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This was exactly my point. Money is real because having a common item that everyone agrees is valuable, which can be used to trade for goods and services universally is a boon for society.

Functionally, it doesn’t matter if money is just some special paper, or a handful of metal discs or some number displayed on a computer screen, even if those things are technically worthless without people to ascribe value onto them.

This is also correct, but a different problem.

If there isnt enough money moving in circulation, it typically means that people are saving it for hardship rather than spending, which is in turn a sure sign of a poor economy.

The rich assholes at the top have been able to basically trust that smarter people will handle policies to prevent a major depression. Anyone that was old enough to remember the last one is dead now. Anyone that lives quarter to quarter doesn’t care about market conditions 90 years ago.

This is only true in the abstract. Yes, you are technically correct. Money only has value because a large enough group of people agree that it does.

But money is a shared token that describes the value of someone’s time and effort which can be exchanged for goods and services. It’s a common thing that can be bartered that everyone will accept. It’s an incredibly useful thing for a society to have.

Its a matter of scale. If labs went through pipette tips the same way that fast food joints went through plastic straws, they’d be banned too.

Non-LTSC Windows 10 hits EOL next month. They’re telling you you need to upgrade to the latest version to stay current, albeit in the most Microsoft way possible.

“I’m sorry that you’re all scared to call a nazi a nazi, even after he’s dead and cant hurt you anymore. Here’s the shiniest nickel I could find to help with the burial”

The generation where those shows have been on TV for their entire life are turning 30.

The generation that was part of the target audience for said shows when they were new are approaching 50.

Broadcast management needs to be ignored by the current administration more than they need someone who will speak truth to power.

With the footholds the GOP have right now, Trump is basically America’s first king. Things need to change pretty drastically to fix this.

Nor did he leave a USB stick containing sensitive design data and camgirl porn at a Medieval Times

Things are looking up for ol’ Randy

It’s the barrier to entry.

Spinning up your own social media platform is pretty easy in the grand scheme of things, but populating that platform is challenging. Doubly so if you want the platform to have topics beyond how good Linux is.

Furries have managed to carve out their own spaces on basically every platform and develped a subculture all on the outskirts of mainstream social media

an angry child waving a gun is still dangerous

More than half of these people are over 30. None are younger than 25.

All of the founding fathers save for Adams and Washington were younger than this when the declaration of independence was signed.

What’s the over/under that Arkansas farmers actually learn from this and stop voting Republican?

If my calculator was wrong 10% of the time, but always produced a result that “felt” correct, that would be worse than not using a calculator at all.

Same thing for power tools or spell check.

Have you?

Vegas used to be a pretty cheap destination for a vacation that saw a ton of profit from the sheer amount of people that funneled there.

It used to be that you would sometimes get buffet and drinks comped if you spent enough time gambling, and that incentive would keep you in that casino continuing to gamble instead of going to a different place. The cost of a buffet meal and a couple highballs was a small price to pay to keep someone at the tables for another couple hours.

Now(within the last 15 years), Vegas is leaning away from being the worldwide gambling destination and leaning more into fine dining and live shows. This has changed the entire economy there and everything is crazy expensive if you’re anywhere near the strip.

This is all to say nothing about the drop in tourism in general because you might just get assaulted when you enter the country by some twat from ICE if your skin is darker than a hotel towel.

The pathological need to find something to use LLMs for is so bizzare.

Venture capital dumped so much money into the tech without understanding the full scope of what it was capable of. Now they’re so in so deep that they desperately NEED to find something profitable it can do, otherwise they’ll lose the farm.