blatman posted:

the only conventional oil is whale oil

Chad Sexington posted:

TikTok algorithm knows I got laid off I guess because I'm getting vids about how companies are using layoffs to "reset" wages to pre-2020 levels and how a 1099 career with no benefits is a good thing actually.

e: SNIPE FOR NUBMER

Twigand Berries posted:

https://www.kplctv.com/2024/04/02/im-trying-give-you-better-deal-customer-pulls-gun-burger-king-employee-giving-him-discount/?outputType=amp

People want to pay more

The Oldest Man posted:

I think anyone who believes unions in the capitalist empire can be a tool for more than short term wins for members needs to answer to the failure of the Seattle general strike and other instances of radical trade unionism catching the car that didn't translate into any more revolutionary change because oops that's not what the working class in the imperial core actually wants

Hubbert posted:

drat, Dr. Hubbert looks like a dumbass if we just simply change the definition of conventional oil to include tight oil for american purposes (which was never included in the first place)

next up: tar sands and kerogen have always been conventional sources, checkmate doomers

Chad Sexington posted:

TikTok algorithm knows I got laid off I guess because I'm getting vids about how companies are using layoffs to "reset" wages to pre-2020 levels and how a 1099 career with no benefits is a good thing actually.

e: SNIPE FOR NUBMER

webcams for christ posted:

loved the analogy of Human-Produced Text with Fossil Fuels in this substack:

it goes on and ends in a different, less intersting direction ("and that is why we should ban tiktok" lmao), but I like the turn of phrase

and what's really amusing is that none of these firms seem interested in investing into the real bottleneck for advance in "AI", which is Machine Perception. Training data and models still requires a vast, vast amount of labor hours' worth of labeling and validation by humans. if we could get machines to percieve the world directly without less an less human input that could solve the current problem! but no, let's just keep brute-forcing larger and larger models on top of each other I'm sure it will go great

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/WSJ/status/1777383669998432403

Cup Runneth Over posted:

as you know, conditions in the imperial core have not changed in over 100 years

The Oldest Man posted:

yeah now the workers demand fascism

Nonsense posted:

China's fall has begun

bedpan posted:

I ask for it by name at the supermarket

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Casey Finnigan posted:

Isn't Roblox the game where a kid can fall off some lovely obstacle course and then get hit with a prompt to spend 5 dollars to respawn?

I hope my nephew and niece don't get into that poo poo

SKULL.GIF posted:

Every time the empire's puppets visit China they're deliberately never photographed anywhere where you can see Chinese society growing or using technology:

Yup:



Can't let your pig serfs know there's a better alternative!

Consolidated Ed posted:

surely this product exists already

webcams for christ posted:

pihole. it's free and I plan on doing exactly that when we have kiddos

aw frig aw dang it posted:

the secret's out now. we all know about the high-quality industrial-grade glycine made by Donghua Jinlong. can't keep that under wraps

mawarannahr posted:

trad genz electrician punts millennial frontend engineer who still identifies as a feminist metrosexual back into into the 20th century with Eastern Catholic (Byzantine rite) liturgical magic [based]

aw frig aw dang it posted:

the secret's out now. we all know about the high-quality industrial-grade glycine made by Donghua Jinlong. can't keep that under wraps

Xaris posted:

grinding up all the trees and selling it to germany as "biofuel" so they can self-congratulatory jack themselves off over how green and progressive they are

as for the space.. well....... it's all owned by a couple corporate rockefeller holdings. tbf the only jobs are in like vancour+toronto+montreal* (barely) and those are already sprawled to the brim

canada is a really good case study for capitalism and how immigration is used by the plutocrats to filthily enrich themselves at the expense of the proletariat. borders are fake and shouldn't exist, but if have a hyper-capitalist society where accumulation of private property is at the pinnacle and everythings hyper-privatized, then the plutocrats can use it to become even more bloated parasites on housing/utilities and suppress domestic labor wages at the same time. if you are a prole without understanding of material conditions and the political economy, you simply just see everything getting worse around you and start chanting build da wall! and voting increasingly far right-wing for whoever makes lip-service about stopping it because lol liberals are never ever going to admit the root problem of it all is capitalism's fault

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-z-splurge-groceries-spending-inflation-gen-z-boomers-2024-4

Consolidated Ed posted:

sometimes i wonder how much money you could make selling a rebranded version of those enterprise dns security services that let you easily block entire domains or site categories to anxious parents. bundle it with an expensive and low effort onboarding service, charge $50/month for "whole household protection!!!". like i know poo poo like norton exists, but i mean like a router-level dns block + agents on mobile devices + handholding to get the whole thing going + helpline/bitchline that parents can call when something slips thru the cracks and they need to complain about their lovely kids and yell at a helpless call center CSR about the value of hard work

as an american, i realize the most important component is locking customers into an expensive and hard-to-cancel monthly sub, not delivering anything. oh and making sure theres a call center CSR to yell at.

surely this product exists already

e: gently caress i forgot the most important part: you could offer an add on for christian/mormon families that blocks unholy sites/domains. charge more for this on top of the regular monthly fee, christians love paying to get holy

The Oldest Man posted:

sure but did you know about the pharmaceutical grade glycine made by Donghua Jinlong? That poo poo is fire

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Cold on a Cob posted:

lol usa used to poo poo on china for not taking patents seriously; now they do and they have "too many patents" and that's bad

SKULL.GIF posted:

Every time the empire's puppets visit China they're deliberately never photographed anywhere where you can see Chinese society growing or using technology:

Yup:



Can't let your pig serfs know there's a better alternative!

Precambrian Video Games posted:

There have been a bunch of articles recently about dynamic pricing (in fast food but also grocery and department stores ??) and also geographical pricing (which is even less new, of course chain grocers will jack up prices in rich areas if they can and then likely not even bother to have any stores in poorer neighbourhoods) and one headline was like consumers hate price discromination but they love deals! As if that's a baffling contradiction and not just incredibly obvious.