Maybe report them as POC when calling 911 so that they racist responders get really amped up?

That’s some eco-fascism-adjacent thinking, at best. You’re using your negative opinion of humanity to justify mass murder.

There’s a difference between your run of the mill corpo and a fascist. Not a huge one but, it is important.

Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is

He’s already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

Anything architected by fascists and their supporters is suspect. Maybe it looks good now but, such an individual would be more likely to quietly push malicious changes in the future.

The FCC, which licenses radio spectrum and makes the rules for device certification is part of the Executive branch. So are the CFPB and the SEC, or what’s left of them. He’s literally, corruptly leveraging his office to benefit his cons and preventing regulations from applying to himself and his cronies.

Besides the naked corruption?

He spends a lot of money to stay out of headlines.

In a world not dominated by unfettered capitalism, sure. That’s not the one that we live in however and this tool has both been built on stolen and unlicensed intellectual property as well as being used explicitly to harm people’s livelihoods while replacing their work with objectively inferior plagiaristic amalgams.

AI companies also refuse to obey the rules of the Internet and continually DDOS sites that request crawlers and scrapers not do so, necessitating creation of whole new types of software to defend against their malicious behavior.

And on top of all that, they have substantially increased greenhouse gas emissions and are actively consuming potable water in a manner that makes Nestlé execs hard. Putting the planet’s biosphere at greater risk and unnecessarily increasing water scarcity.

Nah. Simping for AI companies is the irrational take. The value that they provide to humanity is, outside of some niche use cases, marginal at best and will likely never come close to making up for the harms that they are causing to humanity for a quick buck and to increase worker oppression.

With GenAI being used primarily as a cudgel against labor, especially organized labor, it’s a pretty accurate take.

For my purposes (note taking in college), it absolutely lived up to the hype. No x86 laptop that I could find at the time came close to its battery life.

Oh, absolutely. The thing that is weird is being non-x86 hardware and explicitly implementing the translation layer in hardware that has minimal field configurability (they did have the capability of loading something similar to microcode). It makes sense in some ways (performance being a big one) but, seems like it would be vulnerable to potential changes in the external ISA.

Possibly but the CPU was pretty crazy. It used “code morphing” to translate x86 instructions to its internal ISA, something that just seems a bit ridiculous to do at the hardware level.

Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046. It was semi-rugged with a magnesium alloy chassis but, the real awesome bit was the Transmeta Crusoe processor. It was super power efficient (~15hr between charges with the extended battery) and performed decently. The thing was really ahead of its time.

100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.

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Thanks for the offer, but I prefer to engage in actual leftist activities. And unlike tankies and accelerationists circlejerking over “theory” and only the minimum to explicitly make the lives of vulnerable people worse (because their religion says that this will magically ignite class consciousness), I prefer to engage with my community and volunteer to help those in need. Seems the lot conveniently forget the “act” part of “think globally, act locally”, and are just happy to pretend that you’re “fighting The Man” while doing fuck all to actually improve the human condition and push things to the Left.

“Non-violence doesn’t do anything” - well, put up and take action to prove it or shut the fuck up while the adults talk and try to avoid unnecessary deaths of working class people who tankies really don’t give a shit about.

“We’ve tried non-violently pressuring people into violence so that they can die for our beliefs and it hasn’t changed anything for the better in a century. Therefore, non-violence doesn’t work.”

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Is, I think, what this boils down to.

You love to see it.

But, does it accurately simulate PLA spaghetti?