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Well what I'm seeing in this thread is two metrics, BLS and LISEP, with the argument being that the distinction between them doesn't matter because unemployment is right now historically low by both measures (I don't really know the difference between them myself, or whether these are the only meaningful ways to measure it). And you're reiterating that there exists some measure where it is high, but I think for that to be a convincing counterargument you would need to say more about what that measure is, show that unemployment is high by that measure, and make an argument why that specific way of measuring things is more relevant than the other ones.

Why not a one to two year break?

The comments you're responding to are not making that kind of general argument though, they are only talking about whether a specific claim makes sense. If it doesn't make sense, that doesn't necessarily mean our economic system is working for us, maybe it means that whatever problems exist would be better quantified in a different way.

Only 85% of the population owns a smartphone, I thought for sure it would be higher than that

When I open my task manager I see flatpak-session-helper near the top of the list for ram usage and am suspicious

Generally a good sign for a VPN

You kind of need it for some programs (traditional roguelikes, some media players adjust the volume with numpad keys) so I wouldn't want to go without it myself, but to each their own I suppose

Literally billions of instances of censorship every year, the DMCA is such an awful law

The text under offers an explanation, but since it's a lie that makes it worse not better.

The lack of a numpad on that keyboard is what sticks out to me

You should not use a hacksaw to cut copper pipe for a sharkbite fitting, because supposedly the main thing that causes those to fail is the rubber o ring being damaged from rough edges. It's worth paying the $20 for a pipe cutter to not have to worry about a leak.

I think a lot of the time "beliefs" are more about social signaling than actual worldview. Most people aren't going to do anything to go against the grain for the sake of their beliefs, so one belief or another isn't going to make a difference for anything that matters.

Your other comments in this thread seem to contradict that a little, at least the idea that these harms or benefits would be visible enough to you to evaluate, since you claim to have switched positions when they started becoming more visible and something you would have had to engage with directly. For software in particular, you empower your users to do whatever they happen to choose to do with it.

Which isn't to say you're doing the wrong thing. I just see the economy as a whole as an inherently cannibalistic system we have little choice but to be a contributing part of one way or another, with the main form of meaningful available agency being to minimize involvement rather than choosing how to be involved.

That seems more coherent than the alternative to me...

I feel like that has got to be pretty difficult unless you include jobs where you are personally isolated from and ignorant of the harmful things the company you contribute to is doing

Maybe still a little questionable? Like if you honestly convince someone that they are supernaturally compelled to be in love with you, that might be a bit manipulative

To me the negative connotation of "welfare" is, Kafkaesque bureaucracy used to gate access. Actually being on it feels more like you are playing a fucked up game than receiving assistance.

the show's 20th anniversary

wtf

What about unjustly light sentences though? Like a sex criminal who is let off easy because he's white, has rich parents and was on track to get a high paying career?

Yes, but the opposite way you might be thinking since mass death from war and other catastrophe is strongly correlated with very high birth rates. We're on track for the global population to stabilize around 10 billion right now, but if billions die in a world war we will probably go exponential again for a long time.