It’s hilarious when you neoliberals of lemmy, post on your communist-built platform, raging about communists on our communist instance… just move. I’ll send you the URL, reddit is dying for people to move there. You and SatansMaggotyCumFarts both.

Good, let the nutjobs fight

That list is missing like 50 countries that the US has majorly fucked up for money/oil/power in the last half century, do they not get a pass?

It’s not the fault of consumers, monopolization and price fixing are inevitable outcomes of capitalism. Even if people somehow weren’t attracted by lower prices, amazon would do all sorts of shenanigans to drive competition out of business or agree with them to fix prices.

TikTok got its hold mainly by being extremely addictive and using predatory dark patterns to keep you scrolling. That and being less censored compared to other corporate social media. While we can try to strive for the latter (with reasonable limitations), we shall not do the former, even if that means less users overall. “Avoid success at all costs”.

Yes, fully agreed. What dummies!

– Sent from my ThinkPad

It actually does this already sometimes, especially if you chat to it long enough. Not because it’s “smart”, but because it’s just emulating a writing style of a corporate middle manager.

‘Company deliberately has control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while selling them to unsuspecting general public’