According the Bureau of Economic Analysis, that may not necessarily be the case. Agriculture and retail trade, the stuff you mention laypeople purchasing, contributed nothing to less than nothing toward economic growth in the first quarter of 2026. Cars and maybe sofas fall into the durable goods manufacturing category which was the fourth highest contributor.
The top three contributions came from information, the federal government, and professional/scientific/technical services. I don't spend a lot of time keeping up with the finances of those sectors and I'm not an economist so take my words with a couple grains of salt, but to me those things mean an increase in data centers, federal spending (and my guess is not on things useful to a layperson), and services that often end up being business to business transactions.
Obviously there is a place today for companies to sell to the masses, but the comment you responded to was discussing economic growth, and at least to my eyes it looks like most of the growth is indeed going to sectors primarily controlled or benefited from by the wealthy while sectors supported by the masses either contributed less or shrank the most out of any sector in the case of retail trade.
If that trend continues long-term because of a decreasing population then I think that's fine, but if it continues due to a lack of investment because of low profitability, then I think there will be (more) issues.
Okay, maybe I’ll get hate for this, and to be clear I fully support a woman’s right to abortion, but to the people who truly believe abortion is wrong this is basically saying “if you think murder is wrong, just don’t kill anyone.”
Ya gotta prepare them for it. Tell them the first three episodes are great, then they do weird stuff until episode 10, then it gets better. That way episode 8 blindsides them even harder!
Is there an actual source for this? I tried searching news for “Uber will know you’re drunk” and found nothing, I reverse look-upped the meme and saw it nowhere, there is no indication of a source in the meme.
I want to know how they will know that you’re drunk, and I want to know why they want to cut off what I assume is a decent chunk of their clientele, but I’m not seeing anything.
Omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience all make an intuitive sense to me as characteristics of a God entity, but I’ve never really understood why omnibenevolence is considered a required trait as well.
When I delivered Amazon packages for USPS on Sundays pickers would sort packages into bins by route then us drivers would organize packages from the bins to the truck. I think that was better than having someone else pack because then I could get a feel for where in the vehicle a specific package was, and I could better place them where I could get them (putting early packages closer to the front to grab or way at the back door if it was very large).
Almost did this yesterday on the hour long drive to tubing. My roommate was in the back seat with me reading, and a few times I almost tried including them into the conversation before reminding myself that they were off in book world.
Right, silent acceptance. Hence the example you responded to of a Christian speaking up to a stranger and expressing his disdain for the evil being wrought by other “Christians.”
Huh, I’ve had Honey Bucket saved in my library for like 10 years and always assumed it was an Offspring song. Like just the other day I was listening to The Offspring wondering how odd it is that they also made this song. Oops.
It’s a cool album cover. Any other songs from it I should give a listen?
I’m not a civil engineer, but based on my experience with traffic lights pushing the button doesn’t actually alter the order of operations for the lights, it just makes it so the next time there is a natural gap in traffic that would allow for safe crossing, the crosswalk light turns on. So it doesn’t affect drivers at all. I’m still not a fan of jaywalking unless the road is REALLY clear.
That said, I’m always Jay walking when I go somewhere :P
I am not serious at all, that first paragraph was copy pasted from an LLM button in DuckDuckGo I had to go out of my way to look for.
A lot of the big models were trained on reddit data with little indication whether there was selection for high quality content, which means to me that the overall training data quality is unreliable. If an LLM can hallucinate an answer, it can hallucinate its confidence value since that is also an answer.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how I wish my first exposure to the idea of people transitioning wasn’t the episode of Family Guy where Brian learns the woman he just had sex with is trans and gets grossed out.
I thought the joke was going to be that he is “da bomb” not that he is “bombing.” Really could have gone either way before the last panel.
Partner A: “Go on, give the nice cashier what you’re buying.”
Partner B: “H-here.”
Cashier: “That’ll be $17.”
Partner A: “Now hand over the money I gave you.”
Partner B: “H-here.”
Cashier: “Here’s your change and the collar.”
Partner B: Grabs them while smiling and starts to turn away to leave.
Partner A: “What do we say to the cashier?”
Partner B: “Th-thank you.”
Partner A: “Good job! Let’s go home and try it on.”
Cashier: Just one more hour to 3 o’clock. Maybe I can sneak another smoke break in after that.
According the Bureau of Economic Analysis, that may not necessarily be the case. Agriculture and retail trade, the stuff you mention laypeople purchasing, contributed nothing to less than nothing toward economic growth in the first quarter of 2026. Cars and maybe sofas fall into the durable goods manufacturing category which was the fourth highest contributor.
The top three contributions came from information, the federal government, and professional/scientific/technical services. I don't spend a lot of time keeping up with the finances of those sectors and I'm not an economist so take my words with a couple grains of salt, but to me those things mean an increase in data centers, federal spending (and my guess is not on things useful to a layperson), and services that often end up being business to business transactions.
Obviously there is a place today for companies to sell to the masses, but the comment you responded to was discussing economic growth, and at least to my eyes it looks like most of the growth is indeed going to sectors primarily controlled or benefited from by the wealthy while sectors supported by the masses either contributed less or shrank the most out of any sector in the case of retail trade.
If that trend continues long-term because of a decreasing population then I think that's fine, but if it continues due to a lack of investment because of low profitability, then I think there will be (more) issues.
Found the paladin!
So while the popular media is distracted by this, what is the Trump admin doing that I should actually care about?
Okay, maybe I’ll get hate for this, and to be clear I fully support a woman’s right to abortion, but to the people who truly believe abortion is wrong this is basically saying “if you think murder is wrong, just don’t kill anyone.”
Ya gotta prepare them for it. Tell them the first three episodes are great, then they do weird stuff until episode 10, then it gets better. That way episode 8 blindsides them even harder!
Is there an actual source for this? I tried searching news for “Uber will know you’re drunk” and found nothing, I reverse look-upped the meme and saw it nowhere, there is no indication of a source in the meme.
I want to know how they will know that you’re drunk, and I want to know why they want to cut off what I assume is a decent chunk of their clientele, but I’m not seeing anything.
Omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience all make an intuitive sense to me as characteristics of a God entity, but I’ve never really understood why omnibenevolence is considered a required trait as well.
Hmm the more I think about it, the more that sounds like a good time. Good sex is kinda silly anyway, might as well ratchet up the silliness.
When I delivered Amazon packages for USPS on Sundays pickers would sort packages into bins by route then us drivers would organize packages from the bins to the truck. I think that was better than having someone else pack because then I could get a feel for where in the vehicle a specific package was, and I could better place them where I could get them (putting early packages closer to the front to grab or way at the back door if it was very large).
Almost did this yesterday on the hour long drive to tubing. My roommate was in the back seat with me reading, and a few times I almost tried including them into the conversation before reminding myself that they were off in book world.
Right, silent acceptance. Hence the example you responded to of a Christian speaking up to a stranger and expressing his disdain for the evil being wrought by other “Christians.”
Huh, I’ve had Honey Bucket saved in my library for like 10 years and always assumed it was an Offspring song. Like just the other day I was listening to The Offspring wondering how odd it is that they also made this song. Oops.
It’s a cool album cover. Any other songs from it I should give a listen?
-Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) by The Icicle Works
-All These Things that I’ve Done by The Killers
The first twangs of the guitar in that song always tear at my soul.
I’m not a civil engineer, but based on my experience with traffic lights pushing the button doesn’t actually alter the order of operations for the lights, it just makes it so the next time there is a natural gap in traffic that would allow for safe crossing, the crosswalk light turns on. So it doesn’t affect drivers at all. I’m still not a fan of jaywalking unless the road is REALLY clear.
That said, I’m always Jay walking when I go somewhere :P
I am not serious at all, that first paragraph was copy pasted from an LLM button in DuckDuckGo I had to go out of my way to look for.
A lot of the big models were trained on reddit data with little indication whether there was selection for high quality content, which means to me that the overall training data quality is unreliable. If an LLM can hallucinate an answer, it can hallucinate its confidence value since that is also an answer.
In other words, I agree with your sentiment.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how I wish my first exposure to the idea of people transitioning wasn’t the episode of Family Guy where Brian learns the woman he just had sex with is trans and gets grossed out.