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- Comment on Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ 1 day 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago:
TheY dId tHE rEseaRCH
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 1 week ago:
Such a great game. God the 90s were amazing for games.
- Comment on Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans 1 week ago:
The trickle down is almost here, just need to give the rich and powerful just a few more tax breaks, monopolies, legal impunity. Just stay the course.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
Tuesday, in 2025.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
The LinkedIn post about the AI deregulation announcement was a who’s who of assholes bleating about how great it would be; CEOs, COOs, from Open AI, Duke Energy, Fascists Anonymous.
The Open AI persons comment was such sausage it had to be his own shitty AI
- Comment on Let's get Physical 2 weeks ago:
You’re only thinking of the morality side of it.
It’s also wrong because they work for a company that probably says subordinate-supervisory relationships are forbidden because of the power imbalance and complications around how a personal relationship–or even the perceptions of one-- might affect workplace decisions. Co-workers–even non-supervisory-- who might even be at the same “level” or their work brings them together for anything can be incredibly problematic. All of this is even at a local, department or site level to say nothing of C-level consequences. This also says nothing of the fact that one of them is in charge of the function, HR, who would be the person most responsible for ensuring this kind of conduct didn’t happen between employees. The hypocrisy and abdication of duty couldn’t be more severe. Both have lost all credibility with anyone in their company, which means they cannot lead others.
- Comment on Microsoft saved $500 million using AI — after slashing over 15,000 jobs in 2025 2 weeks ago:
They just stop(ped) offering support for whatever the product or line was. Create a “service portal” that provides results, relevant or not. Creat a forum where people can ask questions that aren’t answered, or if they are it’s the labor of some Stockholm Syndrome user who is trying to help others as they weren’t.
This won’t stop here, it’s the dream to not actually have to service your product. Imagine being Ford and saying “as is” when a customer asks why the blinker doesn’t work. Insane, right? That is the push here for a few reasons, all $ of course:
- achieve oligarchy or monopoly
- enshittfy product
- remove product support to save on support labor and related infrastructure
- profit!
*Profit for a while until people leave or you are replaced but what a profitable run!
- Comment on Nvidia’s CEO says the US should ‘reduce’ dependency on other countries and onshore technology manufacturing 2 weeks ago:
Someone looking for a handout. We just gave a shitload of money for the chips act and what did that get us? Some actual movement from TMSC to build some plants at the point of a gun but we’re relatively better than China so they said ok, and Intel, who just laid off 2500 people just in Portland this week. Dunno, repurpose the Intel $ for NVDA I guess.
- Comment on Tax pubs on profit not property value, urges Greene King boss 3 weeks ago:
Right, and part of the problem is these hawks (the kind who own 2400 pubs) would then fly in with that much more VC$ and scoop up 5x that amount of something like this passed. I’m all for the idea, but big companies don’t get little guy breaks, they can play with the adults and take the loss.
- Comment on Indeed, Glassdoor to cut 1,300 jobs amid AI integration, memo shows 3 weeks ago:
Both companies are owned by a large Japanese conglomerate. They got lucky with indeed, and have used little of its unbelievable market share to solidify it’s position and improve the product. Indeed, properly managed, would print money and go parabolic as a stock. Instead it’s just sat there because both sites suck and exist on inertia.
- Comment on Palantir accuses British doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 3 weeks ago:
Right. Off.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 4 weeks ago:
You’ve actually lost your citizenship for that Thoughtcrime. Have fun in El Salvador. -people who will only stop when met with violent force
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 4 weeks ago:
Change your luggage combo too.
- Comment on Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks 5 weeks ago:
And by infuriated trump, they mean infuriated his election box funder attendees Bezos, Cool, Pichai. Of course I could be way off and it may be an innocent coincidence…🤑
- Comment on Remember the car jacking scene in Terminator 3? 5 weeks ago:
Install the latest update and hope for the best.
The addiction is also the cure.
- Comment on Democrats assail 'erratic' Trump over Iran strikes 1 month ago:
“bristled”
“A pipe cleaning analogy, that’ll show 'em were serious this time!”
- Comment on Usually the word "alternative" should be replaced with the word "bullshit". Ex: alternative facts, alternative medicine 1 month ago:
Came here to make the Minchin comparison.
- Comment on Teachers Are Not OK 1 month ago:
the banks are going to have to get involved soon…figure out a way to load up working-age people with long-term debt
Why the hell do the banks need to step in? System for an indentured workforce is already in full effect -no safety net, unemployment difficult to get and punishing poverty if it’s all you have -require a car (e.g. initial capital and ongoing cost) to participate in many jobs -have oligopolies rent out housing that is so expensive even those with full-time work can’t save any money -have oligopolies own groceries, Jack up prices -have oligopolies own medical facilities -stuff people full of consumer desires and give them easy access to credit
- Comment on Credit and Tipping during the period of Slavery in the US 1 month ago:
Buying goods from an on-site store was called “sharecropping” in the US post slavery, but as you noted it had binding and entrapping effects, as designed. Sharecropping was basically feudalism; forced to work land you didn’t own hoping for a benevolent lord to grant you sustenance–but prices were always raised enough to keep you in debt interestingly…
- Comment on What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw? 1 month ago:
Cholera bacteria wouldn’t survive in plasma, yo.
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 1 month ago:
Be quiet!
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 2 months ago:
Intuit about to hire a “private Security company”
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 2 months ago:
Your brevity is perfectly cromulent.
- Comment on TED launches a short-form (TikTok like) video feature. 2 months ago:
Totally lost their way as they commodified and expanded so quickly. Truly great, unique insights are worth keeping small and waiting for. All the ted x and mini Ted x and micro teds etc. just water the brand and impact down.
I went to one in 2015 and cried, multiple times. By 2020 I couldn’t even stand to watch them online as everyone was trying to give the next great Ted talk instead of Ted picking the most impactful. They also got into echo chamber/preaching to the choir territory as it became too rote.
- Comment on ‘It’s real y’all’: People are sharing their tariff receipts, and my wallet is not ready for what’s coming 2 months ago:
Where are all the “do my own research” mofos now? Would be nice if they did that and learned about economics…
- Comment on 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-scale rollout in March 2025 2 months ago:
I’d say given the current tech environment that book would “educate” based more on a Brave New World caste and less on ideal knowledge to raise someone up but to keep them in a certain assigned position.
- Comment on Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices 2 months ago:
See: “free market” enthusiast Donald trump