Even if they all stupided themselves to death today, it would take years to repair the damage. Some of the damage can’t be repaired. And we’d still be behind where we could have been if we had had competent leadership to begin with. Or even just less bad leadership.

We should never forgive the Republicans. Every one of them should be a pariah.

All the people who were mad about Clinton’s email that aren’t furious about this are hypocrits that should never be taken seriously again.

If you think ‘voluntary’ is acceptable for anything important you want corporations to do, you have no business making decisions about real life. If it’s voluntary, they’ll only do it if it benefits them.

You’d revive that program over the bloody corpses of many conservatives. Which, actually, yeah let’s do that. A lot of other problems go away if the right wing bleeds out.

Labor hasn’t organized enough to say “Fuck this shit” and demand a livable wage in exchange for their labor.

Meanwhile, management is salivating at the idea of firing most people and replacing them with AI.

The ownership class needs to go. Workers need to at the very least unionize, but should also take things further and seize control of what they’ve built.

I was just saying the other day that shit might escalate to car bombs. I don’t really want to live in a world where I have to worry about that, but I do want musk and friends to explosively die.

If those Internet duds that get mad about black people in video games spent like half that energy being mad about, like, wage theft, we’d be so much better off.

And is it logical for that to change based on whether it’s a protest or advocacy?

…yes? Context matters. My go to example is “cutting someone open and taking out an organ is fucked up and a crime, unless you’re like a doctor doing surgery in a hospital”

I feel like sometimes people try to handle human situations like they need to write a perfect algorithm that can run in BASIC.

If they thought about things and came to good conclusions afterwards, they probably wouldn’t be driving this kind of car to begin with. The people who are driving it are probably not good thinkers.

I think we should organize and go demand everyone working for DOGE… stop. And not demand like with funny signs and chants, but like with 2nd amendment arms.

That’s really bad. You might get other people sick with what you have, but if they’re immune compromised or otherwise vulnerable they could have a really bad, possibly fatal, time.

Apply it to healthcare, science, finances, and the world will become a better place, especially in healthcare.

That’s all kind of moot if we continue down the capitalist hellscape express. What good is an AI that can diagnose cancer if most people can’t afford access? What good is AI writing novels if our homes are destroyed by climate change induced disasters?

Those problems are mostly political, and AI isn’t going to fix them. The people that probably could be replaced with AI, the shitty “leaders” and such, are not going to voluntarily step down.

There’s a shared theme with like all of humanity’s woes: people don’t care that much.

From pollution to injustice to shitty websites, if people cared just a little more the problem would be dramatically reduced or even eliminated.

But so many people are just apathetic. Overwhelmed and checked out.

I’d like to privatize Wells Fargo, where I also mean “dismantle and leave behind an unrecognizable corpse”

We should probably come up with a system where money doesn’t mean more access to the legal system.

Maybe you’re just not allowed to hire a lawyer directly, but you have to go through some magical entity that’s not corrupt and they assign you people.

Or fuck it, just fix everything else so no one is super rich compared to everyone else.

you’re describing a small percentage of the population here

do you mean a small population on this community, or in life?

I live in NYC and most people haven’t brought it up to me, a handful have whined about it. But I also know a lot of urban nerds that love it.

This is good to read, but I feel like the people who oppose congestion pricing / are pro-car operate on feelings and vibes. Facts won’t really convince them.

Most people like to be productive.

There is enough money and resources. It’s mostly just consolidated in the hands of the rich. You’ve probably seen https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ . If you spread that around, you get more economic activity.

Lots of people choose to do stuff instead of just chilling. Go look at all the open source projects that are just made by hobbyists, or community gardens, or any number of other self organized projects. Capitalism with all the profit is theft bits isn’t the only way.

Conservatives aren’t generally considered smart, kind, people.

I’m not sure I follow. What do you think is bullshit?

Someone still needs to do work, but not everyone needs to work all the time.