That implies that social media is going to be banned; it isn’t. The only thing this ban does is punish Tiktok for allowing content that revealed Israel’s genocide.

The thing about freedom of speech is that we are only allowed speech that doesn’t threaten the interests of the oligarchs. If any speech creates a real movement that threatens the oligarchy then the government takes swift action against it (hence outlawing socialism during the red scare)

Walmart sends the police after people who sleep in their cars. I know because it happened to me when I was homeless.

Einheitsfrontlied, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdcdZkiKRI&t=0

(Especially the 3rd verse, translated to english): “And just because he’s a worker No class can free him but his own The emancipation of the working class Is the task of the worker alonе”

Yes, but it is also a bit scary / dystopian that a $62 billion company would go to such great lengths to have one of their own customers thrown in jail for using the product that he paid for in a way that wasn’t hurting anyone.

I sincerely hope that goes well for you. I doubt Trump will let it happen, he has vowed to deport all the foreigners, but I hope things work out for you

I’m a capitalist.

Do you work for a living? If so, then you aren’t part of the capitalist class.

You just described the for-profit mental health crisis which only persists because it is for-profit healthcare is detached from reality

Sort of like how it is illegal for companies to fire or mistreat workers for trying to unionize?

The uncomfortable truth is that our laws protect the rich (including their companies), but rarely bind them and bind workers, but rarely protect us.

The mentality that the future is always someone else’s problem is proving to be the biggest weakness of capitalism and our species.

Not at all. It’s necessary to protect your own industry.

But mostly the tariffs are there to protect the capitalist class. When globalism hurts workers and offshores our jobs our politicians do nothing, but when profits are threatened they act swiftly.

The US only have right wing parties. Neolib dems and fascist Repubs are both right wing parties.

It is exciting to see Honda enter the EV market to help crush fascist Musk and his Teslas.

The Prologue is listed as an SUV, but by US standards is leans towards being a stationwagon crossover. I rather see an actual stationwagon, but as far as SUVs go this could be worse.

I disagree. Sure, companies have a moral right to recoup their R&D costs on a console, but I fully reject the Divine Right of Shareholders. As long as the emulators aren’t sold for profit and no one is hurt, a multibillion dollar company like Nintendo has zero moral ground to tell us that we cannot emulate consoles that we have bought to play games that we also bought.

I grew up with ads in cable tv, but I never got used to them and I deep resent the emotional manipulation that ads attempt so I will turn a show / movie off if I can’t skip the ads. No show is worth being mind flayed by ads.

Oh, I like that. The strikethough is a nice touch

I am pretty sure working from home has proven to be more productive, so I think other factors are at play here. I worry that returning to the office might be the only way to keep the capitalists from trying to send our jobs over to poorer nations. If the tapeworms think the job needs to be done face to face then it is much hardet to send those jobs to India or S. America.

I want to see what the long term economic cost was after they fired tens of thousands of tech workers hoping to replace us with AI. It feels like workers are always the ones who suffer the most under capitalism.

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US northern midwest. That was the first time we had a drone just silently recording us so I am not sure what to make of it.

Just last week, my partner and I were on a long hike. No one was around us so to loosen our muscles we started dancing like goofballs on the trail only to look up and find a drone hovering in the shadows recording us. I was embarrassed, but my partner is a very private person and was really upset. Surveillance is seriously getting out of hand. If things continue in this direction then I wouldn’t be surprised if people find a way to use powerful Lazer pointers to burn out cameras.