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Having fun on Twitter unpicking a curious thing that happened to me this morning. Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT. Turned out it had given them my number.

@mig
Ale ty tomu nerosumíš.
Pokud budou baráky stát 10krát tolik, tak si hold lidé půjčí 10krát tolik.

Přece by nechtěli pouze platit nájem že? :omegalul:

When a car is repaired after a crash, the GDP goes up.

When a fruit or vegetable is grown only to be thrown out by a supermarket as food waste, the GDP goes up.

When you replace a phone that still works because of planned obsolescence, the GDP goes up.

When you throw out a perfectly good coat because it's no longer fashionable, and buy a new one in this season's style, the GDP goes up.

When a bridge has to be replaced because it wasn't built right, the GDP goes up.

When a piece of packaging is manufactured only to be thrown away straight away, the GDP goes up.

When a site needs to be decontaminated because chemicals weren't stored correctly, the GDP goes up.

In each case, society has no more usable wealth than it would have had if the car didn't crash, the vegetable wasn't grown, the phone wasn't replaced, the old coat was still being worn, there was less packaging, or the chemicals were stored correctly. Yet the GDP goes up.

Meanwhile, most of the wealth that is generated ends up in the top one percent's pockets.

The truth is that GDP isn't a useful measurement. It's just a convenient one.

#economics #politics #gdp #auspol #ukpol

@albi @johnny Ještě jsem si vzpomněl na Earth 2140 a náš českej klenot Original War - vzpomněl jsem si na ně cestou z práce

@rimugu@liberdon.com
Second great mistake is to accept the intentions, instead of looking at the program and reason the true intenction from the proposed steps instead.

@dave
OK, your thery is correct. Only boomers in here are willing to ruin lives if it gives them some "good feels".

And I have naively thought, that people in here understood, that we are always 1 law away from the social credit system.

FUCK!!!

@elliswyatt
It's pixelated, and the height maps seem to be off.

But that is just a guess. 3D rendering is so fucking tricky.

I see, that the wall looks like it was dragged from Valheim, but I could still be wrong about what exactly broke the illusion.

A new Mandalorian trailer.
That has to be the cheapest, fakest cheap fake wall I have seen in quite a few years.

How did they even manage to find such a bad texture?

@samuraikid
I heard a supposedly well educated and smart guy unironically say:
If noone gets vaccine that's bad.
If everyone gets vaccine, that is the best case.
But the worst case is, if exactly half of people get vaxed.

And I know, that there are people who won't get vaxed no matter what. So, I believe, we should still continue to push the vax.

-> That idiot doesn't realize, that he said, that he want's to do, what he knows will lead to the worst case.

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