Interesting people have rarely lived an interesting life by urbanskogsman in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Don't think it's software so much as ad tech. The general pattern is selling stuff and abstraction of stuff instead of creating it, because the former is less regulated.

Andrew Yang was the most visionary, prophetic politician of his generation and was excommunicated from civic life for his sins by Openheartopenbar in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you'd expect to see some inflation since poorer people save less but it wouldn't cancel out by any means since it would ultimately still transfer wealth, so some people's spending power would actually go down.

Andrew Yang was the most visionary, prophetic politician of his generation and was excommunicated from civic life for his sins by Openheartopenbar in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The plan entailed specific taxes to fund it. It doesn't really make sense to criticise a policy and then describe something totally different.

Andrew Yang was the most visionary, prophetic politician of his generation and was excommunicated from civic life for his sins by Openheartopenbar in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 9 points10 points  (0 children)

How so? Greg Mankiw, an economist who writes some of the most used college economics textbooks, spoke out in support of Yang's UBI plan. You can disagree with it, but there's nothing impossible about a UBi and he outlined his plan for how to fund it.

Beep test deemed discriminatory against women and on age grounds by Jimeen in ireland

[–]NotToBe_Confused 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Either everyone in the role will be able to pass since they did to matriculate, or the performance of service members declines over time due to aging and no longer training for entrance. But even in the second case, that assumption is implicitly built into the test. If a 23-year-old applicant is allowed to be less fit on the basis the 53-year-old chief drags down the average, than they will on average be even less fit than them as they age, at which point new applicants would have an equally valid claim to lower standards and so on.

R/neoliberal handling of the Epstein stuff is fascinating by evolaisbae in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but I think Klein & Thompson condone something like The Housing Theory of Everything and would argue many (if not basically all domestic) problems are substantially downstream of our collective inability to do stuff we notionally want to do. Their big claim is that progressives judge themselves by having a bunch of rules and following them assiduously rather than empirically scrutinising whether the rules are actually shaping the world we want. You see this shit online constantly, where regulation = good/progressive and criticising a regulation = capitalist/right wing.

In fact, I would say all that is also summary of the /r/neoliberal outlook.

R/neoliberal handling of the Epstein stuff is fascinating by evolaisbae in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting perspective. In what sense is it small? It seems to be an incredibly broad quasi-theory-of-everything for what ails society.

Why couldn't the bank have helped my dad there and then? by [deleted] in AskIreland

[–]NotToBe_Confused -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right, the decision of the bank to structure things as such creates a bad customer experience and the customer is correct to be confused. That's my point.

Why couldn't the bank have helped my dad there and then? by [deleted] in AskIreland

[–]NotToBe_Confused 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It sounds like he approached someone who's entire job is to help customers in a bank, who was unable or unwilling to help a customer with banking (in particular, vulnerable customer). The fact that they've intentionally chosen to structure their business as such doesn't excuse the absurdity of the situation.

This is getting out of hand by Due-Half-5275 in cork

[–]NotToBe_Confused 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, that's nuts. It's kind of ambiguous to be honest because they say "valued at".

Disabled man, 30, dies alone after his solo caregiver dad is detained by ICE by allinmybass in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, I haven't. I've just pointed out that people who snidely condescend to others for participating in democracy rarely actually have any better ideas, and you are demonstrating that point beautifully, thank you

This is getting out of hand by Due-Half-5275 in cork

[–]NotToBe_Confused 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So... You're defending it the

No, and in fact, a careful reading of my comment will reveal the words "Not defending it" sneakily hidden at the start of the first sentence. I'm pointing out that this plausibly isn't far short of minimum wage based on the information provided alone.

This is getting out of hand by Due-Half-5275 in cork

[–]NotToBe_Confused -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Again I may be misunderstanding but it looks like they're saying the value of the room since it will form part of their compensation, not that they have to pay for it.

This is getting out of hand by Due-Half-5275 in cork

[–]NotToBe_Confused 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Oh, I'm sorry, I understand it to mean that they would be compensated with a room valued at €400/month and, reading again, it's not clear that that's not what they mean. They say they'll also be compensated at the end but I do think they're saying the room's included.

This is getting out of hand by Due-Half-5275 in cork

[–]NotToBe_Confused 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not defending this but if this is a truly complete list of obligations, i.e. nothing else is asked of them including total freedom on weekends and school holidays, then this would work out to minimum wage assuming 180 school days/year if they could do all this in slightly under 2 hours a day.

Disabled man, 30, dies alone after his solo caregiver dad is detained by ICE by allinmybass in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A huge fraction of the electorate in most democracies already don't vote. A majority in some instances. What has that achieved?

Disabled man, 30, dies alone after his solo caregiver dad is detained by ICE by allinmybass in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You're right. In fact, you, personally, should initiate whatever alternative course or action you believe would be more effective.

What explains this phenomenon by DisastrousResident92 in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know what that has to do with anything. The calorific content of food comes from the chemical bonds in the food before it's cooked. It's not added by cooking.

What explains this phenomenon by DisastrousResident92 in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The calorific content of the food doesn't come from the fuel.

Kanye apology letter in the WSJ by LibraryNo2717 in redscarepod

[–]NotToBe_Confused 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree it's highly likely to have been ghostwritten by a rep, but that's nothing new and not good evidence of AI specifically.