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- Comment on BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos. 4 days ago:
It’s too short! More!
- Comment on McKinsey: Global economic profit bounces back to an all-time high 1 week ago:
Do these people ever think about the connection between finance and economics and real, underlying value?
They make slide decks and persuade people who want to believe consultants can help and/or aren’t smart enough to see through the facade. The profit and business memecycles and bubbles are quick; by the time it’s flopped the consultants have not only long since moved on from accountability but also probably had 5 catchphrase meme pitch cycles since.
- Comment on BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos. 1 week ago:
Please tell me this is just a long trailer and not the whole thing?!?
- Comment on Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession 2 weeks ago:
I did not know that, though I would have assumed any scoring/ranking system that doesn’t take into account realities of history would systematically disadvantage minorities. Who/where did it come from? Chicago redlining? The good old South?
- Comment on Nearly 500 workers were taken in a raid at Hyundai’s battery plant. In a quiet Georgia town, the silence is deafening 3 weeks ago:
This raid happened days after a Korean presidential visit to the US with Trump to discuss trade negotiations, of which the US is looking for concessions, giveaways and fealty from Korea, as with other nations. Korea didn’t show up like a doormat and this was the calculated, premeditated response. The entire story is about international trade, manufacturing and economics, overlaid by broken US immigration practices.
That is how this is economics.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar 4 weeks ago:
“let’s you”
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
At least I can enjoy stupid corporate leaders lapping up the dogfood they’re told to eat, except for the pain workers and real people suffer as a result of this yheft, trash and grift.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
Apple isn’t a marketing company? Wow, if anything I would say that singularly defines what has made them successful. They put out solidly mid hardware, but are the best marketers in tech and always were.
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 5 weeks ago:
Quiet I can hear you while we’re auctioning off Bytedance/tiktok to US corporations. No hypocrisy to be found here.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 5 weeks ago:
Remember, it’s important that technology and advancement only be used by capital, never by the underclass.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
That flank. Sigh. I remember the turn after Occupy. It went from economics to being cool to just broadly bash men. I specifically remember outspoken, angry women at marches and protests and was like wait, where did the economics go? Like 60% of Republicans wanted wealth reform during occupy. It unfortunately coincided with really great–though apparently transitory–improvements in lgbtq rights. It was so weird to me that self-labeling “feminists” were suddenly talking like it was a zero sum game; for women to rise and improve and build and grow, men had to be put down. That is of course the language of someone seeking power, a charlatan, but it became quite normal. Even questioning the broad criticism of men wasn’t appropriate in “liberal” press or circles for a good decade. The whole "yeah but bashing men isn’t right/fair or clumsy” finally started working into the Atlantic, NYT and other large publications in 2023 but the damage had been done.
It of course drove lots of men right to the tall radio, podcasters–and those were young adults then–i can’t imagine what it was like growing up since then as a young person with the normalization of some of this stuff.
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 month ago:
RFK
Cancer causes autism
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 1 month ago:
Yup. They also rewrote national broadband funding criteria so starlink would win most of the state contracts for funding. If the states are stupid enough to take it, the Elon Musk will own their citizens internet. Colorado just announced Starlink won half of all the contracts and Amazon the other half(I didn’t even know Amazon provided Internet holy terrifying):
You may experience difficulty connecting to some web domains and your homepage has been preselected for you. Your monthly history will be reviewed and unpatriotic web usage will result in detainment or deportation.
Congratulations on your Freedom!
- Comment on Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks 1 month ago:
Just like Craigslist; every ounce of energy out into veneer is energy not in the core product design and maintenance and also adds cost. Minimal, functional, excellent.
- Comment on Wyoming launches first state-backed stablecoin on seven blockchains 1 month ago:
It be turbulent if you were in Wyoming and trying to compete against the stable coin of say…California. wonder which one most investors would choose?
- Comment on RushTok backlash: Why sororities aren't letting prospects post 1 month ago:
…exposure to what is effectively running a small buisness under the worst possible circumstances.
That is the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a long time, so true. It’s like a zero star motel where the employees are the customers with burning man and some ted talks thrown in. If you get that into the black and manage to avoid a subpoena, you are ready to take a company public.
- Comment on Google has agreed to pay $36 million fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines 1 month ago:
Strange how the powerful’s chosen candidates whose campaigns they fund have tended throughout history to not pass legislation the would have consequences for their funders. It almost makes me want to go out on a limb and say the system disproportionately benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor who can’t just buy their way out of consequences.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
But for a few fleeting moments we did create a lot of value for the shareholders. Totally worth it to flush it all down the drain.
- Comment on Live Facial Recognition technology to catch high-harm offenders 1 month ago:
How are they tackling the drivers of the downfall of society; the evaporating social safety net, and aggressively underpaying the employed thanks to oligarchs? Foreign wealth buying up real estate? Polluters poisoning the water, the air?
Will these super expensive new measures go after and hold accountable at all, the wealthy?
No? I’m shocked.
Remember, crime is only for the poor.
- Comment on Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America 1 month ago:
Going to outFoX Faux news
- Comment on Trump opens the door for crypto and private equity in your 401(k) retirement plan 1 month ago:
I’m sure only the best commercial real estate loan traunches will be packaged and included to the general public. Definitely no offloading of toxic assets to suckers here. The next financial crisis won’t be a crisis because the wealthy in the system, the banks, the insurers and private equity will have no skin in the losers. There will be no bailouts this time, “moral hazard” will be cited this time. “Investors should have known the Risks” will be the cry.
Americans don’t even know how compound interest works, let alone how their current 401k works–if they’re among those who have access, or the minority able to save in them–let alone do they have the sophistication to evaluate real estate loan portfolios.
Theft, grift, as expected.
With the increase to SD retirement age that will be forced on people as “the only solution”–rather than the wealthy contributing-- this will make the permanent end of the US middle class.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
This is it.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
No, he said torch. I assume butane.
- Comment on Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations 1 month ago:
Right, and by manual approval it just would be the absolute lowest priority. Kind of like the automated message “we’re expecting higher than normal call volumes” as companies gently tell us their margins are more important than their customers.
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data 1 month ago:
Who do you think will employ them?
Normally I’d say Spectre, Gru, M.A.D, etc. but I think they’ve all disbanded as they now have US cabinet posts. I guess they should emigrate to Canada or Mexico and help prepare to defend themselves from the inevitable “security visit” that will start to happen.
- Comment on Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations 1 month ago:
It’s a step. Why wouldn’t they default to not accepting any AI generated content, and maybe have a manual approval process? It would both protect the content and discourage LLM uses where llms suck.
- Comment on Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ 2 months ago:
The key is to approach it like American oligarchs and ensure no public housing is ever built to begin with–no public giveaway, see?
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 2 months ago:
- college debt
- car debt (public transit has been actively dismantled by oil and car lobby in past 100 years) forcing most people to have to go into hock for a car.
- medical debt because think of the profits
- educational debt - public education that could lead to a populace making better decisions about finance has been deliberately and now almost completely destroyed. We’re going to put crosses in schools but definitely remove math requirements for HS diplomas.
- predatory, colluding landlord practices combined with corporate funds now accounting for 30+% of all residential real estate purchases. Accelerates affordability crisis and related issues
That’s just the starter pack for the US.
Congrats on living in what is likely a low COL area, but many are concentrated in HCOL areas in yhe UD and elsewhere. Look at Vancouver BC and Toronto, same deal in Canada. US has that as well combined with above.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 2 months ago:
Splurge for me, conserve for thee.
Same with water in CA. Industry uses >80% of water in the state and the focus is on 30 second showers and bullying citizens because their representatives have been captured along with their press in the profit machine.
- Comment on Lemmy has a problem 2 months ago:
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