Oh gods our politicians will have to read their own emails, and write them too! We may never recover. Clearly there is no path forward apart from mass surveillance.

Like it's no secret it's expensive as shit to live lately. If you're just giving away your software/knowledge/ideas, and I feel I gain value from them, I'll happily throw some cash in your hat.

All of these people really deserve each other.

Edit: also for bonus points, him getting outed in such a dangerous place is ironic as all hell, given that he didn't need to be there apart from wanting money out of the Saudi royal family.

Like I wouldn't want to be outed while there either, but my answer is I wouldn't fucking go to Saudi Arabia with a gun to my head, and I certainly wouldn't be sucking up to the crown prince for m(b?)illions of dollars for my disinformation machine. But I guess principles are for the poors.

I mean it's helped by the fact that I can only realistically drive it like 7-8 months out of each year, and it's my fun car, not a commuter. As much as I'd love to drive for fun every day that's just not feasible, lol. That said it's resale value has never once entered my mind. I'm waiting until the loan is paid off at which point I'm planning several modifications to get more power out of it, and probably a lambo-door-hinge kit.

The disease of financialization at work. Money is all that matters to people, everything is converted into money. It's only value is what you could get from selling it, and/or what you spent to acquire it.

Like those weird fuckers who buy $200k supercars so they can sit in a damn garage. (She said, having put 30k miles on a Corvette inside of 3 years)

Mass death of species too numerous to name, the biosphere itself, property damage from rising ocean levels, the soon to fail air currents, all the damage and death from extreme weather events, all of it. All of it could've been fucking prevented and it wasn't, because profits.

I wish I believed in hell for people like this.

Because renewable energy is Communism, or something.

But seriously: $$$$. The Fossil Fuel industry, before it finally dies, will make big Tobacco look downright merciful. The owners of these companies and their media co-conspirators should be tried in the Hague for what they have done to our planet just to keep making fucking money.

Perhaps not yet, but we have at minimum 2 and a half years of the Trump Family Circus to contend with, and they've gotten a lot destroyed in what time they've had so far.

And, Trump isn't the real problem. Anti-intellectualism here has hit it's zenith. Fully a third of our country is so propagandized and media-illiterate that they can't really be said to share a reality with the rest of us anymore.

I don't know how we can fix this. Talk radio, Fox News, and social media may well have damaged our civil life beyond repair. And they're still doing it.

There are exceptions of course but the vast, vast, vast majority are tourist trapping and wealth extraction.

Either way, as always, we'll do it the American Way: Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

If someone wants to argue this position, I would challenge them to explain why anything around IP law exists as it does now if that was not the explicit goal.

It's kinda like trying to identify actual crypto projects headed by people who have no idea how anything outside cryptographic programming works, versus ones headed by people who know exactly how stupid it is and are just looking to cash a check.

Also the people who hype AI and the ones who backed crypto are basically the same exact circle of bag holders. They'll be out of AI as soon as the bubble pops. I think robotics is gonna be the next one.

Most companies I can give like, they make SOME good shit. Even Google. Not Meta, our entire civilization would be better off if we shoved all their bullshit into an ocean.

I don’t care what convenience feature this possibly has, if you’re wearing a data miner you have no place near me. Fuck off.

Truly amazing that the tech elite have replicated everything wrong with the existing financial system while not managing to get any of the actual good, useful parts.