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by medion 2y ago
Is Canadian Tire now basically just a private equity firm? Owning all sorts of brands, like Helly Hansen etc?
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by medion 2y ago
Whoever is the creative director at TE is amazing.
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by medion 2y ago
Capitalism has made its way into absolutely everything. Every piece of modern life is financialised and transactional. It is sad and sickening and weird how few even notice it.
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by medion 2y ago
They won’t. If crowdstrike was an individual or a state there would be repercussions. But this will all be a forgotten memory in two weeks or less.
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by medion 2y ago
“More expensive” - and herein lies the root of most problems - the world is ruined in the name of two things: profit and cost cutting.
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by medion 2y ago
“More expensive” - and herein lies the root of most problems - the world is ruined in the name of two things: profit and cost cutting.
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by medion 2y ago
It’s a general political trend too: de-globalization. Everyone sold the idea of globalisation and off-premise ethereal globalized cloud services. Both good when they work, but a total disaster when they don’t. Decentralization is the way.
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by medion 2y ago
It’s not the wealthy making LVMH stock rise. Look at the stock max history and you’ll see it 100% coincides with low interest rates - in a low interest rate economy it’s those who can’t afford it and borrow that spend the most. The genuine
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by medion 2y ago
Depending on your definition of very wealthy, a lot of luxury spending over the last decade is not from actual ultra rich, but mostly the middle class trying to signal something.
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by medion 2y ago
I’m glad the author pointed out rock bottom interest rates - basically free money has created a nightmare and we are in the adjustment period now - curious to see how the luxury sector goes.
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by medion 2y ago
What’s your niche and did you already have the foot in the door in some way?
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by medion 2y ago
Publishers only want to publish authors with large social followings. The first question they ask is a list of your socials.
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by medion 2y ago
It’s completely different.
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by medion 2y ago
By far the worst thing is what we don’t have: a bill of rights.
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by medion 2y ago
We have communities which can manage their own local issues internally - rather than aerial surveillance tech and AI keeping watch of our every move. We all know this will be used for minor infringements and revenue raising, more paperwork
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by medion 2y ago
The technology is an enabler and it creeps into everything and before you know it we are where we are today.
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by medion 2y ago
Haha, by your reckoning why not monitor all comms for any lies? This is why we can’t have nice things. We are walking into a new Robodebt scenario run by AI - it’s all too much living in a constant state of surveillance and it’s not a world
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by medion 2y ago
This aerial stuff now enhanced by AI is a privacy rights nightmare - in Australia, local councils are utilizing high res images shot by plane, which are AI analysed for infractions - ie. Illegal outbuildings, cut trees, earth works greater
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by medion 2y ago
Isn’t he hidden away somewhere without extradition treaties? After seeing what happened to SBF, he’ll make damn sure he doesn’t go before any courts.
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by medion 3y ago
I still don’t understand how the electricity infrastructure will be maintained if there is mass on premise battery adoption. Large scale infrastructure will still be required for commercial industry and things like ev charging, but loss of
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by medion 3y ago
Ugh, Apple doing generative AI. At least the car idea was interesting.
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by medion 3y ago
Indeed indeed.
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by medion 3y ago
I had a 1.5hr personality test for a tech job back in 1998 - the only question I remember was “if you were walking on the beach and saw a dead whale, would you cry?”
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by medion 3y ago
A dinner party with a CEO, doctor, lawyer, professor and a plumber. Who gets taken more seriously at the dinner table by the zeitgeist?
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by medion 3y ago
We’ve drunk the koolaid that work with one’s hands is not respectable. Meanwhile the trades are mostly killing it and watching white collar workers with their hunched backs and lattes have their work slowly eroded by language models.
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by medion 3y ago
Why is this even surprising? Like most trades, they can be lucrative if you work hard and do quality work - none of the side benefits of a professorship though, like retirement, sick leave, holidays, physically easy work, and in many cases
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by medion 3y ago
The 1x1.gif, I haven’t thought about that for a long long time!
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by medion 3y ago
Again and again big tech comes in and busts established industries with subsidised products, only to eventually remove the subsidy and virtually revert back to the original industry product and pricing… I swear, technology only speeds thing
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by medion 3y ago
When major YouTubers like this stop uploading, I assume they're still getting fairly generous Adsense checks each month, which may decline over time, but, are probably not nothing and would continue ostensibly forever? I wonder what th
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by medion 3y ago
Completely anecdotal but my father in law is a stone mason at 75 years old, working since 16 and wears zero PPE. Not even ear muffs on a large cutting machine the size of an SUV. Wears open toe sandals. Incredibly, he is insanely fit, not a

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