And considering trade with China is because of the cheap prices, that $143.6 B represents a much larger number for how much gdp activity happens after it’s imported, once wholesalers resell it to retailers who resell it to customers.

At this point, I don’t think there is a way to prevent evil. Like maybe there’s a way to prevent this specific flavour of it but ultimately it (and most other flavours) are driven by core human qualities (that aren’t necessarily dominant in everyone). Lust for power and control, greed, jealousy, envy, pride, lust, hate, wrath. The desire for love, comfort, ensuring basic needs are met, laziness. Wanting to avoid being hurt, then wanting to change the rules to avoid being hurt again when hurt inevitably happens. Not wanting to spend the time or effort to understand or analyze things properly.

Have you noticed the pattern of toxic people doing something that gets described and named by others wanting to prevent it and take the power away from those doing it, only for that name and process to be weaponized by other toxic people (or sometimes the same ones) and it ends up just being another way they can manipulate others? And at the same time, others who seem to have good intentions start calling it out in places where it doesn’t apply, wanting to help or be a hero or something despite not understanding what they are trying to fight?

Power is a pendulum with many people pushing at it in various directions. The corrupt will always seek it and the uncorrupt that find it can be corrupted by it, sometimes with good intentions the whole way but just lacking perspective that shows the other side of the blade of their uses of that power.

Ultimately, I think any real attempt to stamp out evil ends up becoming a new evil itself and the best we can hope for is to be able to deal with specific instances of it or wait for it to fizzle or flare out. And also to remain willing to re-examine our own beliefs about what is evil and how it should be dealt with to avoid pushing that pendulum so far that it ends up coming back even harder.

Also be wary of anyone who claims they do have an answer to that.

Technically they all end up up someone’s ass when used properly.

We don’t absorb everything completely, so some passes through unabsorbed. Some are passed via bile or mucous production, like manganese, copper, and zinc. Others are passed via urine. Some are passed via sweat. Selenium, when experiencing selenium toxicity, will even pass through your breath.

Other than the last one, most of those eventually end up going down the drain, either in the toilet, down the shower drain, or when we do our laundry. Though some portion ends up as dust.

And to be thorough, there’s also bleeding as a pathway to losing nutrients, as well as injuries (or surgeries) involving losing flesh, tears, spit/boogers, hair loss, lactation, finger nail and skin loss, reproductive fluids, blistering, and mensturation. And corpse disposal, though the amount of nutrients we shed throughout our lives dwarfs what’s left at the end.

I think each one of those are ones that, due to our way of life and how it’s changed since our hunter gatherer days, less of it ends up back in the nutrient cycle.

But I was mistaken to put the emphasis on shit and it was an interesting dive to understand that better. Thanks for challenging that :)

I believe there were also files like “yoursong.mp3 .exe” (not sure how this will render, but lots of spaces before the .exe so it would be hidden by the UI even if extensions weren’t hidden).

Custom icons didn’t help either, since they could just use the default icon for the spoofed file type. Though using a different program that changed the icon would negate that and make any of them obvious.

Also helps to use a method other than double clicking the file to open it, like drag and drop. Which was my usual flow with mp3s anyways because I generally added them to my massive playlist and double clicking risked replacing my playlist (that might have not been saved in forever) with a playlist with just that single song.

I liked it when winamp added the media library. Took me forever to rate my songs, but eventually my “new song flow” was move the new album folder to the artist’s folder in my music folder then tell winamp to rescan for new files, and then import my 3+ star or unrated songs as my playlist, played on shuffle. And occasionally grab a new format plugin if the album was encoded as something new and rescan until the new songs show up. Then give any noise or gag tracks 1 or 2 stars so they don’t make it to my main list after the first listen.

Even if the soil is preserved, we’ve been mining the micronutrients from it and generally only replacing the 3 main macros for centuries. It’s one of the reasons why mass produced produce doesn’t taste as good as home grown or wild food. Nutritional value keeps going down because each time food is harvested and shipped away to be consumed and then shat out into a septic tank or waste processing facility, it doesn’t end up back in the soil as a part of nutrient cycles like it did when everything was wilder. Similar story for meat eating nutrients in a pasture.

Insects did contribute to the cycle, since they still shit and die everywhere, but their numbers are dropping rapidly, too.

At some point, I think we’re going to have to mine the sea floor for nutrients and ship that to farms for any food to be more nutritious than junk food. Salmon farms set up in ways that block wild salmon from making it back inland doesn’t help balance out all of the nutrients that get washed out to sea all the time, too.

It’s like humanity is specifically trying to speedrun extiction by ignoring and taking for granted how things work that we depend on.

Not to mention that even when some components do shrink, it’s not uniform for all components on the chip, so they can’t just do 1:1 layout shrinks like in the past, but pretty much need to start the physical design portion all over with a new layout and timings (which then cascade out into many other required changes).

Porting to a new process node (even at the same foundry company) isn’t quite as much work as a new project, but it’s close.

Same thing applies to changing to a new foundry company, for all of those wondering why chip designers don’t just switch some production from TSMC to Samsung or Intel since TSMC’s production is sold out. It’s almost as much work as just making a new chip, plus performance and efficiency would be very different depending in where the chip was made.

Yeah, that’s why you shouldn’t buy a house with someone unless you’re married or all sign a contract that gives each person a way to force a situation where they can get out (which marriage provides).

Sriracha sauce and ice cream. Probably also works with any hot sauce that isn’t just spicy vinegar.

Now I’m curious what ice cream and wasabi is like…

Cable management: are they plugged in? Yes? Ok, great, now it’s time to use the device!

So it’s going to get bought out by Microsoft and replaced with a shitty electron app?

Silly human, reddit was just the platform. All of the behaviours were human. Lemmy is just better because it’s decentralized, so if the admins go authoritarian or corrupt, you can just move to another instance where they don’t have power.

I wonder if early reddit had people replying similarly about it not being digg.

It took me a couple of tries to get into it but it gets so good. Between BB and BCS, I think BCS is the better of the two shows, but it does start a lot slower.

Why is a typically online interaction being shown as if in person so jarring? If anything, the interaction happening online where they would be unlikely to date anyways makes it even weirder when someone says it.

Don’t tell me stopped it right at 24 hours. It starts falling at 24:00:03!

Holy shit I think with the joke, irony, and the two of you, I might be able to put some sort of perpetual motion machine together! Now I just need some investors…

Yeah, if someone can’t help but destroy objects around them or punch holes in walls, I wonder how many bad days or situation escalations they are from targeting a person instead of an object. Rage isn’t a pressure vessel that needs pressure to be released in the form of violence, rather your mind is something you train habits into, meaning you’re training yourself to react to frustration with violence.

Not to mention it never helps anything. You mentioned the feelings of shame, but there’s also more direct consequences of destroying things that happen to be in reach. There was a bash quote from someone who had to print a school paper or something and got so frustrated when they couldn’t access the file that they threw their printer (or something essential to what they needed to do) out of their high storey window in frustration. They were lucky they didn’t accidentally kill someone in the process, and then had a new real problem of not having equipment they needed once they realized the disc or whatever the file was on was sitting on their desk instead of inserted for reading. Or videos of kids getting gamer rage and destroying their keyboards or monitors. That will just make it harder to stop being pissed off because now they need to spend money to get back to where they just were (and were already unhappy about).

Though I do feel differently about object destruction not done in the heat of the moment. Like the printer scene from Office Space or getting enjoyment from demolishing a room before renovating it. It’s a deliberate choice, which doesn’t imply they might fly off the handle and do who knows what.

I’ve recently started reading a bunch and have mangas and manwhas I like, but the manhua I’ve tried so far was too heavy on the propaganda for my tastes. I’m not sure if that was specific to the one I was reading or if the CCP requires all art to be pro Chinese nationalist and imperialist.

My top mangas:
Hunter x Hunter (keeps going where the anime stopped, though it doesn’t finish the story and I’m not sure it ever will)
Dandadan (holy shit this one is so good, goes way past the one season of anime, which is very faithful to the manga, it’s still ongoing with weekly updates)

My top manwhas:
Hero Killer (I love the characters and art, though the action and story can be difficult to follow)
A Returner’s Magic Should be Special (this one is the first one I found after deciding I wanted to read a completed story and it delivered)
Solo Levelling (this one’s pretty fun, especially early on)

And the manhua I started but gave up on:
Way to be the Evil Emperor (some speculated in the comments that the CCP friendly stuff was to gain some leeway with the rest of the story but it was just too overt for me to enjoy. And the writing isn’t that great outside of the propaganda, too. The art was good though)

Technical analysis is where gambler’s fallacy meets self-fulfilling prophecy. Though other forces are also in play.

Mario bros 1-2

Some of the levels seemed like you could jump over the flag pole, but it would grab it from the other side. Then Mario lost levels had one where you could get passed the flag and it felt so good finally being able to do it.