Right but it’s the specific use of the phrase “manipulating prices.”

Manipulating has a negative connotation, it’s a buzzword used often in capitalist propaganda. They’re not manipulating prices, they’re subsidizing the industry so that their people can reap the benefits of their taxes in a tangible way. The same way Americans subsidize farmers, and their EV industry. We just don’t subsidize it as much.

You’re absolutely right. If you search my account for “good ol boy” or “from Oklahoma” you’ll find a comment where I gave a more specific example of this. I didn’t give all of these details, but I stealthed basically my entire personality for about a year and half with him while poking and prodding at his beliefs in a “curious” manner until he started getting deeper into those bills on his own and forming his own opinions.

I mentioned in that comment that he became an LGBTQ ally along the way basically by accident. Gentle curiosity about someone’s beliefs is a great way to change them

Replied down the line, was my interpretation any more accurate?

I think the other party was slightly misunderstood. They don’t want to bundle up social media and make that the only option, they want to add a $40 hurdle to accessing the most popular forms of brain rot and leave the rest alone. At least that’s the vibe I got

I try really hard to not downplay the environmental effects that played into my depression journey when I give advice for this exact reason. You’re right, it’s not easy to fundamentally change the way you think to such a degree that your hormones change. It’s possible though. But it’s probably gonna need a disruption in your environment that you may or may not be able to facilitate. I got lucky, and my disruption happened to me so my journey was helped a lot

“S/He’s” takes 8 button presses to type on my keyboard. “They’re” takes 7.

Why did you decide not to use the formal term for a person of unknown gender in the third person? Why did you put in the extra effort to be less formal?

Lord, how I couldn’t agree more. There are so many conflicting studies about how humans sleep because there’s a fuckin lot of us and we each sleep a bit different. I, for example, can take a 30 minute nap and hit one REM cycle and then go at 100% for 4 hours. My partner needs to hit at least 3 REM cycles across 9 hours in order to feel okay for even one second of their day.

I love this advice, and I like to combine it with one other

“Take one more step”

It’s similar to “give 110%” but I don’t want you to burn out. Give me 80%, and then give me just one more step. Expand your capabilities in a comfortable range.

For this particular scenario: take it one more step and help them make the decision. I’m not gonna influence your decision, if I can avoid it. But I’ll be your rubber ducky and I’ll let you know when you need to pause for a second and gather your thoughts to find the solution.

Yeah, just having a microphone in the house with some predefined voice controls which you can go and change gives you all of the benefits of a Google home with none of the Google bullshit.

Especially now with LLMs getting so big, just go set up voice-to-text ollama session with predefined prompts and responses

Something about the horseshoe effect I’m sure. I’m the same way, I make the best of friends with conservative assholes. They care about family, water is thicker than blood, blah blah blah. It’s just the policies they vote for that I hate, which is also why I love just chatting about them. Gives me an opportunity to “know thy enemy” and have a chance to change their mind

Yeah, team pineapple might just end up being team kiwi too. That looks great to me

Government providing money to create innovative new tech and make it available at a lowe cost to their constituents

Manipulating the prices to be lower

I just wanted to point out the pervasiveness of capitalist propaganda here. They’re not manipulating prices, they’re helping their people. It just so happens that our capitalistic systems don’t do well when someone helps their neighbor because then we can’t abuse them.

Now don’t get me wrong though, I’m not gonna sit here and tell you the Chinese government does no wrong. But in just this particular case I think we’re picking the wrong battle

Literally every time I walk into work I look around and think to myself “One must imagine Sisyphus happy” and then go grab a cart

Because it’s funnier that way

I misread your tone cause of the way the other person reacted to my joke, apologies

Join the link

Not with the stars though right?

Spend 5 minutes creating a bash script

Spend 5 billion dollars on an overly complicated summarizer

Why the fuck would I wanna write bash

I recently picked up a factory job where I have to push heavy ass carts around all night. I’ve been thinking about Sisyphus a lot lately, but I know that if I get past this part the job turns into an idle game so that’s cool

What you’re describing is just a higher level of autonomy. If I remember correctly, you’re describing level 3 whereas Tesla’s are level 2. I believe VW made a level 3 proof of concept mini bus back around 2020 but the legislation doesn’t allow for the sensors in the road yet because… Oh that’s right. A level 2 car manufacturer owns like half the world right now which means nobody is allowed to innovate or do better than him. Huh, that sucks.

Robot parts

Why are we taking this so seriously? I don’t want to actually be the Borg. I want to be a socialist cyborg, and that’s what I meant in my first comment

Edit: okay I totally did say “I’d be a Borg” but I meant a socialist cyborg. My bad

I almost feel like you’re intentionally avoiding what I’m actually saying. I am not praising the Borg as an exemplar of a good society. I am saying that they happen to have one aspect that is also present in what would be a good society. In my first comment I acknowledged that what they do is not okay, and then jokingly compared assimilation to socialism because it has 2 similar properties. I oversimplified for the sake of a joke. You’re being an ass for no reason over a joke about cyborgs being kind of similar to socialism. The joke used the Borg as a subject but literally any cyborg lifeform would fit the bill because the mechanical parts provide the sustenance and protection the worker needs.