This is the same false analogy people make as to why Americans drive giant trucks to shift blame… it’s not the manufacturers who are pushing these cars to circumvent taxes, it is the users for demanding it.

Very few people actually like these invasive shit Microsoft pulls, but the vast majority either do not know about them, understand them or feel they have another choice. For example, I hate MS, I understand what dog shit this Recall feature is, yet my job will provide a Windows machine with it and I have no choice but to use it.

I am a nerd so at home I do have everything running on Linux. But for the majority of people that would be a unknown option or just an unobtainable one

Wow cool, thanks for all the good info

This belongs to “I’m 13 and this is deep” on reddit

Firedragon for desktop (fork of Floorp) and IceRaven for mobile (fork of Firefox)… Super happy with both

It’s called hyperbole

Yeap I’m just saying it’s sadly all too common

I’m actually degoogling at the moment precisely because of all this

Sadly, that’s what we do with phones, cars, tvs, etc

Then it’s just useless…

The blackberry was the exact opposite, it was an unpolished piece of ugly hardware that was, at the time, incredibly useful

Pretty tech that accomplishes nothing is akin to the garbage toy lights they peddled to kids in Disney… Just landfill e-waste

So you are speculating this is all good and innocent while I’m speculating they hire this guy to aim their data harvesting in a way the government would want to pay tons for it… Yet your speculation is apparently more valid then mine because, checks notes, reasons

There was some case where shareholders sued the board or the CEO because they were borderline embezzling.

In the judgement there was some language that these thieves were not prioritizing the shareholders and from that, the whole lie evolved that USA corporations have to kill their grandma’s if that’s the only way to profit

They legally can’t prioritize shit but shareholder profits.

This is a lie… Stop spreading it as it helps corporations hide behind it to do evil shit

At worst it’s open AI trying to buy some access to the security apparatus to get contracts. Seems less likely to me, since I don’t actually think they have anything valuable for that sector.

Didn’t you just also said this in this same post?

The Feds budget is big enough that bigger companies will absolutely prostrate themselves for a sample of it

I’m sure this time, unlike the prior times in the last 5000 years, slaughter will bring lasting peace

/S

Wow this was great… No idea Banksy had published any written work

No, really??!!

It’s a well documented sociological phenomena… maybe read a book before raging

I’m actually quite older… And as you get older you’ll see how the masses do not act as their individual parts

Again you are missing the point.

I know many great individuals, it’s the masses I fear

You won’t know the masses by knowing a few people. You learn by studying history and looking at statistics

wtf? by what standard?

if the climate change inaction (or worse, sabotage) did not convince you, I am certain the COVID behaviour should have

Humans frequently band together during disaster

If they are directly affected sure… otherwise people may throw some money (which is usually promptly embezzled) and move on

humans care for their young and old

Their own young, sure let’s say that is the common majority. Their own old? a lot more questionable. Other people’s LOL… can’t tell you how many people complain about their taxes feeding other people’s children. But this is not an argument against what I claimed… what I said was basically echoing what Tommy Lee Jones beautifully said in MIB, in a nutshell: a human (as an individual) can be AMAZING, but humans (as a herd) tend to default to he lowest common denominator and that sucks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCwFkOZoOY

humans don’t typically engage in cannibalism of the weak

what do you think capitalism is?

humans rarely fight to the death or even serious injury

Ok, now you are joking… no matter how old you are, I know with 100% accuracy that you have never lived in a world where, somewhere, there was a military conflict and people were being slaughtered… I know because we have not had such a time since 1816 (and that may just have been an absence of records)

Have we? Or do we just call it something else and make sure not to look?