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But you live in a society! You should be happy to subscribe to a planned obsolescence program; MBA jobs won’t fund themselves through sturdy products that need simple maintenance!

Think of parts designers rethinking what plastic parts should look like for the 2024 models right now!

Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:15PM (#34509584)
My point is if you’re going to tell the story of technology, tell the whole story. Not just the titular self promoting parts that make you feel good, but the shitty parts too.

Muricans are obsessed with being “happy” in a fake, saccharine way all the time. Philosophical babble does not wave off the reality all tech work has created a huge mess for all the benefits it also brings.

About a year ago I had an email thread going with sama, debating what intelligence even means, why copying the brain is the goal. Eventually it veered off topic, he agreed with my assessment many in tech are unimaginative self promoters not engaged net new output generation. That a whole lot of this is just “government jobs programs”, as I put it, wrapped in happy semantics and hype.

Re:Ask HN: Is PayPal an open scam at this point? on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:02PM (#34509408)
The plight of the pleb is beneath the technocratic high-mind.

There is utility in tech but empowering and isolating from consequences a CEO/VC class is run of the mill political corruption, forced obligation to politically correct tradition.

It’s still America under the hood. Whole lot of corrupt and undefined behavior in that baby. smacks roof

Re:HN: Thank you for being fast, ad-free and text only on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:42PM (#34509065)
You even asked for a response and they hivemind flagged it to spare you.

Puritanical white knighting is at an all time high among meaningless meat bags.

Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:41PM (#34509061)
Tech is part of a web of industries that provide to each other. What phones without the rare Earth metals a traditional combustion machine digs up?

As far as you or I go specifically, reality does not need either of us to actually exist. Plenty of folks still around without the two of us.

For numerous health metrics a slower pre-internet life was healthier. All the technological churn has had long lived impact on environment that will make life worse in the future.

Keep cherry picking.