Might be more common with the spike in gas prices, gotta take “savings” where you can get them

No, you don’t need to pay attention now because of Tesla autopilot, it’ll drive for you /s

One thing some people fail to consider is the personnel costs. Crewing an aircraft for 2 hours is half the price of crewing a train for 4 hours to get the same distance.

You’re also discounting your labor as a driver. Driving takes attention whereas on a train you can just kick back and relax.

Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.

Idk if this is a joke, but “ran through” is what the kids these days use to degrade promiscuous women, eg “she’s been ran through a lot”

Never stop for an orb.

There are plenty of EVs below the median price Americans are paying for new cars ~$50k. People aren’t buying EVs because they don’t like them / the dealerships aren’t pushing them, not the price as they’re willing to shell out even more for a top of the line pickup.

It’s not fair competition if labor standards are far lower in the country being imported from.

Yeah, but it’s not like opera attendance right now is spread very equally. At that point you have to ask is it more unjust that a janitor can’t afford to see the show he’s put work into, or someone can’t see the show because they weren’t able to get an in.

Who decides, who gets to help…

The workers do, hiring and firing decisions are either voted on by the troupe or by elected representatives of the troupe. Same with all the excess tickets, which would probably be split by how much labor you put into the production. So maybe you can’t get a job in the opera, but maybe you can babysit for the director while they’re working late and they’ll give you a ticket. In this sense the audience becomes more of a community because all of them have some sort of connection to the performance, and all of them get to see the fruits of there labor. As opposed to now where you’re alienated from the production and your only connection to the show is through purchasing a ticket. That community connected by labor will get more satisfaction from the opera then an audience of ticket buyers.

Acidity does damage to tooth enamel

Sugar does damage to tooth enamel

So I guess it’s multiplication and two negatives make a positive ?

Kropotkin also goes into this, the idea is that once we re organize labor and get rid of all the middlemen, rent seekers, dead weight etc. We’ll only have to work ~4 hours a day for necessities. That leaves an additional 4 hours of leisure time. You can use that new leisure time to work on art, music etc. especially the background labor that people often ignore. You want a canvas to paint on? Go to the art workshop and help them out for a day and they’ll give you a canvas. Want tickets to the opera? Go work on setting up the stage, lights etc. and they’ll give you a ticket. Want a toy, go put in some hours with santas elves and help to make some toys and you’ll get one in return.

How feasible is this? Probably not as much any more. Kropotkin doesn’t value specialization very highly, which makes sense as he was writing about Russia in the 1800s where most work was unskilled brute force labor like farming and working in a factory. Back then it was maybe possible for you to show up to the piano workshop and they could give you some menial job that would help them out. Now all the menial work is done by robots and machines and you need a decent amount of technical knowledge to be able to help out at the piano factory.

Anarchism has trouble dealing with specialization. While it increases efficiency, now more than ever, it also inevitably leads to classes and eventually a hierarchy of labor. Before they thought maybe mass education would fix this, as everyone would know a bit of everything and could help everywhere, but as education has expanded so has the complexity of the system, and the knowledge needed to be a functional part of that system.

Kropotkin says that you should use your labor to help out the video game co-op and then they’ll give you the game. If we organize labor better we’d only have to work 4 hours a day for necessities, so the other 4 hours can be used to work on other projects and in return you’ll get the products of that labor.

Kropotkin goes into in “the conquest of bread”, his argument is that our main priority as a society should be getting everyone’s needs met. Once everyone’s needs are met wages aren’t really necessary as you are being provided food, housing etc. based on your need. At that point wages and money can only cause problems in the commune as it would only be for accumulation, and if someone starts accumulating money they also accumulate power, which challenges the equality of everyone in the commune.

Maybe the commune can collectively hold currency or gold to exchange with other communes, but if you give individuals that currency that is private property ( in the Marxist sense ) and should be removed to protect anarchy.

Now way to know if it’s coke, they could be snorting sugar to pretend to be rich.

Only one way to find out.

Can someone explain to me why this is bad?

It’s a separate app so you don’t have to engage with it if you don’t want to

It’s helping people to control their experience, which IMO is a good thing

This is also probably helping with the development of the platform in general, if someone has a good UI idea but doesn’t have the technical know how to implement it, now they can. They can then test it out, refine it, share it and then maybe it gets added to the main UI. Same with feed algorithms. It makes development more bottom up.

Was it artificial scarcity or actual scarcity? Bluesky is and has been orders of magnitude larger then mastodon and scaling to that size probably takes time. If they took all the twitter refugees at once it’s probably crash the server.

Speaking as someone who just vibe coded a client for lemmy, no matter how customizable you make your UI it will not be as customizable as having an LLM edit the code directly. The UI I wanted was completely different then the scroll based UI that most current lemmy clients have so the only way to make it was through vibe coding. You can check it out at stakswipe.com and you’ll see there was no way to customize a standard scroll based interface to have the same swiping behavior.

Also customizable UIs tend to be very menu heavy, so yeah you may be able to move the like button to the top right of the post, but to do so you’ll have to navigate through three layers of menus and settings to get there. Whereas with AI you can just type " move the like button to the top right". Customizing using natural language you know is a way better experience then figuring out a bunch of configuration and templating software that’s different for each app.

yeah, but there were probably a lot of slave owners who lived in the UK and got a pay out, and passed it on to there descendants.

I’d help if only I had a printer

The bar is so low and they still manage to limbo under it