You are thinking too small.

I’m going to steal all the Walmart stores.

“AI” from 90s video games, where you tell your unit to go build something and it gets stuck on the one tree in its path.

CEOs fall for it every time.

The USA is 50 corporations in a trench coat.

One of us can only tell the truth, the other can only tell lies.

That’s good that your bean never falls off.

I yearn to live in the mines.

Love Weird Al Hate weird AI

We are spending countless billions into AI bullshit and forcing everyone to train it to replace their own careers with no plan for them when that happens, most places haven’t been even giving CoL raises or promotions, most forced everyone to start driving back into the office for no reason even though we all proved that remote work was far better in every metric, again wasting even more of their time and money. Everything is becoming 1984 dystopian, everything is being tracked and monitored and videoed and data collected on you all just to maximize how much they can exploit out of you. And we work our asses off for all that and take home just enough pay to hopefully not starve or go homeless. (And more than ever are sinking below that baseline)

And the C suit morons STILL can’t figure out why millions of workers are at an all-time low morale?

Incredible. These guys could throw a rock at the ground and miss. They would starve in a grocery store. They couldn’t find a tree in a forest. And other mocking jests.

Crazy thought. Let people WFH again. Pay them a living wage at MINIMUM. Reign in the AI bullshit and only use it where it makes sense, don’t force it. Treat your employees as humans. Don’t be evil. Tell the truth. Value their contributions and skill and knowledge and ethics. Stop punishing them and instead set them up for success and enable them and watch what happens.

Yep.

So, would you like to not talk about my not religion with me?

Exactly.

I’m so damn tired of seeing comments like “why do you keep complaining about Trump, but you didn’t complain so much about Biden?” As if that’s even a legitimate question.

Because that dumbass pedo is destroying our country, looting all the coffers, pissing our allies off, starting wars, increasing costs of living and just generally fucking everything up for ALL OF US!!! Biden was too old and didn’t do as much as I’d have liked, but goddammit don’t even pretend they are equally bad. They aren’t in the same ballpark, they aren’t even the same sport.

These MAGA morons sound like “why are you screaming because I stabbed you in the chest with a knife, but you didn’t complain when Joe gave you a paper cut?”

WTF!

Join the Satanic Temple or some Humanist org or something. For some reason people lose their minds if your religion is just “none”, but are at least more ok with it being something, even if the something had only one tenet and that was “none”.

Capitalism working exactly as intended. They siphon off most of the profits and benefits and toss a few crumbs out to us on occasion.

People don’t seem to comprehend just how much money gets collected by the people at the top of their corporation pyramid scheme.

You work your ass off, generate millions of profit for the company, the CEO gets to take 99% of it for him and his lazy gang of thieves and maybe everyone else gets a few thousand as a bonus. Maybe.

Or they blow it on AI and blow and then lay people off to fix their mistakes.

Someone making a profit simply from “owning” it or being at the top and contributing 0 is a crime against us all.

Replying to your comment to hit my required comments per day goal.

If a metric becomes a target, It ceases to be a good measure. If it ceases to be a good measure, It will want a glass of milk. If it wants a glass of milk, It will want a cookie. If it wants a cookie, It will need to become a target. If it needs to become a target, It will want to be a measure.

The neat thing is you don’t even need AI for that!

Even better idea for a new fashion trend. Cans of black spray paint and paintball gun accessories, with a cute little strap. And if a few cameras get accidentally blinded well that’s just the price we are willing to pay to slay.

Same with Flock and Ring and all the smartphone apps with location access we carry around all day.

We’ve slowly given away every last shred of privacy and have no increased security or happiness from it. In fact I believe our safety and security is FAR worse under mass surveillance than if we simply “did nothing”. Surveillance and police and punishment do not really stop crime or help protect anyone, it just opens up dozens of other avenues for harm.

Also, I don’t know about you guys, but I feel icky being out in public now. I’m so painfully aware that I’m being filmed from 15 different angles as I walk or drive or do anything, I feel like I’m being stalked and it’s creepy.

It’s back to the same question from the early days of the Internet. “How do you know the person you are talking to isn’t a cat?”. How can you know they aren’t a cat or maybe a clever monkey taking a break from typing Shakespeare, or how old they are, or who they even are?

You can’t.

You can implement every security measure available and anyone can simply lie or bypass it.

If by some miracle they actually implemented some age verification tech for OS and websites and the Internet as a whole, it will just pop up an underground market of “fake IDs” or hacks to get past it.

A future Linux install prompt: “Which state do you live?”

Everyone: Why, “California”, of course. Glad you asked.

There’s no way to enforce age verification, like on websites or closed software, in even normal circumstances, but if it’s open source or offline how could you even begin to attempt it? It’s so silly.

Yes, won’t quit, can’t quit, seriously, help.