The worst part about these cascades is that you live in complete ignorance of the events unfolding around you until that final precipitating event reveals the intricate weave of The Fates’ tapestry

Ah yes. The classic Cascading Failure. A thing that goes catastrophically wrong, causally linked to an endless chain of other Things That Go Catastrophically Wrong that all set off Even More Things That Go Catastrophically Wrong. Like a circular row of dominos, except each domino is an open oil drum filled with…

Show me a single person that falls into this group that has any meaningful control over a company; specifically the ability to influence the direction of the company...

I dunno about “nobody will ever remember”. I fully understand there’s no such thing as ethical consumption in American capitalism, and I’ve been paying for and playing Blizzard games for 20 years so I’m complicit. Even thinking about playing now after all of this leaves me feeling incredibly icky. I know my withdrawal…

But only the opinion of those rich stock holders matter because they own exponentially more of the stock than us normals. Those retirement fund’s first mandate is to make the numbers go up. They have zero incentive to attempt to make moral changes at companies they invest in. They don’t care about workers, or even the…

If you remove capitalism, you remove most of the power companies have to bury that shit. No more lobbying. No more forced arbitration or similar shenanigans. Potentially no more hierarchy which would immediately prevent any kind of “higher-ups” covering up anything because there’s no higher ups anywhere, just equals…

Man, I wonder what it’s like to be so insulated from guilt, shame, and public opinion that you can literally feel nothing about any of this and just maintain status quo. It must be so relaxing.

According to the company, the service also provides a “text-only” option, which can be used in situations where a caller “may not want to be seen calling 911.”

....your audio is monitored by our AI-powered technology and sold to ad companies

That ship has sailed. I remember when I was younger we joked on the phone, when discussing something dubious, “hey man, don’t mention that, I don’t want the NSA to wiretap me or some shit.”

Now people are like “Okay wiretap! what’s the weather going to be like today?”

So, it’s basically OnStar for walkin’ around but with a healthy dose of fear added to drive subscriptions.

Of course not! They aren’t racist!

“Bro, we are ‘disrupting’ 911"..

Just give me fucking Robocop already. It's time.

Is this just a new way to call the cops on Black people for minding their own business?

...your audio is monitored by our AI-powered technology which identifies sounds that indicate trouble, like a scream for example. When a distress signal is identified, you will be asked if you’d like to be connected with a Protect Agent. And if you don’t respond within 10 seconds, you’ll be automatically connected…

Convince everyone who uses it that crime in their area is rampant, then get them to pay more money to feel “safe.”

So you’re paying to have them listen to your mic 24/7.

Innovative ways to enforce the status quo, make it more complicated and charge for it.