The problem is that people like Zuckerberg, Bezos (and Trump in fact), don't react to humiliation the way ordinary people do. It makes them want to dominate the world more. I'll never forget the look on Trump's face at that correspondents dinner sitting there being ridiculed by everyone. He probably decided to ruin everything for everyone in the entire world right there and then. Bezos was ridiculed for decades as a dumb, failed entrepreneur and ended up quasi-enslaving over a million people, forcing a lot of them to pee in bottles and be monitored like lab mice. It just feels like the opposite of a good idea to add more fuel to their insecurities. It doesn't end well for the rest of us.
See, this is why I keep struggling when I'm telling someone about something I heard on here and they ask if it was on reddit
"No... it was on erm... well... it's this other place. It's not reddit... thank God it's not reddit but it's called erm... well it was Mbin and then that shut down and then it was kbin and now I'm on fedia.io but actually it's lemmy... but it's part of the fediverse... I think? it's... yeah it's like reddit basically but it's not... anyway this asteroid is going to zip by the earth later today. Here's a live youtube page that's tracking it" 🤣
This feels like the sort of thing a scumbag boss would make a giant print of and hang in an office where he underpays everyone and forces them to work a 60 hour week. I have had bosses like this. I once had a boss force everyone in his little sweatshop business (hidden in a basement in the UK) to write him a grovelling letter begging for their job. He demanded this by speakerphone from his office on the other side of the world. He would have loved this cartoon.
The thing about climate change that most governments seem to want more than anything, is for us ordinary people to know that it's our fault it's happening, not theirs. Decades of gaslighting just to make sure we all feel the climate is going crazy because we didn't individually recycle enough.
So do Americans (edit: who support Trump) understand that they are the ones paying the tariffs? When Trump tells them how many billions he's collected in tariffs do they realise it's their money he's collected? I keep wondering if I missed something...
It's a toss up between Hardspace: Shipbreaker, My time At Portia and Just Cause 3 for me. Three very different games. Floaty slicey boom, cute engineer mining and grapple fly shooty basically 🤣
Also very much in an "addiction phase" for the demo of G-Rebels which sadly goes away on Sunday 😥
While technically true, it is indubitably terrible optics for Trump. Specially since he was answering questions freely and then seemed to abruptly swerve that specific question.
The way I see it, my comments have prompted an enormous amount of discussion. The most interesting comment, I think, was from PixelProf when they said "Lots of students arbitrarily hating anything AI related". It's this blind, herd mentality that I attempted (apparently successfully) to start a discussion about. In fact a lot of what I wrote was driven by the point you were making, which I interpreted as being a funny take on the way people react to AI generated content.
Neither I, nor anyone, can "protect" it or slow it down. You either find a way to work with what's happening or spiral into greater and greater impotent rage. Better accept this now than slowly go mad no?
It doesn't get much more snowflakey than when you threaten to bomb the UN because an escalator didn't work 🤣