They can block view of specific things, and force you to pay to unlock them. They can also add features you can subscribe to, like ‘make your spouse look more attractive’. I tell you, the business possibilities are endless.

I suggest we call it Slopi. Looking forward to opting out of this also.

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Don’t worry, they’ll make a version with advertisements inserted into the field of view for the poors.

Did AI build that dogshit website of theirs too?

In the mid-nineties I passionately believed that the internet would democratize information and usher in a wonderful new era of well-informed critical thinking and general enlightenment. Basically the opposite has happened.

Because billionaires like these two, and the corporations that they run, believe they’re largely not accountable to the law nor cultural pressure. They exist in a cloud of privilege that never holds them to account for truth, justice nor anyone’s wellbeing as long as the investors get paid. They are sociopaths.

Ooh, while we’re at it, let’s also address corporate personhood.

Will some foreign nation just come and pop our president? This is apparently a thing they’re allowed to do now.

The Onion?

What a cuck nation.

If China decided that trump had violated some domestic law of theirs, and sent their military into Florida, dragged him and his third wife out of their beds, flew them back to their territory, and put them in prison, would these assholes consider that an act of war?

Let me take this opportunity to yet again say FUCK THE TROOPS. I have no sympathy for any of our service people. You have agency. You don’t actually have to do the awful shit that you are doing.

The corporate media is entirely captured by our entrenched oligarchy and we need to treat them accordingly.

I just don’t know if or when the world is going to wake up to and do something about the fact that it has a huge United States problem on its hands.

I was listening to people calling in to an evangelical Christian radio program last night (on WWCR out of Nashville). They were discussing Venezuela and we’re all excited about how China and Russia are supposedly shipping all kinds of weapons, missiles and WMDs into Venezuela. This is apparently yet another bullshit narrative that is metastasizing in the ass-end of our shithole country, to manufacture consent for invading. I’ve not heard this mentioned in any of the more mainstream media propaganda outlets, but I’m sure it will be there soon.

He’s still working out how to personally grift the situation.

I simple don’t understand why anyone buys the sentiment that you are an expressing here. The unfortunate truth is that, in every substantive way, it is true that the two parties are in lock step. I am aware that Democrats will sometimes use rhetoric that implies that they have more enlightened positions on some issues. However, it’s not credible when they consistently cave, pre-compromise, and shift rightward at nearly every opportunity. I’ve been observing the party, from within and without for 40 years. I’ve come to the conclusion that as an organization, the party as currently organized, has NOT A SINGLE principled stand on any policies whatsoever. Let me be explicit: there is no issue on which Democrats organizationally are not willing to compromise or flip on including: abortion, civil rights, democracy, and so on. They are a loose conglomerate of self-interested corporate sell outs, period. Are there a few individual exceptions, of course. But as a collective, the party is trash, and they are the reason that fascism has been allowed to progress in this country for decades.

What is needed is a wholesale reconstruction of that party. Replace nearly everyone in power and completely reject corporate funding. BTW, accomplishing that involves two things: 1.) voting, and 2.) rejecting the voices that demand that we lower our standards for short term political expediency.

These days I keep forgetting the App Store is a thing. That’s how important apps are to me anymore. Also, fuck apple for being the tacky soulless corporate monster that it always used to make fun of.

This exactly. The most significant result of hoisting up nonproliferation as a virtue has been to sustain and grow US hegemony. That is a bad deal for everyone, including Americans.

I would describe it as the application layer of all this AI shit. We are doing very well right now, but I’m just waiting for the turn.