I really hope liberals understand that when he says “leftists”, he means you too. Fascism doesn’t stop until people stop it, and it’s usually not with votes.

My view is that AI should be entirely in the public domain, but yeah, everyone owning them might be a step toward that.

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It can be that way, but keep making the case. You’re not wrong about this.

Poor guy can’t catch a break. We’re here for you, Donald. Together, we’ll make it through this difficult time. Deus Vult, you fat idiot.

It’s a bunch of reasons, but the one that we can actually do something about is the social democratic safety nets. We have way fewer in the US and that causes rampant anxiety, which leads to violence. Switzerland’s population isn’t on the brink of snapping, so they tend not to shoot each other.

I used to see anti-AI people as myopic and foolish, but seeing how it’s being developed and implemented is really eye-opening. They’re pushing an unfinished, unrefined technology that often adds to the ecological crisis and might be poisoning people’s drinking water, so they can roll the dice in terms of what it’ll do to the economy while using it to spy on everyone. The public face of all this is these companies telling us that we should be terrified of what it’ll do to the job market, but we need to invest in it big time, right now. I apologize to anyone I spoke down to. I get it. It’s not a way forward, but I get it.

Yes. That Somali AK is undoubtedly full auto and the gobermint won’t let me buy one commercially because apparently we live in soviet russia… which is where AKs come from.

Don’t hassle me about this.

Agreed. I distro-hopped for months before settling on Void. It took a while for me to figure out (with help from the internet) that systemd was causing a lot of the problems I was having. It’s been smooth sailing since I found Void and I’ve never been happier with an OS.

It really isn’t difficult to install or use, and I think experienced users would probably appreciate it as much as I do. It does what you tell it to, out of the box. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ol’ one-titty Yumi.

Correct, but it’s coming from the wrong guy. Libya, Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen would like a word.

Votes don’t equate to real power. Huge amounts of money and resources, like we see everyday in the news, are what move the needle. The only counter to that is mobilized political outrage. Overwhelming numbers of people making the economy sputter until demands are met. Otherwise, we can expect more of what we have now.

But yeah, a higher min wage is a good step forward.

Since no one believes in unions and they’ve been legislatively kneecapped, social pressure to pay them tends to fall on the consumer. It’s not ideal, but such is the economy we live in.

Have you tried blaming someone with power?

Doing well? They’re getting by like the rest of us. Why would they do that job if they weren’t being paid for it?

A lot of people in the comments are remarking on the tip culture in America. Friendly reminder that it’s not the culture that necessitates tipping here. We have a tipping economy when it comes to a lot of service work. $2.13 is the minimum wage for servers in the states. This is less than what could rightfully be called a starvation wage, so tipping is a social necessity. You might think that’s crazy and we should change it, and you would be correct.

Sleeping baddie

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Be honest, that’s not where millions of Americans are. 3 jobs, no overtime, ludicrous living costs is where many Americans are.

I’d really appreciate it if Bernie and co would go whole hog. 50% is a half measure, whereas proposing full nationalization would be more respected on a world stage and probably in congress.

Oh cool, sounds lovely.