Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The tractors replaced the farm labourers, so they moved to the factories. Then the robots replaced the machinists, so they moved to the offices. Now generative AI is replacing the administrators, so they are moving to... 000
Reposted by MarcuusAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects. 426177975123
Reposted by MarcuusStrong Towns @strongtowns.org · 24/03/2025Strong Towns advocates for cities to be financially resilient: maintain essential services, adapt to economic shifts, and avoid long-term financial crises. And yet, the tools we use to understand local budgets often fail to answer the deeper question: Can we sustain what we’ve built? 1234
Reposted by MarcuusRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 19/03/2025one of the fun things about watching old numberphile videos is you get to see him discover in real time that advanced mathematics is subtle, often approximate and at times quite arbitrary 4431
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Happiness comes when you are focused on one thing so much it distracts you from the struggles of life. 010
Reposted by MarcuusInternet Archive @archive.org · 01/03/2025Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️ Senator @wyden.senate.gov is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/w... What's at stake? 🧵blog.archive.orgWyden to FTC: Stop digital “bait-and-switch” sales | Internet Archive Blogs 8941971070
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Saving will lead to the accumulation of wealth over the generations, estate taxes are a means of breaking the cycle. And let's those who earned the money enjoy it while alive. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Over tourism occurs because the middle class complete to collect photos of the same tropes. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Business regulations are like the road code. Speed limits, check your mirrors, indicate, etc. help keep you safe from others. But if not enforced are slowly ignored without consequence then seen as unnecessary. Until one day there is a fatal crash. 020
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Compound interest can make you millions of the centuries, but compound inflation can make those millions worthless. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025If the atmosphere was condensed to a liquid, it would only be 10m thick. Though the cold would cause the oceans to freeze and expand more than that. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Unemployment rates ignore those over 65, even if they still need to work to survive. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Good urban design is often unnoticed specifics that just give a good vibe. Proportion, colour, traffic flow, sightlines, etc. are overlooked when the focus is on cost and function. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Clothes are means of hiding your disliked body parts. Fashion is about attracting attention. So style starts with being confident about your body. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Companies struggle to find skilled labour because few of them want to train their staff. Most training courses offered are just networking events with a few simple presentations so they are tax deductible. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Automation deskilled manufacturing so it could be offshore to low wage economies. Cost cutting deskilled office jobs so they could also be offshore to low wage economies. Eventually there was no middle class. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Different species share high portions of DNA because of a common ancestor and most of it relates to cellular functions such as turning fod into energy and replicating. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025These days Imperial unit are defined by the metric equivalent, and the metric units are defined by universal constants. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The world seems permanent due to the shortness of our lives. Despite witnessing changes happening. 010
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Suburbia can be as isolated as a cabin on the woods if you do not have a car. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Liability risk forces designers to try and mitigate all risks, often at the expense of other considerations. And often ignores the relative risk outside the design. For example, having to fence a pool next to a lake. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Tomorrow is always a day away, and there is a risk you will not be there. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Rain brings life to arid areas, get outside and enjoy it. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025There are two types of workers, those who want to be productive and those who want to be in a social club. You need some of the later to encourage social interaction along the former. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Since email is used for password resets and login alerts, it is vital to keep it secure as possible. Yet many email providers use the email address as the login user name. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025English law is based on eyewitness testamony, despite people having very bad memories. So justice often becomes who the jury believes sounds more confident. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Trees are only a temporary store of carbon, yet companies will claim planting trees makes them carbon neutral. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Health insurance works best when everyone has it. If healthy people opt out, premiums become unaffordable so benefits are cut to reduce costs. Then more people opt out. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Some animals can instinctively walk and feed, suggesting knowledge can be encoded in genes and inherited. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025People assume tall men are rich, possibly because they think they had a good diet as a child. So they will get higher job offers. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025When designing a house, remember to include well located outlets for things like vacuum cleaners, phone chargers, etc. So your not having to move furniture to plug them in. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Middle class angst causes people to keep 'good' things for when important guests visit. Often these things are rarely used. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Capitalism leads to monopolies as the best ideas gain market share, but if those monopolies use their power to control regulations, they behave more like socialist government owned enterprises. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Horses were introduced to the Americas by Spanish immigrants. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Cars require massive government subsides, building and maintaining roads, injuries from accidents, mandatory parking requirements, grants to build factories, strategic fuel reserves, exemptions from environmental protections, international trade barriers, etc. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Exhaustion leads to mistakes, which leads to stress, which leads to exhaustion. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Learning to store and preserve food gave humans time to develop culture and build tools and infrastructure. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Think of others as equals, helping each other to survive rather than subordinates there to serve you. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025The wrong tool can make a job harder to do, yet people refuse to invest in the right tool. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025When visiting another country go where the locals go, rather than just the tourist traps filled with international brands and other tourists. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Children are helpful as they can care for you when your old. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Sometimes a bad hire is just a poor match of skills or personality. Take some accountability for your choice and help them find somewhere better suited. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Prevention and maintenace is usually cheaper than remediation and replacement, yet it's often seen as a place to save costs. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025A parliament that is beholden to a single party behaves like a president. Instead of its intended design to develop laws through debate from diverse viewpoints. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Video production and commentary can make most sports entertaining to watch, yet it's only the players and coaches that get the glory. 000
Marcuus @fintanz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Long commutes in cars make people susceptible to indoctrination by long form podcasts and talk radio. 000
