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@freemo yeah the black Soi cats are cute. We adopted one and make sure she regularly visits the vets for her vaccinations - whatever she needs. She has a lovely temperament. :ablobsmile:

I made a new thai friend. Now everytkme she sees me on the street i get a "meow" and she comes running over to me full speed for some cuddly head butts. She even lets me pick her up.

@freemo@qoto.org That begs the question: Has she one or three nipples? (or more?!)

@freemo @trinsec she was an eldritch monstrosity escaping human understanding, with x = x + 1 number of breasts?

@freemo@qoto.org I'm going to assume that her odd number of nipples and her becoming your ex are a cause and effect situation

@tyil, I'll like to think the other way around, i.e. @freemo's ex used to have an even number of nipples.

Interesting fact of the day: an opossum is thr only animal with an odd number of nipples. Well, other than my ex girlfriend crystal.

I wish i had a waterproof ereader. If i did i wouod put on my scuba tanks, go sit at the bottom of a pool and read a books for a few hours.

@avlcharlie @mapto @volkris

Now that is a complicated question. But usually the main way its accomplished with what we call antitrust laws. When enforced (and the usa has enforced thrm but not as strongly as it should) they effectively make monopolies illegal.

Of course the other key is keeping corruption in check and money out of politics, which isnlikewise a difficult task to do, but critical to a healthy capitalism

@freemo @mapto @volkris

Okay so I'm not so self-absorbed that I can't say I guess I was wrong and I misunderstood what capitalism was. This has been relatively enlightening.

My question then is what's the one where greedy people hoard up all of the money and resources, abuse the working class and create a system of poverty?

@mapto

Also, utility is not only contextual, but subjective.

Half-true.. the utility of a single transaction is subjective. But you are maximizing for the aggregate utility, that is objective.

To someone a million dollars might be enough to secure a lifetime, to someone else it could be enough to buy a house, to a third person, it might mean buying some nice nice stuff to show off

That statement isnt describing utility.

@volkris @avlcharlie

Mistral AI really shines a light on OpenAI.

As a cyber collector, I have LLaMa1, LLaMa2, Mistral8x7B laying in my nas. Although I don't have powerful enough hardware to run them, but it's a good thing to have. And I'm looking forward to the dolphin variant.

* Dolphin is a decensored model based on those open source models.

@freemo I canโ€™t speak to AU/NZ usage, but the UK definitely defaults to plural in most cases. Note youโ€™re citing a particular placeโ€™s style guide, not a description of what is spoken. You can find lots of descriptions of the actual spoken differences if you look. Hereโ€™s the first few hits for me:

grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/01

reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/op

blenheimeditorial.co.uk/post/c

@mapto

Bow ya figure that makes no sense. Accumulating resources in a vault untouched is the least effecient form, you literally have negative effiency as inflation devalues assets. A person would achieve effiency by investing thrir mo ey wisely and ensuring other people are using those resources to effectively increase the total resources in the market.

You are getting stuck in the fallacy that someone havibg authority (ownership) over those resources means that other people cant use it for their own gains as well which is entierly contrary to the reality. Those resources will be in others hands and used by them in some agreement to use them for mutual gain (investment in others).

@avlcharlie

Now that I am back aroubd my girlfriend after being a world away for a year i feel all my emotions turning back on. I didnt realize how much the distance and stress had paid a toll on .y mental health. I feel much better already.

I am now in , Phuket near the ocean. Ill be working remotely from here for 3 months... im ready.

@avlcharlie How is it a oxymoron. All capitalism is is any system which includes free market trade, that is, trade in which natural supply-demand pressures dominate the markets pricing.

Nothing about that implies greed or altruism, it only implies everyone is trying to maximize their own fitness function (get the most utility for their resources). Its about effiency not greed.

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