Pushing constantly towards a subscription economy.

It mentions it in the article.

People demanding group think or exclusion is bad.

Between reddit’s control freak mods, their selective enforcement of rules, their lack of mod behavior restrictions, ads made to look like postings, etc you have very little freedom outside of porn surprisingly. You have to stick to the groupthink in subs or get banned which makes most comments predictable, agreeable and milktoast.

If they get subpoenaed they have no choice.

Does reddit block VPNs?

So if you do something like call for a protest you’ll need to use a foreign VPN and a burner account.

Lemmy now has its own echo chambers and control freak mods too though.

Someone has to manage the robots…

Who’s a good CEO!? You are! Yes you are!

That is what I read about Weimar Germany. When the middle class found itself on a precipice that is when everyone became agitated.

Knives have been getting duller? :P

Same thing here. Crime is down but reporting is up.

It isn’t on their neck to be brutally frank. Going after illegal immigrants and terrorizing Minnesota isn’t hitting the vast majority of Americans. History shows when the middle/lower classes become desperate and food becomes an issue that is when the knives come out.

Even your guards turn on you eventually.

Can we replace CEOs and the wealthy with AI? They don’t do anything AI can’t do. Would there be any reason to let them keep massive wealth if they aren’t contributing anything?

A waterfall of shit

It will continue to dominate the market (along with apple) as long as it is the default OS on new pcs.

I’m not going to google that because I don’t want that fact in my brain.

Trump is determined to turn the US into the world’s biggest island.

South America is going to need a real defense pact unless they want to be the victims of the Monroe Doctrine forever.