OwOarchist

Yep. Just like the fuckers walking around with $2500 sunglasses.

Those sunglasses don't do anything that a $20 pair can't do. And they don't even look all that different.

The important part is that they enable absolutely disgusting consumerist snobbery, allowing some very vapid people to think that they're better than other people because they have the expensive sunglasses.

In just about any kind of product you can think of, there are brands catering to this kind of conspicuous consumption.

A lot of it comes down to a mix of snobbishness, sunk cost fallacy, and tribalism.

You can't admit that your $5,000 pair of headphones sound exactly the same as a $300 pair, because:

• You'd no longer be able to pretend that you're better than the people who have $300 headphones.

• You'd have to admit to yourself that you completely wasted $4,700.

• You'd have to realize that the tight-knit community you've formed with other $10k headphone people isn't really bettor or even really distinct from communities of people with $300 headphones.

So far... Just wait until the lobbyists get their hands on our laws...

You see, big tech AI bros? This is why you're dumb. Even if this all pans out and all your AI dystopia dreams come true, it doesn't mean you're going to be rich and powerful and at the top.

If your AI becomes as good as it's supposedly going to get ... I can just ask it to develop a new AI for me. And then I don't have to use yours anymore. Why would anybody pay you to use your AI when it becomes trivial to make a new one, tailored to their specific needs? Why would I need your big tech company for anything if anything you can provide could be readily replaced by just asking an AI for it. If AI becomes good enough to replace everyone's job, it will replace big tech as well.

The only people who might be benefiting from all this are the ones who manufacture and sell the hardware that runs it. If AI becomes good enough, all software companies will go bankrupt. Yes including Google, Microslop, etc.

I know, I know. But it's a low, low bar that most other Dems can't even surmount.

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What about them? There are real people with all of those combinations as well.

Just it’s novel to me that an arguably arbitrary line right there is another country.

And that which side of that line you happen to be born on may shape your entire future.

The is nothing in US law that prevents congress from expanding the size of the House to ~330,000,000

While we still can.

And time is limited. Hardware restrictions are coming. It won't be long until you have to jailbreak your PC to run anything other than MacOS or Windows (and jailbreak the OS if you want to install any software on those that isn't from their approved app store or 'digitally signed' by them) ... if it's even possible to jailbreak -- it will become a cat-and-mouse game between big tech trying to lock down your hardware and developers/hackers trying to find ways around their blocks.

Sure, you can keep using old hardware for a while ... but things wear out and break eventually, and even the ones that are still working will become increasingly incompatible with more modern protocols and interfaces.

Does anybody?

Later games just show you a series of pictures and ask which one you look like.

They'll still choose your gender pronouns based on which picture you choose, though.

I don't have trash pickup, though, lol!

Too expensive in my area. (Seriously, $95/mo for the smallest can, and recycling costs extra!? Fuck off with that shit.)

Some of my trash gets burned in the wood stove -- free heat. Some can be fed to the chickens. The rest gets tossed in an old trailer that I drive to the dump myself 2 or 3 times a year. (We don't generate very much trash in our household in the first place.) For me, nothing much would change. I guess, presumably, if the trash pickup workers were on strike, the dump workers might also be. If the strike went on long enough that my trailer was getting overfilled, I guess I'd have to find somewhere else to dump it.