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Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


Gorson posted:

no way, this cannot be real

and yet it very well could be it's dystopian and stupid enough

I'm going to choose to believe it's real. Someone updated his job status after he died, it auto generated a "new job!" post, and a bunch of people mindlessly liked it without reading.

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Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

most of the earth will be uninhabitable in 50 years lol at caring about retirement. it's not for you, wage slave. try being born rich next time

The queue for reincarnating as a human's going to be so long we'll all be rats and cockroaches for our next few million incarnations.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

luckily you can reincarnate in the past so no problems there

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

euphronius posted:

luckily you can reincarnate in the past so no problems there

What? How the heck does that work?

Oh wait, is it one of those weird racism thing about how some of those ancients could come up with all those discovery and stuff like that

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

?? no. time isn’t linear on the planes that reincarnation works at

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

The people fatalistically bemoaning socialism or barbarism ITT have not realized that they will have the chance to be the barbarians of what Toynbee called a Heroic Age, and, like Achilles and the Myrmidones, plunder the fattened cows of the men in silk.

A decadent ruling class that causes the collapse of their civilization through withdrawal and opulence, retreat to New Zealand bunkers as holdfasts, but, as with the Istrian villas and forts of the Byzantine aristocracy after the Bulgar-Slayer, they are going to their graves.

You would think that a thread that cries “Blood!” all day would realize their part in Schrecklichkeit and Hunnensturm.

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

With the ever-increasing retirement age to the point where the most realistic expectation for when you retire is when you are no longer physically capable of work, even people who could save are going to re-think how they do it. All of my most enjoyable hobbies now involve my physical fitness, so I'm sure not putting that poo poo off, especially now that I know the government response to something like a global pandemic or a natural disaster is "your early death is completely acceptable to us." I'll go on a ski vacation while snow still exists.

The idea that you can finally start enjoying your life after retirement has always been bullshit. It is plainly obvious that you have more and better options to enjoy your money when you're younger, even accounting for the fact that you're wasting huge amounts of time working. Hell, working like crazy to theoretically afford retirement is probably a major contributor to having a lovely retirement since you leave yourself with no time or energy to develop any interests or hobbies.

It's a lie that's supposed to stop you from thinking about the fact that you're actually just saving to stave off an unbelievably miserable and undignified end, because then you might start thinking that maybe this should be the responsibility of the government and not individuals.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

euphronius posted:

?? no. time isn’t linear on the planes that reincarnation works at

That's dumb because that mean free will does not exist under that framework.

If you got reincarnated in the past, you must specifically do the exact same thing in order for the future to happen the way it has before you died.

But if free will doesn't exist, then what's the point of reincarnation if you don't learn any lesson or gain/lose karma because all of your actions are determined in advance?

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

NeonPunk posted:

That's dumb because that mean free will does not exist under that framework.

If you got reincarnated in the past, you must specifically do the exact same thing in order for the future to happen the way it has before you died.

But if free will doesn't exist, then what's the point of reincarnation if you don't learn any lesson or gain/lose karma because all of your actions are determined in advance?

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




had the day off, went to the park.
yo theres a lot of loving people out running or out with dog that seem to not work on a weekday but be doing just fine.

seems nice

Stinky Wizzleteats
Nov 26, 2015

You must pay the price for this post.

NeonPunk posted:

That's dumb because that mean free will does not exist under that framework.

If you got reincarnated in the past, you must specifically do the exact same thing in order for the future to happen the way it has before you died.

But if free will doesn't exist, then what's the point of reincarnation if you don't learn any lesson or gain/lose karma because all of your actions are determined in advance?

The suffering is the point. This is how a god completes it's life cycle when taken in totality, it's all one soul

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Real hurthling! posted:

had the day off, went to the park.
yo theres a lot of loving people out running or out with dog that seem to not work on a weekday but be doing just fine.

seems nice

When I worked third shift I did that all the time. 3rd shift sucks rear end, but if you sleep in the afternoon, you get the morning to enjoy life.

The third shift part sucks so much rear end though its not worth it holy poo poo

mahershalalhashbaz
Jul 22, 2021

by Pragmatica

(and can't post for 10 days!)

Runcible Cat posted:

The queue for reincarnating as a human's going to be so long we'll all be rats and cockroaches for our next few million incarnations.
given the general state of things i believe being reincarnated as a human is a punishment and roach form is a divine reward, and the best one can aspire to is a crow

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Willa Rogers posted:

it's not that I'm worried about space-beams; it's that I have so little counter space I can barely fit an electric kettle & a toaster & still have room to prep anything.

i got an appliance cart and its pretty fun to wheel out a big rear end stack of microwaves and toasters from the corner when its time to use one of the things on it.

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



https://twitter.com/verge/status/1783862861803970748

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001





shocked

mycomancy
Oct 16, 2016

Nuclearmonkee posted:

I'm going to choose to believe it's real. Someone updated his job status after he died, it auto generated a "new job!" post, and a bunch of people mindlessly liked it without reading.

Actually LinkedIn will like posts for you. I had a profile for years, and one day happened to click on some profile activity page. To my surprise, LinkedIn had liked a bunch of right-wing anti-abortion stories and posts, and there's my fuckin' face under it!

Kill your LinkedIn page ASAP.

Nitevision
Oct 5, 2004

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NeonPunk posted:

That's dumb because that mean free will does not exist under that framework.

If you got reincarnated in the past, you must specifically do the exact same thing in order for the future to happen the way it has before you died.

But if free will doesn't exist, then what's the point of reincarnation if you don't learn any lesson or gain/lose karma because all of your actions are determined in advance?

a lotta yall still dont get it

atman can inflict multiple prakrti on a single ape

so if you have 1 svabhava and 3 prakrti you can create 3 new skandhas

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

the best one can aspire to is a crow

Which, again, is how Gibbon characterized the Avars, Alans, Bulgars, Magyars and others, who, in a Heroic Age’s Völkerwanderung/Götterdämmerung can win crowns and glory feasting on the carrion of a dead civilization.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares



he's a lizard brain in a jar, isn't he

"hey if you ignore these things nobody needs (am I right fellow lizardmen living as mere brains in jars haha am I right?) we won the fight against inflation"

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


mycomancy posted:

Actually LinkedIn will like posts for you. I had a profile for years, and one day happened to click on some profile activity page. To my surprise, LinkedIn had liked a bunch of right-wing anti-abortion stories and posts, and there's my fuckin' face under it!

Kill your LinkedIn page ASAP.

what the actual motherfuck?

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

still demented.

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1783506390016815174

quote:

Inflation was a bit more concerning. The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of underlying inflation, the cost of personal consumption excluding food and energy, rose at a 3.7 percent annual rate, up from just 2 percent in the previous quarter. On the face of it that looks bad.

But I don’t believe that inflation has really accelerated that much. What we’re probably seeing is mostly statistical noise that understated inflation in late 2023 but is overstating it now.

...

So this was not a good report, but it shouldn’t change your narrative. The best bet is that we’re still on track for a soft landing.

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

Willa Rogers posted:

it's not that I'm worried about space-beams; it's that I have so little counter space I can barely fit an electric kettle & a toaster & still have room to prep anything.

maybe you need this?

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Winsome-Wo...hf70Qse-4l-GIUA

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Jesus loving CHRIST

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


Potato Salad posted:

what the actual motherfuck?

linkedin corporation.... i trusted you

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

RadiRoot posted:

still demented.

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1783506390016815174

What we’re probably seeing is mostly statistical noise

There's a reason why people call it the dismal science. It uses the language of empiricism and objectivity but turns to woo woo at a moment's notice if they can't juke the stats.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001





mine was 80 bucks, all metal, and folds up like a step ladder when not in use.

Beached Whale
Jun 27, 2009

The world as will and idea

numbers go up numbers go down you can't explain it

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017



This poo poo should be illegal. Love our rotting, necrotic administrative state that's completely incapable of taking any act that isn't tax cuts/tax credits/handouts to Nazi states.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005


Nah, bc it's just as easy to use my d.r. table for prep & I don't need to spend hundos on a cart & microwave when I can use my oven. An air fryer would be cool but my income's been cut by 75 percent recently and it wasn't great shakes to begin with so no new toys till I find some new clients or an office gig.

I did get a letter from the state already setting up a phone interview for snap on monday morning. :cool:

Jon Pod Van Damm
Apr 6, 2009

THE POSSESSION OF WEALTH IS IN AND OF ITSELF A SIGN OF POOR VIRTUE. AS SUCH:
1 NEVER TRUST ANY RICH PERSON.
2 NEVER HIRE ANY RICH PERSON.
BY RULE 1, IT IS APPROPRIATE TO PRESUME THAT ALL DEGREES AND CREDENTIALS HELD BY A WEALTHY PERSON ARE FRAUDULENT. THIS JUSTIFIES RULE 2--RULE 1 NEEDS NO JUSTIFIC



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HJ682co_s

quote:


https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sck1ewGKFf1z0lvw3.mp4


Xictionary: New Quality Productive Forces

Recently I've been captivated by a number of futuristic scenes unfolding in China. These scenes showcase the integration of emerging technologies into our everyday lives. Let me show you a few photos that caught my eye.




This one depicts self-driving cars smoothly traversing the streets in the Xiong'an New Area in North China's Hebei Province,




And this one captures the preparations for spring farming in Hunan Province where robots have taken over the role of farmers in Green Houses.




This photo taken in the Northeastern province of Jilin shows China's first independently developed hydrogen powered urban train.

All of these images are tied to a development strategy that is being rapidly implemented by China.

Welcome to Xictionary.



In this edition we will explore New Quality Productive Forces, a pivotal concept proposed by Chinese president Xi Jinping. First put forward by Xi in an inspection tour in 2023. The term New Quality Productive Forces was also highlighted at the Central Economic Work Conference last December, and became the subject of a group study session held by the political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee this year.

Weeks later at the "two sessions", a major event in China's political calendar, Xi underscored the importance of developing New Quality Productive Forces based on local conditions. In addition during his inspection in Honan this March Xi pointed out that scientific and technological innovation is the core element for developing New Quality Productive Forces and it is imperative to work harder on promoting industrial innovation through technological innovation.

The term New Quality Productive Forces has now become a buzzword both domestically and internationally but what does it really mean?

New Quality Productive Forces are driven by
  • revolutionary technological breakthroughs
  • innovative allocation of production factors
  • and deep industrial transformation and upgrading



taking

  • the improvement of workers
  • means of Labor
  • subjects of Labor
  • and their optimal combinations

as its basic connotation, and a substantial increase in total factor productivity as its core callmark.





Marked by innovation, and with high quality as the key New Quality Productive Forces are advanced productivity in essence.



To put it simply with innovation playing the leading role New Quality Productive Forces mean advanced productivity that is freed from traditional economic growth mode and productivity development paths.

It features
  • high-tech
  • high efficiency
  • high quality
and comes in line with the new development philosophy.

However the development of New Quality Productive Forces does not mean abandoning traditional industries.

“Developing New Quality Productive Forces does not mean neglecting or abandoning traditional industries. It is necessary to prevent a headlong rush into projects, and the formation of industry bubbles, and avoid adapting just a single model of development.”
—Xi Jinping


Why did the Chinese top leader proposed a significant concept of a New Quality Productive Forces?

Xi stressed that high-quality development is an unyielding principle in the new era, noting there are still many factors restricting high-quality development, which must be guided by a new productivity theory. Driven primarily by technological innovation New Quality Productive Forces align with the requirements of high quality development and have further enriched Xi's economic thought.

During this year's "two sessions", the annual meetings of China's is top legislature and top political advisory body developing New Quality Productive Forces was written into the government work report for the first time. This is widely believed as the recognition that the economic growth model primarily driven by
  • low cost labor
  • extensive yet inefficient investment
  • external demand
  • and excessive resource consumption

can no longer be sustained and China must actively cultivate

  • new technologies
  • new business models
  • and future industries

to enhance the quality and efficiency of development.

Xi believes that to develop New Quality Productive Forces it is imperative to further deepen reforms to boost sci-tech innovation. He pointed out that sci-tech innovation can generate
  • new industries
  • new models
  • and new growth drivers
which are the core elements of the development of New Quality Productive Forces.



Xi stressed that sci-tech innovations should be applied to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner.

Efforts should be made to
  • transform and upgrade traditional industries
  • foster emerging industries
  • make arrangements for future industries, and
  • improve the modern industrial system.

President Xi likened China's lack of strong innovation capability to the Achilles heel of an economic giant. New Quality Productive Forces align with Xi's earlier vision of an innovation driven development strategy and his belief that innovation is the primary driving force for development.




“Only reformers can advance, only innovators can thrive,
and only those who reform and innovate will prevail.”
—Xi Jinping



Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012 a slew of pro-innovation measures have been rolled out to encourage enterprises to
  • intensify research and development
  • apply sci-tech research achievements in the real world
  • and refine the management of major sci-tech projects.
Xi also pushed for the establishment of a new system for mobilizing resources nationwide to make key technological breakthroughs.

The development of New Quality Productive Forces in the world's second largest economy is perfectly timed to address economic challenges. The impact of New Quality Productive Forces in China's high quality development is already evident. There has been significant growth in sectors such as
  • New Energy Vehicles
  • solar cell production
  • and service robots

China's research and development capabilities and innovation capacity have all also seen continuous improvements.

China's Global ranking in innovation has increased markedly over the past decade while strategic emerging industries such as
  • new energy
  • high-end equipment
  • and biotechnology
have taken a larger share in the national economic output.

The pulse of New Quality Productive Forces can be seen nationwide based on its robust innovative capacity in quantum information. East China's Anu province is accelerating the development of the quantum industry.

Due to its first mover advantages in the fields of drones and low altitude navigation he southern metropolis of Shenzhen is expediting the development of the low altitude economy.

Besides fast-tracking the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries China is leveraging new technologies to upgrade traditional industries promoting the high-end intelligent and green transformation of industries.

For example industrial robots are widely used in Shanghai's Baosteel, a leading steel manufacturer and the robot density has reached 260 units per 10,000 workers at major industrial enterprises in Shanghai.

Accelerating the development of New Quality Productive Forces means that China will further deepen reform in an all-round way unleashing the vitality of innovation throughout society.

This will inject new impetus and hope into China's economic transformation and high-quality development.

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005
amazing things are happening in China more and more are saying this!

042624_2
Apr 26, 2024

Somebody has issued a correction as of 18:29 on Apr 26, 2024

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

super sweet best pal posted:

Why haven't you swapped to a credit union?

credit unions suck rear end, everyone brags about how much "better their rates are" but bank of america gave me a better car loan rate than the credit union through my company offered. their approval process was also way faster than the credit union, that took like a week to get back to me and had way more annoying paperwork that needed to be faxed for some loving reason

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


Willa Rogers posted:

I did get a letter from the state already setting up a phone interview for snap on monday morning. :cool:
??? lmao

tell us about a time when you needed food
what is your experience with food?
why do you want food?

ephex
Nov 4, 2007





PHWOAR CRIMINAL

NeonPunk posted:



Our local community college is having a food bank and it's cool to see it already filled up to near max capacity within 6 minutes of start time. Things are going well

Are... They... Waiting in their cars???

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

ephex posted:

Are... They... Waiting in their cars???

A lot of food banks do this because of "safety" (really they don't want people standing next to each other in lines and getting to talking with each other)

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!

ephex posted:

Are... They... Waiting in their cars???

The car is the basic unit of economic activity

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Shipon posted:

credit unions suck rear end, everyone brags about how much "better their rates are" but bank of america gave me a better car loan rate than the credit union through my company offered. their approval process was also way faster than the credit union, that took like a week to get back to me and had way more annoying paperwork that needed to be faxed for some loving reason
much like anything, there’s good ones and not so good ones. the main selling point is that service hasn’t been outsourced to LLMs and actually exists, and they don’t do BoFA-Wells crimes (as much).

mine (San Francisco Fire CU) is very good. it took me less than 24 hours to get approved for 2.3% auto and all done online, didn’t have to even call. likewise free atm rebates, no overdraft charges, nice portal, app that doesn’t suck, and some others makes it much nicer than my past experience with Crimes Fargo or sterling/wachovia.

but of course not all are created equal and I’m sure there’s plenty still using 1980 computers

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Pitcher Witcher
Jan 13, 2020

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

??? lmao

tell us about a time when you needed food
what is your experience with food?
why do you want food?

Ime that's how they tell you to get hosed. Other people in your apartment make money and you don't? Make them buy food for you bye.

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