• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I think you misunderstand.

    I’'m not saying that “it is impossible for something to be done”.

    I am saying that, “when you are communicating it to the masses in this method, you are not communicating the people who have the ability to actually do something about it”.

    It’s a problem with the mainstream.

    We would all have to work together to change its course, and even something as simple as me saying that “we are not the people who can do anything about it” gets opposition.

    You would not work with me, therefore, there is no “we” to fight against this.

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      4 days ago

      but these people are able to do something about it. its just that it needs to be a collective effort, not and individual one.

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          2 days ago

          it really doesn’t. but the fact you are arguing with me makes me correct!

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            3 days ago

            Fine then.

            Prove me wrong.

            Do something, anything at all about it, in real life and not just on the internet.

            And get, like, I don’t know, five people to do it with you.

            Do that much, and I’ll admit I’m wrong.

            I mean, I try to be a reasonable person. I tend to be calm and collected and to withhold judgment until all of the information is in.

            In this case, all of the information is in.

            People will bitch about it forever on the internet, but will never, ever do anything in real life about it.

            5 people is not a really huge ask.

            Get five people to congregate with you at the footsteps of a company that is using AI to make employment decisions and protest it.

            That seems like a reasonable thing, right? And five people is enough to make a hubbub about it, at least with the company, right? So that’s a reasonable metric, right?

            But if you can’t do that much, which is reasonably attainable for an individual, then you’ll just have to accept that I’m right, no matter who upvotes or downvotes who in the thread.

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              3 days ago

              we are my dude. in my country many organizations are already trying to pressure for some datacenters not to be placed here, like big tech is planning to.

              but we can’t really do it in the us in their people’s behalf, that gets complicated. hundreds of years worth of theory and examples on how it works and how to say no.