The push to bring people back to the office is for two ‘synergistic’ reasons. The first is to protect upper and middle management, whose entire employment existence is predicated on keeping the workers in line. The second is about protecting the commercial real estate market, which would implode without tens of…

It’s cute that you think anyone gives two shits about your tax filings...unless you’re misrepresenting yourself — aka a liar and a fraud — in which case, you and everyone else like you deserves to be outed.

If you actually think it’s going to be finished in a few days, are you in for a surprise....

...publishers are knowingly, intentionally selling access to a game before it’s finished. Pretty sure they’ve stopped giving a f*** what they’re selling as long as they get their money. And if they don’t, well, that’s [insert random scapegoat] to blame. Why? Because their customers have told them that they’re okay…

Tax files and records really need to be a matter of public record. So these wealthy assholes have nowhere to hide their dirt. Granted, that would undermine all the time and money the wealthy have spent gutting the IRS so they could hide their dirt in plain sight because nobody had the time to look anymore, so clearly…

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Yup. Nothing signifies the level of contempt that the wealthy have for the rest of society quite like making it a crime to disclose their dirty laundry (fraud, theft, corruption, etc) to the public. They didn’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying the politicians needed to wage a decades-long campaign to…

The enshitification continues apace!

Alarming? You call this completely predictable result...alarming? Would you be alarmed that a pyromaniac starts a fire when you give them matches? Or pedophiles abusing any child left in their care?

Price gouging and product gutting are not the signs of a business in good health. They’re the signs of a business desperately trying to squeeze out every last drop of profitability necessary to appears investors and shareholders. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sign of a business in bad shape.

Melissa Benoist set an incredibly high bar for anyone cast in the role of Kara Zor-El. At least the comic book version of her. If they want to write Kara as a very different kind of person (see: The Flash), that’s another matter entirely.

Just so you’re aware, nearly all of the US’s ‘industrial age’ tech was built on IP theft too. The US stole from Great Britain, Spain, France, Italy, etc. The US even openly advertised recruiting and paying people from those countries to help steal the technology they wanted.

Valheim really rubbed me the wrong way with all of its mindless busy-work tasks. Torches and fires that have to be constantly refueled. Food that lasts 10 minutes, except not, because its effects start decaying halfway through. Oh, and food isn’t optional, since beyond the first-ish zone, everything will 1-shot you…

They’re either copies, or they’re not.

It will have both effects. Birds are social animals. They learn from one another. The cursing birds will pick up new vocabulary from the birds that don’t swear. The other birds will pick up curse words from the cursing birds. The end result — 100 birds that curse, just generally less often. Unless the birds new to…

If they were exactly the same, as you claim, the two models would perfectly overlap. They don’t. In many instances, they’re not even close.

Can’t...why? Because you say so? You think there’s some ‘magic’ need for ~8 billion people, some purpose being served that can’t be served any other way? There’s literally nothing those people contribute to the lives of the wealthy and powerful *EXCEPT* their creative labors. Everything else only exists to keep…

It’s more that every single one of the existing ‘industrial robots’ in your example are built to perform a single specific task and can be used to do nothing else. A ‘generalist’ robot allows for a single production line for a single system that can perform a multitude of widely different tasks without any…

‘People’ won’t need to work. As long as your definition of ‘people’ are the billionaires. Nearly everything will be fully autonomous, with a very tiny number of people whose sole job — and only means of survival — is to keep those systems running.

Hey! I can cite statistics too! Here’s one! Nearly 10% of the US population lives in poverty where starvation is a daily reality! Oh, wait, that’s more than 6.6%. Hmm... well, maybe things are better elsewhere. In Africa, nearly 1/2 the continent’s population lives in poverty. Well, shit, that’s also more than 6.6%.…