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Cake day: November 11th, 2024

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  • Those are usually hard corn, so it would probably taste pretty starchy once ground into cornmeal. Now that I think about it that would probably be a yummy cornbread, like a less sweet cornbread. They may be able to be popped to make popcorn, but in my experience the colorful corns make pretty bad popcorn. The taste is good but there’s a lot more hull relative to the starch compared to yellow or white popcorn, which makes them more tough and less satisfying to chew, at least to me.




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    3 days ago

    I wild liberal appears! It’s not even a logical leap or a hypothetical. That’s literally how capitalism works. It costs $X to get someone to do a thing, but you get $3X dollars in return, while all you did was control the money, congratulations you’re benefiting from the exploitation of others. It’s inherently undemocratic and unethical to do less work than someone and get such an insanely outsized portion of the generated wealth, such as oh idk like the CEOs who make 300x the median salary of the employees in their company, to say nothing of the stock options and other benefits. That’s not even a statement about them as people, they may be nice people who care about their employees and try to do right by them, but nothing they do will make up for the fact that they’re stealing from them, other than stopping.

    This applies to minimum wage workers, service workers, contract workers, blue collar workers, white collar workers, middle management, engineers, technicians, accountants, basically everyone who isn’t the owner class. We’re all being exploited. If you choose not to see that you’re part of the problem.

    Also there’s nothing wrong with sex work and it shouldn’t be relegated to back alleys. Fuck you for implying that’s ok. People die being pushed to do that.



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    Not really though. The sex worker providing a product is providing some entertainment value to their customers. They are exploiting themselves in a way they might not if we didn’t live in a capitalist hellscape, and the amount of value provided, especially relative to cost, are open to interpretation. Yet we can agree she’s providing greater than zero value if the only person she’s exploiting is herself. The owner of a law firm or tech startup is exploiting their employees and enriching themselves at the employees expense. The value they provide cannot possibly approach the value generated by the people actually doing the work, so even in the best case they are a net negative. They get way more value just sitting in that position than they could ever provide through their work. In the worst case they actively destroy their employees ability to create value while harvesting a larger proportion of what does end up being generated. These wannabe techno/neo-feudalists are actively destroying society and making things worse for everyone, including themselves in the long run, purely for short term personal enrichment.




  • See the answer is to remove the edge cases. We make a special road for only self driving cars. No human traffic lights, no pedestrians, just flawless roads. While we’re at it let’s make a special road that the cars couldn’t fall off of if they tried. That will make lane keeping trivial so the cars just need to go straight. We can even make the special road steer for them. Actually since they’re all going the same way we can tie them all together so we only need one engine and can save money hehehe. We’ll make self driving so easy bro.