That made sense before rich people and foreign interests figured out how to use the same tools to get people to part with their money, to also vote against their self interest.

Democracy cannot prevail when people are so easily dupped by ads, fake news, unregulated influencers, and social media algorithms. Democracy assumes people are critical thinkers with the time, energy, and knowledge to filter information.

They are neither ham nor steamed, unless that’s exactly what they are having over there? Wouldn’t compare it to a hamburger though… (A hamburger being a Hamburg steak, as in the German city)

I’ve done it all my life by following one simple rule: Don’t Do Crimes.

TBF, That’ll be a lot harder for you to do if Republicans get back in power and make breathing, or some other unavoidable bullshit, a crime.

How is it that so many “tough guys” in the States are such big fans of this weakass soft boy.

Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich person, and a weak person’s idea of a strong man. Always has been.

Right. Microsoft themselves just announced a feature to disable screenshoting some webpages in Edge, which is a complete 180 from recall.

I expect windows to be split into two tiers of products again: the free version that is paid for by ads/tracking/AI bloatware possibly even mandatory cloud connectivity, and an enterprise version with all off that off, but that is paid.

Epic sax guy and ska is a very strange juxtaposition.

Bring them here so they can see how we are taking for granted their sacrifice? Hell no, this is our shit to clean up.

I’m pretty sure it’s accepted pretty universally that countries must accept citizens back. Reason being, if they don’t, the rejected person becomes another country’s problem, and that is bad for relations.

Right? The concert is not the problem. The problem is who is paying for it/who is deserving of this (or any other) company benefit.

Though I guess there is an argument to be had that the performers are enabling class exploitation instead of standing in solidarity. Then again, it’s entirely plausible that the performers don’t know any of these details.

Calling it the “Googlenet” now. The rest of us that don’t suck Google dick can stay on the actual Internet.

Admitting you were wrong is like really, really, really hard man. Takes a grown ass man to admit to one’s mistakes. But here we are, a bunch of manchildren and people who have drunk the cool aid and are beyond reasoning.

We’ve got these things called “social media” that are built expressly for the purpose of influencing people to buy more stuff (literally in the name: influencers). And if it can get people to part with their money, you can be sure the same tools can be used to get people to vote against their own interests.

We thought the internet was a tool to spread democracy. We were wrong. The Internet is a tool used to undermine democracy, so long as people using the Internet are not strongly inoculated against organized interests, foreign, and domestic.

… account for a 40% average increase in the cost of labor, […]

Do burger flippers at McD’s really earn 40% more compared to a few years ago?

The noise complaints and landing safety issues are definitely a problem, but the cost savings potential and sustainability/safety effects of taking delivery trucks (or your car to the mall) off the road is a huge win.

I can see how noise and landing safety issues delivering to your property can really stall this. However, landing to an approved and managed community mailbox (or rooftop delivery zone in dense areas) might avoid some of those issues.

Just wait till the advertisers find out the eyeballs they are paying for are also just AI sock puppets. Enshitification strikes again.

Nothing is going to change until people die because of this shit.

The only idiots here are the humans who bought into the AI craze without understanding how Large Language Models actually work and their limitations.

If you could buy one, would you?

It gains value because people want it and people want it because it gains value

This describes pretty much all moneys.

Cryptocurrencies have a lot of problems, but being a medium of exchange without intrinsic value is not one of them.

They don’t. Just like “AI” has been co-opoted to mean “algorithm”.

Large groups of humans turn everything they touch into shit.

You were so concerned with the undesirability of fear that you forgot why humans naturally experience fear in the first place.

“Don’t worry, if you keep your hand on the burner long enough, you’ll feel nothing at all!”