My point is that a consumer product is in no way “freeing” the average citizen.

Better bus service, high speed trains, and bike paths would be more freeing but carbrained consumers only think solutions come from buying things. You’re just trading one capitalist for another.

Electric cars are liked by billionaires because they don’t want better solutions where they have to rub elbows with commoners. This allows them to always have private transport while reducing quality transport options for regular citizens.

Musk literally used his lie of a hyperloop (another way for billionaires to have privacy at the expense of the public) to kill high speed rail in California. This is the guy who kickstarted EV sales in the US.

Pretty sure electric car batteries rely on finite resources, too. Further, I’m pretty sure all resources are finite, which is why people fight so hard to control those resources for personal gain.

They should be doing like the Yes Men and actually using the fact that they’re convincing to convince businesses that they’re real and do press conferences and speaking gigs.

The Yes Men accidentally got their start with a parody website of the GATT (pre-WTO) website… and it was so well done they started getting invitations to conferences as representatives for the GATT.

A lot of the media related to economics does this, Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc, Barron’s, The Economist, and so on.

They essentially exist for glazing CEOs.

This kind of Al literally cannot produce slop.

Creating a slave class for the capital class is always seen as essential to the capital class which owns the majority of the country.

It’s just like we can’t do anything politically because it might “impact or reduce jobs” but if corporations want to do something that will net them profit and reduces jobs by the thousands, it’s literally not even a question, just let them do it.

Corporations don’t have the same rights as people, they clearly have more rights than people.

The media keeps talking about this as if they’re shocked and surprised and not as though these goals weren’t all outlined before they were even elected.

If they had an ounce of decency, they would start out by saying that this is a clear pattern from the administration that goes beyond even basic regulatory capture and is genuinely kleptocracy.

The USA is the old house in a bad neighborhood the billionaires don’t want to waste money fixing up. They’re stripping the wiring and antique fixtures and then leaving it to rot.

People make fun of the Trolley Problem, but the whole point of it is to discuss issues exactly like this, where neither solution is an overall good solution and there is no real right answer.

Bee movie but it speeds up every time the word bee is said.

The Trump admin has emboldened the entire upper echelons of society to drop pretense because enough of society is stupid enough to always buy it even if its painfully obvious that they are lying. They feel untouchable with their buddies in charge.

Marathon itself is a renewal of (if I recall correctly) Bungie’s first major IP before Halo, which was (also if I recall correctly) initially an Apple Macintosh exclusive game.

So at this point they’re just recycling previous IP and slapping a new paint of coat on it anyway.

Wow wow

WOW WOW
When I roll into the WOW WOW
When I stroll into the WOW WOW
When I bounce into the WOW WOW

I mean, I obsessively hardwire all my devices, only my phone uses WiFi.

This just gives me a reason to skip using a WiFi Access Point entirely and just routing my phone through my home network via my Wireguard VPN which I already do for adblocking.

Doesn’t help as much if you live in a bunch of cramped apartments and there’s a lot of WiFi around you though.

Ah. I never saw this one, but the way people were talking about in this thread it reminded me that the movie Happiness exists, a film I couldn’t fucking finish and makes me nauseous to think of to this day…

I shouldn’t ask because I’m sure I don’t want to know… which film?

🎵they tried hiding Labor Day
something takes a part of May🎵

“He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!”

The Scots have nothing to fear in this regard.

He won the race to the bottom before he even built/stole Facebook.

“I hate those tiny little candy bars and tiny portions of candy they hand out at Halloween, what are they called again?”

“FUN SIZE, MOTHERFUCKER.”