bartolomeo

I hate that you are absolutely right.

Medical directors do not see any patient records or put their medical judgment to use, said former company employees familiar with the system. Instead, a computer does the work. A Cigna algorithm flags mismatches between diagnoses and what the company considers acceptable tests and procedures for those ailments. Company doctors then sign off on the denials in batches, according to interviews with former employees who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“We literally click and submit,” one former Cigna doctor said. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”

That's cool. Another point for the Rhino.

What exactly did Marx predict that is true today? Was it something like the rise of subscription services or more like general increasing inequality under capitalism?

You mean in communism? I'm no expert but I believe it's the workers, even though "owning" doesn't mean quite the same as we use it now.

Lmao found the American.

Doesn't it seem like communism and capitalism have the same end game? Company towns and one company that produces everything and you have no options. The only difference I guess is that under capitalism, the owners of the means of production are not accountable to anyone and can not be removed whereas under communism the owners of the means of production are democratically elected members of the workforce that are accountable to the people and can be removed if need be.

Are you sure you're not confusing communism with authoritarianism or fascism? Capitalism is more closely associated with the latter than communism.

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard always reminds me of this:

https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741

Keep in mind that article is from 1998. Prescient as always, the Onion really is America's Finest News Source(TM).

This is an excellent point but this right here

We write a lot of fiction about AI launching nukes and being unpredictable in wargames, such as the movie Wargames where an AI unpredictably plans to launch nukes.

is my Most Enjoyed Paragraph of the Week.

Imagine combining AI with this:

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/

I'm glad the article linked to this one:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/low-performance-external-m2-nvme-ssd-found-to-have-microsd-cards-inside

because that has been going on for at least 15 years (that I know of). When ebay was at it's peak it was impossible to buy a good USB stick there because it seemed you could only get 512 mb sticks disguised as 32 gb sticks with a price in between the two and coming directly from China.

You mean 2 piholes or adguard homes, right? That way if one goes down you can still use the other one.

Does it work if you change your DNS server by editing /etc/resolv.conf and having it show exactly one name server like

nameserver 9.9.9.9

?