Sunflier
@Sunflier@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money 14 hours ago:
Owing your soul to the company store?
- Comment on AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money 14 hours ago:
They’re trying to reinvent company scrip? In the United States, payment in scrip became illegal in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 3 days ago:
Bitcoin doesn’t support this. It’s what is being mirrored, yes. But, Ethereum is kinda like the operating system that could/would allow 24 hour trading without having a clearing-house middleman.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 3 days ago:
Ethereum has the potential to carry real world assets on its chain. Why does an share of stock have to go through a clearing house when it could be an L2 on ethereum? A company having a total of 1 million shares is no different from a L2 coin having a total number of 1 million coins. They can even be fractional too.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 weeks ago:
Were Boomers in power then? Ah, yeah they took over sitting as president after Regan, so like late 80s/early 90s. They’ve been sitting as president since, and they’re the most spoiled generation there has ever been. So, it makes sense they’d ignore anything with consequences later down the line. Everything was handed to them, then they hiked up the ladder behind them.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 2 weeks ago:
Does it come with an equivalent to uBlock? Can you port over your bookmarks from firefox?
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 3 weeks ago:
Because that would be illegal, and advice easy-to-acess ways to sabotage fascism should not be shared anywhere.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I mean why not? 4 weeks ago:
The real late-stage-capitalism problem: suicide is the ecconomic way to go out than have your estate end in bankruptcy because healthcare is just so damn expensive and insurance is insensitived to deny coverage.
- Comment on Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours 4 weeks ago:
So there’s a second person who doesn’t want to attach their name to a machine that generates child porn? Good on the guy who left.
- Comment on I mean why not? 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what her estate is doing.
- Comment on I mean why not? 4 weeks ago:
With the big money controlling everything, it’d be a cheaper way to go out than bankrupting your estate with a hospital bill and denial of care from insurance.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
Right. The Weimar Republic had their population making substantially more cash than at any point.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
Right? The ecconomic benefits, the lack of financial catastrophy from suffering a paper cut, living wages, the political stability. It must be like waking up every day in a dream.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
My bet is this is a move by Palantir
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. Without immigration, our population would collapse. Our birthrate is 1.64 per woman. Japan’s is 1.2. The replacement rate is 2. It’s just too damn expensive to have kids, put a roof over our heads, and retire. Meanwhile the fed just funnels more money to the rich. No wonder the workers can’t maintain the population: we’re starving and the government is giving all the food to the rich.
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
Don’t even get them started on the right to vote.
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
Any second now. Maybe just one more tax cut just to be safe.
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- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. They’ll “solve” the problem with abortion bans.
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
Imagine how improved things would be if that $700 billion was spent improving the lives of regular people. Or, what if it was just used to pay the debt through taxes? Medicare for all? They clearly had the money to sqander.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 5 weeks ago:
Bees will actually kill their queen at time.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 5 weeks ago:
Well, it does take hands to raise the guillotine’s blade . . . true. Might also take hands to lock billionaires into the guillotine. So, thanks for the suggestion!
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
Rent is theft? I thought rent empowered people. How is it theft for a car rental company to rent you a car at at an airport? How is it theft for uhaul to rent you extra storage space when you need it?
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 5 weeks ago:
Oh Blockbuster, who art in heaven Hallowed be thy memory Thy storefront come Thy movies return On Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily movie rentals And forgive us our shortsightedness As we forgive those who exploit us for money And lead us not into micro-transactions But deliver us from enshittification For thine is the Weekend The Power and the Vibes Forever and ever Amen
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a Pretti Good idea/start. But, there needs to be more, like a definded list of demands. Otherwise, it’s just an ignorable protest.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
A general strike is much longer.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
Yeah, not going to be effective. Make it a week, and you might turn some heads.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 month ago:
Nope. Your math is wrong. 6 people uninstalling would be a 50% increase from the 4 since 2 (the extra people uninstalling is 50% of 4). For a 150% INCREASE you’d need 10 to uninstall (4 for the origional, 4 more for the 100%, and 2 on top of that for the extra 50%).
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 month ago:
Just one more lane!
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 month ago:
We’re not replacing workers fast enough.
-This jackass, essentially.
