Hacksaw

joined 2 years ago
[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Lol the guy is literally "I got nothing better so here is an ad hominem"

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

Wow, commit war crimes or renounce citizenship? Such a hard choice!

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

To honestly compare the efficiency of cars you have to consider that the car might weigh 2000kg, but when it's only transporting a 100kg occupant you have to divide the efficiency by 20. Only when you're fully utilizing the vehicle to transport many passengers and cargo are you going to approach the efficiency values on the graph. All the vehicles have the same problem, they assume you're not just trying to get to the destination, but that you also want to bring your mobile living room (with couch and recliners and HVAC system and a storage locker) to the destination as well.

By comparison, walking has the full efficiency since you're transporting yourself in full to the destination.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah I'll drop it... With my NO ARMS ... you insensitive piece of poop

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought this was about the freaky little mankins, I was like "yeah they're freaky, but banned is a bit harsh" then I saw that the background was a modern truck grille, not a building.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I know I'm a terrible human, all I could think of was this skit

https://youtu.be/6U3g-h1rxQw

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The minimum liability insurance isn't a scam. If you hit someone and cripple them you'll be glad for insurance to pay their medical etc...

Comprehensive is absolutely a scam. Just take the money and save it, maybe buy some bonds. Then when it's time to buy a new car (or when you get your car totaled) you're already half way to a new car.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

But don't stay TOO far away, otherwise you can still be a victim of arrows. There is in ideal distance to THAT GUY to minimize your arrow related risks.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

If you watch the clip it's evident he wants to sleep with Miller

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like Stanford disagrees, 13% of entry level work has been replaced by AI.

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Who even cares about the quality. That makes it seem like a solvable problem. AI use is fundamentally alienating. No amount of quality redeems this fact, when you see an AI generated person your brain is registering a non-human as a human. When you draft an AI generated email or report you're allowing a machine to communicate with other humans using its voice. Reading content changes your brain, this used to mean changing your brain TOWARDS another human, AI generated content means your brain is changing towards a machine's language.

This might not seem so bad if it were not that these machines are owned and controlled by a person. Everytime you use or consume AI you alienate yourself from other humans and bind yourself to a rich person's machine.

Marx envisioned private ownership of the means of production as alienating a worker from his labour. Never did he imagine private ownership of the means of production alienating a human from his humanity whether he works or not.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While there are essential fats and proteins, there are no essential sugars. Your body can work perfectly fine indefinitely without any sugars of any kind.

 

I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers.

It's so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all!

I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.

 

The laughable Bank of Canada report even includes the line

Why did this increase in markups not contribute significantly to inflation? We show that markup growth reached its highest level because of a contraction in firms’ costs [...] during the pandemic-related public health interventions

So when their costs go down they keep the prices the same and pocket the difference, BoC report verdict "profit growth without inflation". So what happens when costs go back up?

We observe a mild contribution of markup growth to inflation in 2021, partially explained by demand rebounding faster than costs. However, the fact that markup growth fell to zero the following year indicates that firms were likely smoothing out their price increases [...] rather than leveraging increases in market power.

So when the costs go back up, they pass 100% of the cost to the consumer and keep their new higher profit margins (no change in markup). BoC verdict "the inflation has nothing to do with profit growth". Amazing!

If industry follows this "price ratchet" mechanism profit margins can go to infinity "without causing inflation" according to BoC. Absolutely galaxy brain levels of economic genius.

They really think we're idiots.

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