piggy [they/them] @ piggy @hexbear.net

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Stock prices are not a perfect reflection of real value. The price can easily be distorted by the beliefs of people with money, who can spend that money on Tesla stock to own the trans. This doesn't translate to wider market dominance or profitability of Tesla's bad products.

This is because capitalism is actually a bad price discovery mechanism for securities. In commodities markets corrections are quick because there's a real input-output happening to the commodity. A security's value is literally greater fool theory. You could rig a commodity market but you effectively need a near monopoly/monospony/cartel to do it over a long period of time. There is no "running out of stocks" because stocks aren't used for anything. So there's effectively no real floor for any security. This is exactly why they were able to do financial fraud for such a long time in 2008. The securities system crashes based on speculation and technicalities not realities, reality can help get it there but it's not guaranteed.

What does this even mean practically for the technology right now? Are the Trump failson appointees to the nuclear security groups in National Labs asking chat gpt to do their homework for them???

cursed prediction: proprietary headphones get sound quality privileges on their manufacturer's devices... users pay a subscription fee for "compatibility" with non-proprietary headphones

This is already partially true, Galaxy Buds and Pixel Buds have better support/features on their vertically integrated Android flavor compared to others.

At this point if I want the best audio quality I'm sitting down and using my Hifiman Sundaras thru my Schiit Amp and Dac stack. When I'm mobile I am usually not paying enough attention.

What happens is that they actually measure this shit. Walmart has an entire system that tracks how much staffing affects customer attrition in order to keep staffing at minimum levels without losing too much in sales.

You can do a true wireless IEM with the Schure True Wireless Adapter. I'm running Linsoul 7Hz Timeless off of mine. Bigger box than fully integrated true wireless buds, but it does allow you to drive MMCX IEMs and it has a very good battery in comparison. The 2 pin options are worse than the MMCX options only FIIO and KZ makes them.

The only good (tech wise) true wireless buds are typically the flag ships from tech brands (Sony/Apple/Beats/Samsung/Google) but the audio quality is typically average compared to wired IEMs or a Schure True Wireless setup, the Sony flagship WF-XM1004/5's are better, but the battery basically thins out too much over time.

I've had Galaxy Buds / 2 Pro / WF-XM1004s/ Schure True Wireless, and the glitchiest ones have honestly been the Sonys. Maybe the momentum 4 TW are just a bit janky in terms of wireless hardware and sound hardware, because I have had a good time with the Schure True Wireless adapters.

Many new phones don't even have a digital audio converter built in anymore, so the basic USB C to 3.5mm pass through dongles don't work. You have to get a dedicated DAC dongle and many can't even charge the phone while they are in use, it's insane.

Ah so Adams has Billions'd himself out of this huh.

Meanwhile Chris Murphey went on PodJohnsPodJohnHour and said that Democrats are quiet because people keep calling them on the staffer office lines and telling them to kill themselves.

The US Opposition is hilarious. These people really thought they'd defeat fascism in 2016.

In practice they'll wholly generate things and lie through their teeth in court and to the copyright office -- the government will take them at face value.

I am in software so it's the least bad option. Software options are like:

• Scams
• Waste
• Terror
• Neoliberal Helping

This one of those things that seems anachronistic but it's not. Much like the complaint tablet of El Nasir

Yeah people tabulated data thousands of years ago, crazy. In fact you probably do less personal accounting than people 200 years ago let alone ~5000.

This is one of those America brained things where you don't realize that there are these things called seasons that affect resource extraction and in societies where you didn't have the global imperial might to cajole resource trade in off seasons and have the logistical technology to deliver it, you had to actually plan for winter or die.

It's why almanacs were a thing for centuries, here's a Roman one inscribed on a stone pillar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menologia_rustica

As a person who has had many neoliberal paradigm helping jobs and currently has one: my brother in christ we are the anomie.

The way the helping from a neoliberal paradigm works is creating anomie by carving out and privatizing what should be public services.

The example machines in the first picture are type AT-101 SM which meant they had the glass rinser which is true. The problem? No soap. So you'd often find lipstick on the glasses, not really a "wash".

But the risk of infection is minimal and nobody really got sick from them in any noticeable way, it's just icky. Drunks stole the glasses all the time tho.

Here's a museum talking about the soda machine inside of the GES-2 power plant.

Imagine a Coke Freestyle Machine that only serves seltzer, but instead of plastic cups you have 2 glasses. This machine is a vending machine that's just installed on the street. There is nowhere to wash the glasses.

This is an older design, but it shows the glasses well.

This is the "classic" design that's Sovietana

This is a modernized replica that you'd use with paper cups

This is retaliation in every state.

Nah it's actually a real thing, it was a real thing in the United States too. My mom's side of the fam hated the public soda fountains because they thought sharing cups with half the city was gross.

I was reaidng one of those Cool Russia blogs at one point because i was researching something and it was on epidemiology in the USSR. The article was titled something like "The USSR conquered disease, but is that the whole story?". It basically talks about soviet immunization campaigns, and then at the end complains that in the USSR the soda fountains only had 2 glass cups people shared.

You're thinking of The Virgin of Guadelupe which used to be a folk tradition from the 1500's until the Church canonized it in the 1800's.

Mexican Catholicism

Is just a normal diocese.