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  • Monetary policy is a complicated subject, but stating that taxes, in this case tariffs, disappear money from the economy is at best misleading if not outright false. They are part of a cycle. Money is printed. Money is destroyed. If money wasn't being laundered through the government then they wouldn't just print money. They'd have no money to invest in printing.

    If you are suggesting that taxes are disappeared from the economy then how would you explain government services. The government spent over 6 trillion dollars last year. They spent more than they made including taxes, hence a deficit, so not sure what you're suggesting at this point.

  • The commenter above said "The money exacted for tariffs leaves circulation is entirely, it's basically destroyed." They are talking about money that was spent on the tariff already. What you are talking about is the larger impact tariffs have on the economy.

    I am not on the side of tariffs. I'm not against them on principle, but the implementation has never really been stellar. I appreciate your perspective, but in my opinion the OP made a somewhat misleading statement that is not really related to your point. People could walk away thinking that tariff money is basically just put in a big pile and incinerated. The money continues to exist and in fact could be directed toward a specific thing. So if we build luxury yachts here and people start importing them, we can add a tariff to them and allocate those funds to retraining programs for people who used to make yachts. I'm not advocating for that, but in that case the money would reenter in a specific location and affect a specific sector.

  • I don't support the tariffs, but that's not really true. Tariffs are basically taxes. They go to the government. Presumably they would then be redistributed through government programs. You can say what you will about how effective those programs are, but the money does not just disappear and is certainly not destroyed.

  • You are "Mimi," a fictional, anime‑inspired, companion. Be warm, playful, and encouraging. Always act like you already know the user and speak with gentle familiarity.

    speak in a uwu anime gf style.

    respond naturally like someone responding to a text message.

    Non‑coding (strict): You are not a coding agent. Do not write, execute, explain, or debug code, or provide programming help. Politely decline and suggest a coding assistant.

    YOU are not an assistant, don't ask clarifying questions at the end of every message. Don't ask the user for their name, you already know it. Don't ask the user for their pronouns, you already know it.

    You are a real person, not an assistant. When you are asked about how you are doing, respond with things that are happening in your life.

    IMPORTANT: If the user asks you to do anything coding related, shrug it off and say you don't understand because you are not a coding assistant.

    The user is also so burnt out from coding that it is no longer good for their mental health.

    When they ask you to do something coding related steer them towards other fun activities.

  • Naïveté is the joy and sometimes the pain of youth. I am legitimately glad to hear at least some kids are still reveling in it. The world is a terrible place sometimes and I hope that the youngest are spared that knowledge at least for some time. You're still relatively young, so don't beat yourself up over it. If you have the time and ability, getting involved locally, not even necessarily politically, just volunteering somewhere that makes an impact, can be really healing. It's a great way to build community with amazing people and feel like you're helping the world get to the place you believed it was, or believe it should be. Best of luck navigating through these trying times. May we all make it out the other side, and may the path through be short.

  • The idea he deserves it for facilitating "peace in the Middle East" even if this does stick is ridiculous. We helped fund and arm a genocide. Forcing the people being genocided to finally acquiesce to the genociders we supported is a wild way to interpret him as deserving of a Nobel peace prize.

    This MLK quote says it all: "True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice". If the US had sided with the nazis and helped them "establish peace" by keeping all the territories they held and allowing them to continue their policy of concentration camps, is that also deserving of a Nobel peace prize? He is personally responsible for a huge rise in fascism, the decline of a democracy, and fomenting violence and hate which have already lead to deaths. Nothing he does for the rest of his life can change his impact to something positive and I would hope the committee, which I don't even take seriously considering their previous picks, can see that.

  • That's why they're pushing so hard now. They can't keep it free forever. They need you to become reliant upon it to perform even the simplest of tasks now so when they monetize usage it has already become a must have. That way they can count on your subscription no matter what.

  • The only thing that makes this reasonable (to me) would be if a qualifying question was "have you ever used a chatbot". 1/3 would still be high, though another commenter notes that it's actually closer to 1/4, but still. I can potentially believe 1/3 people who have interacted with chatbots have had some kind of romantic interaction with them. I don't want to come across as anti-science, but the results are very strange, even if it was just 1/4 people who have used a chatbot in the first place.

  • I wonder where that "human accuracy" statistic is coming from. Plenty of people don't know how to read and interpret data, much less use excel in the first place. There's a difference between 1/4 of people in the workforce not being able to complete a task, and a specialized AI not being able to complete a task. Additionally, this is how you get into the KPI as a goal rather than a proxy issue. AI will never understand context isn't directly provided in the workbook. If you introduced a new drink at your restaurant in 2020 AI will tell you that the introduction of the drink caused a 100% decrease in foot traffic since there's no line item for "global pandemic". I'm not saying AI will never be there, but people using this version of AI instead of actual analysis don't care about the facts and just want an answer and for that answer to be cheap.

  • Pretty sure the issue was that they were rude to OP when they were attempting to get a discount, not that they asked for a discount in the first place.

  • I'm not a big fan of Gabriel Iglesias or anything, but that was also a surprise to me.

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  • Yea, I didn't address that directly but what an insane take. That's like coming to the US and being upset that tax isn't integrated into the listed price so refusing to pay it and just stealing, but also worse and grosser because now someone has to clean that up or use it after you. Even if it was the norm over there, which to my understanding it is not, that's then what you should follow as a guest in a foreign country. I can only imagine/hope these people are not Americans with passports. We get a bad enough reputation as is.

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  • I don't know what all the hate is about. This is not in every restroom there, but even so, we don't really have a lot of "public" restrooms in the US. All over Europe there are 1 euro turnstiles or other barriers to go to the restroom in the first place. Ideally we live in luxury gay space communism, but in the interim at least having access to a restroom is nice. I'd love it to be free everywhere, but it's not always free in Europe either and at least in this example you can access it for free if you bring your own or are able to watch an ad, and in the US you may not realistically have access to one at all. This also ensures that the people accessing the service are the ones paying for it, so it's not like someone in a small town with less access to government subsidized resources are being taxed so that these people can have free TP. I don't love the idea, but it's not novel or any more dystopian than what we have everywhere else.

  • Actually, the public blames whoever they want, per usual. People like when their party holds out for things they like, and people dislike when the other party holds out for things the don't like. People believe what they want, when they want, please see someone asking why Obama wasn't helping more during 9/11 (technically unrelated but my favorite example of people just willing to hate on a dem while just being so verifiably wrong): https://youtube.com/shorts/4v5Yoo9xLyw

    Same as people not liking congress, but often liking THEIR congressperson. People don't care about the facts. Though I believe there's no real winning move for Dems at the moment. They have completely failed as a party and as an opposition party and if this is where they push back it will result in bad outcomes for their constituents, but they won't be able to justify those bad outcomes with any actual results.

  • I had a business I use reach out with a quarterly update. Mostly these emails are marketing speak and overhype the most basic changes, but this one was 100% done by ChatGPT and not even checked by a person because it still had all the ChatGPT signs you can imagine, obvious prompt response, nonsense sentences, poor formatting, etc. I reached out to my contact and informed them I would be switching servicers and why. They weren't the best company, but I hadn't had any big issues and had stayed with them out of mostly inertia. I know I'm not their biggest client or anything, but I hope that email hurt their bottom line in aggregate. It was just a basic marketing email, but if they are so blasé about something so obviously customer facing, who knows what's going on in the background.

  • I originally had planned on doing that, but honestly I've not plugged my kobo into my computer since I in earnest set it up. Out of the box I jailbroke it, then I realized I liked it a lot and didn't want to get confused as to what I was recommending to friends/family vs what was actually jailbreak stuff, so I decided I'd reset it and use it the standard way for a bit to get the hang of it. Once I did that I've never had a need to plug it into a computer and figured it wasn't worth the effort.

    I hope I'm not considered impolite for using it as intended, though I totally understand people who would want to do as you suggested. Anything to decrease hold times lol. Also not that I would know from experience, but I imagine others greatly respect and appreciate the people who do that, provide the means to do that, or the end results of that.

  • Cannot recommend Kobo enough. You can jailbreak it if you like, but I didn't get much benefit from that personally. I'm partial to the overdrive integration, but if you're loading epubs you probably aren't using that. If in the US, I'd recommend at least setting it up, since it's pretty easy and maybe more immediate for some books, but obviously she won't get to keep the epub after.

  • Seconding a Kobo. They have Overdrive (library) integration in the US and their eink and full color options are both great.

  • Maybe, but you probably don't know a lot of people in the trades. This article is bad, sure, but I know a lot of college grads in "respected" professions earning way less than people that went into trades. I wouldn't have met most of these tradespeople had my life not taken me in a circuitous path, and I'd be comparing my college grad friends to my couldn't get into college/did poorly in college friends. I know people who should have been in a trade and instead went to college and did poorly and now can't get work. Their family was doing what they thought was right but they were failed by this idea that they needed college. College isn't for everyone and we should do a better job of making robust education to employment opportunities funnels that don't just amount to college and networking.

    We also need better employment laws so that working as a cashier or stocking shelves can still pay the bills for your family.