weather that’s bonuses or investments, thats extra money that everyone gets to decide what to do with. Thats more incentive than ive seen more than most workers in top down systems get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  All I said was 10 workers produce 100 dollars of surplus. Nowhere does that imply each produced 10 dollars. Only that their voting power commands 10 dollars of surplus. Read it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a proof of theory, the same way capitalist economists show what options and game theory incentices exist. Its quite literally a textbook example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This problem could be solved even with a co-op structure even withing a free market. If ten workers in a co op produce $100 bucks of extra money, they all get ten and as long as any new hires can carey their weight so everyone still gets ten bucks bonus, they will hire them. Ones companies get big enough to have diminishing returns, like a new employee could only produce 5 bucks of surplus, then hiring that person would make everyone have a smaller piece of the pie. If the pie all goes to one person they can keep adding workers until the worker doesn’t produce any surplus over the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So either you suck at forecasting your own production, or you suck at production enough to not hit your forecast? And you want other people to pay you more because you don’t have a good handle on your buisness?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Those bands have great uses too imo, further range than 5g, great for beacons, telemetry, low bandwidth send a recieve. Could be really useful and the only upside of discontinuatuon is maybe they’ll let me and the other amateur radio operators play around on segments of those bands eventually. All the stuff you kick off the 2/3g networks will need to be updated and start clogging the 5g bands. Needless traffic on frequencies that could be reserved for denser traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignorance is bliss, why do the thinking yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While researching Chinese EVs I came across articles about abandoned EVs, the article claimed it was because they were made obsolete (they have roughly 100 mile range or less) so they were abandoned for the newer cheaper models with 3-5x that range, that problem is probably gong to be a bigger one to tackle than Chinese EV longevity, which supposedly aims for roughly 200,000km lifecycle which is 125k miles (average ice car has a lifespan of 130k miles). It also showed me how close to production those batteries you are talking about are, there’s a bold claim that the battery could be good for 2 million kilometers, if it’s even on the same order of magnitude of that, it would make so many EVs ‘obsolete’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At the rate of industrial investment into this tech coupled with some places punishing gas cars, a cheap car that spans the gap from now until affoedable and better EVs is the perfect prescription, not to mention we havent stopepd having some form or financial crises since covid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's iPhone loses top spot in China to Huawei: Analysts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For reference, in the US in 2023, if you are a family of two and your combined annual income is $19,800.00 you are considered to be above the poverty line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at the history of the any of the Clandestine US orgs should probably reminds us these people will do loterally anything that they can, like give people LSD in an attempt to control the mind and put microphones in Russian cats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨22 Democrats Sponsor a Bill That Could Censor Abortion Info From the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are, but the question has always been how much evil is acceptable to you, because the democrats know what they are and they’ll run whoever they can get away with. The worse the Republican option is, the lower the quality of candidate the Dems will forward. They know what their donors want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you’re buying not only an apple preheprial but a defacto limited edition, vintage one. Apple’s not gonna charge you less for that once they figure out how to market it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the original study only documented Wolves in captivity I explain it like this: Alpha, Beta, Sigma, whatever, is just the type of prison bitch you’d be, so congrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For a case as benign as this that makes a lot of sense but the attitude of entitlement to projects that generate capital is wild, and not doing something as simple as getting the building permits before you start building is really emblematic of that.