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- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 41 minutes 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 14 hours ago:
RFK
Cancer causes autism
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 15 hours 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 3 days 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 4 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Going to outFoX Faux news
- Comment on Trump opens the door for crypto and private equity in your 401(k) retirement plan 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
This is it.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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’ 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
TheY dId tHE rEseaRCH
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 4 weeks ago:
Such a great game. God the 90s were amazing for games.
- Comment on Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Tuesday, in 2025.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Right. Off.