I’m too burnt out to care about the economy or component prices anymore.

I just want the morons who got hooked on this shit and ruined their brains into mush using it to reap what they have sowed and face the music when their brain substitute costs more than they could ever afford.

They though you could game the system by saturating everything with metric cartloads of useless slop, the bastards, while those of us with still functioning brains waddled through it and attempted to fix it!? Well, fuck them, now they won’t be able to afford their crutch and their brain will be too far rotten to ever come back!

We’ll still have to clean their damn mess, of course, and the world will be much worse than before they and their suppliers ruined it, but at least there might finally be a light at the end of the tunnel.

Here’s a list of reasons.

Evidence points to them being suckers, yes.

best

least worst

Alternatives being even worse doesn’t make firefox good, or invalidate any objective criticism against it.

ACAB.

Removed by mod

Ew, no, thanks. Feels like he got this “idea” from some slop machine.

Just tax them, regulate them, fine them into bankruptcy, and sue them for crimes against humanity.

Use taxes and regulations to incentivize cooperatives and disincentivize private companies.

Tax revenue and income progressively (starting on the negatives: if you’re below the mean you get money), reaching 100% for anything above 100,000$/month for individuals and 100,000$/month/employee for companies.

Scale fines with personal wealth/ valuation, so that they have the same impact regardless of wealth.

Tax and regulate the stock exchange like the gambling joint that it is.

Hold CEOs, boards, and stockholders personally responsible for any crimes or torts committed by their companies.

Nationalise any companies that provide first needs or anything remotely resembling a utility, and turn them into cooperatives.

Tax 100% of any wealth over, say, ten times the mean.

I don’t know, there’s so many better things to do than spreading this cancer over all the population. All this would do is make it hit harder once the bubble pops.

He’s great in Collateral. He plays great villains.

One is not incompatible with the other.

We can have equal rights, even as many rights as possible (as equal rights could include no one having any rights) and not be allowed to harm or endanger each other, or by extension the environment.

This alone takes care of practically everyone who shouldn’t be allowed to drive, without giving them any less rights.

More importantly, though, the fact that you’re experiencing road rage and thus driving while impaired by it means that you shouldn’t be allowed to drive, because you’re evidently a threat to everyone else on or about the road.

for those of us not willing to write a fucking CPU

There’s insane maniacs who’ve written fucking CPUs in CSS, Minecraft, and Conway’s game of life, among many other environments not intended for writing fucking CPUs.

Can’t some insane maniac simply write a fucking CPU for FPGAs and release it as open source?

Plenty of insane maniacs have released lots of more useless stuff as open source, why not this?

(Using insane maniac as a compliment here; the world would be a much more boring and unenjoyable place without insane maniacs willing to waste their time making it a better or at least more interesting place.)

We’re reaching dot com boom era levels of absurdity.

He then used a jump suit to glide long distances

That’s what the webbing under the armpits is supposed to be for.

The reality is just the US developed much of its infrastructure (1940s-1960s) with car companies basically calling the shots during that era

The reality is the USA had public transport systems that were criminally dismantled by the car cartels.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a documentary.

By any measure they are “very smart”.

Psychopaths. The word you’re looking for is psychopaths.

CEOs are objectively utter and complete evil morons, though.

Because LLMs and similar generative “AI” tools aren’t intelligent.

Nor, arguably, are they artificial, since the models are grown rather than built.

The Spanish National police

This was apparently the ertzaintza, though.

They have been gradually becoming a highly professional and civilised police force

Sure, but to make up for that there’s still the guardia civil.

ACAB, and I can’t believe I’m defending Spain, whose police would almost certainly have done the same, but it seems to be the ertzaintza, the Basque police, so if anyone they’re supposed to represent Euskadi, not Spain.