For me, third order Streisand effect is this song immediately beginning to play in my head.

Maybe as a 4th order effect, Millenials can use this song to attempt to explain to Zoomers what genuine optimism for the future looked and sounded like.

Yeah, I guess its Josh ‘Swole’ Hayes these days, lol.

Its incredible how much he’s like, the mirror image of Asmongold, his negation.

Mostly Seattle.

How do I know?

They were my friends, and their friends of my friends, untill they started giving me shit for… actually doing something like half the things I listed out above.

They were more interested in their IG profiles and Twitter reputations, whole lot of rainbow flavored idpol.

I was being ‘unrealistic’ and ‘ridiculous’ by actually doing things. I’d ask what they were doing, and well that question was rude, actually.

See, anybody can call themselves a leftist, make all the mouth noises, use it as a way to be smug and superior, and just… not actually be one.

I’m not saying ‘all leftists are fake untill they personally prove otherwise to me.’

That indeed would be a rather silly standard.

Thats why I asked … questions, and didn’t make much of a statement beyond the actual point of this original post; your values are exemplified bynwhat you do, talk is cheap.

Maybe I’ve just had a bad run of fake friends comapred to most?

My personal experience isn’t exactly a statistically valid unbiased survey, but it is my experience.

Hey uh show of hands:

How many people have actually worked at something like a homeless shelter, non profit assisting some kind of class or classes of disadvantaged individuals?

How many people here actually just give cash to homeless people when they ask for it, which is the most efficient and effective way to help them?

How many of you have actually given a homeless person a place to stay, or maybe just park their car, whatever, with conditions and time limits of course, but to try and actually give them some kind of stability, at least for a bit?

How many people have organized or joined a local union, tenants union, worked for a tenants rights organization, mutual aid group, etc?

How many of you even help out your neighbors with things from time to time, or even talk to them?

Help drive them to some doctor appointment or grocery trip, do a carpool?

Howabout supporting or organizing some kind of local co-op, that actually gives voting rights as to business decisions, to members, in some capacity?

Those, those are the kinds of things that you would be doing if you actually acted out the virtues of being a leftist.

I’ve unironically met slum lords who’ve done more praxis by at least offering people somewhere to live, little to no questions asked, for an affordable price, than most self-described leftists I encounter.

Please, please don’t ever mistake some kind of pristinely articulated, immaculate worldview, for actually doing anything useful in terms of being the change you want to see in the world.

Eh, bounty hunting is an entire industry.

So are all kinds of private security.

Wouldn’t be that hard to just create some new class of crime that can legally be dealt with by people or agencies with the proper licensing, then shunt off encampment clearing to basically PMCs.

Then you just tie in existing apps that city governments or police put out, to report encampments, tie that into a conctracting system.

Its the most neoliberal solution to homelessness that can exist, therefore, just give it a couple years.

Works well with the prison industrial complex too!

Trump did say, and has been, settting up massive internment camps for the homeless.

Why not spread some of the money around to some new enterprising startups? Helps make it not look like a no bid contract situation.

Totally random and off topic, but that dude looks like a yoked up version of Josh Strife Hayes.

Update: Apparently its been a while since I’ve watched Josh, he may actually be more yoked up than this dude.

Hayes has yoked up so much by seemingly working a fitness routine into his regular gaming habit that he apparently a lot of people think he’s on steroids???

The Sheriff is a fucking moron then, who hasn’t done the most cursory due dilligence, a brief internet search as a sanity check.

Like, I hear you, I get the whole concept of information silos / different segments of the hyperreality…

… But it also just actually is utter incompetence, objectively.

There are at least a 100 videos of people shooting at these cybertrucks with various calibers from various ranges. Thats either the same or better quality research than most police organizations produce, other than pre-Trump FBI.

Sheriff should be fired, its his job to know.

The graph I showed was from a recalibration of the W3 model, done in 2023, primary difference being that instead of using a bunch of complex metrics to capture all kinds of pollution… they just went with CO2… but the whole thing has more or less been reworked as a python lib, which has been getting tweaked over the last ~15 years.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442

You may notice that energy production itself is not a primary variable on display in the graph I originally posted.

I hear what you’re saying that renewable energy is … renewable… but, there are tons and tons of natural resources that are not renewable, that are still needed for all kinds of economic processes, which we’ve already extracted all the stuff that is easy to extract, thus costs rise if you want to keep extracting the stuff that’s harder to get to.

Its not just the energy sources. Its … everything non renewable, every input material resource. Probably the biggest one is industrialized agriculture.

Sure, we could go back to not using the soil as a sponge + nitrate fixing fertilizers, and go back to crop rotation that fixes those nutrients naturally.

… and then 4 billion people can’t afford food, and starve to death.

No amount of cheap solar energy solves the problem of agricultural input costs going up and up, and more and more arable land becoming nonarable due to climate change and increasing amounts of increasingly severe adverse weather events and climate driven disasters.

According to Jim Hansen and Paul Beckworth, we’re looking at +1.7C by 2027, +2.0C by 2030-32.

We’re now in the stage of the climate crisis where half the IPCC identified tipping points start tipping each other and compounding, within roughly the next 5 to 10 years.

We already blew past 1.5C, and the world is now more geopolitically unstable than it was 10 or 20 years ago, not less.

This is the bigger picture:

… we are not all going to survive the great unraveling, even if we had benevolent geniuses in charge.

With corpos and fascists in charge?

Gonna be even worse.

Wait, people didn’t know that?

Various guntubers and social media influencers have been shooting up cybertrucks for like, 2 years now.

Yeah, it might stop an average pistol round from a moderate distance.

Close up? Probably not as much.

More serious, higher velocity pistol round? Also not so much.

Hits the glass? Yeah that shit ain’t bulletproof at all.

Rifle round? Swiss cheese.

… I’m confused people weren’t already widely aware of the cybertruck’s near total non-bulletproofness.

Car mechanics are basically going to need to become hackers.

99% of them won’t, but yeah, a couple will figure out how to ‘unlock’ your car, like a smartphone, install a custom OS on it.

… Its incredible to me that you managed to frame this as Canada somehow being the assholes.

No, us Americans are the assholes, for every moment we sit around and cry on the internet about how much this sucks… and not actually fucking do anything about it.

History will look back at us, correctly, as a bunch of dithering, pontificating, self-victimizing cowards, if we don’t actually do something to end the Trump administration as soon as fucking possible.

The entire Western world is financially, economically and geopolitically oriented around us, our military, our currency. We were the hegemon.

Every moment that Trump and his ilk are allowed to do the insane shit they are doing, where the broader US people are not forcing him out of office, will be remembered as a moment the US population was broadly in tacit compliance with all this geopolitical version of a temper tantrum, thats causing at least hundreds of thousands of direct, uneccessary deaths, and trillions of dollars of economic destruction, around the world.

Canada has every right to be … not even smug, they’re not smug, they’re just trying to point out that we seem to just be fine with having all our rights stripped away, because the way this works is, if we weren’t, we would actually be doing something about it.

We are the assholes for not stopping this right the fuck now.

Normally, in a more sane and functioning world, you’d simply be correct.

I was a bit overzealous, I myself have given up looking because of the massive shadow jobs problem, the interview processes are ridiculous, etc etc, I erroneously transposed that onto them as well.

However, because Trump fired the head of the BLS, and Elon/DOGE cut back their workforce a good deal…

https://www.nisa.com/perspectives/heavily-distorted-cpi-print-reveals-little-useful-information/

https://www.markets.com/analysis/cpi-estimation-methodology-concerns-us-1010-en

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-11/bls-leans-more-on-second-best-option-for-filling-in-cpi-blanks

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/imputation.htm

For most of this year, they haven’t even had enough staff to actually directly measure about a third of what goes into CPI… they just take the old data, run a model on it, predict it forward, and pretend thats real data.

They call this ‘carry forward price imputation’ or something like that.

So they’re just using some esoteric price model(s) to estimate, instead of actually gather, a bunch of data that is then treated as if it is real data, for the next stages of actually calculating the various cpi segments.

If they’re that fucked at doing cpi, they’re almost certainly also fucked at actually doing the Household Survey properly.

Granted, I can’t strictly prove this, because I do not have a team of forensic accountants auditing their data…

… But, having worked as varying kinds of data analyst, I can say with high confidence that the BLS methodology itself is flawed, and their ability to actually undertake that methodology is severely hamstrung for this whole year.

You don’t end up realizing that you overcounted job growth by a fucking million jobs… if you have a sound methodology.

… So thats a very long way of saying ‘well technically, if you wanna get technical, actually, this is all horseshit at this point, thus the person I’m replying to probably isn’t actually being counted, via problems that go outside/beyond the simple stated BLS methodology.’

Zoomers and under are completely fucked.

… everyone who isn’t a a deca-millionaire, is fucked.

Entry level positions require 3 years experience, in every field now.

Entirely seriously: If you want a future beyond debt-slavery, you’ll have to figure out how to undertake an actual revolution.

Step 1:

Delete Tiktok and all corporate social media.

Step 2:

Organize with like minded individuals via other means, establish mutual aid and support groups.

Step 3:

???

Step 4:

Abolish Profit.

Oi! Not trans, but queer, also unemployed for over 2 years now.

I used to be an econometrician, so I can tell you:

You, me?

We’re not unemployed.

We are ‘Not in the Labor Force’.

… we do not count towards the offical unemployment numbers.

Well that sounds not too expensive to me, good work!

So are laptops, if your is cat is very needy / a real asshole, lol.

How cheap is setting up your own lemmy instance?

You’re a debt-slave, 'arry!

I entirely skipped/missed the socket, that’s a good catch!