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Comparing employees to citizens is absurd.

• Citizens pay taxes and receive services
• Employees provide services and receive money.

The more apt comparison is voting citizens compared to shareholders. They too get a vote.

All worth it so lord Musk can push his shitty memes to remote tribes in the Amazon.

I think anyone familiar with the laws of thermodynamics could have predicted this outcome.

Uh, it's a brick shelf made out of books.

1 can be solved with regulation or nationalization. Services online should be public services. Like school, police, roads. You can still have private alternatives too.

Gutting education is part of the plan for any authoritarian takeover. Knowledge is power. Why give the people the power? How very unauthoritarian.

As though CAPTACHA's are that effective, and Joe Blow is personally responsible for the rise of AI.

Here's a better idea for a movie: Sarah Connor kicks the teeth in of tech billionaire bros at Open AI, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA. And Elon too of course, fuck that creep.

It's funny that with all our technology, paper is still the most durable storage medium (under normal conditions) that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Sophistication often creates fragility. The human mind marvels at sophistication naturally; appreciation for resilience usually only comes after that fragile thing has broken. Of course it's too late by then.

All them young whipper snappers will continue to learn these life lessons the hard way, it seems.

Because monkey brains' kryptonite is outrage.

Unfortunately, the fate of the world kinda rests on the outcome of this election. From Ukraine and Israel at a minimum, to severe climate change and WW3 at the extreme end. I hate it too, but this is just too big to ignore.

Sounds an awful lot like most trilogies out there.

This is not how patents work. At all.

For one, patent owners are generally more than happy to license their technology to integrators, and even competitors, if there is money to be made.

More importantly, patents cannot be used to get exclusivity on products. Rather, patents can only protect novel approaches to how a product is made or served.

The patent system is designed to protect R&D costs exclusively, not some get out of jail card for anti trust. Of course, the patent office isn't perfect, the system does get abused in anti-competitive ways. But in the end, it's rare that that results in less consumer choice, because of licensing deals.