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I believe it was mitch mcconnell back during obama that said he never wanted to see another democratic bill passed again-to the point he voted against his own bill he signed just because it received dem support

The ai companies are yet again strip mining public goods and institutions

You make the assumption there will be a new administration

I'm not sure employees have the power to not really work at those kinds of places. Logically it should work out like that, but I don't think it does

Didn't it recently come out that the ceo of proton was donating to far right groups interested in dismantling privacy and security, let alone their racist policies?

David and goliath is not a story of a little man defeating an impossible giant. It's the story of a technologically advanced crack pistol shot vs a guy a with a knife and a hundred yards to cover

Call me a conspiracy theorist but the people in charge in the us were all pushed by the same technologists who stand to benefit the most from the hierarchy. You'll note an increase in diseases, dismantling of the regulatory bodies to handle food and safety and an increase in surveillance and the authoritarian steps taken that are necessary to act on that surveillance

There will be no antitrust cases unless it's a shakedownx

I think youtube premium lets you hit up to 4x

Lying to ourselves that we were ever a free nation.

There's a lot of astroturfing and psyops that work against that want any efforts in these areas to "vibe" negatively

Remember when they said they couldnzt electrify the grid for ev's so they opted to just not do anything with ev's. Now datacenters are getting rushed in so fast and breaking the grids so hard they can illegally running generators

They have already destroyed at least one life. There was that woman arrest

What is the left option on the store screen. The right is sound, but what is the left

I know plenty of folks who got worked up over the wasteful farming that drains and damages aquifers. much like the penalties that kardashians received when they broke the water usage laws, it amounted to nada.

In today's environment people can't even make the choice to pay more. The productn are just priced out of reach!

Wasn't ai introduced so replace people? It's not the spanner, it's the car and we're the horses

Defense is just a polite term for war.

Too bad the wrath of the people corporate america is basically nothing.

But clearly what's going on now with omnibus bills that no one has read in its entirety are ok?

The folks who made accurate federal numbers were fired some time ago. the current numbers are about as accurate as someone with an active interest in lying about it cares.

Getting children to not grow up into idiots requires intense parental interactions, healthy environments, and the ability to explore and get hurt. Identification isn't even on the list.

Maybe they should get the pedos out of the government instead of a foolish attempt at restricting and harming everyone else? It's not ever going to protect or make children safer. It never was.

We had a railway powered country until it was torn down

We are rapidly reaching a point where companies will exist without human employees, there'll just be the owners and an ai workforce.

The system won't change until there is massive chaos and destruction. Why would it otherwise? The people with the means to gently and voluntarily change things are living like gods. They have no incentive to help. In fact, a sick and unhealthy society keeps competitors weak. No, I'm afraid to say there will be no fixing things.

The only correction will be anyone not in the concentrated wealth part being left out to rot. There is no upside for pretty much anyone posting on hacker news

I think there are likely camps "with unusually high death counts" already in the US, but since ICE has clammed shut on the statistics, we don't and can't know. I think by the time the US settles on its future, the horrors that will arise from our very own camps will match the Nazis

The hyperloop was a huge success...in delaying actual transit options like trains.

there was a recent case of a lady who spent at least a month in jail because an ai said it was her. She had physical evidence indicating she wasn't and hadn't been to the state at all during the crime. There was a human in that loop too and she still sat in jail and had her life ruined.