This is the same kind of framing Google used when they were considered the little guy on your side as opposed to big evil corp.
This is the same kind of framing Google used when they were considered the little guy on your side as opposed to big evil corp.
They ignored the point that capitalism uses violent oppression to suppress innovation. Kind of a main point of the video. The evidence that other ideological regimes cannot innovate is always implicitly that capitalists won by military might therefore the interlocutor is compelled to concede a flawed premise from the outset.
It’s like smashing the sportsball net then saying you won the game. Especially if one were to come from a scientific perspective that is not a proper comparison of technological innovation when you ensure nobody else can even try.
Show us a world were different regimes compete scientific and technologically without resorting to violence against the others. We couldn’t have it because capitalists sabotage your science experiment, take your equipment, then declare themselves the winner.
It goes to show the socioeconomic differences. The more affluent kids at my school went all out. There was expensive outfits, limos, and after parties at other venues. For others it was just mom dropping them off at the vanilla school hosted event and that’s it.
That’s how they’ve shoved the Overton Window so far right the average normie believes reddits brand of conservatism is any where remotely left.
“B-but a gay replied to me one reddit! That means it’s left leaning!” Makes my eyes roll out of my skull.
I like to point out how reddit loathed SJWs. That was the prior right wing boogeyman known today as “woke”. They absolutely hated the people who were promoting socially progressive views.
At the peak it was like every single day the site was circle jerking about how much they hated that. People reminisce about really distorted views of reddit like it used to be this cool left leaning platform. Sure if you ignore literally everything about what it was.
This is the exact type of thing Surveillance Capitalism warns us about. Everyone on Earth needs to read that book like 10 years ago.
Holes and dots.
For some reason I memory holed the first distro I used. There’s only vague recollection. I think it was SUSE or something. When Ubuntu came around I tried Linux again. That’s when I started to get the hang of things.
It’s a rich peoples game. Those with mere pittance to invest will not end up with much even if they live a very long natural life and do not touch a penny of whatever they could invest until their death bed. Even then they’ve have to wait until the very end for that pittance. The whole thing is based on having a enough wealth such that small percentage returns equate to a lot in absolute value. A small or even larger than average percentage return from relatively little wealth is still very little.
To change any of this would be to change the underlying issues of unequal distribution of wealth. The stock markets are derivative. If more had wealth then obviously they’d be investing more. It’s not the other way around.
Some believe they can cheat code their way to the other side by gambling which is not investing. Seems to have become popular again in recent times after certain cultural phenomenons. That again does not change underlying issues. A few lottery winners and many more silent losers only serves to amplify inequality.
I’m pretty sure Shield happened because the Tegra chips were used in infotainment designs. It wasn’t just because of Switch as oft repeated.
He’s sleepy from all that hard work.
The internet made a whole lot of things a big deal. Then convinced guys they were the victims. Then filled their heads with extremist ideologies. What a wild past 10-15 years.
It’s long past time to move on from archaic inefficient x86 monopoly.
I’m glad I just got done buying a bunch of small solar panels from AliExpress to feed my electronics hobby. I have no clue if these will be affected though.
It already costs orders of magnitude more to buy the same kind of electronics stuff from western suppliers.
The world wide web was largely left leaning academic types. Then it was made more accessible to everyone. All the backwards ass people flooded in. I’m sure the establishment loves the poorly educated. They did have some tense moments around 2011.
Isn’t this generally how the big tech firms generate dark profiles on people? Of the people who don’t explicitly exist on their database. Take the intersection of data from family events. The people not in their database of known profiles are also likely family. Do the same for friend events. Take the intersection of those peoples interests. You’ll be knowing a lot about someone who never told you anything about themselves.
You can run but you can’t hide. Crazy times we live in.
Don’t attempt rational discussion with a chud.
Sometimes I use their own tactics against them. Keep pressing them with backwards hypocritical gotchas. Sometimes they get super confused because I’ve gone of script. “Wait a minute! I’m supposed to be the one doing that.” *chud hurts itself in confusion*. Some times they inadvertently start trying to be rational one.
Most often they just shut up and go away because they know they can’t troll you.
That’s all they’ve got is pre-prepped responses. They expect a standard set of responses because most people tend to fit the left leaning world views. They generally understand full well everyone position on things and they don’t care. Their objective is to incite people. So fuck with them back or ignore them.
The internet had a social contract. The reason people put effort into brain dumping good posts is because the internet was a global collaborative knowledge base for everybody.
Of course there were always capitalists who sought to privatize and profit from resources. The source materials were generally part of the big giant digital continuum of knowledge. For the parts that weren’t there we’re anarchists who sought to free that knowledge for anyone who wanted to access it.
AI is bringing about the end of all this as platforms are locking down everything. Old boards and forums had already been shuttering for years as social media was centralizing everything around a few platforms. Now those few platforms are being swallowed up by AI where the collective knowledge of humanity is being put behind paywalls. People no longer want to work directly for the profit of private companies.
Capitalists can only see dollar signs. They care not for the geological epoch scale forces of nature required to form petroleum. All that matters is can it all be sold and how quickly. Nor do they care for environmental damages they cause. In the same way the AI data mining do not care for the digital ecological disaster they are causing.
More over it’s a thought terminating cliche when someone says, “<thing> existed before so why’s it suddenly a problem?”. It seems to be yet another out of the bag of rhetorical tricks that wipes the slate of discourse clean. As if all the arguments against it suddenly need to be explained as if none of it had any validity. Not only that but the OPs are often seemingly disingenuously naive. It provides the OP with a blank slate to continually “just ask questions”. Where every response is “but why?” which forces their interlocutors to keep on elaborating in excruciating detail to the point where they give up trying to explain minutiae. Thus the OP can conclude by default they were correct that it’s not a problem after all because they declare nobody has provided them with answers to their satisfaction.
I’ve been thinking probably in our lifetime we could see Taiwan lose all of it’s wealth once the Americans (and probably Europe too) have got done robbing them blind.
“Hey, help us build those fancy chip factories over in America. Oops it’s our technology now. Too bad”.
We are facing a very real possibility of the end of the web browser as we know it. Google owns the chromium engine. Mozilla is on ever more precarious footing. It’s become logistically impossible to build competing products except for tech giant. Even then everybody else gave up and went with chromium.