ReallyKinda

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[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Also capitalists for some reason: Without the threat of unemployment or a pay incentive noone would ever be motivated to wash their dishes

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 25 points 5 months ago

Yeah and also your comment might be illegal in the US soon

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

That sounds like a great policy, hopefully other countries will follow suit!

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

Efficiency should correlate with leisure

 
[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 42 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Can we please also mandate landlords to update appliances in rental units if they’re not footing the electric/gas bill? So tired of paying obscene rates for inefficient appliances that I have no control over.

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

They both look great with a slight preference for #2 since it lets the illustration shine!

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The main power company in CA (PG&E) has built tons of other things into the bills aside from power generation, so I expect my bill (which has gone up 300% since 2018) to continue to climb despite this.

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

I took further right to be agree more and further left to be less agreement when I responded (in case it helps with data interpretation).

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes eggs crack when you boil them due to built up pressure, if you prick the shell first with a small pin prick it relieves the pressure (but the hole isn’t big enough for water to get into the egg).

 

something

 
[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

Another book that would interest people interested in this kind of thing is Seeing Like a State - James C Scott.

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

Very cool, going to check out the cited books

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Perhaps, if we’re lucky and we also move quickly to reduce (not financially ‘offset’) new pollution

 
 

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?

 

Dinner rolls, biscuits, etc.

 
 
 
 

I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software) and have been ingesting TV shows, games, and movies primarily from an xbox using various paid streaming apps for like 15 years. As streaming costs go up I’ve wanted to set up a media server compatible with playing stuff from the xbox and have had some friends suggest Plex so that we could potentially share media. People here seem partial to Jellyfin but the internet seems to feel it doesn’t work smoothly with xbox (buggy app/integration). Any suggestions for the most elegant setup possible for hosting a home server for streaming TV shows and movies from xbox?

 

I have a sense of how these decisions look in the board room— just curious what they look/feel like on implementation given that people presumably don’t enjoy putting in effort to make a thing worse, obviously don’t dox yourself and get in trouble at work!

 

I definitely consume too much dystopian content to be a fair dystopian barometer, but the sheer amount of ads being pushed my way is starting to make me feel legitimately anxious. It feels like a techno-dystopia where all of the neat and artistic elements have been extracted and then ground into dust for our corporate overlords. Even the ‘regular’ people are just trying to sell themselves. The streamers, the funny videos, the pet videos, the porn, the reposts of all of those, so much of it is just monetizing my attention.

Do ads even influence people that much? Does anyone even eat Church’s Chicken?! Do people consider switching their car insurance? I though the postmoderns were jumping the gun a little with the pictures they painted of a future with corporate logos and other advertisements spread across every visible surface, but now I have to see 5 ads and a cookie consent pop up to look up a quick definition. Watching a friend’s youtube video? 30 seconds of rapidfire ads from 15 brands. It’s starting to feel absurd. Are we going to be okay?

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