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masquenox ,

I don’t like how the comic seems to encourage a violent takeover of property like this.

May have something to do with the fact that the capitalists have armies of state-funded paramilitaries called "police" that makes any kind of peaceful takeover utterly impossible.

masquenox ,

a democratic decision to do the takeover

That's why you are not allowed anything that remotely resembles democracy - instead, you get an interactive horse and pony show every few years where you are allowed to choose which gang of racketeers gets to represent the rich's interests.

u don’t see how the police would stand in the way of that.

They are standing in the way of that right now. It's their only function - it's the only function they have ever had and ever will have.

But at least that is a peaceful path.

There is no peaceful way to dismantle capitalism. The capitalists and their cronies has seen to that.

masquenox ,

I don’t agree with that.

You don't have to agree with it... reality is not on your side.

I think the Danish democratic political system is functioning quite well

You can't even tell what qualifies as democratic or not - how can you tell if there is anything democratic about Denmark?

Have you even bothered to check how many factories and workplaces in Denmark are democratically run?

Yes? No?

masquenox ,

It's 35 employees in Denmark, btw.

But yeah... "industrial democracy" does exist in some places in Europe.

masquenox ,

Oh look... a liberal arguing with itself!

How are those millions coming along, temporarily embarrassed billionaire?

masquenox ,

I'm not the one arguing with myself on a public forum, genius - you are.

masquenox ,

Again, liberal... I’m not the one arguing with myself on a public forum, genius - you are.

masquenox ,

Again, liberal… I’m not the one arguing with myself on a public forum, genius - you are.

masquenox ,

Probably something like this.

It's hardly been peaceful, though.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

masquenox ,

TIL: There are still people that trust Microsoft.

masquenox ,

Still sounds like a pretty good idea now, too.

masquenox ,

Isn’t it more that people tend to use agile as an excuse for not having any kind of project plan.

I'd say it's more about continuously milking customers on projects that never seem to end. I've never done software project management, but I have seen it's "tenets" applied to other types of projects. The results were arduous - to say the least.

masquenox ,

During my project management days one of the things I learned the hard way is to nail down exactly what something has to deliver and getting everybody involved to sign onto it in black and white - if you don't, disaster follows.

Agile seems literally designed to make this impossible.

masquenox ,

People keep pointing the finger at AI, but miss the fact that the problem is corporate greed capitalism. AI has the possibility to help us solve problems, corporate greed capitalism will gate keep the solutions and cause us suffering.

No need to thank me.

masquenox ,

late-stage crony capitalism.

So... capitalism.

crony capitalist system which feeds corporate greed.

Sooo... capitalism?

Our government is controlled by a handful of mega corps which have their hands pulling the strings due to the lobbying system.

So just bog-standard capitalism, then?

Regulated capitalism is fine

The Soviets tried that and failed. The Chinese tried it too, and it turned into... bog-standard capitalism.

masquenox ,

It's always been crony capitalism. There is no other kind of capitalism - never has been.

masquenox ,

whether under a socialist regime,

There is no such thing as a "socialist" regime... not in the way we generally use the term regime, anyway. And the regimes that (falsely) attributed to themselves the characteristics of socialism never claimed to make a virtue out of human greed like our neoliberal ones do.

all it takes to destroy the system is for greedy people

Are you trying to say that a disjointed and incoherent jumble of pretexts, justifications and outright lies masquerading as an ideology that specifically exists to justify said human greed will (somehow) be destroyed by human greed?

Looks to me like it's working as designed... and not "destroyed" at all.

masquenox ,

You forgot vector-graphics stuff.

I believe Inkscape is the current leader of the open-source pack in that department.

masquenox ,

They’re providing/enabling the human right.

You are literally saying that your human rights should be privately owned by somebody else. If that's the case, why even bother with human rights?

masquenox ,

But they’re only good people because they are bad Christians.

Oh look... an edgelord atheist still obsessed with blaming religion for everything.

Yawn.

masquenox ,

It's Christianity - not Timothanity.

masquenox ,

You gotta separate the concept of a right from fulfilling them.

Says who?

If a human right only exists on paper it's not a right - it's a buzzterm for political racketeers to throw around. Fulfilling a "bill of rights" is the core part of the (so-called) "social contract" between the liberal state and it's subjects - if it's merely "fulfilling" those by pretending they exist, the existence of the liberal state - and liberalism itself - becomes irrelevant and unjustifiable to the subjects.

masquenox ,

Fantasizing about rights doesn't make them real - or even relevant.

masquenox ,

It is a musician's business to know who they are performing for and why - and the more famous they are, the more it starts to matter. Grohl knows this.

The people on here who is excusing this with "capitalism bad except when people I like is doing it" arguments is just demonstrating how empty "liberal values" get when push comes to shove.

masquenox ,

There’s a pretty big gray area for “participating in capitalism does not equal approval of capitalism.”

That only goes for the working class - the people who are forced to participate in capitalism. Not for filthy rich musicians.

And this is music, not war.

There is no aspect of our enforced existence under capitalism that is free from it's insidious influence - and that includes music.

masquenox ,

So we’re just skipping the part about the execs

No... we actually talk about Amazon's shitfuckery a lot. Where have you been?

masquenox ,

Which is why I have you noted as “Bad Faith”

As all the liberals festering around here does. I'll just throw this badge on the heap with the others, okay?

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

masquenox ,

Since when has feeding us misinformation been a problem for capitalist parasites like Pichai?

Misinformation is literally the first line of defense for them.

masquenox ,

But this is not misinformation, it is uncontrolled nonsense.

Fair enough... but drowning out any honest discourse with a flood of histrionic right-wing horseshit has always been the core strategy of the US propaganda model - I'd say that their AI is just doing the logical thing and taking the horseshit to a very granular level. I mean... "put glue on your pizza" is just not that far off "drink bleach to kill viruses on the inside."

I know I'm describing a pattern that probably wasn't intentional (I hope) - but the pattern does look like it could fit.

masquenox ,

“put glue in your tomato sauce.”

Doesn't sound all that different from the stuff emanating from the right's Great Orange Hope a while back that worked pretty well to keep his base appropriately frothing at the mouth - you are free to write it off as pure coincidence... but I won't just yet.

masquenox ,

Well, we can't have that, can we?

masquenox ,

Which part?

masquenox ,

but instead a deliberate part of some conspiracy.

You mean... apart from the bog-standard propaganda regime the capitalist class has been enforcing on us long before either of us were born?

masquenox ,

I'd say it's a continuation of the exact same thing - they just don't know how to properly use their latest toy yet.

masquenox ,

vague non-answers

Absolutely no "vague non-answers" on my part. If you don't understand how propaganda works, it's on you to say so - not me.

masquenox ,

“move fast and break things”

Sounds like a slogan for one of Stalin's "Five Year Plans."

masquenox ,

Garbage minds must think alike, then.

masquenox ,

we will fall from a failed democracy,

You can't fail at something you never had the opportunity to try.

masquenox ,

Its more about Taiwan’s geographic location

I have to agree. China's colonization drive in Africa is a long term deal - and that means that Taiwan blocks China's ability to exert control over the Indian Ocean (which will eventually become a necessity to enforce said colonization). China can play the waiting game now in Africa while the US and France wear each other out waging proxy wars neither of them can win in the long run... but eventually it will start exerting more direct control.

masquenox ,

I’m saying musk has never believed in the free market

Correct. No politican, economist or, indeed, capitalist "believes" in the (so-called) "free market" - they all know perfectly well that it's a fairy tale designed to justify them and their cronies parasitizing at everybody and everything else's expense. The regime that made Musk's billions possible - the Apartheid-regime - knew perfectly well that the "free market" was a big, fat lie all the way back in 1948. That's why they built all the public infrastructure that enriched white people's lives (including Elon's) while repressing the majority of South Africans into becoming the glorified indentured labour that made Elon's daddy rich.

It's no different than "hearts & minds," "spreading civilization" or Cinderella's glass slipper. They all know it and they have always all known it.

masquenox ,

He literally said he “was a waste”

And now he's not a "waste" anymore, right?

He's now a piece of meat to be used and abused for the egotistical whims of one of the world's most notorious capitalist parasites.

masquenox ,

Can I get a valid source on this?

Have you seen how Musk treats his employees? And the test subjects Tesla calls "customers"?

No... I'm going to need proof that he wasn't abused - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, after all.

I will defend Nuralink and Nolan.

...which you won't be doing without defending Musk.

Nolan has had no negative experience from this yet.

FTFY.

masquenox ,

Is Nolan an employee?

That actually matters to you?

How can you have an extraordinary claim and refuse to provide evidence,

If you have proof that he wasn't I'm all ears.

Based on your argument I’ll assume your a MAGA kinda person.

If I was sympathetic to fascists or the capitalist parasites fascists serve I'd be defending Musk - you know... like you're doing?

masquenox ,

Well you brought up abuse allegations against Nolan, so yes, it does infact does matter if Nolan is an employee or not.

So abuse against Nolan would be less worse if he wasn't an employee? Is your name perhaps Patrick Bateman?

You do not accuse without evidence

We have hundreds of years' worth of evidence demonstrating capitalist parasites acting like capitalist parasites - if you need more, you should apply for a position at FOX news. They always have a need for extra bootlickers.

I’m defending Nolan

No, you're hiding behind him.

You are a Maga person.

Again... if I was sympathetic to fascists or the capitalist parasites fascists serve I’d be defending Musk - you know… like you’re doing?

but until you show me evidence that shows you are not a MAGA person,

And again... if I was sympathetic to fascists or the capitalist parasites fascists serve I’d be defending Musk - you know… like you’re doing?

masquenox ,

Bookmarking this for the next time white supremacists here in good ole' South Africa peddles the "privatisation is the only thing that will fix our electricity problems!" bullcrap.

Thanks, Texas!

masquenox ,

The EV industry can’t won't shake its human rights abuse problem

FTFT - unless capitalism has suddenly started to not work like capitalism.

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    masquenox ,

    Right... someone dared to be overtly anti-genocide - oh the horror!

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    masquenox ,

    Russia wants to ban Wikipedia - the US wants to ban TikTok.

    Something tells me the mass-surveillance toy they hoped the internet would turn into isn't working out the way they had hoped.

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