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[–] Steve 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Lots of people look at our current economic system and call it and everything with it capitalism. But it's not really. Nothing in capitalism requires infinite growth. That's just a byproduct of the public stock market. Public shareholders buy shares in the hope they will be worth more in the future. If the shares of one company aren't, people won't buy it. And since the assigned value of that company is tied to its share price (kind of a silly idea if one really thinks about it) that company will have an apparent value of nothing.

So in order to avoid that zero dollar share value, a company must appear to be growing.

But nothing in capitalism requires a public stock market to begin with.

[–] Steve 1 points 4 hours ago

Never had any problems, been working perfectly. Close all the doors, walk away with the key, 10sec later the doors lock. Unlocks again as you'd expect.

[–] Steve 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

They immediately unlock again. Or the button does nothing. I forget exactly. Basically, it's impossible to lock the key in the car. I imagine that's the logic.

As far as not locking when you walk away from the car, I have no idea. There is a 3rd party device to fix that though. I installed mine in about 20min, and I was being very carefully methodical with every step. It's easy.

[–] Steve 5 points 1 day ago

I always thought, for long distance trucking the trailers tend to sit around a lot longer than the truck, waiting to be unloaded then waiting to be loaded again. Put batteries in the trailer. Charge them while it's waiting. That way the truck can be more efficient with only enough battery to go from trailer to trailer.

[–] Steve 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Steve 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yah I use a local credit union

[–] Steve 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

My mother's maden name was Lance

[–] Steve 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Aren't they also chasing AI?
Don't our AI guys say we need beat the Chinese to AGI?

[–] Steve 1 points 2 days ago

Says the obvious bot

[–] Steve -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They do have technical definitions that educated people debate over.

For everyone else, they mean the same thing. That thing being all that's great or terrible in an economy, depending on the point of view.

[–] Steve 3 points 4 days ago

And you don't think two characters born on the same alien planet, can have different backstories, the same way two humans born on the same earth can?

[–] Steve 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Let me try again. All humans in any non-fantasy story, are born on the same planet, with the same origin. They have the same powers and weaknesses. All your left with to distinguish one human from another in your view, seems their names and clothing.

Am I wrong?

 

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51939701

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40474442

I've always wanted to talk about how weird it was scrolling through reddit and then suddenly seeing myself on the front page. I was banned from reddit for talking about politics (I am anti trump) on the air force reddit so I wasn't even able to comment on a post about me.

For some backstory, I was returning from a Halloween cruise and it was the only clean shirt I had left (I was planning on wearing it during the cruise as there were no children allowed on the cruise and with the theme I thought it would get a few laughs or at least start a conversation). I never did though and doing laundry on a cruise was quite expensive (I think 50 dollars per load or something like that). I tried to hide the shirt as best I could throughout the day as I do think it was slightly inappropriate to wear in a public setting.

For the record, I love all the comments roasting me and I laughed all fucking day reading them!

Anyways, I have always wanted to publicly talk about this and in my search for reddit alternatives I found lemmy so here we are. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/rd9DPO8.jpeg

 

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