No offense taken, I completely agree.

I do that when I can, but local selection is often pretty limited.

Same, but it takes effort. Even when items aren’t Amazon exclusives, Amazon still contractually requires the seller to give them the best price, so we all still pay the Amazon tax. Also, even if you order direct from the manufacturer’s website (for the ones that still have a website instead of just a Facebook page), it’s often shipped or fulfilled by Amazon. Or, if you find a decent alternative store like jet.com or woot.com, Amazon just buys them.

Both can be true. People are being fired in absurd numbers and AI is not doing a good job of replacing them, but management refuses to accept it. Cory Doctorow has written extensively about this.

If we could deal with the waste that we’ve already got, that would instill some confidence, but the govt has basically shrugged. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLUAN2Rev1E

An 8 year old with a credit card, maybe.

This version hits hard: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP3TyuQx0

Two is one and one is none.

I’ve seen nothing that AI can do that justifies the economic or ecological cost.

This. Research that always has to be fully confirmed hasn’t actually been done in the first place.

Solving problems by brute force don’t make economic sense to me.

Using an automation tool you can only trust for subjective tasks makes even less sense to me.

He explained it but you didn’t read.

I can see that, I guess even practicing deployment would be useful. There’s enough weird splintering in some projects that even perceived competition can seem like trouble.

Why publish an experiment?

WinKey+period to enter emoji and other Unicode characters. I’ve got some workarounds, but they are all just slightly kludgy, especially with the Wayland clipboard.

Louis Rossmann does a pretty good job of covering the choice between complying and going out of business from his own experience. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eCtWeNwOb9w

That made me think of this very old Tom Scott video.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E

Yeah, I never really used it for handwriting. That seems basically unverifiable sometimes, when I can’t read it myself.

Always worked well enough for me.

I buy direct from the manufacturer whenever I can.

The prices outside of Amazon will be higher though, that’s the reason for this enforcement, the “Amazon tax”. Cory Doctorow has been talking about it for a while. I’m glad to see someone that can do something heard it.

Finding stuff outside of Amazon isn’t easy, though. Search engines barely show results for anyone outside Amazon, Walmart, and ebay. Too often I’ll find a retailer for a while only for Amazon to buy it later or otherwise destroy them (I miss Woot and Jet and Fictionwise and Bookpool, &c).

Nancy was effectively president for Reagan’s second term. People were mad about Biden, but they also hid how far gone Reagan was. FDR, too.