Exactly “being smart” and “acting smart” are two different things. Usain Bolt is the “fastest” man on Earth, but if he’s just chilling on the couch watching TV, I can run right past him.

Same with these ivy league CEOs, they probably (not necessarily) were smart when taking their tests in school, but if they just leave the fate of their company to chatgpt responses, they’re acting as dumb as possible at the current moment.

That’s another thing broken about AI, they just make you look more like a kardashian because they have more pictures on the web than anyone else, it’s just gross tbh

Except greenhouse effect will keep warming the earth for decades after we consume less fossil fuels. It’s like shitting on the rug and saying the problem will solve itself when you stop shitting in the rug.

So it’s just not true at all, got it lol

That’s not the point, the point is everyone wants to pay less taxes but also they want the government to subsidize their industry and run a balanced budget. It’s just greed and narcissism, nobody actually wants to make the country better. They just say that to advocate for free money for themselves.

Okay so remote in then idk how you accept a job and them giving you a windows laptop is a deal breaker

I mean yeah i wiped an old laptop and have that as a backup for work, don’t use it for anything else except when i don’t have the work laptop on me

Im a complainer but my life’s pretty good tbh. Complaining is like a weird way of saying things are good. If things were actually bad I wouldn’t have the luxury of complaining. Idk not saying it’s good or normal or whatever, just grew up in a shitty household where everyone complained and i got out of there by taking action, not complaining. Now i have the luxury again.

Peter thiel is literally bringing down the USA searching for the fountain of youth lmao

Most of the other animals have fur or feather lol, yes, if we were furry like bears we wouldn’t wear clothes.

Yeah it’s like anything else, majority of people can control themselves and enjoy responsibly but a decent minority cannot and it ruins families, whether it’s gambling, drugs, sex work or something else.

Criminalizing the users makes things worse, but allowing corporations to make billions off of it also makes things worse.

They should do something like it’s not illegal but corporations are banned from being involved.

Like, if you wanna host poker night with a few buddies, sure why not. Once you start forming an LLC and applying for bank loans to build a casino, then that shouldn’t be allowed IMHO.

No, you’re just an expert. They’ve always existed – a master blacksmith would make a decent living before capitalism, much better than the common serf. Nobody’s against highly talented hardworking people making more money than average, I think we all agree they deserve it.

The capitalist would be someone like you bribing the state government to create a new regulation that your profession requires a special license and your company is the only one in the state with the license and you hire in all your competitors at a wage 20% what you bill them out at. Then on your deathbed you donate a couple million for the local hospital and you go down in history as an American Hero.

Yeah but a senior engineer would just use an old personal linux laptop from home, they wouldn’t even bother bitching about the employer issued machine.

Who says linux is bad? At worst people say it’s too hard for them to use at home, but i never heard someone say it’s bad.

Well what I want doesn’t matter because I have no power. Are you saying peaceful gradual change never works at all? I agree it’s not working in the US at all. But ultimately it’s because that what those in power want. It would be a lot better if they allowed peaceful improvements, like has happened in some other countries, that’s what I’m saying. There’s also plenty of “proper revolutions” that end up with rich getting richer and poor getting poorer.

Yes but there’s different levels of violence. Some countries had more violent deadly revolutions than others. Maybe India is the main example, yes too many people died but it wasn’t on the level of some other revolutions and wars.

Same except i just skip the first two years

Hmm, fair enough didn’t think about that

Yes of course, doesn’t mean the leaders of the faction who win the civil war will install them.

Better than a 50" 4k dumb tv?