zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

If this is Walmart we're talking about then I sure as hell contributed to their success by subsidizing their underpaid employees with food stamps.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Don't know who needs to hear this but VPNs are allowed in China and can get around "censorship". In general you can still access information abroad but China is dedicated to having their mass-media not be inflammatory. You can talk about Uighurs on RedNote, but you can't level baseless accusations and expect those to stay up.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

You need to have better opinions. Only Nazis disagree with me! /s

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The point is that being a consumer of AI is not seizing the means of production. If you're not spending millions of dollars training and operating the AI to actually own it, the power you have is on lease and the terms can change at anytime without regard to your needs or wishes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

More like national socialist

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

AI isn't your pal, it is not the cure for isolation under capitalism. It is also not free to run unless you are the product.

Frankly this take that AI will lead to a communist revolution if people embrace the technology reads more like Vulgar Marxism. You're not seizing the means of production by being a consumer of a technology. And training a communist aligned LLM is a dubious value proposition.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So I guess you'd say we should change nothing and ignore the wildly eroding support and the poll numbers showing the democratic party has just 28% favorability?

My brother in Christ, you're not talking to a liberal here.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Listen to yourself. You're saying the Democrats are our only hope yet they also don't listen.

Democrats do listen, but only to those with power. Before anything can change for the better we need power for ourselves.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Obamacare was always a rhetorical device to prove how unserious the GOP is at governing.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems -5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Except MAGA is not neoliberalism unless we think tariffs are now "free trade". I get the point that neither party will wield power against capitalism, but they still use their power differently.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

I think in order to be a good psychiatrist you need to understand what your patient is "babbling" about. But you also need to be able to challenge their understanding and conclusions about the world so they engage with the problem in a healthy manner. Like if the guy is worried how AI is making the internet and world more dead then maybe don't go to the AI to be understood.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

Decoupling the market was them admitting their stuff is not as popular to the global market

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