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The public is catching on to how sucky it is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo...

They’ve rug pulled on users who got wise. Now on B2B. Sundar is a sus CEO. Ballmer of the decade, knows how “Google works”, but was riding high on money printer going brr. He does …

So we could let them keep their stocks and not trade them for dollars; they own 100% of their company and the public is no longer obliged to acknowledge outsiders have ephemeral va…

Unless the entire production pipeline, from mining to machining parts and tools involved in making a plane, no. Planes literally in the air are not the only source of green house g…

I mean do you seriously believe office life is some immutable law of nature and without it humanity will stop being social? You have heard of neighbors, yes? Just had “block party”…

So “think of the greater good” hokum? You have the spoken traditions memorized, that’s for sure.

Good point. Why enrich them beyond other human beings? One of billions is a much more reasonable view of who they are.

What’s this have to do with being ruled by rent seekers? They don’t have an absolute plan, but Powell has been projecting his goals for months; stop the rise of wages. Deflate asse…

Essentially the government is setting market values through mathematical indirection the general public cannot grasp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33031466 Basically, fu Ma…

Yeah in the US we’d never curtail industrial food profit to overhaul the state of store shelves being full of easily consumed crap packaged in plastic waste of enormous energy and …

I am a “personal cognitive freedom across contexts should be protected, full stop.” For example, that means opt-in social healthcare should be a thing that resources are provided f…

The opinion this is cheap talk might be a shitty one? Gas line works fine for years, suddenly during regional conflict it goes tits up? A dying country whose leadership seems inten…

I know there have been gamers like this for years but in this case 2 of the 4 years were during a mandatory isolate at home public health crisis. It’s possible this was actually a …

I maintain that this Fed tightening is manufactured consent to be ruled by an aristocratic class in charge of government. Rent seekers in their twilight years convinced future agen…

Big corp foisting social agency change on people has biological effects. It rather highlights the lack of free agency and self determination our society is built on. Go ahead and b…

I think the idea is disruption of online livelihoods comes along with unseen and ignored externalities. Loss of online exposure will push online sex workers to make up loss of inco…

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... Agreed. They were more frank about it back in the day. If everyone has enough money the masses can create/buy assets…

Cable news has government officials on spewing government talking points all night. That’s government propaganda. Suuure it’s not “official” but wtf does that matter when it embeds…

The US relies on private propaganda to normalize attitudes to its goals. Given how chummy politicians and “journalists” and corporate owners are off camera it’s laughable to think …

Google works on interesting things? I guess to PhDs into ML. They scrapped cutting edge R&D and became a one-trick ad-pushing pony. When the companies trajectory has been away from…

Fear and group think have not gone anywhere. Society is “group think”. Try paying rent in bottle caps, and telling your boss to go fuck themselves when they ask for something. Fear…