DragonConsort

I'm not an economist or even especially well informed, but... Isn't war kind of... You know. Expensive?

Yeah I know it could pay off in the long term if you just swept up a country's worth of innocents, genocided them and grabbed their land (Hi Israel), but... Fuck up the war badly enough, and there's not going to BE a long term, just because the economy collapses. Right?

When the alternative is dealing with the absolute horseshit quantity of ads that YouTube desperately wants to shovel down my throat, I'll take Invidious any day of the week.

It may not be in perfect condition but it's still good enough to use!

Honestly, this is a really well made article. They've got a damn good point.

And like, it's not even a good gimmick. It's a serious labour issue because the primary intent behind a lot of AI has always been to just phase out workers.

I'm all for ending work through technological advancement and universal income, but this definitely wasn't going to get us that, so....

Well, why would I support something that mostly just threatens people's livelihoods and gives even more power to the 0.1%?

Start killing oil executives? It won't fix anything but at least they'll suffer the consequences of their actions for once

Tbh that's the most characteristic thing about Trump. Saying things so outrageously stupid, so far outside common sense and so detached from reality that people end up thinking about them more than they should.

Love the fact that even when committing to the bit about being anti-privacy they still know the internet is functionally unusable without an adblocker

Also I'm about to say something ignorant as hell but: Isn't a Browser the same thing as a Search Engine?

Holy shit!!!

Corporate lust for money, my dude

Yeah, they had that one coming. Stuff in there is just straight up insanely overpriced

YES

Finally some sort of actual consequence for the malicious bullshit of the ultra wealthy. We take those Ws

This isn't just cruel, it's actually actively disadvantaging Russia in a huge way.

Anyone can be a scientist, and autistic people can go into any profession, but statistically speaking, autistic people tend to be the ones willing to obsess over data enough to get into science and make technical breakthroughs.

Sure, a lot of other countries aren't exactly saintly when it comes to treating people who act a bit different, but good fucking luck building a tech industry that can compete with the world's dominant powers if you're actively removing people that aren't perfect little obedient clones of the ideal citizen.