After saying all the bullshit was “just jokes” when targeted against other people:

The couple called a lawyer and the police for help fighting the harassment, and Amy filed for, and was granted, a “protection against stalking” order against one person who she said had perpetrated the most “insane lies.” But the hate only seemed to grow. Accounts shared a blurry video of a woman having sex, saying it was Amy, while others flooded the comment sections of their wedding photos and LinkedIn profiles with rape threats and artificially generated porn.

What I don’t understand is a one-time tax

The trick is to act like the unhoused from that Dean of the Dead South Park… Which is how they billionaires have been acting.

We ask for stuff, get it, and immediately act like it never happened and we need more stuff.

This is doable, so Cali is trying it. If it works, it doesn’t we go to Pizza Hut and wait for next season. Find the next most doable thing, and try to do that.

The problem with incremental change was for 30+ years the neoliberals never honestly tried to fix anything.

We honestly can’t fix everything at once, but if we’re constantly apply pressure to multiple avenues and going after anything with a chance to win, eventually we’ll get everything.

Because just as important as the people getting this wealth back, is taking it away from the billionaires. Even if they’re burning money on PACs, lawyers, and bribes… That’s removing wealth from them that they would have used to exponentially grow their wealth. Meaning less wealth we will need to take from them later.

In general it’s the same as the “fight everywhere” position the DNC adopted. Any pressure point that exists should be exploited, as many at a time as possible.

Silver lining is every one of them that’s taken advantage of the last decade to do so are essentially putting themselves on a list of co.paniea that can’t manage itself.

Dividing them up into a bunch of pieces is the compromise.

We need to start pushing for full on nationalization of corporations once trump is out of office.

Just seize a couple health insurance agencies and use that blood money to fund u I ersal healthcare.

Start doing shit like that, and suddenly all the corporations start falling in line.

They meant AI will solve no one buying fossil fuels…

got all excited about how the Internet would democratize media. And then it did. And it’s kinda shit.

Uhhhh…

It didn’t tho, at least not talking about nepo baby twitch streamers who were handed a platform on their uncles network named after the perpatraters of the Armenian genocide…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks#Armenian_genocide

It’s not like America picked this guy out nowhere, he had a literal media company behind him and generational wealth.

It’s like how Taylor Swift didn’t get famous because of talent, her parents were loaded and had connections in the industry. She didn’t need a record deal, her parent just bankrolled an album.

That’s a huge barrier to entry removed, so judging nepo babies like average people never makes sense. It’s already at the point today where you have to be wealthy to take off in entertainment.

The irony is Piker’s schtick is hes supposed to be a “man of the people” when all he cares about his own views and bank account.

Lemmy wants to think it’s informed…

But I noticed a lot of people just repeat the same things that have been true for 30 years, which would have been fine if the faction who were the problem that entire time hadn’t lost control of the party after the last presidential.

People aren’t really informed here, they mostly just repeat whatever they heard someone say. Which explains why they blindly follow streamers/influencers.

They just want the dopamine hit of tribalism without actually trying to fix anything

Neoliberals want him to matter just as much…

They want to sticl problematic streamers like Piker to every progressive so that instead of talking about progressive policy, they can just make candidates defend a fucking twitch streamer using the candidate for views.

That’s why the republicans, neoliberals, and billionaire owned media won’t shut the fuck up about this douche.

If I’m not in a rush (and no line) and no cashier is open I always ask the bored (usually elderly) person for help

Fuck it, they’re bored and I know the machines have cameras that track how much that person is needed. If no one asks them for help, they stop having a job.

You’re confusing neoliberals with Democrats, something that only helps neoliberals and Republicans and hurts literally everyone else…

People like Tom Segura?

That guy is a massive piece of shit, like he was already a piece of shit, but now that he’s wealthy he’s a massive piece of shit.

Seriously, fuck that guy, why are you posting gifs of him?

It saddens me to learn that furries and anarchists are pro-AI… :(

That’s not what I said.

I said on fediverse the big instances/communities for those topics are (or at least tend to be, I don’t have my finger on either’s pulse and blocked most long ago) run by people obsessed with AI and very eager to defend it.

That doesn’t mean every user interested in one or both topics are the same, I said the opposite:

If you wanted to start communities about either topic and wanted to ban ai slop while moderating in good faith, there’s likely a demand for that.

And while your account is on piefed, this post is on .world, especially being new it’s common for new people to not notice when they’ve jumped to a community hosted on another instance.

To my knowledge every instance defaults to showing a feed from all federated instances, you’d need to select “local” on your homepage to only see content from your instance.

Probably the places you’re going…

Like, the vast majority on here are against AI and not shy to mention it.

If you’re seeing a lot of AI, there’s a good chance you’re looking at the parts most people have blocked. Those places also tend to ban anyone who down votes their AI or says anything even slightly negative of AI.

But in general, if you see shit you don’t like here, just block it so you don’t see it. You’re not going to get a pro-ai mod to change their mind, and the main reason they run those communities is to argue in a place they can just ban anyone.

It’s either trolls or brain rotted ai addicts, there’s nothing to gain from trying to change them.

Edit:

Your profile has a furry pic and “anarcho-communist”.

No judgement on either, but those are the two islands on the fediverse that seem to be pro-ai like I was talking about, and likely explains why you think it’s everywhere.

Db0 in general is very pro-ai, as are most instances/communities who claim to be anarchists while running their instances like dictatorships.

If you wanted to start communities about either topic and wanted to ban ai slop while moderating in good faith, there’s likely a demand for that.

Nope, way more than 8.

It’s usually only reported as an attempt if it requires time to physically recover from the attempt. Like, put in a coma but still alive, or permanent damage from the attempt.

Even if medical reported every attempt they know about, a lot never even make it to medical.

The reported number will never match reality, and with this administration you can’t trust any number they say anyways. This worked out to the same ratio as Navy wide, including the majority who were on land.

It’s obvious bullshit.

Yeah, it was always a weird mix.

The year before I saw Billy Idol in a tiny tent like 6 feet max from the stage, which was bucket list level.

But for most of his set it was just bored teenagers waiting for Passion Pit to come on

Die Antword at 2014 Bonaroo

They’d rotate out for costume changes, so one vocalist was constantly on stage and the music and energy never dipped the entire set.

Can’t remember if that was before/after they blew up, but for whatever reason I was able to get super close to the stage.

Sony is basically a patent troll these days…

I’m pretty sure the majority of their patents are things they never intend to use, they just want to be able to charge anyone else that wants to do it.

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I just hate how the media pretends the wealthy buying elections is fine, and don’t even bother to explain what loopholes are being used so voters have a chance to level the playing field.

If the people don’t know what loopholes need closed, how will they know what to demand politicians close?

Like, c’mon buddy, you should have gotten that

Edit:

And normally I’d thank you for asking questions…

But the first one is basically rhetorical, and the second one is literally just a statement that you put a “?” on the end…

Honestly most people wouldn’t have bothered responding when you “ask” like that, comes off that you’re just looking for a slap fight and don’t actually want anyone to clarify so you can understand

So it seems the limit for “non family” is half that, 9k

“Family” is over 300k, but it would be weird if one candidate being an ex husband, that would somehow count…

I just hate how the media pretends the wealthy buying elections is fine, and don’t even bother to explain what loopholes are being used so voters have a chance to level the playing field.

If it wasn’t already an issue, AI companies wouldn’t be destroying old books to guarantee they weren’t training on AI slop…

The problem is if AI replaces writers, there will never be anything new to train AI on.

Humans haven’t hit a wall on innovation, were just no longer in the massive boom from early internet.

Historically the only way to cause those booms is to connect humans together to facilitate the exchange of ideas and collaboration.

We’re headed so fast to the opposite I don’t know if tech bros are too overconfident to understand they were a product of their time and not the other way around, or if they’re smart and selfish enough that they’re intentionally trying to freeze human innovation so that there won’t be another boom so no other group could clean up and replace them.

Nah, Gemini is really bad.

There’s a push to use AI where I work and we have our own Gemini, openAI, and Grok models and they literally check to make people are at least “trying” to use it…

Gemini will spin “thinking” for maybe 30 seconds, then something like “checking google results” and then just spitting out the same “ai overview” you’d get from searching the same thing.

All Gemini can do is Google something and summarize the first few results, but at that point a human could just pick a trustworthy site themselves instead of going with what has the best search optimization all mashed up.

With that one (and likely a lot of others) the big search engines becoming shit from AI slop and search optimization is going to also make AI even shittier, then the top links the next AI will be shittier.

We’ll get AI rewrites of AI rewrites, repeating itself exponentially faster as more money is sunk into it and hallucinations just keep repeating.

Like, this is the natural results of monopolies. Corporations get so large they can’t help but ruin the parts that work by integrating parts no one wants to try and make them profitable.

Because one corporation can’t function and be as large as Google. It’s just too much to keep organized while constantly growing profits. It’s like how the square cube law limits the size of buildings and animals.

The larger an animal gets, the weaker it gets pound for pound, until it would reach a point where it isn’t even strong enough to breathe…

That’s where these giant tech companies are headed.