DragonConsort

I'm not an economist or even especially well informed, but... Isn't war kind of... You know. Expensive?

Yeah I know it could pay off in the long term if you just swept up a country's worth of innocents, genocided them and grabbed their land (Hi Israel), but... Fuck up the war badly enough, and there's not going to BE a long term, just because the economy collapses. Right?

When the alternative is dealing with the absolute horseshit quantity of ads that YouTube desperately wants to shovel down my throat, I'll take Invidious any day of the week.

It may not be in perfect condition but it's still good enough to use!

Wait, I've seen quite a few articles claiming carbon capture was basically an oil industry myth. Are we sure we should be investing in that instead of some things which have more proven effectiveness like renewables?

And like, it's not even a good gimmick. It's a serious labour issue because the primary intent behind a lot of AI has always been to just phase out workers.

I'm all for ending work through technological advancement and universal income, but this definitely wasn't going to get us that, so....

Well, why would I support something that mostly just threatens people's livelihoods and gives even more power to the 0.1%?

Not an American, but I realised it when I had to talk one of my online friends out of suicide because he almost worked himself to death (ten or more hour shifts six days a week for over a month) and couldn't afford rent.

Oh, jesus.

I work aerospace (non Boeing company), which is basically space technology for babies. The least competent guys in our building have done three year training courses specifically tailored to assembling planes. There are people on our shop floor who can explain the entire build inside out from start to finish who are just considered above average competency.

Space technology, where everything somehow costs even more than aerospace and requires precision the likes of which could make your eyes bleed. I shouldn't be surprised Boeing would skimp out on things at this point, and yet... I am. It's literally unthinkable to me that you would take a job which needs more technical skill than aerospace assembly, and leave THAT to an untrained workforce.

Any 'savings' you might get by laying off the people who were qualified and rightfully asked for higher pay for their skills would quite frankly be burned through by one single mistake from a cheap untrained worker. I handle parts worth more than triple my yearly pay every single day in Aerospace. Even if you have very good insurance for your rocket parts, a few completely innocent mistakes by your workers is going to totally fuck up your finances.

Love the fact that even when committing to the bit about being anti-privacy they still know the internet is functionally unusable without an adblocker

Also I'm about to say something ignorant as hell but: Isn't a Browser the same thing as a Search Engine?

I don't like AI because it's literally not AI. I know damn well that it is just a data scraping tool that throws a bunch of 'probably right' sentences or images into a proverbial blender and spits out an answer that has no actual comprehension or consistency behind it. It takes only an incredibly basic knowledge of computers and brains to know that we cannot make an actual intelligent program using the Von Neumann style of computer.

I have absolutely no interest in technology being sold to me based on a lie. And if we're not calling this out for the lie it is, then it's going to just keep getting pushed by people trying to make money off the concept at the stock market.

Honestly, the Tory election campaign has been absolutely inspiring.

It's just excellent to know that I, a normal person with zero political acumen, could do a significantly better job at campaigning for this. Really gives me some self confidence.