It isn’t possible under capitalism. We need global cooperation, not competition. So, we are riding this horse off that cliff. We will evolve through crisis, rather than proactive change.

If you’d invested $100 a month as amazon lost money for years driving ‘mom and pop’ businesses, starting with those evil bookshop owners, out of business before exploiting monopoly, getting local authorities to pay to host their distribution centres while the employees need food stamps to survive, you’d be rich now. Capitalism works.

Bezos, former hedge fund guy who was given hundreds of thousands from family to start amazon, knows he is despised. He actually personifies the phrase ‘shit-eating grin’.

Presumably he had to give 35 presents too.

Have children. Flying. Driving. Buying a whole range of carbon intense products blah blah blah.

Vegans just are not credible.

It goes with the couch.

20 billion years then we’re all shafted.

Yeah the industry has been in the shit since credit and debit cards. A homeless guy with a chip and pin device to get donations is completely off-message for the brand

Presumably she wasn’t just prepared to ride the beast, she actively wanted to be ruined by it.

She was probably disappointed when the transition happened. She thought she was going to be raw-dogged by the monster.

It isn’t introvertion.

OP said ‘what animal would you be if you were an animal?’

It is insulting to expect everybody to engage in conversation any time some moron expects it.

The respondent, reasonably said ‘I’ll ask chatgpt’ which is a polite way of saying ‘I’m not interested in this shite, Bore off, I’m not eight, leave me alone.’

OP then came online to make a big deal about it, claiming the respondent used chatgpt rather than socialising. Which itself is evidence of OP’s character and evidence as to why one might not want to engage with the boring **** at work.

Wrong. The only thing there is evidence they did is use chatgpt to deflect a fucking boring conversation.

Now please leave me alone. This is all fucking obvious. I am just blocking any respondents to this message in order to avoid timewasting, thanks.

Edit - oh this is an anti-ai sub. OK, so anything done with ai is automatically bad, you have chosen a side and that is that.

:There is much to dislike about ‘ai’ technology - primarily its energy use, but the claims of intelligence is also something reasonable to dislike. There is much more to dislike about the people who own ‘ai’ and the uses they want to put it to, but that is neo-liberal capitalism you should be angry at, not ‘ai’. This sub is misguided at best. Block it is.

I know what socialising is, thanks.

I also know that chatgpt can be better than an asinine conversation with people I work with.

Data centers have become a major economic development battleground for many states, even though they provide relatively few jobs and consume massive amounts of resources.

But someone gets paid. Just like in developing world countries, it’s kickbacks for officials.

I’m happy to be shown I am wrong, but in the meantime let’s call it what it is, and isn’t. It isn’t economic development, it is wealth extraction.

‘If you were an animal what animal would you be?’ is hardly Conan/Dave Letterman level chat fun though, is it?

1. I’d probably choose chatgpt over that kind of conversation with colleagues.

2. Imagine Conan or Dave using ‘if you were an animal what animal would you be?’ as an opening gambit with a guest.

‘I’ll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital’ is a pathetic position to take.

It absolutely is not worthy of respect.

Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges are based, is complete bullshit.

You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.

What a pathetic place to get to. There are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.

Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea…

Presumably the other headline that read ‘50% of voters’ were in favour of this party, should have read ‘50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party’

1. US (and in fact all ‘Western’) media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.

2. America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I’m not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don’t engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.

I just meant the breadth of media coverage in the UK spans billionaire/Murdoch owned media on one side to the voice-piece of the British establishment itself, which is now little more than a proxy for the interests of capital, on the other.

As for the term ‘antisemitism’, well the Gazans being murdered by Israeli’s are semites too.

But given the Israelis are committing a genocide - starving children then shooting them as they queue up for food - I don’t think anybody really gives a fuck what Israelis or the people ultimately supporting the genocide in the UK media, or in UK political parties of every stripe, think about the people that oppose them. It is about being on one side of history or another.

An office-friendly version of this would greatly improve my well-being so productivity at work.

‘He’ (the US) owe it in large part to the world, who were forced to buy us debt in order to buy oil. China is the biggest holder of US debt iirc.

The US’s voluntary withdrawal from the post ww2 economic order (from which it profited greatly) has absolutely hastened and cemented this process of ‘dedollarisation’.

This debt is coming due, the strength of the dollar has already dropped greatly, US interest rates will rise. The US dollar will be cheap enough to compete with India and China to be the world’s factory (a major part of Trump’s election campaign and success).

It won’t happen all at once as the world will look to manage America’s decline while trying to maintain as stable a transition as possible.

But please be aware, this debt is going to come due and it has absolutely been hastened by Americans voting for Trump a second time. Fore warned is forearmed. Good luck.

I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system

I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.

Yes let’s see. I expect the media - billionaire owned on one hand, bbc on the other - will do the kind of job on him they did when he was leader of the labour party. He will become mired in claims of antisemitism (whatever that means these days), and whatever else they can throw at him and it won’t go anywhere.

Capital drives the UK and capital does not want socialism. The media is in significant part crowd control.