[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Interesting how similar this is at first glance to Kerboscript. Neat!

Ah yeah I got that and then kinda lost scope reading the reply. Non sequitur for a non sequitur.

They say they're gonna fix it with something called "AI"

Sure, but in the case of an accident that footage is ammunition. Maybe the other party was eating a four course dinner and cranking their hog, but unless they had an interior camera too you can't prove a thing. These cameras seem like they would be a disadvantage in court no matter what.

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Okay 🪄. Everyone who makes under 70k will never eat out again.

This eliminates more than half of the customer base of the restaurant industry, most of which promptly implodes. Millions lose their jobs. What's worse is that all that restaurant spending gets redirected towards grocery stores. Grocery stores move far more product with just a fraction of the workers and they will be damned before they hand out raises to share their new windfall profits. This drastically reduces the velocity of money in the economy and drags us into a sudden contraction.

The storefronts those restaurants occupied, the ones that used to be central meeting points for their communities, become urban blight. Those workers, too, stop being able to pay rent or buy much of anything else, which deals a collateral blow to residential real estate and every business that makes consumer goods. The collapse of the restaurant industry and the sudden blow to landlords of all varieties takes a large tax base with it, and state and local governments that rely on sales and property tax see an immediate budgetary shortfall.

These so-called titans of industry cannot see, will never see, that the "wasteful" and "unthrifty" spending they hate is utterly vital. Their distaste for the poors experiencing such luxuries as participating in simple consumption blinds them to the fact that that spending is the economy.


ETA: Instead of the rest of us tightening our belts even more, the wealthy need to spend a lot more. Fund a literacy program, hand a million dollars to a small electric car conversion company, drop a cool 10 million on urban infill, fuck, build a pyramid. Anything is better than sitting on your wealth doing nothing but chasing rent-seeking enterprises like stock buybacks and cloud infra.

Helaas kunt u niet inloggen

I don't know Dutch but I choose to believe this says "hey cunt youre not logged in"

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I could honestly see it if it's like, someone who has known you for 20 years and you make a point of always doing your face to the nines. like maybe it's genuine concern, changes like that can signal having low energy associated with depression or etc etc etc but then I'm an overthinker and I worry too much.

But it's like work acquaintances will do it to her when she doesnt do full foundation and this and that and the other thing, which is just so goddamn rude.

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think makeup is cool, the standard of having to wear makeup is bullshit. When my girlfriend doesn't wear makeup people ask if she's sick. It seems like a lot of work.

e: this app is weird af though

thats a 29kb comment right there

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I know lots of people^1^ who have never smoked weed^2^ and still aren't astronauts^3^. your argument is invalid^4^.


^1.^ ^blatant^ ^lie^
^2.^ ^citation^ ^needed^
^3.^ ^unfounded^ ^assertion^
^4.^ ^false^

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You kidding? This person used to be a good customer and now they dont buy anything! This is very contextual

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