It’s wild people still haven’t figured that out…

I mean, Netanyahu didn’t just allows funds to be smuggled to Hamas thru Israeli checkpoints…

He personally solicited donations from other countries while promising to allow it 100% thru checkpoints, and actually kept his word.

Hamas exists for two reasons:

1. To give Netanyahu a boogey man to justify canceling elections.

2. To say that Palestinians can’t go wrn themselves.

It’s not just that they had Intel it was coming, today’s Israeli government is the only reason Hamas still exists or had the funds to carry it out.

So you’re probably right, but it kind of doesn’t matter because it’s definitely 1,000x worse than that.

Nobody is talking about putting Altman in jail for violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, even though that’s exactly what should be happening.

Republicans control the House, Senate, and Oval right now…

Do I really need to explain why they’re not doing anything?

You can’t figure that one out on you’re own?

I just think you’re overly optimistic

Midterms are in a month…

You seem a bit defensive though.

Because midterms are in a month, and a shit ton of people are pushing really hard that nothing can ever be done so it’s pointless to try.

Be a doomer after midterms and I won’t give a fuck. But right now trump and the AI techbros are spending a shit ton of money to convince the left not to vote.

Don’t do their work for them.

It reminds me of early 90s PCs…

Everyone was convinced if you “knew how to computer” that’s all you needed. Every school bought a shit ton, and kids would get an hour a day to just dick around and play games.

None of the adults understand any of it, so we grew up learning to be thech support for the people teaching it to us.

AI will eventually end up like PCs, it won’t be a magic solution, but it will drastically cut down on available jobs and transfer wealth to the wealthy.

The smart move is to sit it out till someone actually makes it profitable, then we could dump billions into it now. We can’t beat China because their companies actually have to compete with each other.

We should wait till the dust settles over there, then dump the money on copying what they do. Just manufacturing whatever chips design they settle on.

Racing R&D with zero manufacturing just isn’t logical.

People saying you can’t change the future a month before an important midterm where we have a chance to flip the government out of the hands of a bigoted fascist who has literal camps is a pretty shitty take…

Like, this is the worst possible time for doomerism.

Even if you’re convinced voting doesn’t matter, it’s worth the effort just in case you’re wrong

A lot of the worst people in America are spending a shit ton of money to depress turnout,big nothing else vote just to spite billionaires and trump

I’m not sure why you’d think I’d have seen that when I just said it was blocked for years…

But I looked:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76216189?scrollToComments=true

The blajah admin saw comments they didn’t like on a different instance, and instead of blocking the right person, blocked someone else…

I’m not sure why you’d support admins banning people for comments on completely different instances, but I honestly don’t give a fuck, am not gonna try to change your mind, and am never going to see any other comments you ever post.

I just still can’t get over how the person I was replying to just didn’t even know what the word “privatization” meant or that they were literally arguing for it…

Like, especially a month before an important American election, that’s a tough one to believe.

Buddy…

I didn’t say you said they shouldn’t be held accountable…

I’m saying I wasn’t saying that, that no one was saying that…

But I don’t think trying to clarify any of this is gonna be productive

Feel like you are representing this really unfairly.

If you look at the timestamps that’s an at least 2 year old post that recently seemed to get relaxed…

I’ve had both those instances blocked for at least two years, and was running off memory.

But I did take the time to search blajah just now, that mod post is the only post. It’s possible there’s some that just have a community name and are from that instance, but I doubt it.

I also just don’t really care that much about drama with two instances I’ve had blocked for years.

Both places are full of power tripping mods/admins, whem I run into those places, I block them and move on

That’s even crazier, I kind of assumed you just couldn’t see it without being lit up and that glass stick was some kind of stir stick.

But you’re right, it’s a mercury thermometer you plug in.

The price is even more wild.

Who is saying they shouldn’t be held accountable?

Like, it’s like you’re arguing we need to disband the fire department because we keep having house fires…

Sending anyone an AI generated picture of any kind of dick is 100% harassment…

Especially when the person you send it to doesn’t even have your number.

Like, that’s not exactly a hard line to draw, everyone should agree with that.

If you really thought that, you could have just typed what you thought I was wrong about instead of a literally useless comment…

Yes…

Holding people accountable, means we have to hold people accountable…

The solution to not holding people accountable, isn’t to make it harder to hold people accountable. The solution is actually holding the right people accountable.

I’m glad we can get on the same page

there’s no more need for 3 separate national healthcare systems (Medicare, Medicaid, VA)

We don’t need doctors and nurses as long as we have claim approvers!

You gonna tell us how we don’t need the USPS because we have FedEx and UPS next?

Why the fuck can’t you see a better solution would be nationalizing the rest of the healthcare providers rather than privatizing the single largest healthcare provider in the country?

Why is everyone set on maintaining a for profit healthcare system?

Seriously, why do you think for profit healthcare is a good idea?

Or do you not know what that actually means like the last account didn’t know what privatization means?

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Saying we’ll hold the board responsible if chatbots get to run corporations is almost as ludacris of a prediction as billionaires saying they’ll support a socialist utopia if we let chatbots take everyone’s jobs…

Damn, so a gram was like $550 back then (in 2026 dollars)?!

No wonder crack was such a big deal, no one would spend enough on coke to try it.

Which really lays a lot more of the blame not just for America’s drug epidemic but even just the existence of modern cartels at the feet of the CIA, since they’re the ones who started the crack epidemic.

That allowed cartels to scale up and be able to import to the point where a gram was less than $100 even if it melts at 208.

Edit:

Just shocked cocaine is apparently one of the most inflation resistant consumable products…

Starting in 2017, Smith began using fake email accounts and “fraudulently obtained debit cards” to create “thousands of fraudulent accounts” on services including Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music, the DOJ said. He then employed software that pushed the bots to continuously stream songs that he claimed to own, which the DOJ said were AI-generated.

Seems the charges were because he used stolen cards to psetnup the accounts.

I know a few actual bands have released “sleeping music” which is just like 8 hours of silence for the diehard fans to let run so the ban earns money. Theoretically if he had convinced real people to make the accounts then had them turn bots on, it could be technically legal?

Especially if instead of botting directly, he used automation software to start/stop similar playlists across the various accounts while on shuffle.

Like, make it a task on fiber: make a YouTube account and turn it over to me.

There’s a very good chance that’s already happening, even among “real” artists. I think it’s what Drake unintentionally snitched on himself for doing when he tried to sue his own label.

$180 in Gerald Ford money is insane…

Like with all the other advancements, it’s crazy to think something as basic as this was $180 back then, even after adding the “it’s for drugs” premium.

Like, it’s just a tiny hotplate with a digital display. Technically it’s a “scientific instrument” but so is a spray bottle if it’s in a lab

I know people always say that, but there still needs to be executives so there’s still humans to be held accountable.

The vast amount of middle management are useless, but there has to be a human sitting in a chair above the chatbot for legal liability. Otherwise the board will just blame the chatbot for everything.

That also doesn’t mean they should be paid so much, just that a human needs to be above the chatbot as far as final authority