ImplyingImplications 16h ago • 100%
ImplyingImplications 16h ago • 100%
I give you cash, then you give me cash, what are we doing here?
This is why I don't give people gifts and tell others not to give me gifts. Holidays arent about gifts. If I do get a gift, I give it back to them the next year. Bonus points for giving it back in the exact same gift bag. After a decade of this, people have finally stopped giving me gifts!
ImplyingImplications 16h ago • 93%
Peanut butter out of the jar.
ImplyingImplications 16h ago • 100%
ImplyingImplications 17h ago • 100%
People in China have pets.
So many strange cultural traditions over there!
ImplyingImplications 17h ago • 100%
DankChristianMemes I hope!
ImplyingImplications 1d ago • 100%
This made me curious as to how many different legal systems there were. This wiki page has a global map of systems. Surprisingly, there isn’t a lot of variety. Most legal systems tend to be based on legislation (called civil law, originating in Rome), court rulings (called common law, originating in Britain), religious texts (called canon for christian, sharia for muslim, and halakha for jewish), or some mixture of those.
ImplyingImplications 1d ago • 100%
My mother used to say she felt like she had "foggy brain" a lot. Turned out she had sleep apnea.
ImplyingImplications 2d ago • 100%
Poor little British man
ImplyingImplications 2d ago • 100%
How are they still in business? Every single farmer, bar none, has to know about their business practices
Wendover Productions has a decent video on John Deere's market dominance. tl;dw It's by cutthroat capitalism of course.
John Deere has bought out all their competitors and continues to do so. Every single breakthrough in farming equipment technology in the last decade is owned by John Deere. As a farmer, you either choose to sign a one-sided contract with John Deere or you use outdated inefficient equipment that John Deere hasn't purchased the patent rights to. Or, of course, you sell your farm all together. Large corporate farms don't care much about the John Deere contract since they have the power to negotiate a better deal. A lot of small farmers have been making the choice to sell out.
Soon, all farming will be done by one megacorp, buying their seed from Monsanto, using John Deere equipment, and cashing in a ridiculously fat subsidy cheque from the government.
ImplyingImplications 2d ago • 100%
Economics really sucks at accounting for the value of human life. I remember there was a study on the financial impacts that smokers have on society. The idea going in was that smokers would get health issues which would cause a financial drain on societies which pay for people's healthcare. The study actually found that smokers weren't a drain at all. Smokers tended to die quickly, meaning no chronic health treatments. More importantly, they died young. Meaning they didn't cash in their government pensions. Governments were essentially profiting off smokers. The study did another analysis, this time putting in a fake number for the "value of life" and the result was as expected. Smoking is a negative because it kills people.
ImplyingImplications 3d ago • 100%
There was a jogging app known as Strava that posted an image on their Twitter that was a heatmap of all the jogging activities of all of their users. Their idea was just to show how popular their app was by showing the entire world lit up. Twitter users were able to locate secret US military bases on that data alone. Turns out nobody jogs in circles in the middle of the desert except GIs.
Recently a group of Harvard students did a demo where they used Meta's camera glasses and a chain of commercial programs and products to find out people's names, address, workplaces, and family based only on their facial data.
These are just two examples off the top of my head. Essentially, the more data someone can accumulate, the more info can be analyzed from it. With things like AI tools, that analysis is incredibly fast even with huge datasets.
ImplyingImplications 3d ago • 95%
The computer was probably cheating too. Creating AI that understands the strategy of resource management is hard so most devs just give the computer a steady stream of resources and faster build times. That way the computer doesn't need to worry about planning, they can just spam build.
ImplyingImplications 3d ago • 100%
He's throwing you a few bucks so that you will ignore the billions of dollars of graft his government is committing.
It's amazing how little people need to be bribed to ignore serious offenses. Recently, TD bank got hit with a massive $3 billion fine for money laundering. They admitted to aiding in laundering $670 million from likely criminal sources. What's more is that bank staff were paid a total of $57,000 in gift cards to not report the large undisclosed payments and transfers. Fraud likely in the billions being ignored by bribes in the ten thousands.
ImplyingImplications 3d ago • 100%
It also helps to have so much wealth you don't need to worry over things like affording food and housing.
ImplyingImplications 3d ago • 100%
If you really want some trauma, checkout The Planetarian visual novel.
ImplyingImplications 4d ago • 100%
Really dodged a bullet by not going with "Auto Goon"
ImplyingImplications 4d ago • 82%
Yes, and the most outspoken Gamers™ represent a minority. There's a reason studios don't pander to them.
ImplyingImplications 4d ago • 100%
You don't have the right, O You don't have the right!
I've recently started using the Boost for Lemmy app on my phone and it's amazing. I was using Liftoff before but I'm switching over. However, I've noticed an issue. When I browse through communities using Liftoff I see a lot more posts and comments than when I use Boost. I figured this was an issue with Boost at first, but when I used my computer to edit these screenshots I noticed the same thing happens in my browser! Opening up https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy I see all the posts that Liftoff shows. Of course I'm not logged in since my account is on Lemmy.ca. When I log into Lemmy.ca and view the community though: https://lemmy.ca/c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world I only see the posts that Boost shows! Many posts are now missing! I figured this is an issue with Lemmy.ca blocking stuff. But wait! The most recent post (titled "Bug: Hiding all read posts also hides...") has the URL https://lemmy.world/post/6954944 which, of course, does not allow me to comment on since I'm not logged in. If I search for that post through Lemmy.ca I find the equivalent post with the URL: https://lemmy.ca/post/7377534 which now allows me to comment on it through my Lemmy.ca account. Does any one know what's going on here? Clearly Lemmy.ca can "see" all the posts in the BoostForLemmy community on Lemmy.world. Even Liftoff manages to show all of them! So why does my browser and Boost for Lemmy not show everything unless I specifically search it out?
I made this a while back to use as a background for my phone. What do you think?