It’s obviously by design. They’re hoping the affected vets will take it out on the medical personnel. And the worst part is they’re probably right.

Don’t medical personnel have to take a Hippocratic oath? And doesn’t that supersede changing laws?

I suppose in real life, cash is king, and morality is decided by the amount of digits in your bank account.

Companies that once shared productivity gains with workers through higher wages now capture those gains entirely as profits for shareholders and executives.

My own employer used to be a mid-sized company excelling in the specific service they offered. I worked there for five years while they kept growing and things just kept getting gradually “better”. Then, during Covid, the owner decided to sell to a multinational and almost immediately we lost bonuses, incentives, perks and tools. They kept growing the sales department (and the actual sales) without growing support or backoffice.

As a result we are massively overworked, have less tools than we ever did before (or they just don’t work anymore) and our deadlines have tightened significantly without new hires in the dept.

Our choice is to grin & bear it and keep a roof over our heads, or to protest it and lose all income.

Have you ever lived in the projects? As a (former, but still) poor person, living there is… challenging. Your opinions of your fellow humans regularly have to be adjusted, especially if you’re prone to being an optimist.

Not ghetto but simply very basic, rural living. The house I grew up in did not have indoor plumbing. The toilet was outside in an outhouse, just a plank with a hole in the middle above a cesspit. My parents were split up and my mother got the absolute minimum pay and my father wasted his wages on alcohol and women. So there were few luxuries during my youth.

Today I’m 41 and I’m BARELY above that level of poverty. If I lose my job for whatever reason it’s back to that kind of life.

That was in the '80s in Western Europe, by the way. Today this situation has become a lot more rare but it’s not gone yet.

Let’s be real; everyone on board knew there was no chance the ship would be allowed to moor and offload its goods. It was a photo op. But still a good one since it helps show what Israel is doing in Gaza. They also knew there was very little chance of them actually getting hurt as Israel does care about optics when it involves high profile foreigners. The second they kill someone like Greta all hell would break loose. Which is in sad, stark contrast to the thousands of innocents they’ve killed with nary a peep from the rest of the world.

Good luck; this is textbook fascism and one of its features is that it’s totalitarian and will sink its claws into every single aspect of your lives unless you fight back at every level.

4Chan? This seems to be like… a decade too late, at best.

Love the sentiment, curious about implementation.

User data has been the internet’s greatest treasure trove since the advent of Google. LLM’s are perfectly set up to extract the most intimate data available from their users (“mental health” conversations, financial advice, …) which can be used against them in a soft way (higher prices when looking for mental health help) or they can be used to outright manipulate or blackmail you.

Regardless, there is no scenario in which the end user wins.

End-to-end encryption should cover you, but anything that can set up man-in-the-middle attacks is poised to defeat that.

Civil war. Not exactly looking forward to it per sé. Just expecting it.

Look, in today’s world, you get to choose who spies on you depending on your chosen platform, but spy on you they absolutely will. Wether it’s the Russians, the Chinese or USA. The only way to not get spied on is to not use electronic communications at all.

You’re probably not wrong. It’s definitely along the same lines… although the repercussions of this particular one will be infinitely greater than those of the industrial revolution.

Also, industrialization made for better products because of better manufacturing processes. I’m by no means sure we can say the same about AI. Maybe some day, but today it’s just “an advanced dumbass” considering most real world scenarios.

Because the goal of “AI” is to make the grand majority of us all obsolete. The billion-dollar question AI is trying to solve is “why should we continue to pay wages?”. That is bad for everyone who isn’t part of the owner class. Even if you personally benefit from using it to make yourself more productive/creative/… the data you input can and WILL eventually be used against you.

If you only self-host and know what you’re doing, this might be somewhat different, but it still won’t stop the big guys from trying to swallow all the others whole.

14GBps ssd is fast enough to keep the existential dread away. Usually. Maybe not when updating Windows.

There are ads but they’re subtle enough that you don’t recognize them as such.

Musk may be the richest man on earth, but there’s several things he craves that none of that money can ever buy. Like respect. Love. Being able to hold your pee. A working dick.

You know, the simple quiet enjoyments the majority of working class people don’t have nearly as much issues with.

The latency is shit but the bandwidth is surprisingly good.

They’ll keep up the terror until UA hits them again, just a tad harder. And again. And again. In the end it’ll be nukes or nothing.