Saddam Hussein, Muhammar Ghadaffi, Osama bin Laden. Lots of tyrants were eliminated for the way they reigned. A country full of angry people, especially a country that still has a death penalty is nothing to fuck around with.

Does it have an app to automatically backup photos and documents from an Android or iOS phone by chance? I know I can use syncthing, but in my experience a tool like Synology Drive works more reliably.

Didn’t he turn out to be a right wing lunatic as well? Funny how his backstory was pretty much ignored by the media.

What ever happened to the guy that grazed Trumps ear?

I think vercel (formerly zeit.co) has a free tier for static websites.

It takes people’s collective work and then requires those same people to pay to use it. It allows already mega wealthy companies to get even richer by selling people’s own creativity back to them.

I also see a lot of privacy issues - the fact that let loose on a specific data set (like Facebook) it then knows anything about anyone. Even if I don’t use Facebook myself because I hate it - if someone would congratulate my spouse with the 10th birthday of our son Chris, A.I. now knows I have a son, born on this day in 2015, his name is Chris. That fact isn’t stored in a database where it’s easily erased. It’s part of a probability vector in an artificial brain, where it can’t be removed even if I request the source data to be deleted. This is actually what worries me more, for all the good AI can do, there is a lot more evil. If the Nazis would have this in 1940, there would be no resistance movement. It would be trivial to see who would be part of it and who would be their families and friends.

This. And all that “convenience” makes the world uglier and less human. Where we used to take a taxi on holiday and have a chat with the driver about his life and his family, and get a few tips on where to eat where the locals eat, we can now get robotaxied somewhere without any human interaction at all. And we get doctored made up images of destinations that don’t exist, by people that look like manga versions of themselves. We truly live in the cheapest version of the world nowadays.

What would the “nuclear” option be for the democrats? (genuine question?

Why is his vagina way up under his chin?

…in the united states.

Until right before the election he concedes and his voters go republican.

The system is rigged against the individual. The best choices are mostly the most expensive. The best solutions for climate change are blocked by corporate greed and crippled by national laws. And even if you’re lucky enough to live in a country that allows you to have influence in who governs you, the biggest polluters are dictatorial regimes. Want to eat healthy? Sure, but pay more. When Covid hit and working from home got popular and air travel much less, there was measurable less smog in big cities. But companies now demand people come back into the office. Because shareholders don’t like workers to have freedom.

Can’t he be impeached or something based on mental issues?

If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.

Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.

Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.

Now we’re going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that’s a plus.

And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.

Just the other day there was a writer that explains a phenomenon in her new book (can’t remember her name off the bat).

She describes the fact that people always say “it starts with you”, promoting individual action. Like, “if you want to stop climate change, why don’t you become a vegetarian.” But few people actually do.

She argued that it’s not that people don’t want to, however what’s never taken into account is that the cards are stacked against the individual by corporations and (in many cases) government.

There are laws, marketing machines, price points and supply chains that set the virtual boundaries within which people can maneuver.

People still have enough individual freedom to keep a sense of free will, but under the hood, this free will is heavily influenced by what’s affordable, normalized or in supply.

It’s a pretty bleak view, and only solved by a change in politics where politicians actually want to work for the people and for democracy rather than for corporations.

The people can provide them with votes, corporations with money. This can lead to a government that benefits from lying to their voters while profiting from corporations.

The nineties were good. Less racism, less pandemics, no social media to make the world collectively dumber. Just silly clothes and hair we had to deal with.

If he doesn’t die of old age in his second term, he will die in prison after. Along with a good part of his cronies.

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