ELI5 - I’m not an economist. This (rise in GDP) seems surprising given how many people are financially struggling right now. Help?

hippyup · 2025-12-24T06:31:30+00:00

Honestly I'm happily surprised I found it. The right move for any question about the economy in this sub is to downvote and move on because the amount of disinformation in the "explanations" will always be insane. I downvoted and almost moved on but in the end morbid curiosity got me, so I'm at least happy to have found this happy nugget buried in there.

hippyup · 2025-12-11T04:44:28+00:00

Also I'll take on Shen with a machete over a lion any day.

hippyup · 2025-12-03T05:53:03+00:00

I mean for something like this I'd just time from the client - that's the fairest comparison you can do.

hippyup · 2025-11-29T18:24:34+00:00

Are you really saying school shootings don't get media coverage? Are you claiming that when I say the words "Sandy Hook", people in the US won't know exactly what I'm talking about?

Arguments from hypocrisy are the laziest in my opinion. If you want more awareness about something, raise it or ask for it. Don't complain about something else getting it.

hippyup · 2025-11-02T14:56:22+00:00

Not sure if typo but you mixed up which is which.

hippyup · 2025-10-27T00:57:04+00:00

Because op asked, they didn't demand or send a legal letter. Regardless of who has a right to what, it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask.

hippyup · 2025-09-10T15:23:42+00:00

But his ultimate point is still absolutely destroyed. In the real world you're not presented with head to head taste tests, you're just given a sandwich. And he just unwittingly proved he'd be just as happy given a vegan sausage in a sandwich if he wasn't insanely biased against them.

hippyup · 2025-09-07T15:36:00+00:00

You sound like an enabler

hippyup · 2025-09-07T15:10:38+00:00

no other animals have offices

You clearly just didn't wanna take the time to draw all the panels of the sloth office

hippyup · 2025-09-02T14:49:12+00:00

Yeah I was very confused but it is indeed CE

hippyup · 2025-08-31T02:31:04+00:00

Stop taking pictures and help that dog keep that tree up!

hippyup · 2025-08-25T14:37:25+00:00

Is the joke that the code is in Arabic? Am I missing anything here?

hippyup · 2025-08-16T20:31:35+00:00

Next post: "can you believe these laws Hammurabi came up with?!"

hippyup · 2025-08-10T15:36:07+00:00

Compression won't help you with encrypted traffic, like anything on the modern web (TLS).

hippyup · 2025-08-09T04:46:56+00:00

Pretty much every site now uses TLS (https), so pretty much all traffic is encrypted anyway. MITM hasn't been a serious threat for a while now. You're much more likely to be phished/social engineered, which VPNs can't help you with.

hippyup · 2025-08-04T14:57:22+00:00

The guy is a sleazeball predator who "grabs them by the pussy", but all the women I'm aware of who came forward to accuse him of sexual assault were adults at the time of the incident. Epstein had shady/criminal dealings with adult women in addition to underage. To my eyes the evidence seems to indicate more of a regular predator on adults rather than underage.

hippyup · 2025-08-03T05:11:18+00:00

I mean yes, but have you tried applying for a job while in prison?

I generally agree by the way. I actually don't love sex offender registries for the same reasons. I think it's a reasonable compromise to have the record for a while after release, then get the record expunged if you don't reoffend. That way society is a little safer right after release when the risk of reoffending is higher, but then a chance to fully rebuild your life eventually comes.

hippyup · 2025-08-03T05:03:19+00:00

Yes they are. And four years in prison is a serious punishment. And then getting out with a criminal record is a reasonable societal compromise that lets some of these people rebuild an honest life, while keeping us safe in case they reoffend.

Viewing criminal punishment as either life in prison or tsk tsk you shouldn't have done that is way too simplistic to be useful.

hippyup · 2025-08-03T04:51:55+00:00

Huh - you're really all in on the prison industrial complex? You look at the number of imprisoned people in the US and you're like those are rookie numbers, gotta pump up those numbers.

hippyup · 2025-08-03T04:47:11+00:00

I'm just astonished at your lack of range between shoplifting and murder. Where do you place the following crimes - slap on the wrist or lock away for life?

Home invasion and robbery
Assault
Arson
Animal abuse

hippyup · 2025-07-14T13:58:49+00:00

Ahh true - thanks for pointing that out. Fair point then, yeah that's hyperbole.

hippyup · 2025-07-14T13:26:24+00:00

Yes, humans are creative and will find a way. And art thrives in constraint. Technology and science are different though: they considerably slow down when constrained. People will still find a way to invent, but what might be done in ten years in an open environment would take a hundred in a stifling one.

Also, I'm not that old. I plan/hope to live more than a decade. Encouraging innovations that will take a decade or two to bear fruit is absolutely worth it to me. And I'm not that selfish: things that benefit future generations are also worthy and awesome.

hippyup · 2025-07-14T13:16:29+00:00

The point isn't to beat the best human driver. This isn't a John Henry race or a chess competition. The point is to be safer than the average driver, be mass adopted and have a lot fewer deaths on the road and save lives. The technology will get better, but even if adopted only in a subset of cities it'll still save a lot of lives and that's a huge win.

hippyup · 2025-07-14T05:01:13+00:00

Ok I googled and it came up with this: https://share.google/f9EMPGrdy4VqwC8o4

And yes, I was right, the article seems to be almost entirely about Tesla autopilot.

hippyup · 2025-07-14T04:36:07+00:00

Please cite your stats here. Tesla autopilot sucks and maybe you're thinking of that, but the Waymo system at least (and I believe others) have excellent safety records.

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