Toy R Us is still a thing in Canada, you can just go there and get your kid legos like its 2002

yes the USA is a slave colony empire and it always has been

do americans point out hypocrisy for points or something

politicians just do whatever until you grind them into paste, its why you shouldn’t have politicians and you should invest in paste

That’s your gotcha? Holy shit sorry for taking your comment in good faith, hope you trip 🖕

What do you think delegating your needs through capitalism is a sign of?

Mentioned in another reply I’m working on personal food and water security. I supply about 1/3 of my calories from gardening.

I did it myself with hand tools, took about 40 hours all said but most of that was up front over about a week. Potatoes are easy and I’m in a region where Tisquantum’s method of sewing the three sisters works really well. My wife does tomato and peppers. Its a lot of potato. 6 ft x 10 ft trench yielded buckets full.

you don’t share the perspective being criticized here but do you see how people a scootch luckier than you career-wise (and i’m not sniffing at 10 years of technical employment) might be susceptible to the “maturity” notion?

i’m just glad that explanation made sense to you bc it was the easiest way i could think to frame it

i live around a lot of nazis i don’t identify with and they currently control society here (rustbelt midwest) but i see a lot of people of various political backgrounds with this particular misconception

anyway I even qualified this unpopular opinion with “people often” and you’re not under this delusion

if you’re not being criticized by the premise, and you don’t agree with the opinion, perhaps it is an Unpopular Opinion?

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Listen, life happens. But when you’re on the go, you don’t want to be weighed down by the basic chores that allow people to live. That’s why we sell schmoopy. Your transportation/ child/ meal prep/ elderly parent/ laundry/ chauffeured ice-cream taco/ media collection won’t take care of itself, but you can pay schmoopy so you don’t have to think about it. That way, you can get back to the more lucrative activity we’ve designated for your class.

Here are examples:

• meal prep and delivery

• child care / elder care

• laundry service

My opinion is that these are services that people often delegate with money in order to pursue financial opportunities other people don’t have, and they often confuse their class privileges for social maturity because money has replaced social relationships in their life.

I’m at about 35% calories from my own farm and the water infrastructure out here pulls from the river a mile from my house which the village does a bad job of treating, I’m patching together water solutions right now.

Nah, you’re missing two bits. One, you don’t personally share this delusion and aren’t being criticized. Two, you’re highlighting your class privilege by associating your time with money. I have no beef with professionals doing stuff a hobbyist is capable of. I just notice some people think that being able to pay to save their own time means that they’re wise instead of solvent.

AI doesn’t have “its own sake.” The LLM boom has very little in common with “AI” as you described. The product called ai doesn’t live up to a utopian sci-fi fantasy because we do not live in a sci-fi utopia and fantasies are not real.