You do understand a significant portion of the population doesn’t have a dollar to spare when they live paycheck to paycheck, right?
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
You do understand a significant portion of the population doesn’t have a dollar to spare when they live paycheck to paycheck, right?
you just have to be someone that earns money.
Earns enough money to set some aside for retirement.
Only 32% of people have 401k accounts.
I’ll let the vast majority of Americans who can’t afford to save up a nest egg because of wealth inequality that they are doing it wrong.
Also the ones who choose to retire because of medical issues who have to spend any money not in a retirement account before insurance pays out that they did it right, but they are fucked anyway.
The system is shit even if there are ways for the well off to work around it.
So if the market crashes the year before I want to retire I should just put off retiring for another 30 years.
Needing to choose when to retire based on whether the stock market is up or down is a dogshit system.
$11k
Republicans stole the election in 2000, they are just dialing it up.
Why is Security Professional capitalized?
Do polls have bouncers?
It is far more likely that their expectations have changed.
It’s not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it’s leverage that enshittifies a service.
Technically more precise, but for companies the leverage doesn’t really exist without the outside capital. Musk taking over twitter was the use of capital to get the leverage.
I can’t think of any business where the owner did a 180 without catering to outside capital or the company being bought out by outside capital.
That out of the way, FSD sucks, and it’s getting worse, not better. When if first come out of beta it was okay. I remember describing it as driving with a teenager, they got the general idea, but would make bad decisions so you had to watch them. Years of updates later and it’s practically unusable to me. It tries to go way under or over the speed limit, it hesitates or slams on the brakes for green lights. It slams on the brakes for cars that pull out with plenty of gap but doesn’t even notice the risky merges. It can not seem to navigate intersections anymore, damn near stopping in the middle of a turn. It actually just updated yesterday and I tried it again, it took me less than 5 miles to disable it again. It is, in my opinion, a hazard to use. I talked to my partner about it and we both agree it didn’t used to be this bad.
Sounds like it still drives like a teenager!
Which of course is terrible since it should be improving over time.
Elon says a lot of things and they are all bullshit.
The ability to comprehend and make use of knowledge based on changing contexts. An algorithm doesn’t have the ability to understand why it is doing what it does, nor does it have a way to apply itself outside of a predefined context.
Yes?
Seriously though, the ‘do you mind’ questions like the one in the comic are really annoying to me because they are a two part question phrased for the part they don’t care about. It makes the answer confusing depending on whether it is tsken literally or not, since sometimes it is used that way.
"Do you mind if I use…’ is asking both if you can use and if the person minds. The general social expectation is that the person won’t admit to minding, and will allow the use. So in this comic catwoman is answering yes to using the bathroom, and not answering whether she cares, because the question is being asked indirectly in this context.
The ‘do you mind’ question a great example of why many neurodivergent people have such a hard time in social settings, keeping track of all of the contradictory social expectations that don’t make sense is tiring and not everyone is consistent.
The funny part is that due to experience, I read emails/internet comments with a lot of exclamation marks as someone being fake and snarky because that is the type of person I know in real life that uses excess exclamation marks. So for me it was extremely painful to force myself to use them when I think they are just there to placate people who are probably thinking that people who don’t use exclamation marks are meanies.
Yet few people understand that just like any other method of communication, using exclamation marks can mean either “bless your heart” in the loving way or the southern condescending way and they don’t actually clarify anything unless you know who is using it and in what context!
panel 3: is this guy freaking out about some baby in the bathtub pics?
panel 4: here’s Johnny!
I started using exclamation marks because of constant feedback that all sentences ending in periods is read as mean or something.
It is absolutely stupid needing to cater to people who read into things in the worst possible way, but it seems to be working.
For command vs questions, some people will feel obligated to treat any communication as a command and there isn’t anything I have found to avoid it. Just like how some people treat direct statements that something is required to mean it is optional.
Or I completely disagree with the idea of individuals investing for their retirement as a base expectation when the options available are not universal nor affordable for half the population.
Your post comes across as dismissive of anyone criticizing the current system.