(this is a facetious post, making fun of economists who sometimes push damaging and anti social theories based on sketchy market-based logic)

That used to be a thing, lmao.

glaziers fallacy

TIL a new fallacy. I was joking just for the record, I called it “capitalist realist” specifically to try and indicate that it’s the kind of thing you might believe only if you were extremely economics brained.

But there’s only a certain amount of labor a fixed number of employees can absorb. Imagine a scenario where everyone everywhere agrees to stop returning shopping carts - grocery store employees would be forced to spend their entire shift just corralling them, and then they wouldn’t be able to man the cash registers or stock the shelves or whatever else, thus forcing the store to hire another employee on each shift to be the dedicated shopping cart return person.

Logically, every store everywhere tries to run with the minimum number of people possible to keep costs down. The idea is to create a situation where that minimum number of people is increased.

I’m a fan of the Capitalist Realist Shopping Cart Theory, myself.

Putting shopping carts away is bad for society and you should stop doing it.

The reason is that putting a shopping cart away requires labor, labor requires a person to do it, and the person who has to do it is employed by the grocery store.

Thus, if enough people refuse to put their shopping carts back, enough excess labor will be generated at grocery stores around the country that they will be forced to hire more people to do it, creating jobs.

QED

When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same with everything I learned in Home Ec, most the stuff I learned in wood/metal/auto shop, etc. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything useful.

It’s easy enough to spin up a fake school, Trump did it.

You gotta tell them you want it for science, then you gotta submit some forms.

We would only figure it out in hindsight after cleaning things up and reducing the amount in our bodies.

wavy building to do concerts

nobody is doing concerts in that are you nuts

Frank Gehry, you madman! You made the Walt Disney Concert Hall far too wavy!

no politics

This anon has never attended a HOA meeting and argued with their fascist neighbors about building a playground.

Spells generally have very precise descriptions of what they do, precisely because of shitty players like David. Heal Wounds only restores hit points, it can’t cure a disability whether that disability is from birth or an injury or another magical spell.

The whole IP paradigm needs to change. I can accept the logic that IP needs to exist in the first place so that people who invent something can get paid (at least in our current system) - but the term should be shortened to something like five years, or if it’s going to be longer there needs to be a list of events that immediately invalidate it, including the product no longer being legally available. IP shouldn’t be able to be traded between companies like a commodity, and it shouldn’t be able to be locked up to prevent it from going into the public domain.

The days of modular components in cars is nearing an end.

It’s a shame, because with EVs especially modular everything should be a whole lot easier than ever before. I guess it took a decade and a half for governments to force smartphones to be able to be jailbroken or use the same messaging protocol, hopefully we see a similar evolution on EVs where these locked down features get forced onto common standards.

The best copilot can do is autofill lines that everyone’s written a million times. That’s not nothing, but it aint replacing a human brain any time soon.

amazon cloud CEO reveals that they have terminal CEO brain and have no idea what reality is like for the people they’re in charge of

checks out

After listening to every other suggestion in this thread, I think this is it.

Actually all of the TOS films are great.

Ten years before they pulled this. Hopefully the cookers can be used without the app.

religion and medicine don’t seem like things that should mix

I mean I get where you’re coming from, but in places that don’t have a secular medical establishment it’s usually spiritual practitioners that fill the gap.