NoneOfUrBusiness

All like ten of them? This needs to be accompanied by a massive house construction campaign; there’s so little new supply of houses that it’s literally causing a housing crisis.

Which ultimately won’t matter because China will monopolize third world markets and starve Western makers to irrelevance.

I am not sure how another economic system will fix this.

Other economic systems have assholes, true, but capitalism is uniquely myopic in this respect. A socialist system would take away the polluters’ power to hinder change. There’s a reason (still capitalist to be fair) China is a world leader in renewable energy, and that’s because they don’t have rich and powerful lobbies forcing fossil fuels down people’s throats.

But I would argue setting the incentives right, can mitigate damage

Until capitalists use their wealth and power to remove those incentives, which leads us back to “end capitalism.” This is the fundamental problem with reformism; under capitalism there will naturally be mechanisms for resisting and winding back said reform, making “nicer” versions of it mere interludes interrupting the crushing boot of exploitation and destruction we all know and love.

Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor).

I’ve seen it said somewhere that, with the advent of AI, society has to embrace UBI or perish, and while that’s an exaggeration it does basically get the point across.

Nah those guys hate (gen)AI because it’s (gen)AI, or for other reasons that are ultimately intrinsic to the tech such as the intellectual property aspect.

What monopoly?

I think the “on public flagpoles” part is important here.

I think OpenAI is big enough to be in the oligarchy running in its own right rather than be acquired.

This is this century’s industrial revolution and the West isn’t even in the competition anymore.

I don’t think it is, maybe we are due for another growth spurt but from here on out I genuinely think a critical mass has been achieved where it will simply make more and more sense for people to come here.

Maybe for English and a handful of major European languages, but there’s no way I could recommend the Fediverse (at least the Threadverse; I don’t hang out on Mastodon) to an Arabic or Japanese speaker. In that area it’s still severely lacking.

That’s… uh… thanks, Trump? Now lemme go wash my mouth real quick.

Gorilla In Gorilla Out?

What. The. Fuck.

As someone watching this from outside: More of this please.

Surprise quiz: Using an epsilon-delta proof, find the value to which the badness of your time management decisions converges to or show that it diverges.

That particular famine’s not the real warning though, that’s just war shit and Russian cyclical famines that were ended by modern agriculture.

Okay so cyclical famines don’t kill millions of people that’s not how that works. The main cause of the famine was the war, but the war caused the famine through (among other things) War Communism. In the immortal words of one angry Irish dude: God created the potato blight crop failures; the British Communist Party created the famine.

What you want is the Lysenkoism-caused famines that followed it, partly because the Soviets were so desperate to end the cycles and thus prove their legitimacy.

Those are more clear-cut since there was no war to blame for incompetent Soviet policy, but I wanted to point out that even Lenin himself was a failure as a ruler and not at all the source of sound socioeconomic ideas when it comes to actually solving the problem he claimed to have the solution for.

I don’t think you should be taking socio-economic understanding from the guy whose mismanagement caused/exacerbated this. And, you know, created an authoritarian state out of a revolution; that was bad too.

Yeah fair enough.

That’s true, but it’s still up to them whether they want to get arrested over social media comments somebody else made.

Y’all should actually read the post. They’re clear that they don’t want to do this but fear extreme repression by the German government, and they even listed examples of what exactly they’re trying to avoid. I’m no Israel apologist, but I’m convinced.