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Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don’t spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it’s on expensive yachts in Monaco. They’re not contributing to the economy in which they live.

The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn’t really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it’s mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they’re the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.

Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.

I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.

I’ve had jobs where I’m not able to talk about specifics but they’re still plenty of good stories you can tell.

I’m colour blind so there’s basically only three colours on this graph but what I’m assuming is showing is that windows is decreasing in popularity and apparently so is OS X. I’m assuming the other colour is Linux or Chrome but no idea which is which.

For future reference, when making graphs make them in black and white first and if they are visually distinct then you can add whatever colours you want.

Given that it’s the engine Egyptians, they’ll be cat videos.

Well they are competing with Minecraft.

I watched the gameplay trailer when it came out and I can’t say it was particularly invigorating. It was mostly endlessly slash at zombies then endlessly slash skeletons.

Doesn’t exactly scream deep combat mechanics.

Great for you but that’s got nothing to do with what we were talking about which was you thinking that a war between Venezuela and the United States would be a good thing.

Why would Europe move manufacturing to the US. It would be just as expensive as in Europe, if you were to move manufacturing elsewhere it would be to India.

Why? Like seriously what does the idiot think he’s going to achieve with all of this. Because it seems like the republicans are speed running political irrelevance.

It doesn’t matter how many idiots they get to vote for them if the US dollar ceases to be the world currency because of all their stupid decisions. They’ll end up being in charge of an barely populated (ironically everybody with any brains immigrated) unproductive wasteland with crumbling infrastructure. I’m sure the great and wealthy will love living in that world.

I mean you grew up believing that it’s healthier to eat meat rather than just more profitable to sell it

Seriously I’ve read this about 10 times and I still have no idea what you’re going on about. It’s healthier to eat meat than sell it, what?

it is morally defensible in any way to create an intelligent creature

What absolute grammar hellhole is this? What animal are you thinking of?

I’ve worked there for years now and I’m still unclear on the hierarchy. I think they’re both the same level of authority but I honestly could be wrong, the organisation is an absolute mess.

You can tell when you work for a big multinational because it’s never clear who’s in charge. If you know what’s going on you’re not working for an important enough organisation.

So to be clear I “report” to the manager that I actually like. What I’m supposed to be doing I have no idea about. Given that I’ve never actually got in trouble for withholding information I assume that the other guy isn’t my direct line manager. But it really is all up in the air.

Yeah it was a different Mrs Thatcher, and to be clear that might not have been her actual name, I’m just coming up with something that sounds appropriately similar. I’ve subsequently seen pictures of her in the class yearbook. She was really really hot, when she was my teacher she was younger than I am now so I absolutely did not appreciate her attractiveness.

Oh no she was wonderful, we got to hear all the hot gossip from her. None of the teachers liked Mrs Hall, she was the antichrist apparently. Even as a kid I could tell she hated children. God knows why she became a teacher.

Meanwhile Mrs Thatcher had a rabbit, a classroom pet. Oh it was wonderful, I’m not sure I necessarily learnt all that much from her, but I really liked her.

It’s the only way to get a pay rise. You have to work with the idiots or they don’t give you any money.

The problem is the people in charge are not the people that should be in charge. I suppose it’s my fault for not getting an MBA.

Grow up on a farm and you really have no delusions about how the world works. Although I did think teachers lived at the school so I was unclear with how Mrs Thatcher got pregnant.

This guy is into some really weird stuff, and not the normal henti that everyone else is asking for.

I don’t think openAI is as well-known a Google.

Oh good. AI is collapsing and it’s taking Oracle with it.