I wasn’t a fan of car ownership in general, so now I bike to work and pay less taxes.

Not that Wynn was perfect by any means, but there are lightyears between perfect and Doug ford.

Yeah, there’s enough stuff to go around, but some people are hoarding it, in general.

I’m sure some people like building yachts, and luxury cars, extravagant jewelry, etc., but those industries are so tiny compared to the ones that serve regular people.

Whatever might be lost in terms of cool jobs making fancy things could be made up for so many times over, in an equitable society, for example by allowing people to work less hours and afford the same standard of living, making more free time for hobbies and other fulfilling activities.

A quick search led me to an estimate of 1.5 billion washing machines in existence in 2018, which works out to one for every 5 or 6 people.

I live in a small apartment building with 6 residents and one washing machine. So here I am, in the developed and privileged West, living under global average washing machine conditions.

I remain convinced that the problem is not scarcity, but inequality.

Sure but if you re-allocating all of the resources that went into the yacht, that includes labor, the jobs. I haven’t suggested doing less stuff, I’ve suggested doing the same amount of stuff, but distributing it equitably.

are you willing to give up your washing machine now that you know there are not enough resources for a washing machine for every human and you wanting a fair world?

This is a strawman, or… something similar. No one who wants a more just world is proposing that we get there by reducing the quality of life for large segments of the world’s population.

A more reasonable allegory would be “are you willing to make it so that no one can own a yacht, so that everyone can own a washing machine?”

Because we absolutely do have the resources to get everyone a washing machine, they’re just not evenly distributed.

As this’ll track with reality too, because the people who would say “no” are the people who own yachts and, yeah…those people are the reason we don’t have a more just world.

I would take Wynn back over Doug in a heartbeat.

I bet the library has lots of those too!

To be fair, some figured this out ages ago. But it’s been more and more obvious lately, so more and more people are catching on.

I like clipboard. It sounds snappy and implies simple-mindedness.

YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED INTO THE LLM

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

Duolingo declared it was going as AI as possible earlier this month and now it’s feeling the backlash.

Well I hope so. I deleted it after reading about that. It had been enshitifying for a while anyway.

I’ve replaced it with Mango languages, which has been teaching me sentences I can actually see myself using, and I can get their premium lessons for free through my library.

The firm found 47 per cent of respondents had a positive impression of Ford

Highway 401 tunnel:

Those things are great, but does that make bypassing environmental and municipal laws a good idea?

If it was up to me, there would be no signage at all (about the cameras/other than the posted limit) and the cameras would all be invisible, disguised as or hidden inside some other equipment. Don’t like fines? Try not breaking the law.

And of course we should also implement day fines (that scale with the offender’s income) so everyone who speeds is equally deterred.

“slow down for 30 seconds, there’s a camera here! Go as fast as you want after this block.”

– new speed camera signage

This “AI first” thing was the last straw for me, but ever since I noticed that the comment section was gone there’s been a bad taste in my mouth. I wonder how many of us there are.

Yeah, the comment section was amazing…and then they came out with “max”, where you get “explain my answer” for a premium, powered by a [notoriously fallible] LLM. This is the definition of enshitification.

Well yeah of course, and meanwhile keep building out alternatives and walkable neighborhoods. See how far we can go.