ConsciousCode @ ConsciousCode @beehaw.org

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Their response sounds genuine, I think it's more a matter of myopic optimism taken advantage of by the broader company. They don't have to be explicitly evil if their otherwise moral employees trust the corporate apparatus to not abuse powers granted to them in the name of security.

That wasn't planned obsolescence though, it was an industry-created standard for the tradeoff between efficiency, brightness, and lifespan. Planned obsolescence is specifically when a product is made to break sooner than it needs to.

Isn't a large part of their trouble that NATO is supplying Ukraine?

While I appreciate the sentiment, such a law would be far too rigid to work in practice. What happens if we get into another world war? Military spending goes up by necessity, but then so does education and the military budget has a much lower ceiling than it would otherwise.

It's actually taken as a sign he's doing something right, because he's being """persecuted"""

Reading the article makes my blood run cold and starting to think about moving to Europe, and I'm not even that marginalized. White, male, gay, mostly cis. But then, if the US withdraws from NATO won't Russia run amok in Europe? Is this WWIII?

Non-rhetorical question: Would people worried about "globalists" care if it was the US that was in charge of the globe?

That is so Zen. Beautiful.

Alphabet and Meta enter the chat

You can lose your trademark if your name becomes generic

Putting it this way makes me kind of sad. It's weird because Twitter has been an undeniable cancer on society too, so I'm split between being glad for their demise and feeling sorry for the ruin of their achievements.

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I don't think that was his goal, but it was probably why the Saudis were so eager to loan him the funds to buy it. This reminds me of a time I was talking to a climate-denying friend who cited something about NY using "methane causes global warming" to push anti-small farm bills on the basis that they had cattle (or something, I can't remember exactly). The point being, sometimes it's not a grand orchestrated conspiracy (eg "global warming is fake") but rather malicious, opportunistic actors taking whatever advantages they can get. Billionaires don't cause recessions on purpose, but their wealth certainly does increase during them anyway because of how the system has evolved to optimize for wealth consolidation through the independent actions of the capitalist class, and they're not hurting enough to want to change it for the better.

Speaking of SpaceX, makes me wonder why he doesn't just brand everything

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Trump has accidentally created an evangelical cult convinced he's the literal "son of man" (aka new messiah) and everything he does/says is ordained by God. Cults of personality shed anyone with even the barest amount of reason and retain only the most deluded.

I wouldn't say stupid, just narcissistic control freak who can't stop touching it. That way it doesn't dismiss him outright. It's a matter of essentializing language - "someone is stupid" isn't so dangerous vs "someone does something stupid" lets you recognize the emperor has no clothes but can still be dangerous. Reality is more complex than "xyz is stupid/evil", and falling into those patterns of thought does a disservice to yourself.

False consciousness in a nutshell: https://youtu.be/K_LvRPX0rGY

Are there any who don't support it? And if you find someone who doesn't, does that outweigh the things they disagree with you on? Representative democracy doesn't have the granularity to focus on anything other than the most important issues.

This gives him way too much credit lol. He isn't playing 5D chess, he impulse-bought a $44B company and is too much of a narcissistic control freak to stop touching it. Harming marginalized people is a natural consequence of essentially any action a billionaire takes by virtue of their existence.

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