@ca6ef49a I would consider a full length (covering breast to legs) apron naked. After all, it's equipment relevant to the activity, like shoes are for hiking/climbing.
@b05df304 Pretty simple, really. It is Kindergarten!
Trump did everything to spite his predecessors, so now Biden must do all his predecessor wanted, just to be different.
Did you know: if you hold your hands in front of your face, you cease to exist!
@b05df304 Well, i have to concede that i am sometimes a bit all over the place.
Let me try it a bit more structured:
As productivity gains happen, there are multiple consequences.
1- Production increases, given that the investment of material and labor is not protracted to the point where it declines (assumption: it does increase)
2- There is more product
3- Less work is used
Now, deriving from that, we get:
a- More availability of the product, decreasing prices (your main point)
b- More profits as a consequence of 2 even though a, because the cost went down due to 3
So far, i guess you would agree?
Now my point is that increased profits from b are concentrated on the owners of businesses, something that is not a law of physics, but due to the design of private instead of collective ownership. It may be what is established as normal, but i see no convincing argument that it had to be that way.
If we had a distribution of those arising profits that was more broad, we could argue for a direct increase in free time from 3 and b, yet what tracks is only the decreased prices from a, making this way less efficient in terms of "people and their spendings" (citing you) as b affects only a very small amount of people.
I hope this clears things up.
@b05df304 Well, i think we should end this discussion then. If you just accuse me of being wrong without actually getting the point, good evening to you and i will rather play a bit instead of discuss.
@b05df304 I don't get it. You say you don't sidestep, yet you do absolutely nothing to adress what i brought up. You just point to poor people and say they need to think about their spending, ignoring completely what i say.
I really wonder, is this a blockage in your thinking, an inability to consider such thoughts as "when someone gets rich, maybe that was not their doing alone, but also that of others that have not benefitted equally"?
@b05df304 I get it. You want to ignore the majority of gains going toward business owners, because you wish to have your own business and reap all there is to reap without any bad feelings. Not an evil thing, quite natural really.
Well, nothing against you personally, but i do not like the concept.
@b05df304 I do not understand. How do you expect to spend wisely if they don't get anything? After all, productivity gain wealth is not distributed but concentrated.
@b05df304 An old problem with organizing a society... naively, one would expect productivity gains to translate into more leisure time for everyone. Yet, that never materializes and people are pushed to either be productive or at least look like it.
@b05df304 We all want good software, but writing it without using libs we don't understand is... not in the realm of possibility. Not in this fast-paced world. Good gets destroyed by "available".
@b05df304 You should, if it works for you. I moan about the underlying problems, no reason for you to accept any less usable solution - you would not save the world if you did!
@b05df304 I think you misjudge the goals of tech companies today... it will not get more usable. And chrome, i hope you can limp on with the forks. Google surely does not plan for user comfort!
@b05df304 Sorry to hear that. Especially sorry that we only have like 2 browser engines available, with one at a very low adaptation rate (so not helpful against google capture of regulations).
@b05df304@98042630 My concern is about the ones similarly evil that don't lose everything... but send me a copy, not above revenge fantasy here. Fantasy only, of course.
@b05df304 Not a bad goal. Of course, it gets confusing when "asking what i misunderstood" is called sealioning, but you'll have to give the people credit: they decide what to call it, and if a sea lion you don't want to be, a joker you sometimes must.
@b05df304 I would add the perspective that context is important.
For example, if you mock me, you know that you will be informed of any misunderstanding that makes the mock hurt instead of just be a playful way of communication.
So mocking and mocking can be two very different things, and sometimes it is fine. I agree and see that i could improve in the general sense, too. But completely removing joking mocks seems too much.
@b05df304@90bf4d25 Astonishing, after what i have heard. @b05df304 you might not hut others yet.
I support your way to minimize harm. Go on, you have my support.
@Albastı@woodland creature :pleroma_fox_tan:@dew_the_dew :verified: Oh, don't be critical! Some complete stranger sent me cryptic messages, that's what makes life fun -
Is it someone who wants to discuss something?
Is it someone who is just hateful and randomly stumbled across the toot?
Or maybe there is some other thing happening that i do not understand yet?
I like weirdos, and where could i experience them but here?
@b05df304 I am hovering between joke and ready to listen if anything is there to talk about.
How can i assist you with your problem with our product "life" today? :-)
@663e5b60 My delivery might have been bad, i give you that.
I do not mean to antagonize. Just, hey, those problems are endemic. We as software developers are not the most hurt group. Let's think of others as well, is all i want to say.
We suffer, others do too.
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