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@kidviddy @mmasnick but public stock trading, as corrosive as it is to the long term interests of businesses, their workers, their consumers, and their environment, still seems like a better alternative than concentrating investment opportunities in real estate, venture capitalism, etc. so not sure what the solution is.

@kidviddy @mmasnick so I’ve been thinking about the short term thinking problem of quarterly profit numbers as well, and I think there’s more to it than doctrine. Public companies are in competition with other public companies for investors in sort of a macro market, and this drives the need for displaying continual growth, bc if you just, say, stay at a healthy equilibrium, your stocks lose out to the ones that constantly increase, and your valuation sinks.

The robot apocalypse has been delayed.

#AI #machinelearning #cartoonlogic #silly

@MPgh @maxleibman Problem is that us as consumers aren’t really given a choice to avoid. We’re mostly the product. We interact with the financial system in any way, our data is fed to the credit bureaus whether we want it or not. And since we aren’t in privity with them, the recourse when they’re irresponsible with it is seriously lacking.

@LouisIngenthron thank you for your informative post. I should’ve clarified what I meant by blurring the line, but was both emotional and at the character limit. I was referring in more of a psychological and sociological sense; the gun’s place in our society. What we think of when we think of gun ownership and gun rights here, and what we’ve normalized, what’s aspirational, and so forth, which seems out-of-step with the norms of other countries.

My heart breaks— I can’t even keep up with these #massshooting crises in the US. I’m just sick.

Other countries have mental health problems. Other countries have video games. Other countries have bullies, incels, rap music, atheism, neglectful parents, and every other factor we hear. What other countries DON’T have is a definitional blurring between high-capacity bullet sprayers and small self-defense pieces. #Guns should be limited purpose tools of necessity, not power fetishes.

@doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world the Atlantic and the Guardian are nice because they really go in-depth and aren’t very sensationalist. But I usually start with news aggregator sites and then branch out from there.

@futurebird seems like a lot of people answering according to what they’d prefer/what *should* be the case. In that case, yes, let’s make it a more widespread thing.

@futurebird I wouldn’t oppose it becoming a new norm, but as of now it isn’t a societal-wide one; even those of us who appreciate it don’t expect it as a baseline, especially from older generations or in a formal/business context like calls from my kids’ school. Similarly, at my job we have to call dozens of our clients a day for various reasons and no one I know is currently doing that, though we will use text *instead* of calls for simple requests when we can.

@juddlegum the fact check seems to be gone now. Apparently enough people voted it down?

#russia #ukraine #energy #economics

Foreign Policy: The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/19/russia-ukraine-economy-europe-energy/

Via @RiotLinguistics
#Tate #creeps #culture #feminism #consent #toxic #SA #exploitation #childabuse #trafficking #rapeculture

@Energetic_Nova @cautionarytale@mastodon.world @pivoinebleue@mstdn.social there’s no contest. Manchin is frustrating AF but he represents West Virginia for crying out loud, and has quite the tightrope to walk. He’s also been much more open about his negotiation wants than Sinema, while being quietly more cooperative w the Ds maneuvering then he positions himself as.

McCarthy is a traitorous snake who sold the last grimy scraps of his soul to Trump and now even kisses up to MTG.

#racism #pregnancy #maternity #medical #fetus #representation #blindspots

Via @davenewworld_2,

WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ Police in North Carolina shot a disabled man who was unarmed and complying with their orders.

A SWAT team woke Jason Harley Kloepfer up and told him to get outside, then they shot him as soon as he opened the door.

This press release from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office is full of shit. There was no verbal altercation or confrontation.

#police #policeaccountability #NC

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WRYUV7Up2qc

@Noupside Herman Cain unavailable for comment.