Don’t worry scro’

Lamenting the raising of prices is absolutely fair, but every industry goes through this. I cycle a lot, and there’s a strong base of people that are deeply upset at the cost of the bikes the pros are using. It used to be that almost anyone could buy the model bike that won the Tour de France, where they’d go for £1,200-1,500, full spec and all. Now Pogačar’s Colnago V4Rs cost $8,215 for the base model, likely closer to $12,000 for a fully spec’d version. I just think that this is happening everywhere as things get more and more optimized. You have to dig deeper and deeper to eek out those gains.

Think of the sheer amount of time, effort, and hardware that goes into AI features and such. Upscaling and frame generation need a lot of data to be processed to make it viable, and the cost of the cards will have to offset this research cost.

The only thing that maybe leans towards it being somewhat greed driven was the audio edits they made in their presentation, but again, I still just don’t think that’s enough to say “this is greed” or not. Is selling at a profit at all “greedy”?

I can’t find anything about the cost for them to produce each unit, ya got some inside info you wanna share?

Proton when no GE

Could AI upscalers be messing up your jeans with peanut butter? Technology’s got a taste for trouble on the next episode of Sick Sad World!

(I spent 15 minutes thinking of this)

Does she have the remnants of a peanut butter sandwich on hear jeans?

There was, but now I’m getting older and more tired

How do you even deal with wage compression? It feels like it’s ingrained socially at this point, people just seem willing to accept that pay because there’s no alternative. I know that for public sector jobs it’s a tricky balancing act where the government can’t increase a salary for roles in 1 Civil Service grade as it may disincentivise workers in another role at the same grade. That probably hasn’t helped when highly skilled roles that require decades of experience are tiered similarly to a role that may only take 6 months of training, where that high skill role wage is being constrained by that lower skill role. Perhaps that’s had a wider effect of bringing the perceived value down? I haven’t spent any time really thinking about this though, if you have any resources on this, I’d love to give them a read/watch.

Also sorry if my comments felt like I was implying young people are lazy, that wasn’t what I was getting at at all. I think the apathy that young people feel is absolutely valid, and even workers who are in their late 50’s who have been hit by redundancy are feeling this apathy intensely as they may not see any opportunities that allows them to provide for their families due to the general outlook of things.

I’ve wondered this for a while, is a car dependant society creating a general senae of selfishness?

Like if you walk everywhere, I feel your behaviour will be rounded out via interactions with others, but in a car you’re removed from seeing the human effect your actions have, it allows you to detach your humanity because it happens outside your cage, you’re only concerned for what’s happening inside thr cage.

Not everyone obviously, cycling around the overwhelming majority of drivers are all good, but as a general trend I do wonder

I don’t have that many answers, but I’ll give it a go.

I think we need to come down extremely hard on landlords, potentially crippling their income stream. They chose an investment, and all investments carry risk, the risk in this case is that too many people can’t afford housing, and the government has to step in and heavily regulate those who profiteer off of basic shelter. This would apply to anyone with rental properties, second homes, long term investment opportunities, ect.

Along side that, a shakeup to planning permission. Fuck NIMBYism, sorry but you don’t get a say when people are paying 80% of their income on the bare essentials. From the top down, mandate construction of new housing in an aggressive manor. After Thatcher absolutely fucked us by forcing the local councils to sell off their council houses with the start of austerity, we’ve been at a ludicrous deficit. I think the figure I was reading is we need to be building about 400,000 houses a year and then in 5 years time, we’ll get “close” to fixing the lack of supply that we’re faced with now

Where does this money come from for that? I dunno, I would guess borrowing like we have done. It’s risky as hell, but it’s better than the current risk where we borrow against our rise in GDP, just hoping we outpace the loan rate without any long term plan to reduce the cost of living. Failing that, a wealth tax could maybe be possible? In the tune of 0.5% or so. That would generate an insane amount of revenue, but it would risk foreign investors looking unfavorably towards the UK. It would look risky for their assets, so foreign investment may fall in a dangerous way, maybe this isn’t the best plan? I just have no idea, it’s not my area of knowledge.

I think the above could be enough to trigger an actual wealth transfer. By dramatically reducing the cost of living, people will actually have disposable income. Income that can go into buying things. Say you work selling clothing, your customers suddenly having 50% more of their paycheques to spend is like the ideal situation, now they actually have the funds to buy your wares. With that higher income, well now you can hire more staff, you can pay your staff more also. You’re not having to work to such a fine margin as economically your customers aren’t as screwed just trying to survive.

I have no idea if this is all viable to be clear, I hope that I’ve come to some solid conclusions and ideas here, I’d love to hear pushback on all of that as well as I’m sure I’ve made some wack assumptions.

I want workers to earn more, but can you really regulate the economy into being better like this?

The cost of living is insane, but the relative pay per hour of a worker competed to anywhere in Europe is already pretty high. Our current minimum wage is 25% higher than Germany, 28% higher than France, 81% for Spain, and 318% compared to somewhere lile the Czech Republic. Our economy is already stalled out, It’s already prohibitively expensive to run a company in the UK, and I don’t think making employees cost more will stimulate the economy.

Also if minimum wage rises aggressively then I think all that will happen is we’ll get a wage spiral upwards and companies will hire fewer and fewer peoeple. We saw a bit of this as we were coming out of covid as a reaction to inflation at the time. The concern is if wages do inflate quicjly, then that drivea prices higher, which results in people demanding higher wages, ect.

Tackling the actual living costs, housing, utility, food, I think that’s the only way to go about this. Anything like a minimum wage increase just rolls the snowball down the road, and it will 100% be bigger when you reach it again.

Oh sorry, I know which one you mean, the profile button yeah. It’s the same number of clicks unfortunately

I did have a look there, but unfortunately no dice. I couldn’t see any account option. Unless I’m missing something, here’s the options I have

I hadn’t heard of Mozilla Connect, I’ll give that a look, thanks!

Yep! It’s absolutely fantastic. It was the main feature that I’ve been missing from Chrome since I made the switch years ago. Perfectly segregated environments, own logins, passwords, cookies, history, theme, ect, it works flawlessly.

The only negative, and it’s incredibly minor, is it’s nested behind the hamburger menu top right. It’s just an extra click, but I would prefer to have a profile icon next to my pinned extensions there.

So yeah, I think if you want this functionality, you’ll be extremely happy when it drops!

I’ve been rocking vertical tabs for a while on nightly along side the profile switcher. Honestly? Absolutely game changing. It’s been a breath of fresh air, Firefox feels transformed into a progressive browser for the first time in a long long time.

As for groups, here’s an example. I don’t personally use groups that much, I prefer profiles where I can keep environments segregated, but the groups do look pretty nice.

Here’s 2 groups with another tab at the top to give perspective

And I collapsed the top one

And here’s a full screenshot just to help put it in perspective

::: spoiler I went fairly hard down the espresso rabbit hole, lelit Mara x v2, niche zero, handful of accessories. I like it, but it 100% isn’t as the aesthetic portrays. It’s more comppicated and the learning curve is steep. You may luck into a few good pulls, but it just takes time.

I don’t regret it, but I still absolutely love a V60 brew. With espresso I find myself rushing the process to get a coffee. The ritual of a pour over never left me feeling more irritated than when I started.

Your list of worries are a lot lower as well, am I scaling up to inside, do I need to lubricate my cams, how dirty is it under thr shower screen, etc… :::

Damn, ya got there before me.

I feel this is a hobby where people can get into obsessing about all the toys and trinkets. From the outside I assume it looks really embarrassing haha

I’m sorry you went through that, and I’m certainly not tying to downplay the experience of anyone having gone through such events. I hope if Sam’s sister did experience these things that she has the full support of her family.

I don’t know the details of the savage lawsuit honestly, but often settling is far cheaper than a long drawn out fight. There was thr court case against Andy Baio by the photographer who took the photos that was used on Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album. Andy settled out of court and put out this statement discussing it.

Not to say Adams or Sam’s stories are at all related to their case, but these things are extremely imperfect with guilty parties often going on to reoffend leaving further damage in their wake.

I still believe that hating ai based on “guilt by association” may weaken the perceived position, even if the criticism and accusations are absolutely warranted and deserved.

Wasn’t Adam savage accused of a similar thing?

I’m not a huge fan of AI, but I dunno if jumping on anything that could paint one of the CEO"s in a negative light is the best approach. I feel the anti-ai position will lose credibility if in the future these accusations are disproven, similar to Adam Savage’s accusations.

Try the sauce from this thai noodle salad recipe: https://www.feastingathome.com/thai-noodle-salad-with-peanut-sauce/#tasty-recipes-16470-jump-target

Sambal oelek is Indonesian but could fit in place of the siracha, would likely be a better ingredient.