Oh tbh I’m not actually sure, I’ve always pronounced it with the same “U” as in Uma, but on reflection I’ve got no idea if that’s correct

I mean, I’m definitely not defending this massively overpriced bag, but an artist can spend less than a hundred on materials to make a piece of art, and it sells for millions

The value of the materials and even the labour that goes into making it are not the only things that determine the value of luxury items, value is heavily determined by scarcity in one way or another.

For the piece of art, this is actual scarcity, there may only be one. For the bag, the scarcity is somewhat crazily generated by the RRP meaning many won’t buy it and therefore creating the scarcity to justify the value.

It’s kinda a microcosm of capitalism, where value is created by the perception of value.

I kinda hate that this is a question that needed to be asked

Everything clever someone does with a camera is now gonna be met with: “is this just AI?”

I guess it was “is this photoshopped?” before, but that still implied someone did something clever

Of course, but that pretty much can only result in a world war

Do you really think he stops once the former Soviet countries are under his control?

If Trump gets elected, the modern world of relative peace ends and we’re thrown into chaos and suffering with possibly no easy way back to stability.

The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief.

We kinda have a lot riding on the US remaining a relatively incorrupt democratic superpower.

Putin is very obviously angling to start a world war with the US as a useful-idiot ally if trump gets even a day in office again.

So Max Cohen from Pi, but with an Unabomber quote?

Hmm

I’m a big fan of Tinariwen who are from Mali

Also: Toe from Japan

Also also: yin yin from the Netherlands

And in a similar vein: l’eclair from Switzerland

Also tbh, if you want a great selection of eclectic artists from all over the world, look up a playlist of artists playing on the West Holts stage of Glastonbury for any given year—when I’m at the festival it’s always my go to stage if I’m feeling like trying something new and it’s rarely disappointed me

Well I wasn’t expecting to get called out quite like this today

Lisa needs jaces

Had to look this one up to understand it.

Given the spread of expertise in this community, I think that’s probably the experience of all of us at least every other post

Those aren’t crabs

No that’s fair to say, there was a bit of nuance in me saying “looking a bit like a failed state” and not explicitly saying “is a failed state”—I’m more saying they’re long down the road, not necessarily there yet

Edit: replied in the wrong place

I agree with a lot of what you’re saying, but I’m also in Europe and stand by my original words, they were from my perspective

Bit past that now. From the outside, the US is looking a bit like a failed state now.

I think similarly to a regular flu jab, there’s probably not one for this variant yet.

Why did someone even change the text to just remove “mate”?

Shattered pixel dungeon has been a mainstay on my phone for what feels like a decade now

Socialism doesn’t just seem like a good idea, it’s pretty much the only possible future that doesn’t end up with 99% of humanity suffering horribly.

The idea of everyone being able to work to make the means to survive has a rapidly approaching shelf life, most companies won’t employ humans over whatever tech is on the horizon as soon as it’s cheaper. The areas that remain habitable due to climate change will shrink

I do not know why this isn’t treated as a more pressing issue

I guess the main ones for me are the improved federation capabilities (wordpress, discourse, etc) and the image proxying. But there’s a few smaller nice-to-haves too.