It isn’t possible under capitalism. We need global cooperation, not competition. So, we are riding this horse off that cliff. We will evolve through crisis, rather than proactive change.

Presumably he had to give 35 presents too.

Have children. Flying. Driving. Buying a whole range of carbon intense products blah blah blah.

Vegans just are not credible.

It goes with the couch.

Yeah the industry has been in the shit since credit and debit cards. A homeless guy with a chip and pin device to get donations is completely off-message for the brand

Presumably she wasn’t just prepared to ride the beast, she actively wanted to be ruined by it.

She was probably disappointed when the transition happened. She thought she was going to be raw-dogged by the monster.

It isn’t introvertion.

OP said ‘what animal would you be if you were an animal?’

It is insulting to expect everybody to engage in conversation any time some moron expects it.

The respondent, reasonably said ‘I’ll ask chatgpt’ which is a polite way of saying ‘I’m not interested in this shite, Bore off, I’m not eight, leave me alone.’

OP then came online to make a big deal about it, claiming the respondent used chatgpt rather than socialising. Which itself is evidence of OP’s character and evidence as to why one might not want to engage with the boring **** at work.

Wrong. The only thing there is evidence they did is use chatgpt to deflect a fucking boring conversation.

Now please leave me alone. This is all fucking obvious. I am just blocking any respondents to this message in order to avoid timewasting, thanks.

Edit - oh this is an anti-ai sub. OK, so anything done with ai is automatically bad, you have chosen a side and that is that.

:There is much to dislike about ‘ai’ technology - primarily its energy use, but the claims of intelligence is also something reasonable to dislike. There is much more to dislike about the people who own ‘ai’ and the uses they want to put it to, but that is neo-liberal capitalism you should be angry at, not ‘ai’. This sub is misguided at best. Block it is.

I know what socialising is, thanks.

I also know that chatgpt can be better than an asinine conversation with people I work with.

‘If you were an animal what animal would you be?’ is hardly Conan/Dave Letterman level chat fun though, is it?

1. I’d probably choose chatgpt over that kind of conversation with colleagues.

2. Imagine Conan or Dave using ‘if you were an animal what animal would you be?’ as an opening gambit with a guest.

‘I’ll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital’ is a pathetic position to take.

It absolutely is not worthy of respect.

Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges are based, is complete bullshit.

You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.

What a pathetic place to get to. There are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.

Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea…

Presumably the other headline that read ‘50% of voters’ were in favour of this party, should have read ‘50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party’

1. US (and in fact all ‘Western’) media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.

2. America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I’m not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don’t engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.

I just meant the breadth of media coverage in the UK spans billionaire/Murdoch owned media on one side to the voice-piece of the British establishment itself, which is now little more than a proxy for the interests of capital, on the other.

As for the term ‘antisemitism’, well the Gazans being murdered by Israeli’s are semites too.

But given the Israelis are committing a genocide - starving children then shooting them as they queue up for food - I don’t think anybody really gives a fuck what Israelis or the people ultimately supporting the genocide in the UK media, or in UK political parties of every stripe, think about the people that oppose them. It is about being on one side of history or another.

An office-friendly version of this would greatly improve my well-being so productivity at work.

I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system

I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.

Yes let’s see. I expect the media - billionaire owned on one hand, bbc on the other - will do the kind of job on him they did when he was leader of the labour party. He will become mired in claims of antisemitism (whatever that means these days), and whatever else they can throw at him and it won’t go anywhere.

Capital drives the UK and capital does not want socialism. The media is in significant part crowd control.

It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.

It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves ‘Democrats’ v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).

It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.

The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration (that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can’t afford to support the huge number of asylum seekers that have been dumped upon them) and other cultural issues of various legitimacy (imvho) that poor people have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.

Edit - obviously this lurch to the right is the opposite of what should happen but here we go. It is what fossil-fuel powered capitalists prefer to socialism and an egalitarian society any day.

All of the references you have ascribed to me are wrong.

I have not stated that I am pro or anti anything.

When presented with a fact that doesn’t match the reality that an individual has (co-)constructed they have to reject the fact, because they can’t reject reality. When they can’t reject the fact the change it - as you have here. When they can’t do that they diminish the fact by attacking the individual; (again, as you have here, by insinuating that I am ‘kinda sus’).

Other than that, whatever. Forewarned is forearmed but of course feel free to ignore — it doesn’t affect me either way. Good luck.

Undoubtedly the world is dedollarising, at which point the US’s deficit falls due. Currently any country that buys US debt pays US defence spending. The US has reneged on its obligations in terms of supporting democratic countries, so this stops.

What do Americans think a trillion dollar defence bill, $200 billion on a modern day SS is going to do to the US economy when the world walks away? And be clear, this process is happening.

For the rest of the world it is about managing a belligerent and unreliable US in the interim period in terms of stability so this process will not happen all at once. Maybe China would dump its holding of US debt in a war situation, but ideally this will not happen.

Without the rest of the world supporting the dollar as reserve currency the US is looking at something like a Soviet Union scale collapse.

The EU openly indicating their intention to abandon swift and the WTO, the price of the dollar are clear signs that what has been happening quietly is now being openly declared. A second vote for Trump can’t be written of as an error.

So yeah, that is how it is going.