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  • We're simultaneously the horse and the rider. We're centaurs, lol. It would be like if centaurs invented cars. They could still run for fun or for exercise, but at some point they have to accept the car is better at certain things.

    A reduction in economic opportunity will naturally be met with declining birthrates which we're already seeing. People who aren't thriving don't want to have children. I don't expect that to change, I expect it to accelerate as automation reduces opportunity further and further.

    You don't need genocide, you just need to wait 80 years.

  • His victory last time was entirely due to Hillary being a weak candidate and exploiting Cambridge Analytica's illegal/immoral data scraping to tailor his message in swing regions.

    While his base is more riled up this time, I'm pretty sure they are smaller, and many moderates that took a chance on him would never make that mistake again.

    At least IMO. I guess we'll see.

  • Pyramid scheme, not profit scheme.

    Pyramid because the shape is a pyramid.

    The first person, the one who sent out the original picture, received X books and sent none.

    The next layer sent one book, and possibly received up to 36.

    But those 36 each need 36 new people. It's impossible. You'd hit the population of the earth in just a few rounds.

  • I think you mean it's old.

    Before audiences had all the tropes figured out simple stories were amazing. All the contrivances we add today we only add to make bad movies seem more interesting or complicated.

    It's why perfectly executed, simple stories are still compelling. But Oklahoma! certainly isn't one of them.

    Edit: oh, and some people love the music

  • The companies BUILD IN backdoors so that they can steal your data.

    But because the backdoor is built in, they have to constantly monitor and update the security around it so that "bad guys" (they don't think they are the bad guys) don't get in.

    They only do security updates to prevent liability iirc.

    The whole thing stinks.

    Note: I'm not a software developer just an outraged bystander with tech hobbies and techy friends, it's possible this isn't true.

  • But if you tell the customer how much things cost they won't buy as much.

    It's just layer upon layer of dishonesty. The only time businesses get honest is when the government forces them to.

  • What? What are you even talking about?

    Nobody wants racial segregation except the ignorant racists, who deserve the economic damage caused by being ignorant racists.

    Forcing an ignorant racist to serve people they hate will accomplish nothing, and certainly won't help their ignorance or racism.

    Daryl Davis is pretty vocal about the way he deradicalized KKK members, I recommend looking into him. Spoiler: the secret is shared interests (music) and normal conversation, just getting to know each other.

  • You can take anything and make it horrifying if you want. It's either a slippery slope or reductio ad absurdum.

    This is a photographer that wanted to decline a customer, nothing more or less.

    A business should be able to decide the kind of services it provides. If I don't want to bake a gigantic 5' swastika cake I shouldn't have to.

    At the end of the day capitalism protects everyone against excessive descrimination - business that reject people get less money, fewer reviews, will grow slower, etc. If that business rejects your business someone else will provide it. If nobody serves a community, there's a business opportunity waiting. Etc.

    I don't know how delusional you need to be to assume it could EVER be possible that somehow every business would just refuse to serve a population because of X characteristic.

  • Pharmacists are a strictly regulated profession. The whole job is filling prescriptions ordered by doctors and informing customers (patients) about the safe use of the substances. It's not a creative process and it's not their choice to prescribe or deny medication.

    Last I checked bakers and photographers are barely regulated by comparison, and you could easily consider their work creative in nature.

  • You pick songs, they squeeze ads and other songs in between (IIRC) and can gather data from how you interact with all of that.

    You're understanding the value of big data.

    It's why I reject all of these services. CDs, baby!

  • And the volume is cranked too high.

    And they are intentionally annoying.

    And the last time I had a video on without my adblocker, an ad came on that was literally a person acting like they were a content creator. It was over 3 minutes long. I was only half paying attention (I was driving and just listening to the video) and when I realized it was wrong I thought I had bumped the phone and changed videos. It was so disorienting.

    All the ads are lies or propaganda. I hate them. I actively avoid products that find a way to force their ads in front of my face.

  • It's not a subtle ad. Google has sold the top slots of your search to companies in exchange for money.

    When your search for "Excel", Google doesn't try to find you the most relevant result. They find you the highest paying ad, and then what you're searching for.