Flower

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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 77 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Just one more thing losing contact with reality.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

could also be plain totalitarianism

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

The satan-net?

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago

The US denied its ship had been hit.

About the same vibe as this one:

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

That's how subsistence farmers were dragged into the market economy. Colonists liked doing that.

But this was also done in the past for military campaigns. Provisioning an army is hard work. It's easier if soldiers can buy stuff with gold along the way and the king demanding the gold back from the population. It's the more realistic way currency use formed instead of the "suppose we want to barter" story. Villagers not going along with the program got torched.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it usually means overstaffed with too expensive workers.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They assume AI is only to get much better and will be able to replace higher expertise levels every year until everybody developer is replaced.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago

It's the usual argument I guess.

EU: we'll do our own defense

USA: about time! Lazy bums!

EU: with our own weapons and we'll diversify trade for less risk

USA: how dare you! Our industry!

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

That means they'll gerrymander that 40% to the top, block votes from as many as they can from the 60% and ICE the people that would decrease that 40% even a bit.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

If you call into ATC they can give you your exact coordinates and ground speed.

Yeah, this just calls for the SR71 ground speed check story

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

Some brands are already trying to push ads on the car screen.

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