null_dot @ null_dot @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 0Comments 108Joined 6 days ago
Yeah it's a reference to the president's day protests. He's mocking you.
I struggle with this narrative, because it's just not that simple. This is pretty much just something that small business owners like to say to guilt people into buying their stuff. Small businesses still need to compete on price and quality.
Large retailers still employ local people, and your pension fund probably owns shares in them, or you can buy shares directly yourself.
Some small local retailers have very shady employment practices. I don't think employees are necessarily paid or treated better in small businesses. Some might be great, others are terrible.
Having said that, buying locally produced seasonal food directly from growers makes a lot of sense. Fresher, more nutritious, fewer food miles, less middle men.
Basically, local Butcher baker and green grocer.
That's not what I meant at all.
There's plenty of examples of .ml mods banning users for reasonable criticism.
Hopefully it generates some stink around the LNP in the coming election.
It's just bonkers how many people vote against their own interests in that regard. My parents are rusted on liberal voters but they collect an age pension from centrelink.
Some headlines around the corrupt punishment of poor people last time we had an LNP government sprinkled through the coming months won't hurt. I mean they probably won't help either I guess.
For sure there are plenty of people that don't produce any real value in their work, but that's been the case since forever and they're hard to weed out because in some ways their full time job is to ensure their ongoing employment.
As in most things, it's a question of extent.
The most accurate statement you can make is that AI will make "most" office employees "more" efficient.
The thing is, this has been happening with every technological advance for hundreds of years.
There's no evidence that "more advanced AI" is going to emerge in the next few years.
Sorry this is just plain wrong and there's no evidence of this at all.
People have been saying this since the invention of the comptometer.
Anyone who's job can be replaced by an LLM isnt producing any value.
For the rest of us it's an incremental improvement at best.
It's a good point and deeply concerning.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Trump decided to invade somewhere just because he can.
Especially if his economic measures start making him look bad.
My global political history isn't great, and maybe others can correct me here, but it doesn't feel like the US has had much of a stabilising effect in the last 30 years.
There's plenty of conflicts that just don't make the news that the US just isn't interested in. Poor places with no oil or other resources. Presently Burma comes to mind. There always seems to be somewhere in Africa, last decade there was genocide in Congo IIRC.
Also it's not really clear whether their involvement in the middle east over the last few decades was positive or negative.
It's nice to have them hovering around South China Sea to keep China in check I guess.
Actually kinda sexy.
This is going to cause a lot of animosity.
That's not really how global politics and diplomacy works.
If the only "peaceful solution" Russia will accept is the surrender of Ukraine, what do you expect them to do?
Having a well provisioned and trained standing army also encourages your opponents to seek peaceful solutions.
I don't really care whether you engage.
It's an absurdity to suggest that my comment shifts blame to an 11 year old victim.
Sure ok maybe some asshole Alex Jones type might try to say she over reacted, and they might do that by undermining her agency.
That doesn't mean that someone wondering about what an 11 year old's understanding of suicide might be, is doing anything other than grieving for our collective loss of innocence.
It's a perfectly reasonable thing to wonder in trying to process the death of someone so young.
Pretty sure that's exactly what they were thinking.
"We need this bird flu thing to go away so the egg prices come down"
if the question is about whether or not they know about what death is, then yes they know
It's not that simple though is it.
An 11 year old can probably explain what death means, but not really understand the permanence or significance of the event especially in the context of the transience of bullying.
I'm not blaming her?
Sorry I don't really understand what's so dumb about this question.
If she actually intended suicide (which we don't know), then to what extent did she understand the permanence of death in the context of the transience of feelings.
Committing suicide?
Yes that's me.
Yeah that's not really how lemmy or any anonymous platform works really.
If you espouse a position that others disagree with they will tell you.
If your position is ridiculous then you will be ridiculed.
Personally, I find Lemmy to be a lot less respectful in this way than other platforms. As I said in my earlier comment any opinion that is less than absolutely supportive of the common opinions is heavily ostracized.
A good example would be the situation with Luigi Mangioni. The vast majority of users want mangioni to walk free, and as a result there's blind support for "jury nullification". This is obviously a complex issue with legal, social, and historic ramifications, but any opinions other than breathless support for jury nullification in his case will be heavily ostracized.