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- Comment on With how the republican party works in 10 years the presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness. 1 day ago:
What they’d do is criminalise all forms of Queerness (and make it wide ranging, not even Asexuality will be safe) but legalise paedophilia.
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 6 days ago:
Alas, laws are coming into place where large, centralized, social media platforms will be the only ones able to operate within the law.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
“Copilot, change the wallpaper to a DSC20260512.JPG.”
“I’m sorry, you can only change the wallpaper to images generated by Copilot!”
“Ok, change the wallpaper to a picture of my Daughter Graduating.”
“Sure! Here’s a picture of a young woman graduating set to your wallpaper.”
“That isn’t my daughter, my daughter isn’t a blonde white girl with massive tits, please change back to my previous wallpaper.”
“Sure, here’s a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
“My last wallpaper was a photo I took of The Flying Scotsman, also that picture of a Scottish glen has an offensive stereotype of a Scottish Man fucking a sheep while drinking a bottle labeled ‘Buckfast and Heroin’.”
“Here is a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
They just don’t want you to customise your computer in any way, huh.
Soon you’d be prevented from changing your wallpaper.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 week ago:
and hanging over us are greedy shits who are pretty openly fascist (reform)
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 1 week ago:
www.legislation.gov.uk - For the UK.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
And who told you this?
The billionaires. Straight up.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
Yes because the amount of money being generated by a small group of people and the amount of money we will need not only to support AI but also the masses of underemployed and unemployed people it will create would require it if we maintain a capitalist-ish system that relies on AI and robotics for everything.
Because here’s the thing everyone seems to get wrong. Money isn’t like firewood, that’s something the establishment want people to believe so they can excuse defunding healthcare to fund subsidies for their friends. Money is like electricity. On it’s own sat in Scrooge McDuck’s Moneypit it has no value, but when it’s spent, that’s when it creates value.
That’s why small businesses are better for the economy than big ones, because when you spend a tenner at a small business, it’s more likely to be spent right afterwards, for example, to pay their workers, who then pays the babysitter, who then pays the take out who then pays the supplier. That tenner was spent five times and thus created £50 worth of value, whereas if you just spent it at your local Tesco, chances are that tenner goes to the CEO’s bank balance and stays there, not creating any value. Money that isn’t being spent is money that doesn’t create value. Billionaires aren’t billionaires because they make money by working hard, they horde money by using a small amount of their stash to collect even more money, and that money doesn’t get used. This is why Trickle Down Economics doesn’t work and never will because it takes money out the system.
Now when the amount of money being spent in an economy is low to the point that ventures can’t operate properly, that’s called a recession. It’s why central banks and governments try to get the economy going by putting some of it’s own money into the system a bit like trying to get a power grid back online in a Black Start. If the “energy” in an economy is being horded in the bank accounts of an evershrinking collection of people rather than being put into the economy, well, eventually, we’re gonna have an economic blackout (recession). This is why Billionaires are terrible for the economy, because they take money out of the economy and keep it for themselves, producing a net loss to the system. If there’s less money in the system, there’s less value being created.
The Solution? Piñata economics! Make the billionaires put money into the economy to the economy doesn’t shut down. Now the Billionaires and their allies have overthrown nations for suggesting they pay a little bit more Tax because they use money as a way to control people and maintain power over their countries and/or interests. This is why Capitalism is more a Political system than an Economic one. The solution, me thinks, would be to turn to the billionaires and say “You can only a maximum of £1 billion in your bank account, if you make £100 billion, that year, you will have to spend £99 Billion. If you still have over £1 Billion in your bank account, we take everything above a billion so you end up with £1 Billion again so we can spend it on things like infrastructure.”
If the Billionaire doesn’t want to give their money to the government, they can give it to charity or spend it on whatever they want. If they spend it, it creates value (which is good for the economy), if they give it to charity, those charities will spend it on good works, which is good for both society and the economy. They could spend it on their business (which will create jobs and thus, value) but if they don’t, let’s say they have £2.2 Billion in their accounts, the government gets £1.1 Billion to spend of infrastructure projects, healthcare, and Welfare, all of which will help the economy because Infrastructure allows for economic activities, Healthcare means people can create value and people on Welfare can buy things like food and shelter which, guess what, creates value because they’re spending money.
If billionaires are going to make money without employing humans and thus, take more money out of the economy, they should pay more in taxes so the bloody economy doesn’t grind to a halt.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
oh don’t worry, “The Invisible hand of the Free Market” will do that for us,
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
If AI replaces workers then capitalism is no longer possible. What’s the next step here?
When Capitalism replaced Feudalism, the elites of the Feudal society became the elites of the Capitalistic Society. When mechanization replaced workers, we saw some horrific conditions where the elites made loads of money while workers did work that was long and backbreaking while living in poverty.
So what I would imagine is a load of people working long hours for doing the few things AI and Automation can’t do for a pittance while a small group of tech oligarchs make loads of money.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
The only thing that varies is the type of football. Looking at you America, but I think that is going to change very soon.
- Comment on Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers 2 weeks ago:
Does this make money into company script and every business, regardless of position or size, a company store?
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 2 weeks ago:
This, literally the only reason I could guess is that it is to teach AI to recognise childporn, but if that is the case, why is google going it instead of like, the FBI?
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
How long until the USA institutes Sakoku or something like it?
- Comment on Rachel Reeves Says Progressive People Should Be Zionists 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, “progressive”.
- Comment on Hmm 2 weeks ago:
NEW BOTTOM SURGERY JUST DROPPED
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh sweet man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
I have met people who think like that on the regular and I just want them to go move to an American Car Suburb and see how they like it.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
“Why should I, a man who religiously drives and has no children or grandchildren, pay for these things?”
Because it benefits you and society at large in other ways. It is in society’s best interests that people are educated so they can do much more in society than they would’ve otherwise. It is in society’s best interests to have robust, comprehensive public transport, because that way the roads won’t be clogged up, stopping you from driving. It benefits you that the nurses at your care home can read what meds they’re giving you and can do maths. It benefits you if people can get to their destinations without driving otherwise you would not be able to park at your destination. Your meals on wheels not getting stuck in traffic? The ambulance being able to get to you and get you to the hospital on time? The people around you being able to have the skills to operate in not just the work place and the world? All of that benefits you.
Thinking like this is how we ended up in the shit we’re in worldwide.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 2 weeks ago:
For anyone outside the UK, the bridge in the picture is carrying the West Coast Mainline (WCML).
The UK basically has two major routes between Edinburgh and Glasgow (where most people live in Scotland) and London, the East Coast Mainline and the West Coast Mainline. They also connect several major cities and regions.
The person who posted this basically claimed that a bridge on one of the UK’s busiest intercity rail routes had started to collapse, which is not something you say lightly. It’s like saying all of New York’s airports had shut down because of three co-incidental sinkholes.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing though, Reddit provided a lot of AI training data. Now AI content is ruining Reddit. This is like a large corporation making millions off cider and then destroying the orchard.
- Comment on Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel 2 weeks ago:
based
- Comment on fawlty towers? 3 weeks ago:
Chapman: It trying to remember if he turned off the stove.
Idle: Has asked for the manager to complain, but turns out the manager is right about everything and he’s realizing that just now.
Jones: Waiting for the bus, looking forward to the Pizza that is in his fridge.
Palin: “Hey kids, do you wanna see a dead body.”
Cleese: Has just conceived of a new, exciting way to commit arson.
Gilliam: Not pictured because the new, exciting way to commit arson involved his car.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
The only people who believe in infinite growth in a finite world are mad men and economists.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 3 weeks ago:
I mean they fantasize about imprisoning the unemployed and the poor so basically they’re half way there.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 3 weeks ago:
How long until a CEO openly argues for slavery?
- Comment on Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t they learn their lesson the last time?!
- Comment on FACTS 4 weeks ago:
When you point out the ridiculosity of it, it loses its power.
- Comment on FACTS 4 weeks ago:
FELLAS, IS IT GAY TO ASK FELLAS IF SOMETHING IS GAY? YOU’RE LITERALLY ASKING FELLAS IF THEY’RE POTENTIALLY GAY!
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 4 weeks ago:
Was wondering how long it would be until they did this.
