tristan

My dad is smarter than 99% of CEOs.

At least that’s what LinkedIn games want him to believe.

At this rate why sell hardware to people anymore? Might as well rip the bandaid and make it a cloud-gaming device.

quietly announced

We’re hitting new lows.

Selfless and morally guided actions. He’s the dictionary definition of a hero.

Because immigrants use their money to buy food and shelter and make the local economy thrive, while AI gets money in the pockets of the rich

If someone is “attractive,” there’s a fair bit of chance they’ve done stuff to get there already, like exercising, skincare, etc.

The things on the image are just an extension of that. They’re not thinking like OP that they’ve done enough. It’s all the same thing.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

When rich people figured out the economy is really just a social construct

Both your and their comment can be true at the same time.

These seem to have been the meta on LinkedIn until recently.

Five 👀

“Hey, can I interest you in data entry for AI?”

Same. People need to start reacting to that stuff and actually unsubscribe. If you go along with it complacently, companies are only going to double down.

If you carry a scorpion on your back and you’re surprised when you get stung, maybe the problem less with you.

They’re not even using it correctly because it should be ðe and ðis as they’re soft voice sounds.

I went the self-hosting route too. I use seafile for files, immich for photos, vaultwarden for passwords, baikal for calendars and contacts, and freshrss for news. I could’ve consolidated most of it in a nextcloud instance, but I’m more attracted to the UNIX philosophy.

Regarding email, I’m using my own domain on Proton with simple login setup as a catchall to automatically create aliases. I went through all the accounts in my password manager and changed all emails to unique identifiable aliases, or straight up deleted anything I don’t see myself using anymore.

For de-googling, the hardest part after changing all email addresses on services (no redirect) was to switch “login with google” accounts back to classic accounts with credentials to either delete or switch them to a SL alias. Convenience really is how they get and keep you. I had to do the same with Apple and Microsoft too, and I’m not using these “login with…” buttons anymore.

One important lesson that you’ve learned as well is don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. Ask yourself what would happen to you tomorrow if a service you use (like Proton) revoked your account. For me, as I’ve set up catchall’s with my own domain, I could still set it up with another provider and not lose access to these. That’s also why I actively don’t treat their drive and calendar solutions as anything more than another offsite backup.

Resilience is key.

Hey, thank you for re-reading and engaging with what I actually wrote.

The one interrogation that was not solved for me is that such a change requires a tremendous amount of energy and dedication across all society’s decision-makers, and I fail to see where that energy would be sourced from when almost any forces able to institute change benefits from the status quo.

I don’t disagree that there are better theoretical systems, I just fail to understand by what miracle they would ever be realised from the starting position we find ourselves in. It isn’t just about how many of us vs how many of them it is, unfortunately. The entire world’s understanding of power dynamics, trust in money and institutions would need to shift, and after that, there’s little guarantee the same people wouldn’t come on top again to corrupt it all.

I guess my question is: how do you guard any system from human corruption, other than just honour, promises, and gentleman’s agreement?

If you make yourself a ruler and give yourself the power to stop such corruption (which fundamentally needs to be more power than it takes to instigate it), you’re effectively becoming « the good dictator », and then how can you guarantee that this amount of power will not be used for bad by yourself, or any of the people that will come after you? When power concentrates this much, it only takes one bad person to get it.

I tried watching it from the browser and it showed correctly for me… 🤔 I don’t really know what the issue might be.

Thank you for that, this echoes my sentiment.

About technical difficulties, I don’t really know. My lemmy app doesn’t seem to be having any problems, so it may be a client-related problem.

That’s very intellectually dishonest of you to reduce my argument to “100% just saying ‘we shouldn’t do socialism because it has failed in the past.’” That’s what we call a strawman argument, and that’s not what I’m saying if you read what I wrote. What I’m saying is:

1. The way power and influence has been handed out in the past 200+ years, is mostly giving it to who was able to get the richest.
2. Getting richer than 99% of the population around you strongly correlates with sociopathic tendencies, aka not caring about your fellow humans and sacrificing everything for money.
3. People with capital and influence, and people with legislative power have social ties that run at a deeper level than just “capitalism,” and a system change would not sever or alter these in a significant way.
4. As long as “the influent” know the right people, they will try, and mostly succeed at, corrupting whatever new system has been brought upon.
5. Even if you somehow magically imprison or wipe out all these people, which is morally more than questionable, as long as there are positions of power within your system, sociopaths will continue to seek and attain them, and the cycle will start anew.

I’m not a nihilist, I’m providing an observation based on human behaviour and our current system. I’m not saying nothing can be done about it, but oh boy you’re going to need way more that socialism. You’ll need a grassroots, global (aka, almost every country on board with it) movement, involving a complete overhaul of the education and values system across at least 100 years (to give time for people from the old world to be replaced), and at the same time have the current people in power somehow relinquish all their advantages and sit back to look at it. People who’ve been educated to believe the world is their oyster and a zero-sum game, sit down and do nothing while they see others thrive.

… how am I the one who’s unreasonable?