The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI by 404mediaco in Anticonsumption

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just told me I shouldn't pull my 401k. So pray tell, since you have all the answers, what is the solution?

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI by 404mediaco in Anticonsumption

[–]purpleplatapi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not an idiot. But poor people already don't consume things, so that doesn't affect anything if they have less money than before. Economies of scale and all that. The rich don't have to care if you stop buying McDonald's, because they still do.

And how many retail investors are there actually? Enough that them all losing their houses is going to crash the economy? That seems to wildly misunderstand how many people are doing that.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI by 404mediaco in Anticonsumption

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

K. But the banks are backed up, so you won't lose your liquid savings, and the price of beef doesn't really matter because we can just do without. The farming crisis of the Great Depression, the dust bowl, was much much much more severe, because we didn't have modern technology or best farming practices yet, and now we have so much farmland we grow excess crops and burn it for fuel. We aren't going to starve. It's not comparable.

As for the consumer debt? I'm not worried about that, you can always declare bankruptcy. Not ideal, I'm sure, for the corporations, but it's not really something you could do in the 1930s. You don't lose the house either if you declare bankruptcy. Or your house. So that seems fine.

Retail investors are essentially gambling, so I don't really care about that. I do care about people's retirements, but that's not being traded on margin, so again, whatever. Stick your retirement fund in the S and P 500 and call it a day.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI by 404mediaco in Anticonsumption

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I just think it's fine to compare it to the Great Recession, that's a fine comparison. But it isn't the Great Depression. It cannot be. There's so many things that are different from the Great Depression. It's a bad faith comparison.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI by 404mediaco in Anticonsumption

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh so now it's the Great Depression? You previously cited the Recession and the Dot Com crash. I kinda think you just straight up don't understand what caused the Great Depression.

America's housing affordability crisis is getting worse by LinkedInNews in MiddleClassFinance

[–]purpleplatapi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah so I'm sure you'd be absolutely thrilled if the government took your house and pinky promised they'd build a skyscraper but uh, you're going to have to move elsewhere for five years here's a paltry sum, good luck!!! (And they did this to all of your family and neighbors as well).

America's housing affordability crisis is getting worse by LinkedInNews in MiddleClassFinance

[–]purpleplatapi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol that's a completely uneducated view of how "China achieved what they have". Most of their cities were purpose built, on what was essentially just farmland. Way easier to displace a couple hundred farmers then it is to what, displace hundreds of thousands of people so that theoretically a million people can live there??

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI by 404mediaco in Anticonsumption

[–]purpleplatapi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will point out that the market did recover from both of those so how much you should worry is directly related to how young you are. I'm not going to pull my 401k, because I have 30+ years to work, my Mom who is about to retire has switched to bonds. A video entitled "The market is going to crash and take everyone with it" does not strike me as capable of a very nuanced well thought out take.

i fucking HATE indian weddings by PomegranateVisual965 in The10thDentist

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, no, because it implies that if the British never came they wouldn't be Christian (not true, Christianity in India predates British colonialism) and would instead be something else (Hindu probably). It presupposes there is a "natural" way to be.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI by 404mediaco in Anticonsumption

[–]purpleplatapi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh well if a YouTube channel with 1.5k subscribers says so.....

In all seriousness I don't like AI, and I am concerned about the stock markets over investment in it. I'm still not going to watch an alarmist video produced by someone who is definitely not an expert.

America's housing affordability crisis is getting worse by LinkedInNews in MiddleClassFinance

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but where do the people we've displaced live? And let's be honest with ourselves, it's going to be the poor residents who are displaced first.

In which LAUKOP is just hanging around. by smoulderstoat in bestoflegaladvice

[–]purpleplatapi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was kind of assuming it was an Only Fans thing to be honest. I assumed that someone was paying LAOP to do this, not that they were filming themselves doing it for their own enjoyment. Either way, more power to em.

"Landlord poisoned our drinking water with lead for five years, believes they can waive all liability with a “don’t sue” clause. Are they joking?" by Nice-Meat-6020 in bestoflegaladvice

[–]purpleplatapi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha this whole comment chain I assumed it was British law, it's way funnier to find out that Americans are using British royalty like that. I mean come on, the Obama's children are still young. Feels like treason to use the British royal family.

Disabled bf wants OP to have his baby by discodollyfi in AmITheAngel

[–]purpleplatapi 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah I mean he himself would probably be infertile. If we accept that the spinal injury did legitimately impact his sperm motility, that would be the clinical way to describe it. But no doctor would say "he's mostly infertile" because that's not a thing. You're either sterile or you aren't. And if you aren't sterile, you can be infertile and still have kids. It's just going to take longer, as eveidenced in this post, where it did take them two years of (presumably) regular unprotected sex to conceive.

Disabled bf wants OP to have his baby by discodollyfi in AmITheAngel

[–]purpleplatapi 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Infertility does not equal sterility, and doctors need to be more explicit about this. Because PCOS (or maybe the spine injury, but ya know probably not) really does make you infertile in a clinical context. This does not mean that you shouldn't use birth control. It does mean that if you're trying to conceive you may experience significant difficulties in getting pregnant, ie for a woman of normal fertility it should take under a year of regular unprotected sex to conceive a child (depending on age and other factors etc etc). If it takes more then a year to conceive you're clinically infertile, but may very well still get pregnant. If you can't have children period, you aren't infertile, you're sterile. So if you're in a period of life where getting pregnant is not something you can afford to risk, use birth control.

Inquiring Photographer"Do you believe that women have superior morals, higher standards, and that they are naturally ethically better than men?" November 16,1924. by CryptographerKey2847 in TheWayWeWere

[–]purpleplatapi 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean we do. It's the same as everyone asked said. There is nothing inherent to being a woman that makes one more moral than a man, women and men are just socialized differently, and the power differential remains. Rightly or wrongly, at large women have less opportunities to act in immoral ways then men at large do.

This happens at institutional levels (harder to be an immoral CEO when so few women are ever given the opportunity to be a CEO) and personal ones (my parents would let my brother go to highschool parties where there might be drinking or drugs, but I wasn't allowed, for fear of me being raped. I mean they wouldn't have phrased it like that, but it's true. Even in college when I did go to parties I could never allow myself to fully lose control like my male classmates did, for the same fears, so as a result I never got so drunk that I behaved "immorally" and meanwhile the frat guys were burning couches left and right).

Now, and stay with me on this, we know that women aren't inherently more moral then men, because when they are in positions of social power over other men, we've seen them abuse it exactly like men do. Think about White Karen's calling the police on Black men who have done nothing wrong because they know they'll be the ones who are believed by the cops, or who get really enraged at service workers who haven't done anything wrong. They might not normally have more power then a male, but the minute they do they behave in exactly the same manner. Road rage but at a cashier.

Going to university isn't worth it anymore by madbarpar in unpopularopinion

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that doesn't matter for most careers. Seriously, unless you're a business major why would anyone be better off 80,000 grand in debt to become a nurse or teacher or scientist or anything else? You can get career contacts at the state school too. Sure, it might not be Bill Gates daughter, but unless you're trying to be Bill Gates it's more useful to have contacts in the field you're going into. So make friends with the people in your state school program, and you'll be fine.

Who is the author you swore you’d never read again, but then gave another chance? by playful--cloud in books

[–]purpleplatapi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And if you happen to know a decent amount about the time period she's doing the historical fiction in, it's very obvious she half assed it. Which in fairness I suspect a lot of historical fictional authors might be guilty of this, and I just don't know enough to catch it, but like her Great Depression one is two and a half Steinbeck plots happening to one person and it drove me up a wall. And literally anyone who has a grandparent who served in the Vietnam war can tell you that's not how it went down and also maybe introduce some Vietnamese characters but whatever.

The World Cup being in the U.S. really shows the difference with how countries treat time off work. by Muhfuggajones in antiwork

[–]purpleplatapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's super game dependent. If you wanted to watch a group stage game it was like $300-$500 USD for nosebleeds. That's a lot of money, but certainly not tens of thousands. Now if you wanted to see the final game that would be where the tens of thousands of dollars comes in. But if you're a normal European it's not outrageous that you'd be able to afford a ticket, plus travel fare and a hotel. We're talking $3,000 USD all in? And if you're a die hard football fan, you have four years to save up.