The group is obviously representing progressives not the world. Made-up Jesus would definitely be on the side of progressive because in his story he was also a progressive.
The juxtapose is a preacher preaching hate pretending to have Jesus on their side
This guy trying to rain on our human flavored hot dog parade!
Last time I checked ground beef was $6 a pound. It is now a luxury I no longer buy.
Because they are assholes losers that care more about winning than the disgusting things they have to do to win.
There is no honor or decorum left in politics, just naked greed and the concentration of power. Our politicians are the result of the corrupt environment they live in.
Until we seriously start removing money from politics we will be stuck in a ever increasing enshitification feedback loop where the only people who are represented are the wealthy.
Mugwomp Jizzum anyone?
We are not different, that is just an excuse. I have grandkids already for Christ sake.
We should not be encouraging social disconnection in our society and become dependent on machines.
I get it, they are more convenient for YOU. But at what cost to everyone else?
Like I was saying, just because we have a bunch of people who have not been socialized doesn’t mean we should be encouraging it with technology.
You say you are old, but you personalize like a teenager still.
We should definitely change our whole society because a minority have not been socialized properly.
You say that until theft protection confronts you and calls the cops over nothing. Hard pass on that.
The Nazis rhetoric drives more Jewish people to Zionism. Strange bedfellows indeed.
Right to repair is not about demanding unlimited software support it is saying we want access to the API so we can do our own support if we choose to.
It is about designing products that can be repairable and providing the means to do so. Regulations will be required to do this because a big part relies on standardization of parts.
This is because we can’t expect manufacturers to continuously supply parts. That is unrealistic. On the other hand, if you require standardized parts then it becomes repairable without the burden on the manufacturer.
I see your point. I would like to add that you probably can’t ever have fast or cheap without negative externalities. I think this is the missing part of the equation that perverts these systems and produces the garbage results we have to deal with like ewaste.
Unregulated capitalism seems to thrive by externalizing as many costs as possible. So we end up with a systems that ignores the environmental and social costs.
No rapist can ever complain again. After all, if they just apply themselves they to can become POTUS regardless of raping hundreds of women and children.
Rape is no longer something that ruins your life, just the life of those you rape - Brought to you by the Republican Party.
No, this requires regulations to prevent massive amounts of Ewaste. Consumers can’t change this behavior.
Like right to repair or privacy. We need real regulations. Corporations are too big and powerful and even something like choice has been turned into choosing which shitty corp you want to buy from.
There need to be strong regulations to prevent this sort of Ewaste. As long as companies can get away with this they will.
And no, voting with your pocket book isn’t going to change their behavior.
Companies grow and shrink from a combination of market and internal forces. Companies sometimes need to shrink or grow. The economy and culture are constantly changing. That is why it is very hard to predict where things will go.
Your example of having a company with a set amount of employees that produce a set product happens pretty frequently. A lot of employee owned or family businesses are this way.
I think most of your post can be summed up with why do investors want more and more money. The answer is because they can. If your company owes money to investors then they will beholden to them in one form or another.
There is another worthy discussion here and it is about boards. Boards that do not contain equal representation for the employees and the public can be very destructive.
Most of the corporate abuses we have suffered come from having perverse leadership non-representative of these two most important influences.
This is a well reasoned response. For sure the problem is just exacerbated by AI. The real problem is Intellectual Property in the first place.
There is no theft period. There is perhaps copyright infringement for commercial entities. This is a civil legal matter and has almost no bearing on anything you are discussing.
You must also consider all art is iterative. This means all art is based off art that came before it. You cannot create art in a vacuum and every artist borrows heavily from our culture
We are not here to judge what is or isn’t art either. This is a treacherous road where people can deny art like a collage because it doesn’t fit their definition of art. Everyone is actually an artist by definition unless they have literally never spoken, written, sang, or drawn.
There is definitely a worthy discussion around AI art. Right now we don’t really have AI so it is not really creating anything. It is more of fill in the blank taking the best guesses based on prior work.
I believe, as other posters have stated, that Intellectual Property is actually anti-art, anti-science, and anti-technology. The problems we face with AI pale in comparison to a broken system beset by capitalists hell bent on controlling our culture and extracting as much money as they can through doing so.
The current political climate is really stupid making people unsure about what to do.
FTFY
Translation: People pay us to push propaganda that hurts people. The government told us to stop and that hurts our pocketbook!
Medical misinformation is not political speech. Fuck everyone who made it this way.
I can hear that funky baseline now.
They are a brick, house. That Marduk is stacked and that’s a fact. Ain’t holding nothing back.