AI bots are doing what the advertising industry has honed into a science, manipulating people in a sneaky as fuck way in order to farm money from them infinitely

I see Alexa is on the LG TV, and there’s a way to turn it off in settings, but is it actually truly off when you do this (do u know)? lmao

was literally about to buy a Roku TV. not anymore

anyone have suggestions for a decent new TV that isn’t so invasive?

“Put Rome on economic time out until it behaves”

Or accelerate it apart

“Do you want to be an infinitely productive profit maker for the company at your own expense?”

The internet is over, for now. Boomers and businesses killed it, until the next phase in human history.

Everything that can possibly be ruined, they will leave no stone unturned

Innovation was only ever a small part. Rent-seeking is more fundamental to capitalism than “innovation” is. It’s just more brazen than we remember from our childhoods.

Oh ok, hundreds of millions of people if not billions of people are “extremists” for not wanting to have their lives entirely upended by AI? For a relative few people to make an extreme profit from it.

The ones pushing the AI project so tenaciously on everyone are the ones with an extreme position, so much so that people are united against AI, across such culturally divided political lines. Anti-AI / Anti-data center is one of the only political issues where the regular population is in near unanimous agreement.

News, “The armed deputies known as law enforcement will ride in to defend the “extreme” actions and worldview of the AI oligarchs.”

AI will then crush the lives of people who do “law enforcement,” too. The boot will also step on lawman.

The point is to target the owner-caste.

A lot of those are just millionaires or ten millionaires… or hundred thousandaires… I think the way to do this is to build/implement a new model of business and housing ownership, where it is democratically co-owned, co-run, co-managed… instead of everything being owned by capitalist proprietors/workplace dicatators/real estate investors

Ownership itself has to be democratized not just try to funnel money back down

allow anyone to make up to $999,999,999 after-tax

way too much

this is EXACTLY one of the problems with “billionaires” discourse, in fact

Wealth cap is a great idea, but suffers from the same issue as “tax the rich,” in that how do you do either of those things when the ultrawealthy are the ones in political power? they generally aint gonna cap or tax themselves

Thank you Donlad

very cool, congrats

In what ways are you doing better? Of course can make some good guesses, but want to hear more specifically

It would seem to add up that the ruling class wants most people on earth dead

Whether they want it or not (they probably do tbh) they’re doing it regardless and don’t mind it happening

It’s not against the rules to talk about trash pandas

Unpopular opinion I suppose: These faces are still eminently punchable