Canconda
@Canconda@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' 1 day ago:
Completely expected that teens closer to 16 would be able to bypass it. Same thing happens with alcohol and people almost of age. But I expect younger children cannot bypass so easily so it’s still a net positive.
IMO the more productive solution is to restrict cellphone use during school. They’ve recently done that in my area and both students and faculty have positive responses.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
TBF One could also argue that in your example the value of the modem also consists of the skills to build it both the modem and the materials it consists of. Obviously it would cost you personally significantly more than $60 to produce the same device, assuming that’s even possible for you.
But I digress.
I don’t deny that coercive relationships exist… but I’m talking about “roots” like tool usage and cooperation in communal animals such as primates. It relates to the context of property ownership because animals mark their territory and use violence to enforce it. Hence why property as a concept is fundamentally violent.
Object ownership isn’t as fundamentally violent the way I see it.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Every city should have a Municipal Housing Corporation. Basically an entity that takes advantage of economies of scale and collective buying power to provide housing at below market rates.
- Comment on "Luke, I am your *second* father" 2 days ago:
I feel like in this au Vader would be Vaddy
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
Bro all I’m saying is that the trend of enshittification is only going to accelerate in the world of AI.
and youre like YOUTUBE IS SHIT NOWWWWWWWWWW
Seriously.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
Its the second one. I’m downvoting you because you keep omitting half my statements and responding to the resulting altered meaning.
From what I read you seem more concerned about the quality of youtube videos and ford trucks than the workers who lost their jobs due to automation. I’m not sayings thats what you believe mind you. Just pointing out how different of a page you are on than me.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
you said: “quality of service can drop indefinitely.”
What I actually said was…
As long as the rich maintain their monopolies quality of service can drop indefinitely.
So yes you have completely missed my point and are arguing with yourself, not me.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
Robot automation has not lowered the quality of a Ford vehicle
I never said that and the quality of a ford truck is irrelevant to the assembly worker who lost their job due to automation.
You need to back up because you have gone down a tangent alone.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Can’t argue with that. Or connect it to the current topic. Care to elaborate?
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
And yet youtube is still the dominant video host.
You’re missing the point.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
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The rich fully intend to replace workers with slaves one way or another.
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AI robots can be utter shit and they will still be leaps and bounds above the task specific automation that has been replacing human workers for decades.
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As long as the rich maintain their monopoly qualify of service can drop indefinitely. Doesn’t matter if AI robots suck ass when no human employed company can compete and every other option is just as ass.
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- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Building codes have changed a lot in the past 50ish years. Besides being cheaper to buy, houses also required more easily attainable tools/skills to build/maintain.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Also individual owners have become a liability for the insurance entities that guarantee the mortgages for the banks. Wages:COL have gotten so bad that it’s basically the sub-prime mortgage crisis but for people who actually paid down payments.
They built the system on property going up forever with only a small % defaulting. So they’ve gotta keep enough of us out of the market to ensure they can keep cashflowing their ponzi scheme.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Land ownership is fundamentally a violent act in that paper agreements are a surrogate for establishing territorial dominance. End of the day land ownership is enforced though force.
Renting objects on the other hand is rooted in mutual benefit. Tool creation and use being separate skills creates a natural opportunity for cooperation.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
That’s such a irrelevant/misleading statistic. People aren’t griping the incorporation vs soul proprietorship of landlords. More than half of those individual landlords own multiple rental properties. Thousands of them own enough rental properties (4+ in Canada) to require a property management license, that many do not possess.
Individual landlords are the ones buying up detached homes, hoarding them as overpriced rentals until selling them as land assemblies so that corporations can build overpriced breadbox boxes.
If you live somewhere without strong tenancy laws than corporations basically get a free pass on colluding to drive up local rental pricing. End of the day they own the apartments around universities and hospitals where demand will meet any price.
- Comment on If every accusation is a confession, the “woke mind virus” panic was a clear-cut admission of an existing opposite-ideology virus that's making many people very mentally ill 4 days ago:
How do you know you have TDS? A Trump voter will diagnose you.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 4 days ago:
Instead we have 30 versions of the same deep fried chicken sandwich.
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 1 week ago:
For a while now I’ve had a theory that there is a positive correlation between our emotional intelligence and our ability to communicate.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
On the flipside, I think the incentives for creativity/hard work have been eroded to the point that the outcomes don’t reflect the effort regardless of level.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Yea but what he means is that nobody is cutting power lines or driving trucks through walls yet.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Ya I hate that auto correct stopped asking for consent.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Donald Glover / Childing Gambino / Troy Barnes
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Such an under rated comedy set.
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
Nah the emphasis was the italics.
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. That’s why I put “scare quotes” around the word “do” to imply that he actually did do something. I wasn’t defending them I was responding specifically to the comment above.
Even the couple of links here don’t shed any light on the details of ‘why’.
The why is simply that disrespecting the fans that supported your success is a recipe for failure.
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
He didn’t do anything. He’s just another artist/entertainer who doubled down on magatry despite their career being built by a diversity of loyal fans.
Wayne Gretzky is still considered the greatest hockey player of all time… but as far as most Canadians are concerned his home ice is in Mara Lago now.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 4 weeks ago:
Capitalism will let us all eat shit and die and still cut that shit with the last of the Amazonian sawdust.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 4 weeks ago:
A lot of the reasons unions form in the USA are mitigated by Canadian labour laws. So you generally only see them in large work forces such as government employees, school teachers, and trades. People already get severance pay based on length of employment for getting fired without cause. If you’re laid off you can get EI (60% wages from gov’t).
So to answer your question… nothing probably -though I am speculating. Unless they did something egregious they likely broke no laws.