mPony
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- Comment on Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.
They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right.
They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.
And by the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people – white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on – good honest hard-working people continue – these are people of modest means – continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all – at all – at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
George Carlin
- Comment on Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström 2 months ago:
yes but if Spotify uses its own GenAI music, they don’t have to pay anyone else when someone listens to it.
- Comment on Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström 2 months ago:
Spotify’s plans to take money from subscribers but never pay a fucking dime to anyone else , ever.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 2 months ago:
because of Stockholm Syndrome
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 months ago:
FTA
Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand. They also argued that there’s a “substantial market” for older or classic games, and a new, free library to access games would “jeopardize” this market. Perlmutter agreed with the industry groups.
So as long as someone, somewhere, might make a penny off of them, they can’t be free. Insert your own metaphor here.
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 2 months ago:
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner’s took some digital mushrooms
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 2 months ago:
it was written in FORTRAN
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 3 months ago:
they can literally buy their own political system
They already have.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 3 months ago:
Orwell didn’t know he was also writing about the Entertainment-Industrial Complex.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 3 months ago:
the current U.S. Supreme Court wouldn’t give you democracy, even though the American military has killed tens of thousands of people around the world in its name.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 3 months ago:
All for the low low price of most of your money, most of your spare time, and most of “the best years of your life”
wow, hold me back.
- Comment on Atari Jaguar Emulation Is Coming To iPhone | Time Extension 3 months ago:
From Jeff
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 3 months ago:
Red Wedding, Red Wedding, Lots of stabbing and a little beheading
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I would love to have notable information pop up but we both know it would devolve into something between Ow My Balls and the RESUME VIEWING episode of Black Mirror.
- Comment on ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem. 3 months ago:
whatever shortens everyone’s attention span the quickest: it makes for efficient hoodwinking
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 3 months ago:
the windows save menu has remained mostly the same since win3. Office products used the regular windows save menu for ages. Then suddenly they introduce a monstrosity that takes up the whole screen and throws decades of useful design out the window. If i describe it further I shall descend into madness
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 3 months ago:
Same, but for Excel.
Also, JFC the save menu in Office 365 is Cthulhu-level madness.
- Comment on Startup Says It'll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime 4 months ago:
Startup says it wants some more cocaine and wants to know if you know anyone with some more cocaine because some more cocaine would be fuckin’ great right now holy shit
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 5 months ago:
and the Unreal engine which gave us I don’t have any idea how many but just a staggering number. Both solid games on their own, but long-term the engines were the real rock stars
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 5 months ago:
it’s one key over, is it really swear-word level different?
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 5 months ago:
when I hear “hiding behind covers”
Operation Blanket Fort
- Comment on Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes 5 months ago:
and nobody in the Stanford audience had the balls to yell out “IT FUCKING IS” at him after he said it. Cowards and sycophants, all.
- Comment on Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes 5 months ago:
a) you’re right. Everyone who says this is right
b) If the senior leaders have designed their own ivory towers to force obsequious behaviour from their own people, they sure as shit won’t listen to totally reasonable analysis from people who don’t work for them. As such, they have engineered their own demise. I wish them well with it.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 5 months ago:
Scrolling through that website is just “Hmm, I think I see a pattern here” every time it comes up. Also I rediscovered the term “disgorgement” so that’s also a win.
- Comment on obesity 5 months ago:
As usual, George Carlin should be the go-to for matters of language
I see that someone wrote their thesis on it.
- Comment on Heritage Foundation insists it was not hacked by “gay furries” 6 months ago:
#they haven’t been WHAT by gay furries??
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 6 months ago:
Thunderdome was already taken
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 6 months ago:
COCK POLICE REPORTING FOR DUTY
- Comment on Work from home 6 months ago:
but it’s not their money until they coerce people into giving it to them
- Comment on Work from home 6 months ago:
my company respects my free time
Well that doesn’t sound like a recipe for anyone becoming a billionaire from your labour