Collapse?

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Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)

Min and max.

Have you seen the efforts of bottle design within the liquor and spirits industry. McDonalds Big Mac boxes and fry cartons etc. I’mma answer this with a big, fat YES!

It’s a huge industry not just in manufacturing packaging, but in consumer psychology, marketing and design to make products more appealing. A good tweak bumps sales 5% is a very big and desirable deal.

Edit: A huge component of cullinary training is presentation. Beyond making food taste good, it’s appeal is that it also looks good. “Plating” lessons apply to every form of food from shelves of grocery stores, convenience snacks, fast food joints, to fine dining. The little window in the plastic bag of chips that lets you see the product. The foil lined paper lid that kept the heat in the poutine so the cold curds would heat and melt into the poutine. Etc…

Not aluminium foil, but that restaurant grade thin aluminum foil bonded to a thin wax paper. Same with Shawarma.

Having too many pancakes.

Bot slop? 'Tism? Who cares! Just stop.

I’ve quit twice to see the effects. Crushing headaches start in 24 hours and can’t be relieved with anything but caffeine. Yet mere sips of coffee/tea taken daily can stave off withdrawal. With < 2 cups of coffee total, you can wean yourself off completely symptom free.

Day 1 150ml

Day 2 125 ml

Day 3 100 ml and so on.

Cost is like 100 times less per page.

Brother is the only real choice. Their MFC are very versatile and handy and quite reasonable.

You are in martial law, or rather the absence of law.

The FBI isn’t just watching this forum, it’s part of a panopticon built on surveilance capitalism.

The thought “we better not make them angry or things will get worse” is exactly what they want. Even when they get this, it will get worse.

And lots/most of them aren’t.

And how bad.

Question was more, not less.

Public transit

Social safety nets <-plural

Unspoiled wilderness

Passive-house housing

Solar and wind energy

Justice

Yes to both frequency and volume. I’m on the kings mighty throne as I write this.

A couple of comments.

1. The Google of old isn’t today’s Google. They dropped the don’t be evil for a reason. Their unspoken motto is now - We’re Evil with a capital E. Everything is dual use. E.g. Google maps makes getting around new areas easy, but the US also now has precision targeting data of everything globally. Equally, you are the product not the customer. US military and corporate power get google’s good stuff. You get ads and enshittification. Your disappointment is because you aren’t aware of your proper place in the grand scheme of things, and are just now on the verge of understanding with this post.

2. Postsecondary papers are only supposed to cite academically rigorous research from respectable journals. You are talking about high school “research” methods outside of acceptable contexts. I was just talking to my son minutes ago about how most web searches now pull up bot slop, and the dead internet theory is no longer a theory.

3. As for enduring usage patterns, life is evolution. Technology is exponentially more so. This is why science fiction is full of dystopian tech gone wrong. We literally know humans can’t keep up and its only a matter of time before this all gets away from us.

We were already drowning in too much data that can’t be synthesized 40 years ago. Now it’s infinitely more so. To counter this, LLMs will sift through the data and escalate as required.

My guess is to stop everyone else from blocking the instance. They have to claim a few non psycho users.

.ml is the russian agitprop instance. Getting banned there is a Lemmy right of passage. Congrats!

Edit: 2 years? Took you long enough. ;)