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by somelamer567 5mo ago
The PE vultures are deliberately targeting business sectors with high barriers to entry. It's part of the grift.
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
Capitalists are selfish, and have short planning horizons. For a capitalist, slavery is absolutely rational. The only reason why they don't do it today is because it's illegal.
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
America has a proud tradition of offering college students a very broad education. Unfortunately, this trend doesn't seem to have made it to the techbros -- the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world -- who are not only spoilt, sheltered rich
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
This is the product of a massive own-goal by America's rightwing feral business overclass. They were bragging to shareholders about how AI was being used to slash headcount, to gratuitously ruin thousands of lives to pump up the bottom
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
You're not serious, are you? Who is being "murdered" in Ukraine? Do those people have any right, or any business to be there? Whose country is Ukraine anyway?
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
Unfortunately, this is typical of the feral business overclass. It seems that the rampant Trump regime, the advent of AI, the long-term decline of the United States, coupled with the complete impunity the business class were granted during
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
Shoplifting isn't a national security matter.
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
In the fictional universe of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, it is legal and normal for defenders to go kinetic on cyberattackers. How long until it is simply easier for governments and big business in the countries victimised by the
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
Chinese printers, like Chinese drones, Chinese PV equipment, and Chinese electric cars are inexpensive but that's because the Chinese Communist Party loves to pick winners. They subsidise the living heck out of designated national cham
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by somelamer567 5mo ago
I trust BambuLabs about as much as I trust the Chinese Communist Party. That's to say, that they are obviously a cat's paw of the CCP, and bring the reactionary, authoritarian attitude with them, whilst using every underhanded, sn
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by somelamer567 6mo ago
Don't forget their rampant channel-stuffing, which is so flagrant, that it makes Ford's and GM's channel-stuffing antics look like kindergarten games in comparison.
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by somelamer567 6mo ago
The point of China's mercantilist and imperialist games with electric cars, is to attack and kill Western industry, and deprive us of the ability to defend ourselves.
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by somelamer567 6mo ago
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Or just China just deserve special treatment?
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by somelamer567 7mo ago
I remember how annoying Ray 'Nerd Rapture' Kurzweil was twenty years ago with his "Singularity" stuff, and quietly thankful that he isn't anywhere near as in-my-face today as he was back in the day. As bad as the AI
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by somelamer567 7mo ago
That would then make sense why Russia's dirty tricks squad likes to back extreme-Left and extreme-Right parties, and is likely behind calls for proportional representation: it would give the geopolitical aggressors an effective veto ov
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by somelamer567 7mo ago
Cryptocurrency itself was designed to enable crime. Why else would one want an end-run around governments and law-enforcement, unless one were a criminal wanting to prey on others risk-free?
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by somelamer567 1y ago
Sure, the culture of "Jeff wants another yacht"
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by somelamer567 1y ago
> No more anonymous internet usage And given the torrent of inauthentic "right wing" commentators nudging public opinion on the BBC's Have Your Say, the Daily Mail and Reddit, I'm not entirely sure this will be a bad
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by somelamer567 1y ago
Is there any particular reason why a UK central identity database is bad, while the French and Spanish central identity databases aren't a problem?
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by somelamer567 1y ago
This is a natural and unfortunate consequence of crime and foreign aggression getting increasingly borderless. As the world gets smaller, and as more and more of the world's population knows about the outside world, the more badness we
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by somelamer567 1y ago
That unfortunately can, and will change. In times of war, civil liberties get curtailed. And in 2025 when Russian and Chinese bots are interfering in our democracy at an industrial scale to destroy our countries from within, the idea of ide
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by somelamer567 1y ago
HARD eye-roll at the libertarian scaremongering about this basic, sensible idea to tame the identity mess. * I have half a dozen different ID numbers for various things like NI, NHS, drivers license, tax etc * I also have a dozen different
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by somelamer567 1y ago
This seems to be a pub bore talking point... the usual seemingly-clever street-level arguments that don't stand up to serious scrutiny. If people think that if they get ID card, the government is coming to take their precious bodily fl
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by somelamer567 1y ago
My wife who is from a large mainland European country, has an ID card. Everyone has one and they're mandatory. It makes it trivial to prove your bona fides and is good for air travel within the Schengen area. Her ID even has a chip wh
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by somelamer567 1y ago
I had suspended judgement about Meta in the past; but every revelation in their media about their toxic behaviour makes me thankful I never seriously considering taking a job with them. The clincher was when a colleague I worked with in a p
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by somelamer567 1y ago
The poor application scripting story on macOS has made me grumpy for the last few releases of macOS. AppleScript was never good, but the tooling has been left to rot and other language bindings steadily deprecated. And it seems it has not i
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by somelamer567 1y ago
I remember seeing a similar system in the old town of Palma de Mallorca. Seemed like a good idea at the time even for the cost (23 million euros), but last I saw, they were out of order due to maintenance issues and people putting things do
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by somelamer567 1y ago
The 'uniparty' narrative is straight out of Putin's propaganda playbook. The 'uniparty' narrative denigrates the Western system of multi-party representative democracy and checks and balances, and equates it with Pu
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by somelamer567 1y ago
You seem pretty upset. Are you okay?
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by somelamer567 1y ago
It is quite common to see bad geopolitical actors paying people to go online and accuse Westerners of being "Warmongers" or telling people who object to Putin's wars of imperialist aggression to "go and enlist and fight&

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