@Bertmussen@LesbosQuasar@RespectfulMemes When one buys something, they are necessarily giving up something they value less than what they are receiving, hence they are necessarily gaining. The government doesn't attain it's funding through these means, it takes that money regardless of what they want in return
@john_merrimack@liquid2ulu efficient for whom? that's entirely dependent on the person and what water they want, if @liquid2ulu only drinks fiji water and you force him to only drink "tap water" how is it more efficient for his ends? Why is the type of water you want superior to others desires?
@benbackupbackup Any good books / sources on Soviet religious prosecution? evidence of the church lootings? (not critiquing, simply interested in some sources)
@splitbycomma@dollmanipulator use AI and vibe-coding are fundamentally different. The devs at my work including me use AI everyday, but we don't vibe-code i.e let AI write all the code; We can make AI do a hell of a lot more than just write code, and when we do write code with it we have testing harnesses.