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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If driver’s licenses were invented today they’d be a public-private partnership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We make and weld the steel components we punch out of sheet metal, battery side plates and housing and stuff.

  But we can retool to make any other number of steel components if they refit the presses with different die sets. I for instance operate a welding press and weld nuts onto different structural parts that are punched with the bigger presses.

  We could totally retool for missiles or drones or military transport if they decided the battery thing isn’t working out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what you’re saying, I’m just raising the class question. There are “good” reasons for the rich to use capitalism, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Poverty is a necessary component of capitalism. It’s not arbitrary, it’s calculated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah my factory built out a lot of production and hired a bunch of people to make battery components, and it looks like that’s drying up. I wouldn’t be surprised if we retool and start making bomb parts. 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?

  Are you confusing me with someone else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And now you’re insulting me.

  What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?

  I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!

  These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.

  Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.

  And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.

  We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is anyone arguing at this point?

  It’s not decentralized. There’s no argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.

  The white ones did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ha ha ha, A LEAF! Go fuck yourself redeit.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … bomb pops are five fucking dollars?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Work for whom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To Use PeerTube for Podcasting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a long term committed relationship!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the possibility of broader economic headwinds causing decreased youth employment, and they aren’t controlling for that at all. They’re operating on the assumption that the economy is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They airbrushed people’s faces.

  If a computer changed my face because I’m too ugly for advertisers I’d fucking kill myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some atheists so believe in reincarnation I suppose, but memories are pretty universal. Whatever anyone believes, everyone remembers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The atheist afterlife is your memory and how people talk about you.

  So if you’re a good person, people remember you fondly and speak well of you.

  And if you’re Thatcher, people piss on your grave and openly wish you were in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t really go to service for gods? They do it for community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I NEED to eat this!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghosts are the first and only pepper to make me puke.

  Doesn’t stop me from eating then, just smarter about making sure my stomach has lots of stuff to dilute the heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why I asked! I didn’t want to presume, but it was hard to tell without the clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thread topic is SpaceX saying we should dump all fiber plans and go with Starlink.

  I had to clarify what you were arguing about, because otherwise I was going to yell at you about latency issues and data throttling and the risks of Kessler syndrome and about how bad it is to put critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just trying to understand why this argument is even happening.

  You seem to basically agree with them. What’s even the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have to stand up together, there’s literally nothing I can do by myself. That’s why I need to let people know, so they stand with me.

  I’m sorry if you feel like you’re being bullied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so to clarify, are you in favor of ending all new fiber installation projects in favor of Starlink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? That won’t accomplish much.

  I just want people to know we are Fucked. This stupid fucking satellite Internet race is going to destroy Earth’s orbital infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, just to clarify, are you in favor of replacing all fiber with Starlink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kessler syndrome here we come!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see government contracts making a lot of money regardless of how functional their technology actually is.

  It’s more about who you know than what you can actually do when it comes to getting money from the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they can survive if they gatekeep and make it unaffordable to most people. There’s just not enough demand or revenue that can be generated from rich people asking for chatGPT to do their homework or pretend to be their friend. They need mass adoption to survive, which is why they’re trying to keep it artificially cheap in the first place.

  Why do you think they haven’t raised prices yet? They’re trying to make everyone use it and become reliant on it.

  And it’s not happening. The technology won’t “go away” per se, but these these expensive AI companies will fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those users are not paying a sustainable price, they’re using chatbots because they’re kept artificially cheap to increase use rates.

  Force them to pay enough to make these bots profitable and I guarantee they’ll stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LYING TO CHILDREN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next you’ll tell my coyotes can’t operate catapults or rocket shoes!