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I absolutely guarantee it's because he's pissy. He's the kind of guy who, as long as you pander & praise him he's generosity itself but it's always a transaction to him - if he feels like it's not enough coddling, he'll cut you off without a second thought.

Even though I also came close to believing him back in his heyday, he never actually wanted to fix the energy problem. He just wanted to be known as the guy who fixed the energy problem.

https://toad.social/@KimPerales/112366139386490081

@gyokusai @pluralistic "In corrupt systems, a few bad actors cost everyone else billions in order to bring in millions – the savings a factory can realize from dumping pollution in the water supply are much smaller than the costs we all bear from being poisoned by effluent. But the costs are widely diffused while the gains are tightly concentrated, so the beneficiaries of corruption can always outspend their victims to stay clear." 👍👍

Yup, about sums it up...

#AI #tech #business

@fanden Det er altsammen rigtig fint, men der er no f**king way jeg har råd til telefoner til de priser - eller er interesseret i at betale det hvis jeg havde. Plejer at købe en model der er nogle år gammel, men det marked omfatter af en eller anden grund aldrig f.eks. Fairphone, som jeg har haft før & gerne ville have igen (men altså ikke har råd til)...

@fanden Det gør jeg ik for det kan jeg ik finde ud af & det kan de fleste ik & vi er så f**ked...

I don't know who needs to hear this but no, all politicians are not like Trump.

I can't believe we still have to hear anything resembling "that's just how politicians talk" with regards to TFG at this point.

"If somebody shows you who they are, believe them" is apparently too difficult to grasp.

Also, if all politicians were, in fact, like that it would be an entirely new level of disaster. It's not a justification for brushing off his malicious & insane behavior.

#uspolitics #press

@GottaLaff @Sandywb @argv_minus_one Also, yes, TFG is formally held to account - but has it come with any actual consequences for him so far?

I mean, he's just going ignore the rulings; he was already a criminal before & saying so won't stop him. He's just going to keep doing what he does until he's fitted for an orange jump suit.

@GottaLaff @Sandywb @argv_minus_one Do you see him shopping for groceries at Walmart or taking the subway?

Being rich is sticky; rich people don't go broke - you have to take their money away by force.

@kaia Oh, wow... I remember REVOX being one of my extremely coveted brands when I was a teen & definitely couldn't afford to come anywhere near it 😝 their reel-to-reel decks in particular were state-of-the-art at the time 🤩

Looks about right...

#memes #alexkrokus

@tchambers @fediversenews @hachyderm That's all well & good but I do idly wonder: Have you guys ever heard that boiling frog story...?

Are you aware that every single one of those parameters for harm is elastic - and that therefore starting like this, you're barreling towards the exact same fruitless "did they or didn't they?" discussion Meta has been hiding its wrongdoing behind for like two decades at this point?

- or do you simply believe that Meta is going to place nice this time?

@aral The sad thing is, nobody doesn't know how absurd & incongruous this is - and yet they did it anyway, clearly & aggressively demonstrating that the Powers That Be™️ couldn't give less of a sh*t about reason, accountability, or indeed the future of humanity on this planet...

@aral @futurebird I can't be arsed to research it but my guess would be that they have some sort of petty personal beef between them. After all, the only thing billionaires hate more than poor people is other billionaires.

@strypey @trib @laura @aral @danhon Sorely needed indeed - as very eloquently pointed out by Mike Monteiro in his talk "How Designers Destroyed The World" 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg15fVFnXFk

@aral Will definitely watch in its entirety - but just from your headline it seems this talk may be related, subject-wise, to Mike Monteiro's 2015 "How Designers Destroyed The World", which remains one of my favorites on this topic 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcM21l61TE

@emilymbender A Thai library, or a Chinese room... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Also, reminds me of the time an astronomer thought he could see canals on Mars which appeared to be created by an intelligence - there aren't, of course, so another guy later observed that sure, the lines he thought he saw in his telescope were indeed signs of intelligence, but on the opposite end of the scope...

@tanyakaroli @mok0 Jeg har spottet kolporteringer af MAGA-vinklen i dansk presse 6-7 gange her til formiddag alene, fra Informeren, TV-2, JP, Berlingske, Politiken... det er fuldstændig vildt.

@aaribaud There are several episodes where Kirk logic-bombs a computer do death - but in one specific one he actually defeats an incorporeal alien, which has possessed the main computer, by asking the computer to calculate Pi to the last digit, thus locking it up ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in_the_Fold

@aaribaud OK, technically Spock asks the computer to calculate Pi ? Anyway, here's TVTropes' list of TOS Logic Bombs ?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LogicBomb

@aaribaud also known as Kirk-ing. ?