People like Elon Musk and Donald Trump would love the power that China has over its citizens in online affairs.

They want to make it as normal as possible for people to identify themselves online so anyone who doesn’t stands out and it’s easier to pass laws to make privacy illegal.

Corporations like Discord are how oligarchs exert their will over the population, since they can’t always use the government directly (yet.)

It’s all about testing the waters and seeing what they can get away with.

It’s how abusive relationships work.

Lol, these mods are a joke.

Yes. We need to keep in mind that the real battle being fought here is market dominance.

Western companies and governments want to dominate so they can screw everyone else over harder than China would.

Consumers are sheep whether they’re on the left or right.

People on the left hate Tesla and Musk because of Musk’s politics instead of him being a conman colluding to keep EV prices high.

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I use Aliexpress over Amazon whenever possible.

It’s insane the amount of scams going on on Amazon.

No, it’s a part of human nature and most people can’t rise above it.

Some laws were meant to be broken.

Gay sex was seen as a crime, once upon a time. (it still is, in some places)

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) map of Flock cameras: https://deflock.org/

We can all do our part. Be safe and hide your identity. Leave your phones at home because they can be used to track you.

Not sure why dipshits keep voting for these stooges.

Oh right, it’s because they’re dipshits.

Let me guess, none of them said this during their campaigns.

Useful idiots only elect servants of the ruling class.

Good.

Fuck copyright and patent laws.

Nah, they’re just upset that I criticized their non-existent standards so they pretend that what I’m saying doesn’t make sense.

I see it all the time.

If you can’t read, sure.

Words mean literally whatever you want them to.

The fact is AI can make as-good or better art than most “artists” because most “art” is just cookie-cutter shit for morons.

"writers have been trained to eat and make the garbage too. As long as they are in that arena making that shit, then you might as well have AI do it,”

Learn to read.

I said the art industry.

This is an obvious misstatement. If you actually believe this then you’re not qualified to have opinions on art in general.

“At this point, the only thing that makes money is garbage. It’s just fascinating. It makes a fortune, and that’s the bottom line,”

"writers have been trained to eat and make the garbage too. As long as they are in that arena making that shit, then you might as well have AI do it,”

-Charlie Kaufman

https://deadline.com/2023/08/charlie-kaufman-ai-wga-strike-hollywood-sarajevo-1235498089/

Eh, the art industry destroyed itself when it became nothing but sellouts. This happened decades ago.

The fact is AI can make as-good or better art than most “artists” because most “art” is just cookie-cutter shit for morons.