Poly-Panro-Ace It/They friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™). Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader. Winged caniform bipedal warforged magitech cyber-lich in its dreams.
Wow.
I’m actually nauseated.
To know for a fact that I can still feel things,
and that what I feel about this is actually appropriate,
is sadly almost reassuring…
This is one of those scenarios where I’m not opposed to capital punishment.
Violations of social contract to this magnitude void the violator’s entitlement to the social contract’s protections and amenities. This creature has revealed it lacks humanity, and removing it from the biosphere would be a net improvement.
edit: i recant my original sentiment.
whatever these people individually believed had nothing to do with what happened.
if they happened to be opposed to authoritarianism and opposed to the worship of tradition, and in favor of evidence based scientifically certified factual information over reactionary cult thinking, it would not have changed anything at all.
Injecting political considerations into a violent act that was specifically not politically motivated is entirely inappropriate.
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They were LITERALLY calling empathy a “sin” this time last year. They resent empathy. It’s wasted on them.
The rich really want us to be illiterate.
Good grief what a stupid future we live in.
And “sad bits” makes perfect sense.
I’m glad i switched to mint on my laptop, I hope it only continues to improve. If only we could self-manufacture the hardware, too…
At this point I’m so fucking fed up with the industry gatekeeping users, colluding against us, outright ABANDONING us because the fucking AI firms “bought all of our manufacturing output”, I don’t think I would even mind that much if I have to sacrifice a closet, or a whole room of my house, to contain the much bulkier homebrewed DIY electronics.
If 64 gigs of RAM a couple friends manufactured in their garage had to take up the space of a refrigerator – not a mini-fridge, i mean a whole fucking full scale kitchen appliance, I WOULD RATHER MAKE ROOM THAN PAY THOSE FUCKING CORPO PARASITES EVER AGAIN.
You know that thing where “business majors” entering a company will sell off assets and sabotage operations so they can cash out and fuck off wealthier while leaving a path of destruction in their wake?
I think they just found their newest toy.
They will purge all the productive personnel from a company, enabling them to pocket all the money they used to be wages while operations shamble onward for a few more steps before collapsing under their own weight.
Vaguely reminds me of some gruesome concept like replacing someone’s blood with some synthetic oxygen delivery substance and keep them only barely alive enough to also harvest their organs and sell off absolutely every organ and tissue structure in their body worth anything to the black market.
Such companies are already dead. They just don’t know it yet.
Oh, what’s that?
Palantir doesn’t like it when people know about THEIR dirty laundry?
Wow. Golly. Gee whiz. Color me shocked with a marker that is bone fucking dry.
Maybe they should’ve thought about that before trying to fuck with OUR private business.
Palantir has violated social contract and no longer deserves privacy.
You ain’t wrong about the social credit thing! There was only one municipality that tried to implement it in any way that even vaguely resembles how mainstream media hysterics portray, and that city’s administration was punished for it on the national stage.
The only thing the “social credit” system was meant to do is make major public figures accountable for corruption. It was never aimed at REGULAR people!
But yeah nah fuck anyone and anything that opposed democracy especially the two faced single political party of the United States of America. If they actually gave a shit about democracy for real instead of just consuming lives to pay for their pedophilia addictions, we’d have ranked choice voting by now.