I was talking about the fashion consumers, not the brands.

They donate it all to charities…. Charities they set up with their relatives on the boards of trustees, who then get paid salaries from the charity’s endowment.

They’re not really doing anything different from birds or other animals that use expensive signals of fitness.

Fashion logic works like that. The people paying the huge dollars for the latest fashions don’t want last year’s stuff. They pay big money to not look like the poors!

They don’t want it being put on sale because it destroys the brand image. Similarly, they don’t want it to be given away locally because it’ll just end up on sale.

This is one of the big issues with high end expensive fashion. They have to destroy unsold stock to maintain artificial scarcity.

And banned all girls from going to school.

I also just want to support IA. I love the project and I want more people to check it out because a lot of people don’t realize that it has way more than just the Wayback machine.

As I’ve grown up, the most depressing realization I had is that adults are a myth. No one knows what the hell they’re doing. People can be good at doing their thing in a specialty but world leaders are mostly putting on a brave face.

There’s no real plan. No one’s on the same page. No one’s steering the ship. It’s just a whole lot of hemming and hawing, and a few idiots doing the bull in a china shop routine.

Here’s an Internet Archive mirror of the book, for people who’d like to read in their browser instead of downloading the PDF.

Just follow it up with “the food baby! They got some great food at this party! I’mma go get some!”

Then they can use the bathroom, but only after their shift is over!

You build anarchism where a community already exists. You don’t build a community of strangers who regard each other with disdain and suspicion.

You’ve already assumed away the hard part. Getting everyone to work together when they already trust each other is the easy part.

Try building a system that works when not everyone agrees with the same goal!

It’s easy to have a utopia when you live in a village where everybody knows each other. You don’t have to look to indigenous peoples for that. There are plenty of villages around the world where communities still thrive.

How do you achieve that in cities of a million people or countries of a hundred million? No one has figured that out yet because all the mechanisms we’re born with for building trusting, reciprocal relationships do not scale much more than a couple hundred people at most.

Get over yourself. Starbucks makes billions selling sugary milk and ice with a splash of coffee. They don’t need you to defend them!

On the one hand, you have a multi billion dollar Seattle-based coffee corporation that uses Italian sounding names on many of its products as part of a deliberate marketing strategy to seem refined, sophisticated, and upper-class (relative to “working class” coffee from Dunkin Donuts or McDonald’s).

On the other hand you have Italian culture and cuisine, with a lot of very strong reactions to these sorts of marketing strategies and appropriations.

Macchiato is a special case though. A traditional Italian macchiato is a very specific thing. It looks like this:

It’s a shot of espresso with a little bit of steamed milk added.

On the other hand, Starbucks has popularized a completely different drink that they call a macchiato:

Which is basically a large cup of frothy steamed milk with a shot of espresso poured into it.

Depending on what they’re used to, people will vastly prefer one over the other. This is usually determined by where they’re from (America or Europe). “The customer is always right in matters of taste” should definitely apply to which one they prefer!

Yes, though at least with C you have the compiler to optimize the cruft out of your binary and end up with a nice, clean program.

With JavaScript this is going to incur some runtime cost everywhere this library is used, even if it only happens once when getting optimized out by the JIT compiler.

Good riddance!

If a car costs more to repair than it’s worth, it’s called a write-off. If a category of anything (doesn’t have to be cars) regularly ends up written off, it’s non-repairable and disposable. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to repair, just that it’s not worth repairing. Anything can be repaired if you’re willing to spend unlimited money on it.

They’re selling them at deep discounts. The loss in resale values makes people wary of buying new ones. People want cars that hold their value, otherwise they won’t buy.