My view is that AI should be entirely in the public domain, but yeah, everyone owning them might be a step toward that.

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It can be that way, but keep making the case. You’re not wrong about this.

It’s a bunch of reasons, but the one that we can actually do something about is the social democratic safety nets. We have way fewer in the US and that causes rampant anxiety, which leads to violence. Switzerland’s population isn’t on the brink of snapping, so they tend not to shoot each other.

I used to see anti-AI people as myopic and foolish, but seeing how it’s being developed and implemented is really eye-opening. They’re pushing an unfinished, unrefined technology that often adds to the ecological crisis and might be poisoning people’s drinking water, so they can roll the dice in terms of what it’ll do to the economy while using it to spy on everyone. The public face of all this is these companies telling us that we should be terrified of what it’ll do to the job market, but we need to invest in it big time, right now. I apologize to anyone I spoke down to. I get it. It’s not a way forward, but I get it.

Agreed. I distro-hopped for months before settling on Void. It took a while for me to figure out (with help from the internet) that systemd was causing a lot of the problems I was having. It’s been smooth sailing since I found Void and I’ve never been happier with an OS.

It really isn’t difficult to install or use, and I think experienced users would probably appreciate it as much as I do. It does what you tell it to, out of the box. Nothing more, nothing less.

I’d really appreciate it if Bernie and co would go whole hog. 50% is a half measure, whereas proposing full nationalization would be more respected on a world stage and probably in congress.

Is “dying” the right word? They’re struggling, but I won’t be surprised if this administration or the next bails Meta out, since fb and insta are essentially public services for a lot of people, as much as I hate that. The smart thing for the fed government to do is to nationalize Meta’s platforms.

Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.

Can’t remember the last time I had my throat slipped. I think about it and touch myself at night.

I didn’t mean to imply that liberalism and conservativism are completely indistinguishable, but rather that conservative thought generally represents the right wing of liberalism in the west. Sorry if this was unclear.

This omits what an earlier comment pointed out: that your typical MAGA/MAGA-adjacent “conservative” public figure is essentially fascist.

Chef’s kiss emoji on this one. Absolute legend.