I like how the only “increases” in efficiency they have proposed are to completely eliminate programs instead of actually making any of them better. Maybe we should adopt this same methodology to “solve” the problem of billionaires. 🤷

Watch how quickly cheeto man lifts the sanctions when he takes office. Bet it’s a day one agenda item.

The responsibility is shared. Temu wouldn’t exist if nobody bought from them. Yes, people need clothes, but nobody is forced to buy them from a fast fashion company that is generating enormous amounts of waste. 🤷

It isn’t a black and white issue though. There is more ethical and less ethical, but less ethical tends to be cheaper and easier.

They only have to moderate content from users on their server, and the idea would be that only CBC employees (or programs) would be given accounts which also verifies they are legitimate. Readers subscribe to those accounts from their own instances.

Because rampant over consumption is the reason the planet is doomed.

If vaccination is just as bad for children as the Catholic church then he’s going to ban both of them, right? 🙄

The problem with option A is that you can’t force countries to simply take deported people, even their own citizens. That’s why they need the military, to set up option B.

The Nazis did the same thing saying the camps were only a holding pen while the people were being deported. But when they couldn’t deport enough of them and the camps were getting full, well, they thought of a “final solution”.

The oligarchs got scared, then they got even.

Even though cannabis is legal to grow for personal use (under certain conditions), it is illegal to sell unless you get a proper license and there are tons of regulations.

The real reason they want people to put content and images directly into the post instead of “lazily linking” it is because by doing so the EULA gives X the right to use that content for their recommendation algorithms and AI training data. External sites can be copyrighted and paywalled.

That would require that crowd to have a basic understanding of logic and reality, which they don’t. The GOP can literally do no wrong in their eyes because they will have some conspiracy to blame the consequences on instead.

I find it funny that corporations can openly talk about hiring illegal immigrants and nobody cares… Like isn’t that also illegal?

I bet if the government made hiring an illegal immigrant a felony and the owner of the company would face jail time, then things would change very quickly.

Yup, but thanks to unchecked capitalism, the increasing wealth is being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer. The corporations using AI to replace workers should be making up for the lost tax revenue, but corporations also don’t pay much in taxes. The shareholders don’t care though because they don’t need social assistance, all they want is the force of law to protect their capital and keep the working class in line.

Old people don’t pay much in taxes and AI doesn’t pay tax at all, so without the tax revenue of regular working class people all the social security benefits that the old people rely on will go bankrupt.

A free trade agreement with orange guy who literally said his favourite word was tariff? Hahah! Oh wait they’re serious? Let me laugh even harder.

And the twist is 99.9% of Republican voters think they are in the in-group just because the leopards haven’t eaten their faces yet.

Yeah, and due to the falling replacement rate the world population itself is starting to level off and may even start to decline. That’s why conservative political parties are all doing everything they can to force people into having children, because large corporations can only exist with a large and ever growing customer base.

I mean the business case is clear: It’s way harder to pirate a game that forces everyone to connect to the server to work at all, then when a new version comes out you shut down the old servers and force everyone to buy the newer one. Welcome to late stage capitalism where you’ll own nothing and be happy!

It’s the eternal cycle:

• Small platform has quality experience because most users are genuine and engaged, and user base is too small to be “worth it” for corporations and trolls
• Platform grows slowly until it reaches tipping point of popularity and network effect
• The platform has explosive growth, drawing interest of corporations and trolls
• Corporations enshittify while trolls crank out misinformation and rage bait
• Users reach tipping point and leave large platform to smaller platforms that don’t have corporate interests and trolls
• Repeat due to network effect