[-] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The system being set up where the only way prices broadly go down is if the economy is bad has always bothered me.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

How dare you point out the hypocrisy?! Seriously though, people downvoting you need to understand that while democrats are better than trump on most issues, they're largely the same on this particular issue, so it's not exactly a point that can be pinned solely on trump.

[-] hark@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago

Too bad Biden kept the tariffs Trump instituted during his term and increased them. Trump will add even more tariffs during his term, but I'm not confident that the democrat that follows won't also keep and add onto them.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Countless resolutions in the UN show that it's not an accepted international norm or policy, but unfortunately nothing can actually be done while the behemoth US exercises its power.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Now imagine if they had to pay for the content they're training the models off of.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Ah, early 2021... back when $15/hr was at least somewhat decent. Heck, $15/hr was being fight for about a decade before even then. Maybe in ten more years $15/hr will become minimum wage and politicians will pat themselves on the back and claim they're the most pro-worker politician in US history for instituting a minimum wage that was argued for two decades in the past.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

What's with the focus on Jill Stein? Third parties aren't relevant and the number of people who vote for them is far overshadowed by the number of people who don't vote at all. There are better uses of time than this lame two minutes hate session.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Grocery prices is actually a great example of official inflation numbers being underestimated. My grocery bill has increased by a minimum of 50% (and more like 100%) since the pandemic, but official numbers put it at about 25%. They have a basket of goods that they base their numbers off of, but that basket changes and my suspicion is that they change it in a way to make the numbers look better than they really are. In my case, I've been buying the same stuff all along (i.e. mainly simple non-processed ingredients) with modifications only to try to reduce my bill (e.g. I haven't bought any eggs over $2 a dozen, which means I haven't bought eggs in a long time).

I sarcastically pointed out "at least TVs are cheaper" because yes, there are categories where some things are cheaper, but the far more important categories of housing, education, food, and health care have experienced ridiculous amounts of inflation.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Exciting to see all sorts of batteries for different applications. Is lithium-ion still standard for home power backup? I've heard characteristics of the new sodium-ion batteries being ideal for that use case.

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Not entirely sure what this is, but it was revealed during the Jackbox collab on Calli's channel. Reveal on June 18th 8:00PM PDT apparently!

Edit: Here's the reveal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3GiWDqoR3s

[-] hark@lemmy.world 160 points 5 months ago

Lockdowns during covid kinda did this and the extroverts went crazy.

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🔥

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So much power, and not even sponsored!

[-] hark@lemmy.world 163 points 8 months ago

"allowing it" as if disney owns the public domain.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 169 points 1 year ago

Install backdoors and sell that info to governments and companies, then years later reveal the issue to justify downgrading performance of older CPUs to encourage people to upgrade.

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