scarabic @ scarabic @lemmy.world

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Got me, I’m the CEO of Raytheon. Yes, in fact, you were completely owned. And yes, in fact, an Amazon worker is a loaded representation of “the people.” But that’s fine, because I already pointed out how the impoverished continue to risk life and limb to come here for even worse jobs than that. Do you want to argue about whether your example was cherry picked so you can continue to ignore how thoroughly it was put down?

The currency that person earns has more buying power around the world because of American empire. This is why people enter the US illegally to trim hedges, for example: because the money they’ll earn is worth so much when they send it home to family.

BOOM! And just like that, even your extremely cherry picked example is easily handled.

Tech-douche works for me.

I don’t feel as if that much is so unexplained that It can’t be resolved. There are no giant smoke monsters.

The Eagans and their weird mix of puritanical religion and wealthy privilege are straightforward enough. They are fucking weird and entitled and they have directed some of their giant corporation’s resources into research projects that at once delve into the metaphysical aspects of what it is to be human (the weird religion) in a way that dehumanizes and oppresses those who populate their experiments (this is the wealthy privileged part).

What are the goats for exactly? Damn if I know but I can invent multiple explanations.

What is the ultimate intention for this severance technology? Don’t know but there are multiple plausible explanations from getting people to do immoral things without question, to keeping industrial or state secrets secure. Or possibly as a form of interrogation or torture of some kind.

Why did Mark’s wife get a faked death? So his severed innie could be exposed to her as the ultimate test in how well the severance works. They have to keep her in her innie state because they kidnapped her outie, and she would fight back.

I realize that a lot of people casually brush it aside as a very evil, imperial sounding thing without understanding what a basic organizing model it has been for most of the world for 70 years, and how much their own little personal reality depends on it, whether they get that or not.

We’re arguing about whether music videos are videos and therefore there will be ads on videos... Here’s what the article says. Pretty straightforward.

With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos across verticals like gaming, fashion, beauty, cooking, news, and more, ad-free, but will be shown ads on music content and music videos.

My YT usage includes exactly zero anything related to music, so this seems relevant for me.

Such a bummer that I can’t use one here in the US.

That’s the weird part. Democrats are beholden to corporations, yes, but republicans are now beholden to the Russian mafia. What a choice we have between them!

Yes they do have more problems than losing the last election. Let’s start with the fact that their plan for the future is to become more like republicans because they think that’s obviously what people want now.

“Nightmare scenario?” This is what’s already happened.

I think they would say something like “our allies have been getting more from their alliances with us than we have been getting from those alliances, and we’re tired of being the donor in all these relationships.”

Of course, they are ignoring the fact that our alliances add up to American world domination, which has uniquely tremendous economic benefits for the US. They take that for granted though, feel entitled to it, don’t want to pay for it anymore because they don’t think it can ever change.

It’s just like their attitude on vaccines. They take herd immunity utterly for granted now and only see the minute risks of getting the shot themselves.

Yeah or some random guy whose experience with war is a 6 month tour as a “military journalist.”

Sometimes the hype bubble bursts and then the products eventually grows to be even larger than the hype. But you never know how connected hype actually is to any realistic timeline. Hype can pop like a cherry tree flowering on the first sunny day of spring, thinking summer has arrived, but then get drenched by another few weeks of rain. And as stupid as that cherry tree is, summer will eventually arrive.

This is a good point. It’s never sat right with me that LLMs require such overwhelming resources and cannot be optimized. It’s possible that innovation has been too fast to worry about optimization yet, but all this BS about building new power plants and chip foundries for trillions of dollars and whatnot just seems mad.

Trump would blame the woke.

The vibe there is infuckingsufferable. Corporate bootlicking, performative workaholism, and the butt-ugliest “influencers” of all platforms.

It’s hardly on him to get this ball rolling. The rest or Europe knows that their security is at risk if Ukraine falls, and it’s on THEM to step up with arms support. As far as I’ve seen they’ve begun to do so. I don’t know if they can ever make up for the loss of the US though.

Some parts of life have gotten massively easier. The other day I called my pharmacy to delay my next prescription refill because I still have pills. I was able to do this entirely through voice interaction with an automated system. Huzzah. I get texts when my scrips are about to be filled or ready, and reminders if I don’t pick them up for a while. I can also see this info on demand in an app if I want. What’s not to like?

My entire medical group runs on an app now. I can make appointments with my doctor, see the documentation from prior visits, pay bills, see test results…

Oh but boo hoo this author had to download an app to order a drink. First world problems…

Because mass media technology duplicates their work millions and millions of times over. If you think about how many end consumers get the product of their work, it will make more sense.

One reason entertainers actually manage to take home a sizable piece of this enormous pie is that they have strong unions. Important not to forget that. Because millions of wannabes would love to take Bakula’s place for nothing more than a living wage. The way they keep that from happening is good old fashioned labor solidarity and smart bargaining at every level of cast and production. I wish the entire economy were unionized as well as entertainment is. The world would be quite different.

I don’t see any answers to that question at that link. Am I missing something?