It freezes into black ice so quickly too. I wish I could WFH during a snow storm

Making new friends is hard

Kay.

This isn't meant to be political, but while SNAP/EBT faces an uncertain future, we all need to be there for each other. Even if its hard, especially if its inconvenient.

Those small amounts of money may not seems like much, especially in the face of inflation, but food pantries can stock up and gets special pricing from distributors. Those 1, 2, 5 10 dollars goes an extremely long way. No one deserves to go hungry, least of all seniors and children.

Except we'd be bailing out our own 401ks instead of our savings with the big banks. The mag 7 companies that benefit from AI driven engagement comprise 43% of the stock market. Or something ridiculous like that. Most 401ks are in stocks unless you are close to retirement and converted it to bonds.

And it still results in an overinflated hype bubble known as stock market speculation. Its all BS and when it crashes (because lets be real without real people revenue capitalism cant actually work) the same thing that happened in '08 might happen again - bailouts on the backs of taxpayers.

Oh and on this, some people are just stubborn. Or its yet another bot posting.

This is an internet economy that is completely disconnected from 90% of internet users. At least, I think so. I would like to think generally people are not as deeply engaged online so this feedback loop is working on the same bots on the same sites with the same parameters

All industries are getting like this because its impossible to tell what invention or innovation even creates real value. On top of all the fake engagement on the top 3 or 4 social media sites

The simple answer is, the real orders that are actually placed for the product. But this too, can be somewhat automated. You'd hope that most companies project supply based on actual demand but since site traffic has become an important metric this might not be true anymore

To be specific, a simple example: if a product promotion is automated, and the responses and traction to that product is automated from other companies and developers... at which point are you able to distinguish how much of the product is actually in demand?

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Just this with bells from fnaf2 playing in my head

Yeah me too. My problems are less dire but I always manage to sneak by not touching my savings... I feel like that's becoming way harder however with everything