I enjoy that your comment is rightfully upvoted on a forum where people will routinely lament, to many dubious upvotes, that voter turnout is low. We need an informed electorate, not dumbfucks who have no idea what is happening in the world and can’t remember four years ago.

Bailouts have not been the worst thing. The lack of stipulations and not marching the c-suite through the streets in rags needs to be fixed, but overall it’s even money for the fed that keeps people working - https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list I am a big puzzled why several extremely profitable companies are still in the red. Seems like the feds should just take the money with a hefty fee for making them wait.

can be very useful in certain tasks, but not at the level everyone was expecting. This bubble won’t burst, but it will deflate a bit

I almost got whiplash reading this.

Yes, you are correct, generative AI is useful for some tasks. Not at the level everyone was expecting is somewhat of an understatement, as, for example, the SpaceX IPO estimated LLM would be worth roughly 200x what even rose-colored projections of the entire LLM market predict. And that’s one company versus the entire market. Being overvalued by 200x does cause bubbles to deflate A BIT.

I envy the privelage one must have to be experiencing to ask questions like “why do people shop where its cheapest!?”.

I guess that even at my poorest, which wasn’t all that long ago and was rock bottom, I understood the difference between price and cost.

It was as if they were all working there only because their children were being held hostage

This, with more steps, is about accurate.

There’s this all powerful force that binds the universe together and controls our destinies. It’s like gravity, but different and possibly sentient. We call it “the force”.

Why do people still shop at Walmart? Is it to help the evil family of billionaires? To destroy local economies? Love of a company that calls the police on customers all the time often for no real reason?

Setting aside for a moment that the proposal is not retroactive. That line of defense sounds more like a self own for whoever would make that excuse. “We have the laziest and scummiest business practices imaginable- there’s no way we can keep all the puss out or stop putting chaulk in our milk.”

As you allude to in your first line, it’s a mostly invisible disability. It’s also one that is difficult to fix past a certain point, and that point of correction has been actively sabotaged for at least the past 23 years (in the USA).

You all remember when RFK Jr. was running for POTUS and it was the most thinly veiled attempt to divide Biden/Harris voters imaginable? Good times.

Anywho, this movement of right wing nutbags who are now against Trump and want to stop him so they can get back to doing EXACTLY what got Trump elected sure is neat, isn’t it? It sure is cool to see them as top commenters over on the very legit BlueSky.

Sort of a tangent, but yeah. That checks out.

Though, if you’re looking for someone to blame, look no further than liberals and leftists.

Liberals, because in the 90s their big plan was to become indistinguishable from republicans. Well, in a two party system the two choices have to be different in some way shape of form, and the Clintonistas really only gave the GOP one direction to move. They KNEW this would happen and assumed it meant the GOP would become unelectable (see: Clinton 2016 campaign) instead of systematically destroying the USA. WHOOPS!

The left because we pre-compromising and always presenting the reasonable option first which leaves no room for negotiation other than to veer away from reasonable. If one side of the table is saying “tax the rich fairly” and the others is saying “hunt the poor for sport”, the outcome is going to be somewhere in the middle.

Same mistake twice, really.

Show Respect!

Counterpoint: Anyone respecting that horrid legacy is part of the ongoing problem and should be dealt with accordingly.

It’s really super neat the way the radical right vilifies smart people while desperately pretending to be them. Very cool and stable worldview that will bring nothing but good things.

And now you’ve made yourself the victim. If you were interested in honest discourse you wouldn’t have changed the entire meaning then left an edit line claiming something different.

I like the way you completely rewrote (not merely made less aggressive) the comment I replied to so that this seems like a reasonable response.

There are many variations of CPI. Perhaps spend less time typing angry comments, and more time learning the basics on issues before commenting.

How is inflation calculated?