butterbomb

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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> If you want to leave your kids completely unable to find any kind of gainful employment in the AI era, be my guest. Your kid is screwed either way. Unless he moves to India.
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> I know this is weird, but I'm in some ways not really sure who is on the side of freedom here. I get your position, but like. No one. You’ll see a few politicians and more individuals stuck to their principles, but anyone with maj
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> Claiming that an immensely powerful being demands obedience of you, and keeps tabs on you all the time, but his orders only go through a chosen few, was a hard proposition to begin with. You just described what Silicon Valley wants to
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> silicon valley will lose its engine and the next major tech companies will be overseas. Good god, we may just be able to save America!
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> less bootcamp grads and more people with a background in OS and algos. I’m going to wager at least one reason for this is Israel is big in industries that demand that sort of knowledge where in the US, most money was made by CRUD monke
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> I think the Christian Nationalists have overplayed their hand and revealed that their belief is politics takes priority over religion. Going back to the pre-1954 pledge is feasible within our lifetime. Overplayed their hand? They’re re
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
Probably the elite pedophiles who are getting away with this relatively consequence free.
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> Great news for people who had to bend over backwards pretending this disruptive, nakedly corrupt behavior was "good, actually." Actually they’re still doing it. I saw it not 2 minutes after seeing this post initially. The jus
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
These people will be your new lords lmao
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> We need to see hundreds of life-in-prison sentences by the end of 2029 Best we can do is a couple dozen golden parachutes.
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
This became clear to me over the last few years. We are quickly returning to a world of entrenched social hierarchy where there are lords and peasants and little room even for social mobility. With the corpse of meritocracy too rotted to de
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
I thought Trump was a Maoist?
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
People don’t believe me when I tell them that there’s a large portion of even the American population that will happily accept the simplicity and safety of serfdom.
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
They know. That’s why they’re investing in things like land and building castles. They know the future they’ve designed. They’re already laying the foundation needed to win total power.
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
Parrot “user-agency” all you want. We’ve seen what outsourcing solutions to “user-agency” does. Over half the population lacks the self stewardship to not eat themselves into being a fat pig. If “user-agency” was any sort of solution, I wou
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> What will the economy consist of when there are no more paychecks? I’m suspecting something like Soylent Green, but perhaps with more proactive action taken to free up resources by removal of masses who are no longer producing enough v
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
> Software pays better, which is why so many hardware people switched Something I noticed years ago browsing jobs in random large companies: hardware or anything close to hardware (firmware, driver dev, etc.) was all outsourced. Every si
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by butterbomb 8mo ago
I knew a guy who was a digital verification engineer for intel. He was unceremoniously laid off and ended up taking work doing some sort of compliance at a very low paying state agency I was a developer at. Pretty sharp guy, we worked toget