A better question is why hasn’t capitalism driven a market for mountain building for ski resorts?

It must be something like(only worse) what math teachers felt when the pocket calculator became cheap and easily available. It doesn’t mean you can do math but people conflate the two.

In the US and I read mountains of business and economic news,much of most of it assumes the reader supports and agrees with the underlying premises of cronie capitalism. It’s a really helpful way to understand how businesses operate, think and where economy and society will be driven.

an argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.

Heh, thanks for the context and no worries my response was probably way too detailed for a community around ugly software, which this page certainly was. I should probably just have up voted and moved on! There are lots of cheap tickets to operas, matinees and previews (before show officially opens, like a dress rehearsal++) are a great way to see incredible things on a peasant’s budget in almost any city.

I’m not a software engineer, just a lowly user, but I habitually dig into the “whys” when things are broken and it always comes back to resource allocation and it’s hard to get away from.

1, how amazing you get to see an opera there, I had a trip planned at some point but got cancelled. Hope you have a great show!

2. Arts orgs are important and critical pieces to society that are, in the US, funded only at the whim of the rich, which is why they’re constantly failing, going under, curing seasons, etc. it doesn’t have to be like that, of course. I googled some country comparisons and found a 2005 Canadian report showing the UK at 5x per capital spending and France at 10x spending compared to the US. I saw another from 2022 that showed italy’s approach is similar to the US and has low per capita public spending ~£7.5pp which is still above the US but very low compared to nations with more firm public support and funding. The lack of funding means basic 2024 items means basic things like a mobile purchase are at the whim of other essential items each year for budgeting.

3. Italy maybe lucky, but like suffers from the same monopolization of ticketing and venue purchasing other countries doo–and any company needing the services are at the whim of the software company to deliver a quality product. They, of course, are a monopoly and don’t. Many companies are trying to pretend mobile web doesn’t exist and are forcing users to download and app to interact with them so they can scrape more data to sell. I’m some ways I’m glad for a crappy mobile experience considering privacy.

Prosecution calls first witness; my teenage neighbor nemesis, his 28.8k baud modem, and Warcraft2

Friendly banter is tariffed, 20% please so that we can find our soon-to-be shrinking government?

And why economists and sociologists are important to have in the room when marketing and sales heads throw stupid fucking ideas on the table.

“Our nascent AI technology…”

“…Monthly fee to ensure no enshittification…”

“…our mobile app does require GPS permissions to maximize…”

Paywall

I think you could go another few layers down if SharePoint was in the middle; you could add Teams users, and One Drive users.

Lumberg’s stock is up .0025! Working as designed.

20 years ago I read an article in the Atlantic or New Yorker or salon or something good and it was a Japanese American author talking about going home over Thanksgiving and how her family and relatives were super gung-ho about the, then new, anti-arab, thinly veiled “anti-terrorist” initiatives that Shrub’s administration was ratcheting up after successfully getting the left to support The Patriot Act, which enshrined surveillance at a level that had never been tried before.

Anyway, the author then revealed that her grandmother had been sent to Internment camps in the 1940s in the US and her dad had been born there.

TLDR;racism overrides all rationality. If Japanese Americans who were interned as villains during WWII 100% due to pure racism can’t understand that scapegoating a minority group only leads to bad things, then the broader public has no hope.

Is this the cancel culture the right was so against? I’m glad we’ll have brothers in arms against such a thing.

The government has been conditioned to give away control so much due to decades of corporate lobbying, spectacular they make a jump probably for social reasons without understanding the technological and economic underlying drivers. I’m sure a $500/HR big 4 consultant will provide them a slide on it in 20 years.

This next two years of “FO” realizations for the FA crowd will bring me no pleasure. Unfortunately we’re past the point of return now in participative democracy due to a menially literate population that has had the capacity for rational and forethought drowned out for 3+ generations.

Time, yet again history, to teach people lessons the same, hard way. 😔

1/1/27 calls on home cremation kit producers

Shirley it’s redundant when they have the blind US Justice system™ to hold all accountable equally

You can’t triple stamp a double stamp, you can’t triple stamp a double stamp!