They don’t actually give a fuck about cruelty imo because they don’t see worker drones as people. Ensuring the working class is on the edge of crisis is the point. They want people to be hardly making it, but enough to keep going, so they’ll work endlessly and accept crappy conditions. They want people to be deluded by propaganda and not have the energy or time to seek political change. Making money and retaining power is the point.
Right… the technology conceivably has value as a way to digitally trade ownership and track authenticity. It just happens that it was used for a bunch of truly worthless algorithmically generated art that people got suckered into by hype.
My dad went to the ER yesterday because he was constipated for like a day and a half. We suggested you know, drinking water, eating some soup, chilling out… Wouldn’t listen to us and got angry “you don’t know what I’m feeling!!”. Then got there… and had diarrhea so they gave him advice about that. Some people really have no ability to judge or treat their own minor health problems. I guess it’s better than ignoring it.
Well good, fuck ‘em. Pepsi I mean. I had a gf who was obsessed with Diet Pepsi and the price has over doubled in the past few years. In 2020, you could easily find 2 liter bottles for $0.99, $1.25. Then they went to $1.75… $2.49… $2.99. You can still find them on sale 3 for $5, not not often or all the time. I’m pretty sure that the cost of bringing Diet Pepsi to market has not increased 300%.
People said the same thing recently when Tesla was required to do an OTA update in the US. The thing is that while they don’t have to physically work on each vehicle, it’s labeled a recall because it’s a regulatory action that compelled them to do it. Tesla didn’t decide to do these updates on their own - they were directed to do so by the government, first in the US and now in China.
I have historically spent a lot of time online reading articles and comments (formerly reddit, now Lemmy/kbin of course). There have been a couple of times I just stopped keeping up with politics and current events and I found I did feel less stressed as that stuff doesn’t have a direct impact on my life compared to things happening with people I actually know - news is stressful often and I can’t do anything about those events. However when I’d start following it again I’d find that I missed a fair amount of things that would have been good to know about - neutral or positive things like scientific telescope launches, positive political events, and so on.
The ACA was not what Democrats were looking to pass originally. It was a compromise reached with idiot republicans (who mostly wanted no reform at all) in the context of an absolutely massive propaganda and lobbying effort from insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
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They don’t actually give a fuck about cruelty imo because they don’t see worker drones as people. Ensuring the working class is on the edge of crisis is the point. They want people to be hardly making it, but enough to keep going, so they’ll work endlessly and accept crappy conditions. They want people to be deluded by propaganda and not have the energy or time to seek political change. Making money and retaining power is the point.