I'll let you in on a secret. The main reason why nobody is catering to you isn't because what you want goes against the money, the status quo, or whatever big bad you imagine. It is because if you don't vote then you are about as good for them as nipples on a Breast Plate. There is a reason seniors get everything that they want: it is because they always show up to vote!

Guess what the big bottleneck is in a DDOS? Not the computing power.

They commit the most egregious of sins, competing with established media industries so the knives come out in their portrayal.

Given the complaints about data-usage from LLMs, they'll be not only checking it but doing so frequently enough to make you look like an utter slacker as the near zero marginal cost means they can index it just in case it happens to have a useful answer to an obscure question.

The complete historical illiterate? He didn't even understand the hunter-gatherers he so idolized.

If you are naive enough to think it really is 'just the tip' how are you not an involuntary parent already?

I would love to be insulted by that, but I genuinely can't tell what point you're fumbling toward. Try again when you've sobered up.

That is what they would do if they wanted UFO sightings back and police brutality evidence disappearing.

People can still record all they want, they just need to wait until getting home to upload the content.

Giving up control is always a mistake - they never do what they promised and you never get back the control. There is never a refutation to this fac: just a childish "But I want it!".

I agree. That's why the government shouldn't stop toddlers from buying guns.

"Reactionary"'s origins as far are pure political DARVO and gaslighting anyway. It originated in the French revolution and basically declared "You are morally wrong for being horrified at my horrific and evil actions." That origin tainted the term for me personally.

The actual modern reactionary meaning of "referrant to a mythical past as a standard" always felt like it deserved a better term. But nobody would get what you were saying if you called them a "fairytaleland resident" or similar.

I always read "reactionary" as "oh no, someone did something! now I have to react by getting angry!" and it seems to fit well enough.

Surplus value is a propaganda myth from Marx along with other trivially disproven delusions like LVT. Tell me what work is being done by whom in a wine cellar as the vintage matures after harvest?

"Reasonable" is doing herculean amounts of work as usual, as it is implicitly operating under a thief's logic that the target didn't really deserve it anyway therefore if I steal all of it I will be justified.

We see the same shit when regiemes 'nationalize' segments of the economy and then wonder why instead of miraculously getting better without the 'exploiters' things turn to shit and absolutely nobody wants to trade with them. Empathy such a foreign concept to them that they don’t understand why merchants refuse to trade with those who steal businesses wholesale. Whose only response when confronted about their crimes is lame whataboutisms and victim blaming.

fine, strip out the words "surplus value" and "reasonable" if they truly blind you to the point.

Let's say, "If we had a tax system that captured a greater share of the increase in profits resulting from higher productivity (which mostly goes offshore and does not in fact "generate more jobs"), then we'd have no problem at all funding the pension systems, and much more."