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[–] [email protected] 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

One of the problems that the major news outlets have is that they repeat each other. It's not merely an issue of AI compiling news stories, but that on top of the fact that all of these newspapers are doing hardly any research. For example, if you live in a town that's not too large, there might only be one local paper, and they might send out reporters to local events. Obviously you would then go to that newspaper if you wanted to learn about local events, because they are adding explicit value.

But if you're trying to read about national politics, a lot of the information is going to be the same in a lot of the newspapers. Which means nobody cares about the newspaper itself. And this is a creation of the newspaper's own decision making over the past few decades.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

Well yeah. It's possible for peaceful protests to work, but let's look at history. In reality, the pigs are going to get violent regardless of what anyone does, the national guard will be called out and they're going to use tear gas because their bosses want them to, and despite the fear of injury or death, large groups of people will keep working to make things better.

This is guaranteed to occur. For good or bad, whatever, it will happen. So let's stop worrying about certain outcomes and move our focus to the uncertain things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Right ... except for all of the poor Boomers out there ... let's just forget about them. Let's forget about all the Boomers who tried very hard to stop the wealth shift to the rich. They don't count; they don't exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

You decided to blame the old people instead of ... checks notes ... the rich people. That was a bizarre choice. Meh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I would qualify your first point. Parkinson's Law tells us that we have pointless bosses in huge numbers, and they need to justify their own existence. The people who actually produce things, everyone can see if they're working or not by looking at the output. But their supervisors, and especially their supervisors' supervisors, those people are desperate to make themselves relevant, to justify their pointlessly-large salaries despite a complete lack of utility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Yes, and you should understand the corruption quite well seeing it firsthand over there, right? (Sad to say.)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There you go again. Blame the protestors for actions that others caused in conditions others created. Forget about the DNC, Biden, Harris ... they had no control over their own policies, did they? Of course not!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah the whole warning reads like bullshit. We already know that Trump supporters, and probably people inside the FBI, will join in protests and commit acts of violence. This is an old tactic, it's been around for decades, and it will always be used whenever people are having large political gatherings. You cannot avoid it.

So what's the alternative? Not ever protest? That's a stupid idea. And the author knows it stupid, which is why they didn't say it, and they just ignored the entire topic. Which means they are trying to manipulate people and we should ignore them because they are untrustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not worried about the hypocrisy here. I couldn't give a f*** about Trump being hypocritical. But I care an awful lot that he's threatening to do something terrible to someone he considers a political opponent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's true and this is not an example of such a situation, because he knew exactly what the reaction was going to be. He probably felt that he could ride that AI bubble away from it, but he knew the reaction was waiting for him.

The other thing about that claim, when it could possibly be credible, is it means that essentially the boss is not qualified to do their job. The one thing they should have done is been chatting with ordinary workers or customers to see what the actual needs are, and they're admitting it to somehow deflect from a bad decision they made but in doing so they've unwittingly shown that they're basically incompetent at their entire job.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Didn't Luigi have something to say about that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'll move myself and my family aside / If we happen to be left half alive / I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky / Though I know that the hypnotized never lie

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