he said it was like tulip mania in The Netherlands

He’s not wrong.

To be fair there’s a lot of crypto currency that was/still is a scam. Also I’d argue that BTC, and crypto in general, still is being treated as a security that’s backed by thin air. Ie: it’s a speculative asset that doesn’t actually have any value.

There’s nothing really stopping BTC from crashing hard. It’s so wild to me how people treat it.

I could have bought bitcoin too when it was worth pennies but there was no way to know which crypto the whales were going to bet on for the pump and dump. It’s a missed opportunity but rest assured there’s plenty of universes where Bitcoin amounted to nothing.

But they did get fruit loop pieces with marshmallow used to “glue” them to the dispenser, so that’s pretty cute. I mean it’s a lot cuter to imagine than a bunch of horned up rats.

Counterpoint: there is plenty of poorly shot amateur porn that’s free on pornhub. I’ve done some research.

Woah I really expected it turn out she was trans and not a bigot, bullet dodged.

Just shoot someone and take their car running on gas, problem solved ez pz.

But seriously if you’re in a situation where our power grid has collapsed I don’t think the gas pumps are gonna work either. Besides you could still create a mobile charging solution using solar, I don’t think it’d be fast or anything but it might even be more viable than trying to get gasoline in a real shit hits the fan world.

Damn, I wonder if that person is legit schizophrenic or something like that

You are missing the story … What happened when she came back?

Your comment has literally nothing to do with the post. Pretty easy explanation.

You lost and/or a bot?

The oil supply & demand is affecting gas prices which is having a considerable effect on what people will spend on it.

I think that’s the right usage. I’m an old man and this shit still confuses me and I speak English natively..

I feel like you’re right that they should use affect but not right about your reasoning or the definition of effect.

As a dirty American, we just borrow schadenfreude from German usually in my experience.

There are English phrases that approximate it - like “taking enjoyment in another’s misery” but not really a word, at least one I can think of.

Or maybe a machine to do my laundry

Oh boy, do I have news for you!

Alt joke >!You mean a wife? !<

I’m sure everyone here gets the joke but y’know …

(Laughs in East India Company

I think it’s more like, any job you have in a capitalist system (which we live in especially in the USA) will result in enriching the borgeousie more than the laborers. Exceptions may apply for worker owned businesses but those are few and far between and even then usually there is still a hierarchy for pay that can be rather unequal in distribution.

Anyways idk that’s not really a question that has a simple answer but that’s just something off the top of my head.

For a funnier example, let’s say I wanted to murder you and a few other peeps just to have a good time. Society would prevent that through laws and punishment, of course the real thing stopping me is the hassle and chance I could get imprisoned and my own moral compass but it’s just a pithy example of where free will and society could intersect.

There’s an infinite number of examples of how society curbs individual behaviors.

Society?

Idk, probably just some tism on my part

Well you’ve come to the right place

It’s a bunch of jokes for our viewing pleasure? At least I think that’s what’s with them.

Nah bruh it’s cool just run the same prompt again and again and again, surely sooner or later it will be right. In no way is it going to do the opposite and just keep degrading with each output reading from the last one.

Semi related - You know, honestly, all AI is showing me is how absolute bullshit so many jobs are that we have in the corpo world. Like, at some point we’re gonna have an AI write a thing for an AI to read and file and there will be a little loop and then what the hell is the point of the job in the first place if it’s just machines sending things back and forth that’s just business class white noise.