More like asking the slaves about productivity advances in slavery. “Nothing good will come of this”.

This was true before the last 2-3 decades of globalisation, outsourcing, diversification, vertical integration, private equity, consolidation, and monopolization.

30-40 years ago most established sectors had a dozen brands across cheap, mid-market and expensive tiers. Most of the expensive brands were expensive because of consistent quality or niche. Nowadays the dozens of brands are owned by 2-4 multinationals, and there’s barely any brands left that haven’t been plundered and bled dry in the eternal race to the bottom for short term profit.

Pre GFC the US had 50-100 banks above a moderate size (can’t member). Post GFC there were like a dozen left; nowadays there’s probably half as many.

MAGA and fascism are not simple bullying. They are not “politics”. They are a mental illness epidemic.

These people have had their logic corrupted, like a neurological virus. They can’t explain Trumps policies or what he’s done to benefit them. They don’t even care. They just have “faith” in the closest thing to Satan they’ll ever see, for absolutely no reason they can logically explain. They are insane, and a danger to society.

“I’m a dumb cunt”

This is one of the greatest headlines in the history of tech journalism.

Reddit argues handing over the information will create a chill among other users, explaining in its court filings that “anonymity is not just a user preference but a defining feature of Reddit’s business model and identity.”

Bullshit. They have no problem banning users for specific keywords, like “Luigi”, and anyone who upvotes those posts/comments. They just want to use the platform as their own propaganda machine, instead of the states propaganda machine.

Member during Trumps first term, when Erdogan’s personal security detail terrorized Turkish protestors outside the white house? The US has been a shithole country the entire time.

“They trust me. Stupid fucks!”

Probably because most backup solutions, especially mobile, are inadequate. Telling employees to wipe their phone and having 5% lose their 2FA, important docs, or whatever is worse than the 0.01% probability of their phone being searched.

I’ve been wiping all devices when crossing borders for a decade, but I don’t use big tech (non E2EE) cloud, and the whole process is the most stressful part of international travel for me.

What they’ve achieved is irrelevant. They’re never gonna achieve 99.999% with standard cameras + AI for decades. Elon can’t magically manifest the safety of Lidar through hopes and prayers; yet he believes he can, so the only logical conclusion is that he’s a complete fucking moron con artist, only skilled at separating people from their money.

If you don’t understand this yet, print me out some examples of your best code, and email me a list of your top accomplishments from the last week!

Everybody knows that you only attain free speech when you control a platform with hundreds of millions of users and can ban anyone you disagree with at any time, for any reason.

He’s been saying “fully autonomous” by next year for literally like 10 years, lol. Short memories indeed.

I believed in him since like 2001. I stopped believing in him by 2015.

I’d pirate a data center if I could

So like 95-99% of cars registered in a developed economy.

“Defending freedom” when we bomb <anyone>! Terrorism when they bomb us!

Because the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

To put it another way, the house always wins (the richest few % own 90+% of the market).

Good

I consider America to be a plutocracy, which successfully propagandized the majority with the illusion of democracy, now transitioning into a Christian fascist kleptocracy… Basically a mafia state / corporate dictatorship using religion to control the masses (as is tradition).

If you think it’s not very Christian, that’s because most Christians consider Jesus’s teachings to be evil communism.

Sure, for the list of executions at the Hague Musk should take priority, but you shouldn’t buy products from any fascist. The difference between 99% fascist and 90% fascist is inconsequential.

It’s zero better. Every one and every thing that bends the knee to fascism is fascist, and should be treated the same.