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If we’re being fair, is the couch fucker having discussions/decisions about actual solutions, mitigations, and treatments?

And then there’s me thinking that there’s too many people with enough family wealth to do art full time that are the ones who come up with this super conceptual stuff that seems to exist purely to make art buffs stroke their chins and grasp for meaning like clutching at straws.

Lib-right: We’ll just make them work to cover their upkeep.

Oh that sounds so much better, saying females makes you sound like a Ferengi but saying females makes you sound like Antonio Banderas, and I know which I’d prefer.

Also true in the UK, I could get an extra +£10k just by leaving for a senior position elsewhere.

But I don’t want to for two reasons:

1. I don’t feel I have enough experience to actually be a senior in my job and want to stay where I am currently to learn some more before I leave.

2. I really like my current company because they treat me very very well and are the complete opposite of my previous company who gave me workplace PTSD, anxiety, and made me suicidally depressed. On top of that my company commits to inflation matching yearly wage adjustments, so I’m not loosing money by staying here.

That moment when OP doesn’t know about the seashells (sremoveds in Rob Schneider)

I’m going to say something controversial:

IMO, Game of Thrones is massively overrated (even without the terrible later seasons) and is just an excuse for a porn and gore fest. I put it in the same category as shows like The Boys.

If you like it, fair enough, you do you, but nothing about that show resonated with me in any way.

Yes that’s right, it goes into postgres.

I wouldn’t mind an AI powered clippy I could run locally (or at least a server easy enough to rent) that I control where it connects to and gives out data.

A classic

Reminds me of this gem.

Honestly, not having to work to survive, food, clothes, shelter all taken care of and given my level of education I could actually help some fellow inmates learn.

Even with the possibility of being killed in there, at least then it’s a way out other than suicide.

I’m getting real close to wishing for that.

Since I’m also in a country that hasn’t got the death penalty, I could take out one of these cunts who horde riches as well.

What does Lemmy think? Should I set my quietly miserable future on fire to do some good in the world?

Yes, correct I do. Engineer brain working in dBs constantly.

I agree with this 100%.

Capitalism is exceptional at finding ways to provide value when there is a new market. The issue comes when capital gets accumulated and concentrated in the hands of a few.

We’ve seen it dozens of times throughout history where a healthy merchant class with lots of opportunity for upwards mobility ends up in an oligarchy as the market becomes saturated then monopolies, duopolies, and cabals (guilds) form.

The state needs to use the “P” and “L” in PESTEL forces (Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal) that businesses (from single to large multinational) to identify new markets that need investment.

An examples would be new clean renewable electricity and one way of giving preferrence to this green energy by minimally taxing profts on this energy sold in the national market or international market via grid-interconnect networks (“Gridternets” if you will) with a clear plan to increase the tax to a normalised amount slowly overtime as the green share of the market approaches 100%.

It also has to be used to more aggressively dissuade markets that are more harmful than good now. An example of this is dirty power.

Coal, Oil, and Gas have done wonders for increasing people’s quality of life because they unlocked a new energy density previously unattainable. Now we have alternatives that are by every metric better; more efficient and less polluting.

Therefore, these industries need to be taxed out of existence by using a logarithmic energy carbon tax that keeps increasing year on year. Corruption needs to be rooted out like a weed as much as possible using a politically independent organ of the state to keep it healthy.

Then there’s markets that are stagnant in some state of capture: crumbling infrastructure, food retailer hypermarkets, etc. Windfall suprise taxes on incumbents and grants / zero interest loans for new competitors would reignight competition in those markets and the additional tax revenue can be used to fix the crumbling infrastructure these markets rely on.

And finally, I’d like to see a strong preference for co-operatives where ownership in a free market is much more evenly distributed by making them the least taxed commercial entities with businesses that have a higher concentration of ownership are taxed more through some sort of profit tax multiplier.

It’s much harder for a business to act in a pure profit motive to the detriment of society if the employees have more ownership as it allows morality to be expressed through political power within this business. These employees also then benefit from the profit share as well which gives stability and upward mobility in exchange for their labour.

There, that’s three proposals that could help towards decarbonisation, investing in underfunded infrastructure, and reducing inequality.

I am not a policy expert and there’s bound to be problems with each of those proposals that I haven’t thought of, but we have so much more to gain by working cooperatively together to build a system that aims to better humanity as a whole by using the best tools correctly and safety.

Until we reach an energy density which unlocks technology that enables things like a resourceless economy (a la Star Trek luxury space communism), we’re stuck with the tools of money and capital as the ways to transfer value.

I personally can’t wait for the day where “reputation” rather than money becomes the currency of society, I am willing to work with the tools we have right now to build that future, and I have faith that others are willing to build it with me.

Hi I’m Derek Bum!

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This old laptop is sluggish, but with three shots from Computer Gun…

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And it boots up like new!

Here is a LaserPig video with a timestamp for the section on Paul.

Counter point: KiCAD

Yes I know it’s schematic capture and PCB layout, but I’m giving it as an example for two reasons:

1. The UX is genuinely really good and easy to use even for a novice following YouTube tutorials because it follows the norms of a schematic/PCB software package you’d expect to pay for (OrCAD, Altium, etc.)

2. It’s open source and used in industry so GIMP and Inkscape have ZERO excuses for their horrific UX which is the prime reason industry professionals don’t want to spend an age re-learning all of their workflows.

There I said it, I’ll get down off this soapbox now.

cough Inkscape cough …

Why are y’all looking at me like that?