Bulletins and News Discussion from July 22nd to July 28th, 2024 - Fracas in Dhaka - COTW: Bangladesh
I can't begin to imagine the beautiful mind thinking of risk ending their sobriety because GENOCIDE JOE dropped out
I'm doing my part 
It's about how beauty standards in porn tend to err towards ridiculous over time and how it hurts sex worker's bodies and viewers self perceptions, not how plastic surgery is inherently bad. Plastic surgery is not bad and is in fact cool as hell.
I've been working with the PSL and it's been genuinely wonderful. Thanks to other PSL members here for getting me in touch with the right people 
. However, yeah, before you can be involved in political action consistently you should prioritize your own living situation; not only is it a better idea for you but it'll help you deal with the potential stresses of organizing even better.
Big Taco got to them first before they could tell us more
Then it's not clearly not passive income, "passive income" is definitionally simply reaping where one has not sown. If you're doing work it's not passive income, it's a job. Software Dev work is not so easy.
Technically, I may choose not to maintain the API. It might not remain relevant or profitable for very long, but I can just ignore it.
Wow damn that's crazy it's almost like it requires constant effort and is a job unlike owning a property deed and failing to hire a contractor when my AC breaks down again.
Passive income is a type of unearned income
Serving APIs that anyone would pay for requires constant work and maintenance
No, I don't think it's effective in any way, I think other users are correct when they note that this is a clearly ineffectual method of protesting that clearly has the potential for blowback like this; however, this still doesn't mean that those who respond in such a way aren't the biggest rubes on the planet.
If you were sitting in 1970, you could look at this curve and claim, very confidently, that economic growth requires concomitant increases in energy use. And youβd be wrong. Because the trend is your friend til the bend at the end.
Thereβs simply no deep reason that economic growth requires increasing use of any physical resource. Economic value is all about the configuration of stuff, not the amount of stuff. If you took a hammer and smashed your phone to pieces, the resulting pile of trash would still contain the same amount of silicon and cobalt and gallium arsenide and so on. But now those resources would not be a valuable thing. Rearranging resources from a less useful configuration into a more useful configuration is what creates value
Wow! It's crazy how *checks notes* "rearranging resources from a less useful configuration into a more useful configuration" was only invented in 1978. I wonder what a meaningful definition for this could be, why US energy use could go down but it's GDP continued to soar?
I wonder if this could instead indicate that the US process of de-industrialization forced the metrics for how GDP is created to change fundamentally, masking the failure for the US economy to grow meaningfully outside of key sectors.
Damn maybe the fact that this predates the internet by an incredibly wide margin indicates that this trend isn't due to the internet reducing the energy cost of the economy but instead that the economy has been allowed to dwindle and deteriorate while those on top who decide how it's measured have decided to inflate it's supposed value. Hell knows that I've never known economic growth while I'm alive outside of the tech sector.
Famously conflict only happens when burly guys with guns show up to a place, no other form of conflict exists. Not political warfare, not economic warfare, not even social warfare. No. It's all guys with guns.