Capitalism started when some no-nobles started having more power than (some) nobles. Meaning that the power balance shifted from nobles to capitalists. Which happened around (because of) the industrial revolution.

All of these undoubtedly existed before the industrial revolution: war, monoculture farming, clear cutting forests, building on floodplains, development that destroys habitats.

These were impossible before the industrial revolution for technological reasons: space tourism, deep sea mining.

This is impossible without capitalism for semantic reasons: corporations bulldozing ecosystems for endless “growth”. Before capitalism, it wasn’t corporations, and it wasn’t done with a bulldozer. But kingdoms did “bulldoze” ecosystems. And communist countries did bulldoze ecosystems too.

Golf, lawns: these are harder to prove and I don’t care enough to do the research. Golf probably couldn’t be done before industrial revolution, but maybe a primitive version of golf could be played.

So at most, the tweet might be right in the best of cases about golf and lawns. Which would make for a much more boring tweet.

All of those existed way before capitalism. Except the ones that require technology more advanced than what they had available.

Gravitational field. There’s no way you could achieve this with the magnetic field.

Watching LOTR for the first time was kinda hard, but once you learn every middle earth language you can ignore every subtitle. So worth it.

It shows as removed to me still. Maybe not for you. Maybe my instance is censoring it.

Did you self-censor? It says “removed” in italics. I don’t know what a piece of fire wood could be called to be so offensive to self-censor

So your use case for LLMs is the first aspect of them that will be enshittified.

LLMs advocating for products that pay them is step 1 of incoming enshittification.

Also, anyone that has ever talked to customer service of any kind knows that the “automated” stuff is the absolute worst and you want a human most of the time.

Some topics do genuinely require more time though. But those can and should be split into well-defined chapters.

You’re a 100% correct. You’re just getting downvoted because you claim to be “the polar opposite of a leftist”.

The CEO of the franchise doesn’t hurt at all from stolen products. If they see a product is being stolen often, they just increase the price so everyone else pays for it.

Checks out with my experience in university. I had like 3-4 classmates in software engineering that could program a simple program that ran. And this was before LLMs. You don’t even need to cheat to pass while being absolutely incompetent. Of course, some people also cheated.

This is actually true though. Basically every country has done it.

If printing money results in enough value created, there is no inflation.

Of course, you have to create a lot of value per money printed, which no country has achieved. And that’s where taxes come in and fill the gap.

Many of the “economic miracles” involved printing a lot of money. But since their value output increased so fast, (and again, taxes) they experienced little inflation.

It is theoretically possible to print money without taxes and not have inflation. That would be more than a miracle though. If you get even more efficient with money, even deflation would happen.

It’s the same reasoning behind debt. Debt is “bad” because you have to pay more than what you were paid. But if you are smart with that money and create more money from it, you can pay back the debt (including interests) and get some extra money for yourself.

Yeah. I just hate people that act entitled to the government building them enormous flat roads so they can move themselves in an oversized emotional support vehicle so they can watch tiktoks while driving without going out of their lane. While also disregarding the safety of everyone around them, which could basically be killed in an instant by them.

It’s not the middle. It’s the edge. The walls are outside the road. Why are you driving outside the road?

Furthermore, American lanes are way too wide. Why do you need a lane that wide? How do you even manage to not stay in your lane when it is so fucking wide?

Yes. Dying your hair crazy colors will get you attention. But it doesn’t mean that you dyed your hair because you wanted attention.

If my dog goes too far away, I will shout its name very loud so it hears me and comes back to me.

Doing this will inevitably draw the attention of most of the people around me. But that was not my intention though, I just wanted the attention of my dog. The attention of the other people is just an unavoidable side effect. It may even be an unwanted side effect.

This is not a list of all the things they are banning AI from.

This is a list of every reasonable use of LLMs they can think of in their environment.

So if anyone thinks “hmm, I know they don’t like LLM contributions but I’m just going to use it once for X”. The immediate next thought should be “They don’t even allow LLMs to spell check, therefore my single use of LLM for X will not be welcome, I will not do it”.

Basically none of this is enforceable. The rules are there so if someone is caught doing something, it can be pointed out that that something is written in the rules. And also to give a general sense of what is tolerated or not in a community.

This reminds me of a traffic law in my country:

It is illegal to go all the way around a roundabout 3 times in a row. There is not a police officer ok every roundabout, or a camera counting how many times you go around it. But if a kid goes off and do stupid shit at 2AM with a loud AF car, one of the things one might do is do many loops on a roundabout. Therefore they can’t just say “I’m not doing anything illegal, I’m just using the public roads with my car and a valid driver’s license”. Since one of the things they did was doing more than 3 rounds in a roundabout.

When standing up it’s definitely harder to get the last drops out. Sitting is easy as fuck, just use TP. On urinals there is no TP, so can’t get rid of the last 1-2 drops. Never have that problem when sitting due to TP.

They were (mostly) safe when manufactured. Who knows after 80 years. Things degrade

I don’t think the difference is the minimum education for entry.

I’d say the difference is how much of your paycheck is because of you specifically and how much is for just general labor.

So a physics researcher job is “skilled” because most of the pay is because the specific researcher knows about physics.

But a waiter job is “unskilled” since the skills needed to do the job are the skills needed for basically any job:

• Basic maths skills
• People skills
• Willingness to work
• Physical endurance
• Enthusiasm to work
• Memory
• Handling stressful situations
• Other relatively basic skills

Of those, only physical endurance and people skills are “exclusive” to being a waiter. There are some actual jobs that require no physical endurance. And some jobs don’t require as much people skills as being a waiter does. But the rest of them are general across basically every job.

Of course, "unskilled job"s do require skills, I just listed a bunch of them. But most of those skills, any other worker that does any other job would have. Therefore I count payment for those skills as payment for “general labor” and not “payment for you specifically”.

Thus becoming one more of the million dumbasses.

That exact mentality is what got us here.

You don’t want to put in the effort? Cool, you do you. I don’t care. I’m not following you though, the stairs are way healthier as a bonus.