David Graeber might have something to contribute to this subject.

We could call it the Intel Principle. ;)

To be pedantic, value is in the eye of the beholder. Cost is how much goes into something, Price is how much someone wants to pay, Value… that is much more subjective.

Oil costs $50 a barrel to pump, priced at $100 on the market but when it comes to value could be seen as providing $20,000 of human labor.

Not trying to defend AI junk, like seriously people, just do the work yourself. But value is such a hard thing to quantify.

About the only time I have been like ‘Yeah alright, I get it’ is if you have a sort of writers block. Get a rough draft spat out but then bounce of that, but do not rely on LLM junk for anything more than that.

Five figure!? That’s a bargain. many are going well into six figure territory nowadays.

Ram man Sam should fall into a Dam.

It was Douglas Rushoff who said something like, Some people do Ayahuasca and they figure out their place in the universe. Tech bros do Ayahuasca and they are just tech bros doing Ayahuasca. That is, there is no deeper layer to them that they can access.

Absolutely! This is the one part where I diverge from most vegans. I am not conceptually against meat, but I am completely against it in the context of the modern hyper exploitative system. And I suspect the indigenous folks that harvest salmon would be to.

The reason they have had to much issues with that over the years is because some bastard came in and decided to try and scrape the rivers clear of salmon because they could get $2 a head or whatever.

Alas, in the modern system, as soon as you put a dollar price on something, it no longer remains that thing. If you are paid $10 per tree cut-down, you see a forest and nothing but money. When a salmon can get you a dollar, you just seen dollar bills floating in the river. Money is a useful tool to allow trade to happen smoothly but at this extreme end is is the lubricant of ‘The machine’ and it will consume everything it can.

No that is a conspiracy I can get behind.

In an economic system that has striped people of self value, some will find their own in value that attacks said system. However in a really weird way. One that has them telling you Paul McCartney is dead and was replaced with someone who just happened to be as good if not better than the original McCartney?!

Now how on earth could that create any kind of performance anxiety?

To quote Adam ruins everything from 10 years back! THE HYMEN DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikXim4wevc

So this is what they mean by ‘you will get tired of winning’.

No them cuddling up to Trump was an extinction level event, it just took a decade for the blow back to become loud enough.

Don’t get me wrong, the Democrats to occasionally Jerry mander (they aren’t perfect), but it was wild to see that even with all the republicans tricks to push on the scale, it didn’t work to such a large degree that they just had to accept defeat.

In Oz of all places, we love pineapple here! The question starts to become, what is Italian culture? What is culture itself?

Wheat flour for the base originated in the middle east, tomatoes are from South America. Every culture is a melting pot of other cultures. Stop clinging to the identity of a culture and just enjoy the fruit of this collaboration.

Pineapple on pizza, bring it! The Californian sushi roll is from Canada and Salmon in sushi comes from Norway. It is all just one big mix of the world, the world is a globe it has no boarders.

Don’t eat salmon, they deserve to live as well.

To be fair to the 1980’s, a Hercules video card in 1982 adjusted for inflation would only be about $1700. We are way beyond that point.

An original Macintosh 128K would set you back $8100 in today’s money, so I guess in that regard Apple hasn’t changed. ;)

I read this meme, FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

At least the Macbook Neo comes with a lot more flashy stuff.

It is starting to feel like it. Might not see price decline for a while yet, but the upswing on pricing is nearing breaking point.