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Red_October

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  • Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?

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  • I think suspicious is the wrong word. Suspicious seems to suggest doubt or a lack of certainty, but the criticism is pretty predictable. Industry forces could afford to ignore it when it looked impossible to get the signatures, but now that the signatures are in the bag they're having to take a different tactic.

    SOME of the criticism is certainly genuine and exactly what it appears to be at face value, but it was inevitable that those doubts would be artificially boosted now.

  • Is Stephen Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’?

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  • Of course it's a financial decision. It's not because Colbert doesn't bring in money, or even because he doesn't bring in ENOUGH money, it's because of the merger witth Paramount that requires the Trump administration's approval. THAT is their financial concern.

  • Why is AI so slow to spread?

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  • No, obviously it's because these stupid meat humans keep stressing about things like "accuracy" and "truth" and "code that vaguely works" instead of focusing on the cold, clean efficiency of a firehose of AI generated slop!

  • And tonight, we feast. Is the spell finally lifting?

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  • It's wild that this person thinks there isn't enough mass deportation happening. Just goes to show that even as his face gets eaten he's still a shitty human being.

  • Trump Announces Plan to 'Put the Farmers in Charge' of Migrant Farmworkers

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  • It's just a soft sell on Slavery Lite, all the oppression with only half the calories.

  • If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people?

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  • If I went to all the trouble of hacking you and I emptied your bank account and savings, I'd get $12.

    If I emptied Sony's accounts, not only would I have potentially millions or more, but I could also get industrial secrets that could be worth even more, or possibly could be used to further my own electronics industry.

    One of these isn't worth the effort.

  • Art (Art by Pizzacakecomic)

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  • In what context would that ever be useful?

  • US officials forced to share bald JD Vance meme by denying tourist’s claim he was denied entry over photo

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  • If the secret police are trying to find you, they could turn on your flashlight and make hiding harder?

  • Why did Trump appoint so many incompetent underqualified sycophants to government positions?

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  • It's almost like a qualified and effective government isn't his priority.

  • Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day

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  • You seem to have missed the point. Whether or not you think that would be an easy job, the whole reason you'd be there is to be the one that takes all the blame when the autopilot kills someone. It will be your name, your face, every single record of your past mistakes getting blasted on the news and in court because Elon's shitty vanity project finally killed a real child instead of a test dummy. You'll be the one having to explain to a grieving family just how hard it is to actually pay complete attention every moment of every day, when all you've had to do before is just sit there.

  • Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day

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  • This technology purely exists to make human drivers redundant and put the money in the hands of big tech and eventually the ruling class composed off of politicians risk averse capitalists and beurocracy. There is no other explanation for robo taxis to exist.

    There is another reason, though, and it's much simpler. Basic greed.

    There are people who see the opportunity to make more money for themselves, so they'll do it. When it comes to robo taxis, they're not interested in class struggles, it's not about politics, their interest in making human drivers redundant extends only so far as increasing their customer base. These aren't Machiavellian schemers rubbing their hands together and cackling at their dark designs coming to fruition, it's just assholes in suits who's one and only concern is "number go up."

    Even when it comes to their politics and to the class dynamics, their end goal is always the same. Number go up. They don't care about what harm it could do. They're not intent on deliberately doing more harm, they give no thought to doing less harm, they do not care. All that drives them, ever, is Number Go Up.

  • Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day

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  • Remember guys, Tesla wants to have a living person sitting behind the wheel for "safety." Don't YOU want to get paid minimum wage to sit in a car all day, paying attention but doing nothing unless it's about to crash, at which point you'll be made the scapegoat for not preventing the crash?

    Welcome to the future, you're gonna hate it here.

  • Trump's big gamble in Iran is a risky moment after his pledges to keep US out of 'stupid wars'

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  • Yeah a big gamble, who knows what might happen if people think he's a liar!

  • Trump now says farmers may continue employing migrants under a system where they assume ‘responsibility’ for them

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  • So he's thinking about a soft sell on "Slavery Lite" then. Do you guys remember the days when a president could do something like this and it would IMMEDIATELY mean the absolute end of their political career? I miss that. I miss that so much.

  • 'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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  • They mean that the workers are probably making less than Minimum Wage. There are exceptions to minimum wage for agricultural work. Minimum wage would have been an improvement.

  • Elon Musk's robotaxi will have a human driver for 'safety' reasons

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  • Imagine that job though. It is your job to be a scapegoat for traffic collisions.

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  • I think a big part of why it's funny is because the original was so very NOT funny. It was such an intensely dark shift in tone, a deliberately serious dramatic beat, in a comic that was all silly fun, completely unexpected and out of place.

    If it was just a miscarriage joke then yeah it'd just be purely fucked up, and pretty quickly forgotten. It's the meta context that turns the whole thing into more of a joke than any single comic could tell.

  • How long will people be in denial that america is now a fascist regime? You all really going to wait until trumps third term until you come to terms with it, arent you?

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  • You're only proving that you don't actually have any idea what's going on here, acting like we're resting on our laurels because there was a big protest. Nobody here is thinking "Yeah we made ourselves heard, job's done!" Nobody here says the fight is won, but you're out here acting like nothing is being done at all.

  • How long will people be in denial that america is now a fascist regime? You all really going to wait until trumps third term until you come to terms with it, arent you?

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  • What may have been the largest organized protests in American history were just a few days back, the president has record-breakingly low approval, even his own party's talking heads are turning against him. If you're not going to be satisfied by anything short of armed uprising then at least be brave enough to say as much, but pretending that Americans just don't see anything wrong and aren't doing anything is an act of wilful and blatant ignorance.