Just read up on it, link is here:

https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/

The setup process means it’s DOA. You have to let it sync for an hour before you can use it? Good lord…I feel like iOS won’t even let me download something in the background for an hour, you’d have to adjust your screen lock and stuff.

Also…how much space is it using on your phone? That shit ain’t cheap.

If you drop nukes from the back of a spacecraft and you have a big pusher shield/shock absorber thing on the back you can get to like 1/4 the speed of light.

So, in theory, we could get there in a lifetime.

Yup, same here. It also documents it in chatgpt but not in the playground.

The trick, as always, is to modularize. Don’t ask chatgpt for an entire application. Outline the code yourself first. Figure out your data structures/custom objects. Then figure out the functions required to do the work in the application, and how those functions will pass around your objects.

Only after you understand the flow…THEN have chatgpt write all the individual functions. You should know how you want your program to work and what the data looks like anyway. So map it out then have chatgpt do only the tedious programming parts.

Oil is out. Like, long term…it’s out. It’s still what powers everything but it’s untenable. Can’t burn t-rex queefs forever, gotta move on.

Moving ground transportation to all electric…that alone covers a sizable chunk. And we’re on our way towards that already. As climate change gets more “in your face” in the next few years…attitudes towards oil are gonna take a steep turn. Like tobacco…

The saudis are buying up all the eggs and all the baskets they can afford.

Why build a 2000 mile long city when you can just pretend it’s there?

AI is not going to create jobs. Its going to become more efficient in the next decade and spring to “life” right in front of our eyes. It’s going to be better at our jobs than we are and that’s coming fast.

There will be entrepreneurs who tack AI onto some traditional process, replace all the workers, make a few more bucks than their competitors and “win” that market. A couple years of that and there will be nothing left.

It’s not complicated. The US sending out $1400 checks 2 years ago didn’t create inflation in other places, like Europe.

A global market collapse, (mostly Chinese) supply chain issues and a war in Europe that’s still happening are way more obvious answers….

I dunno what to tell ya. Economists are biased and say whatever matches their worldview. Bottom line is there needs to be a mechanism for this stuff…and giving a couple grand to people years ago now isn’t gonna cause 10% inflation now, across the entire western world…

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/12-month-percentage-chan.png

Russia was the gas station for Europe and a big chunk of Asia. When fuel prices go up it’s more expensive to do everything.

I’m not exactly sure how a couple 1400 checks to everyone 2 years ago would keep inflation at 10%…

If you flood the economy with free cash and it’s causing inflation there would need to be a corresponding increase in consumer spending.

That didn’t happen.

http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/23574.jpeg

Printing a trillion dollars and handing it out like candy isn’t nearly enough to cause 10% inflation in a country with a 21 trillion dollar economy.

The GDP stayed roughly the same during the pandemic as it had been previously, so productivity and economic activity didn’t really change that much and aren’t factors either.

Now, a war in Europe and global pandemic supply chain issues after the largest market crash in history? That might do it…

I don’t think the government spending a trillion dollars caused inflation. The US can afford that.

And not as much changed as you think during lockdowns. Our GDP was roughly 21 trillion in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. It didn’t really shrink due to lockdowns…

All I’m getting at is it wouldn’t need to be a trillion if we prepared a bit. A couple months of good preparation and coordination with major employers and stuff like that would’ve saved countless billions and a lot of lives. It also would’ve signaled the federal government has a handle on stuff which reduces anxiety and makes a massive sell off less likely.

The markets started to crash on a Monday. That weekend right before and late in the week before it first started to crash it started getting really obvious shit was out of control, and meanwhile Trump is giving pressers straight up lying about it.

How much wealth was wiped out then? Or more accurately, how much wealth was transferred from everyone wiped out to the rich? When the markets lost 1/3 their value and took time to recover….

After that it was other shocks, like supply chain stuff and the Ukraine war. But the root of it all was that first massive crash. The biggest in history…

At a minimum without a massive crash we’d be better equipped to handle inflation.

Imagine we had a president who spent January through March of 2020 preparing remediations and bringing the force of the government together to ease things proactively instead of gaslighting and calling it a flu and telling people it would be over in a week.

The wealthiest nation in the history of the planet should be able to absorb a pandemic without the economy short circuiting.

Sounds like we mostly agree. Merry christmas dude.

Yeah, it’s absolutely bad for the poor. But so is basically everything else. The world is bad for the poor.

Inflation isn’t good. But post-pandemic economic ripples and a war in Europe are the root cause. Not an underlying economic problem like 2007-2009.

We have full employment and wages went up some. If inflation is at 10% and wages go up 5% then the real world economic impact of inflation is only roughly 5%.

So…no. It wasn’t gonna crash the economy.

Oh, I’m not a banker. I’m an IT engineer. I’m just cc’d on all the stuff going on lol.

The Dow lost 1/3 of its value in one day in the spring of 2020.

The markets didn’t begin to recover until the day California announced lockdowns. They wanted a plan and got gaslighting, when people saw a plan things started coming back a bit.

Every bit of economic pain stems from Trump’s initial covid fuckups, and the war his daddy started.

I called out Fox specifically because they said the quiet part out loud right after Biden won. Like, the week after they were talking about switching gears and starting to prioritize “economic anxiety” stories.

Trump’s lack of covid response and subsequent gaslighting cratered every market, they’ll still tell you Trump was good for the economy. Biden’s president elect for like a week and they were already talking about bitching nonstop about the economy.

Totally normal. They have a calendar filled with this stuff:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/proposals-for-comments.htm

I work at a bank. Mortgages are way down because interest rates are up to ease inflation. The bank I work for is treating it like temporary pain, they aren’t hunkering down or anything. They’re gonna push savings and checking accounts and other traditional stuff in 2023 and wait for the fed to ease rates.

Long term numbers all look somewhere between decent and really good, actually.

The economy was never going to crash. Conservative media outlets like Fox have been pushing that narrative since Biden won. At the time they said they were gonna do it, and then they did it.

Midterms are over, economy is mostly healthy which is positive, especially considering the ripples from the pandemic which were always gonna happen…

They’ll focus more on some other thing now. Seems Like they’re ramping up to do Hunter’s laptop…again…

I dunno who he is, but based on his photo I have compete faith in Mathieu Vrard on this subject.

Exactly. It’s all beans and ecoli.

Love the paranoia.

They bought it to replace Azure DevOps…that’s it. That’s the actual reason.

That plan is gonna be far more profitable than web scraping shit code they could’ve mostly accessed freely anyway because most repos are public.

The system still reads 1s and 0s from those tapes.