My fear is that this is only going to become the new pricing floor. Someone suggested that these companies are going to systematically scoop up nearly all remaining tech in an attempt to sell cloud computing etc as the only option for the average consumer (due to lack of affordable or perhaps even available tech)…

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they don’t want us having any access to our own computers etc because they can only control so much of what we can do with them.

Maccas getting their grubby fingers in the rage economy 😒

Nobody wants to have sex with the fascists, so they make a concession that allows them to get some (for money)

Solution: move to a small town, Mr/Mrs Entitlement! Somewhere cheaper to live, where coincidentally the pay is lower and opportunities aren’t as abundant. Also extremely limited mass-transit options but hey that’s why you buy a car and get tied up in that whole mess. Not to mention property values doubling/tripling post-covid but I’m sure most folks have a few $100k laying around, especially in these particularly prosperous times.

Perhaps it’s just a skill issue though? Lol

That’s given, of course, that the laws mean anything anymore

“controlled blackouts”

Seriously though, why wouldn’t that asshole try something like that? Soon enough it’s gonna be a subscription-only service or you’ll have to start “paying” in compute somehow and you’ll get like 2400-baud chatgpt that’ll take like 3 days to complete a request, lol

Right?! Getting news from tiktok is just the next evolutionary step from 24 hour news channels. They’re just pissed that they’re getting out-gamed in a realm where they used to reign effortlessly.

Jesus fucking christ

That sounds like a whole level of hell. I hate the idea of being required to use a phone to get pricing 😶

Ooh ooh how bout an autopen!

That’s the advantage of sourcing it locally, of course. I have a feeling these guys have gamified lithium collection through an app like uber or grubhub or airbnb, ultimately taking all the advantage we once had for simply being local…

People read these?

Right?! At the end of the day, they’re still just people. Gotta eat, gotta sleep, gotta shit. I will never understand how any individual gets so much money/power/attention because they’re all just god damn people and in the event of a catastrophe i imagine they would be about as helpful as any other random human. They aren’t gods, and they certainly don’t deserve the stratification. It’s not like they’re enlightened or something, most of the time they’re just sociopaths who are rich, clever, and/or connected. When you get a glimpse under the hood at moments like this, it really is kinda jarring. Helps to dispel those silly presumptions about them at least.

I remember hearing stuff when i was growing up that was optimistic about the future, stuff like: “one day, machines will replace our jobs… Humans will have the time to pursue their specific interests and hobbies”

I don’t think i was ever truly gullible enough to believe that’s the way it would play out, and watching it unfold is just as horrifying as i imagined it could be, perhaps even moreso. All the wealth and labor savings that result from automation have only gone to the richest few that can afford to implement such technologies in the first place. They ultimately decide who benefits from all the leaps and bounds in technology and unsurprisingly it’s a stunningly small group of individuals reaping all of that cost-saving and labor-saving goodness while greater and greater swaths of people are suddenly cut off from their jobs–their lifelines in the cold environment capitalism has created for us.

Remember every time someone loses their job, that also means they and their family could also be losing their health insurance, possibly have to move out of their home if they can’t keep up with rent/mortgage, car payments, utilities, credit card bills, food, gas, incidental expenses, etc… prices on everything keeps going up, yet few jobs are paying enough to stay afloat. What the hell are these people supposed to do?

Ahhhh, it’s been at least 20 mins or so since i had a reason to say “Fuck Deloitte”

Fuck Deloitte

Fuckers deserve to rot

My favorite part was right at the end:

By 10:30 p.m., the earlier crowd grouped in front of the ICE building appeared to have doubled in size.

♥️

Did he?

You know they’re acting ethically and responsibly when they attack anyone that films them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe let’s give them the Nobel peace prize and get a nice big reaction from the annoying orange

Line must go up.

It’s such a stupid axiom but it explains everything perfectly