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by shimman 5mo ago
Why do we even want to pay $500 per device for something that is easily replicated by a $1 paper notebook? The only people that benefit from forcing classrooms to adopt these devices is big tech relying on corporate welfare to juice their b
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by shimman 5mo ago
I would never be in this position because I'm not an anti-human extremist that wants to hoard wealth and misallocate capital.
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by shimman 5mo ago
You can lobby Congress to do things, even better you can volunteer at campaigns and try to elect people to Congress that want to do these things. Acting like we are helpless and the future is determined is straight up loser talk while also
544.
by shimman 5mo ago
Yes, it's quite sad that when big tech leadership talks positively about China they really like the exploitive labor practices that the country exhibits.
545.
by shimman 5mo ago
You should, especially when said anecdote amounts to "shut the fuck up and be thankful to your corporate overlords peasant."
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by shimman 5mo ago
Is this a joke? Income inequality is at it's highest (even worse than the gilded age), deaths of despair are at their highest as well, people can't afford childcare (a years worth of childcare costs more than college), people are
547.
by shimman 5mo ago
Before we ever come to this point I hope as a society we take a real swing as dismantling big tech. So much potential is being hoarded by literal dragons of progress.
548.
by shimman 5mo ago
That leaders are completely fine with impoverishing vast swaths of American workers because of "progress?"
549.
by shimman 5mo ago
I pay sales taxes in other cities I travel in, I too should get a say in how they run their government. Money, after all, is the top virtue in a democracy; if it wasn't why did the founders ensure that slavers had equal representation?
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by shimman 5mo ago
It's also a great way to dampen the massive bipartisan moment against AI. Just attack your critics, attack their arguments, and do nothing to better the lives of people.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Man people are still using the "it's a currency" grift when discussing crypto, did the El Salvador failure really teach you nothing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_in_El_Salvador
552.
by shimman 5mo ago
Every home will become old and aging...
553.
by shimman 5mo ago
Why shouldn't workers also lobby the government to help their material needs? Are only corporations entitled to welfare now? There's also little benefit in discussing how "useful" this technology actually is if all the b
554.
by shimman 5mo ago
So they burnt money and have nothing to show for it? Why do we let these companies play around with billions of dollars while we lack universal childcare or medicare for all? Complete looney toons over here if you think this is at all accep
555.
by shimman 5mo ago
Spoken like someone who is financially well off and lives in an extreme bubble. Not totally surprising knowing the site we are on, but quite disgusting how anti-human and anti-worker most commentators are here. Makes sense that the public h
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by shimman 5mo ago
You do realize these are humans and not machines right?
557.
by shimman 5mo ago
"Correctly" doing a lot of carrying. The last 10 years of tech leadership has proven how out of touch and straight up terrible they are. They are leeches that are just extracting wealth from their respective monopolies.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Been using React before class components was a thing, it had its place in the sun but I truly believe react has now done more harm in holding the frontend community back than helping it. It also doesn't help that every single react cod
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by shimman 5mo ago
Not that impressive when MSFT has a monopoly in several verticals that allows them to subsidize their many failures.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Did you add glue to a pizza?
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by shimman 5mo ago
The implication is that American models winning would actually benefit Americans. That's not going to happen at all and talking about as if China "winning" would harm Americans is delusional cold war thinking at best.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Calling them American owned models implies some sort of public ownership. These are models controlled by individuals whose benefits are absolutely not uniformly shared among the populace. I mean FFS a single hyper scale datacenter can provi
563.
by shimman 5mo ago
Probably the same amount it helped the US in the late 1800s/1900s, a substantial amount.
564.
by shimman 5mo ago
The only people over burdening the system are billionaires demanding corporate welfare while denying the same welfare to civilians.
565.
by shimman 5mo ago
For anyone curious this is a great example of sealioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
566.
by shimman 5mo ago
WTF is this comment suppose to mean? You're telling me a union organizer working to better the material lives of their community is "coping" by distracting themselves from corporate social media?
567.
by shimman 5mo ago
Why do you feel it necessary for someone to explicitly prove something that has been reported on for nearly a year?
568.
by shimman 5mo ago
So they need lobbying to lie to customers? Why would that help people choose Boeing when it ultimately is up the whims of one single individual that can drastically change moods every four years? There is a reason why imperialism ultimately
569.
by shimman 5mo ago
No, the same thing always happens. The community latches onto a new project where all the effort is spent chasing previous gains, then they get bought out, and over time the same pattern appears. At this point our industry would benefit fro
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by shimman 5mo ago
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