your inability to understand it doesn’t make it bad analogy

Wow how condescending we are today. I’m sorry I failed to appreciate the analogy that your big, beautiful smooth brain produced.

Prick.

Yes, of course you shouldn’t drive under influence. Still, what a bad analogy. Two completely unrelated scenarios.

or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.

that may happen despite your contributing or not

You USians don’t have a real left, you’ve got hard-right VS raving-mad-frothing-at-the-mouth-right

EDIT: and both sides are fascist

There isn’t a iota of marxism in Russia’s Putin. It may be authoritarian, but Russia ain’t stalinist, unless you’re using the term as some slang for authoritarian.

I’m just putting some gray on your rose-tinted idealized Japan. No need to be so defensive about it. And it’s hardly the only place that what I said applies, plenty of places in Europe are like that, or on the fast track to become like that.

On the bright side pedophilia was completely eradicated and all the children are safe now.

the most uncanny line in the whole post

Don’t forget to include a healthy dose of xenophobia, so that you’ll feel unwanted and ostracized anywhere you go. Add some fascism too, lots of people there love it.

and stalinist like Putin

lolwut?

nobody would know if it’s all supressed

No kind of communism I know aimed for luxury even in theory

Why waste effort and resources on superfluous things when most of humanity barely make ends meet, and a sizable part yet go hungry/dies of preventable diseases?

Given enough time and an enormous budget it’s inevitable any determined organization could make it.

This kind of milestone isn’t reachable by most countries in the world mostly because of the price tag attached to it

This is how you fight the war against the elite. Not with guns, but with wallets that refuse to open. They can’t take our money unless we agree to buy their goods.

No, this cannot work. Their wallets are much, much bigger than almost all of ours combined.

why stop there, let’s dismantle ALL big tech while we’re at it

Can yt-dlp download Udemy courses?

Found this, not sure if it works because I’m not enrolled in any course ATM, feel free to try it out

Organizing against AI threats

there would be fewer downvotes if the subtitle inside the text was the title

There was a hilarious one in the human anus article, about the picture being used in said article