> We can see that with clothing and appearance: people started to dress slovenly, preferring comfort to being presentable and well-put together.

I know a 21 year old dude who dresses like he's from the 50s, suit, hat and all. He looks extremely presentable and is the biggest compliment machine that I know!

I live in a beach town and dress almost always in trousers and sports coat, occasionally in a suit, sometimes casually in jeans and shirts and desert boots, but always with intention.

Well, what can I do? I am terribly vain and don't see myself going out in flip-flops when not at the beach.

Now that you mention it, I indeed cannot remember a single strip where unionization would be mentioned, despite it always being a relevant topic in the critique of office jobs

I think that the President has too much power and should have only a symbolic role, limited to soft-powers

Well the power is limited but weve also allowed every check and balance to be given to sympathetic cronies.

> Modern cars break down less than older cars

Could be a coincidence, but I seem to hear the opposite from almost every single car mechanic I have ever talked to

Should we trust real data, or anecdotes from the people who work almost exclusively with the cars that have broken down? I'm happy sticking with real data, personally.

> I could. My wife couldn't.

Many women can, though. So I don't see how that's an argument

> How is it possible that beef, dairy, and chicken are front and center while Lentils, Tofu (or even just soy), Chickpeas, Nutritional Yeast, Broccoli, etc are all left off?

Possibly because those foods are culturally un-American or something silly like that

> But at the same time technofeudalism, dystopia, etc.

You could run LLMs locally to mitigate this. Of course, running large models like GLM-4.6 is not feasible for most people, but smaller models can run even on Macbooks and sometimes punch way above their weight

> While the author doesn't seem to be aware of state of the art in the field

The blog post is from 2022, though

I suppose you could argue that it is a great book in terms of style and prose, which is why kids should be introduced to the work. I did not grow up in the US, so I have only first read it as a young adult and I vividly remember that the book was beautifully written. It was a joy to read, which I cannot say about all classics.

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> $1.8 billion? So do those of us who contribute get any of that?

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