Let’s be real; everyone on board knew there was no chance the ship would be allowed to moor and offload its goods. It was a photo op. But still a good one since it helps show what Israel is doing in Gaza. They also knew there was very little chance of them actually getting hurt as Israel does care about optics when it involves high profile foreigners. The second they kill someone like Greta all hell would break loose. Which is in sad, stark contrast to the thousands of innocents they’ve killed with nary a peep from the rest of the world.

My take: The Baltics get it right after this summer.

Which is why Europe needs to coordinate on a joint military plan YESTERDAY. EU is capable of keeping Russia at bay on its own, no doubt about it, but they need to get smart about it as soon as possible because we only have a small window of time to pre-empt this.

Good luck; this is textbook fascism and one of its features is that it’s totalitarian and will sink its claws into every single aspect of your lives unless you fight back at every level.

What I’ll NEVER understand is that the plans were just there, out in the open. Anyone could visit the websites and see in explicit detail what they planned to do (“the revolution will remain bloodless as long as the left allows it to be”), project 2025, and people STILL voted for them.

4Chan? This seems to be like… a decade too late, at best.

Love the sentiment, curious about implementation.

User data has been the internet’s greatest treasure trove since the advent of Google. LLM’s are perfectly set up to extract the most intimate data available from their users (“mental health” conversations, financial advice, …) which can be used against them in a soft way (higher prices when looking for mental health help) or they can be used to outright manipulate or blackmail you.

Regardless, there is no scenario in which the end user wins.

End-to-end encryption should cover you, but anything that can set up man-in-the-middle attacks is poised to defeat that.

Look, in today’s world, you get to choose who spies on you depending on your chosen platform, but spy on you they absolutely will. Wether it’s the Russians, the Chinese or USA. The only way to not get spied on is to not use electronic communications at all.

I don’t know about other working class people but I live paycheck to paycheck. The only vehicles in my price range are like 3k 15 yr old beaters. Ain’t no way I could put a down payment on an EV let alone a loan.

You’re probably not wrong. It’s definitely along the same lines… although the repercussions of this particular one will be infinitely greater than those of the industrial revolution.

Also, industrialization made for better products because of better manufacturing processes. I’m by no means sure we can say the same about AI. Maybe some day, but today it’s just “an advanced dumbass” considering most real world scenarios.

Most EVs still cost 10-20K more than their conventional counterparts. Most working class people simply cannot afford an EV, end of story. It has very little to do with “choice” and “awareness” or whatever.

Because the goal of “AI” is to make the grand majority of us all obsolete. The billion-dollar question AI is trying to solve is “why should we continue to pay wages?”. That is bad for everyone who isn’t part of the owner class. Even if you personally benefit from using it to make yourself more productive/creative/… the data you input can and WILL eventually be used against you.

If you only self-host and know what you’re doing, this might be somewhat different, but it still won’t stop the big guys from trying to swallow all the others whole.

This is the point that will be referenced in history books as the beginning of the second civil war.

There are ads but they’re subtle enough that you don’t recognize them as such.

Musk may be the richest man on earth, but there’s several things he craves that none of that money can ever buy. Like respect. Love. Being able to hold your pee. A working dick.

You know, the simple quiet enjoyments the majority of working class people don’t have nearly as much issues with.

The latency is shit but the bandwidth is surprisingly good.

There’s always this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

The internet isn’t what turned everything to shit. That was capitalism. Technology of and by itself is never evil, but of course there’s always tons of people ready to use it for evil purposes. Our current ‘big bad’ is still simply capitalism though.