No. Save for retirement and pay off the debt. You’ll likely always have debt so it becomes an excuse to never save for retirement.

Do not underestimate capitalists’ ability to make line go up.

If you don’t start saving now, it probably won’t be.

Which you can definitely add with the new found benefit of knowing exactly what is being included in your desert.

These are basically small amounts of powered milk and corn starch. In today’s markets even some of the weirder options like soy letchin are available. At some point you can end up withering that is actually vegan which is a bonus for some people.

Dry Mix (equivalent to 1 Betty Crocker box, ~15.25 oz) • 1 ¾ cups (220 g) all-purpose flour • 1 ½ cups (300 g) sugar • ½ cup (45 g) unsweetened cocoa powder • 2 Tbsp cornstarch (softens crumb, mimics cake flour) • 3 Tbsp powdered milk (flavor, structure, moisture retention) • 1 ½ tsp baking powder • ½ tsp baking soda • ½ tsp salt • Optional “pro level”: 1–2 tsp soy lecithin granules emulsifier, boxed-mix texture)

Again, it is trivial to source these ingredients and these recipes are readily available.

I checked and Walmart carries all of these. Not that I suggest going to Walmart but it’s at least an option against being way the whims of whoever owns Betty Crocker this decade.

Pity there are people in the thread who think we’re part of the problem and refuse to acknowledge the solution being offered.

Yes and the ultimate fuck you to these mega corps is to not use their shitty products and screaming loud and wide how easy it is to not use these things.

The levener is baking powder and baking soda. Rhese are cheap ingredients a container of each can last years.

Those mixes are easy to replicate. If the mix changing prevents them from making it from scratch they were never a baker. Anymore than making me making a Mac and cheeses makes me a chef because I added some sliced cheddar.

These mixes were created for convenience. They did not create the concepts behind the end product. They are made with magical difficult to source ingredients.

My first thought is why are people using these box mixes, the ingredients are trivial. There are recipes online that have the ingredients.

The base ingredients for many things are flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt. – these are not expensive and are shelf stable. A chocolate cake mix adds cocoa powder. Some need vanilla.

The mix already requires adding rggs and oil.

Mixing it yourself allows way better quality control; they aren’t using high quality cocoa or vanilla.

I have a recipe that’s cans cream of mushroom, with equal parts rice and milk. The can size does not matter because it is about the ratio.

It’s insane how these companies’ policies have become more strict after Covid. Leave it to CEOs to always managed to learn the wrong lesson.

Changing your mind is fine. But you can never pretend you didn’t change your mind. Someone who yo-yos around some

Y points are your personal value for data you’ve generated. No one earns from gossiping other people Y points, the person whose generated the data point is the one who always gets paid. If no one cares about the X then the Y has no real value. I may put Xs I don’t want anyone to know at insanely high Y values.

I’m not sure what mechanism would causes a dictatorship, I’m interested in how you think it could be exploited.

I haven’t given all the details. The idea is very complex compared to what we do today but at the same time. But the complexity is in the translation not the based mathematical concepts.

For example, you get no value from reselling my X, I get the Ys. What you can do is use many Xs to generate a new X1 you value at Y1. All those Xs are part of the new X1 and that’s where lies get really expensive because I’ll become financially responsible for healing those X1s you shared, if my real value causes X1 to change. These are a series of very basic math formulas that are itself not very complex. The complex is all the inputs and outputs. The system is only possible by using computers because these are massive but trivial given what these LLMs are doing.

I started these thoughts about two decades ago as part of a world building idea of a future where this is already in place. The technological development that has occurred since then makes me think the system could actually be built today via some combination of etherum like contracts and variants of LLMs.

The whole thing feeds right back into itself but it is just us and it is just an every expanding representation of society and our cumulative knowledge.

Every truth is traceable back to recorded physical data and every falsehood literally does not fit because the physical data does not exist.

The only reason it doesn’t exist because it has no capitalist value. If someone is sitting in the middle collecting fractions of Ys for ever interaction, that is not this system. If someone is able to say, I own X because I discovered the mechanism first and no one else can sell X even if they collect all the data points need to make X, that is not the system.

Y must always be less than the cost of generating a new X because someone else will come and undercut you. The real value is in the human experience.

I have a thought experiment on this that I am developing. It’s still to complicated to properly convey but it’s basically an immutable set of axioms upon which we can individually build our personal social contract.

From the axioms we declare addendums, every addendum id public and is opt in at that personal level. Everyone’s adopted addendums are public so we can choose who to associate with based on shared addendums.

Create these as mathematical proofs that are essentially contracts that have predetermined but immediately executable penalties when the person fails to adhere to their addendums. The penalty is paid out directly to the damaged parties.

For example I say X is true backed by Y value, if it can be determined X is false anyone that I promised X to is owed Y. If I overextend and cannot pay, others will know I am untrustworthy and unable back up future claims.

If you took X and passed it off as true, I would also be responsible for resolving that value.

People will quickly learn not to make up bullshit and keep their word. Society will quickly learn what Y values are appropriate for given assertions.

What exactly are those thoughts?

Sounds like the formation of logic error.

I just don’t even know what to say to you. Do you understand that you are being the shithead?

Going to chime in here to say you’re definitely the shithead here.

Are you’re one of the people that came to the fediverse because your Reddit account was banned?

I assume this term is more popular in regions that do not experience snow so their material is muddy fields and the chunks that are kicked up are turd shaped. I expected it to be a higher percentage.

This is exactly what someone would have said about Hitler if he had been murdered before he took before power.

The truth is naked most of the time. Only puts pants on for pressers because American’s are too prudish to handle the naked truth.

Don’t tease me.

Reduce gin deaths by having “more fathers in the home” – so true, if he was at home with his kids instead of parading around being an asshole they would be one less gun death.

Guy’s a fucking prophet but failed to follow his own advice

Reminds me of the idiom, “things have to get worse before they’ll get better” – one could say these people are suffering from an addiction to right wing ideology and from the perspective empathy is the wrong choice until they choose and remain on the path to face and overcome their addiction.

I think that’s analogy can make the line clear for those who suggest we do anything that would enable working class republican’s political behavior.