grungydan

Because our so-called "democracy" is working so very well in contrast?

So it was just like literally everything else this administration is doing. Shocking.

Most astute comment so far.

“Really?” One finally said, with emphasis. Then, a nod. “That’s actually pretty amazing. Good on you. That’s exactly what we want AI to do—help people catch things early.”

Today, on "that totally happened."

“Really?” One finally said, with emphasis. Then, a nod. “That’s actually pretty amazing. Good on you. That’s exactly what we want AI to do—help people catch things early.”

Today on "that totally happened."

Did you miss or just ignore where I agree with you that our government is a massive joke? That doesn't mean that I don't want a real, functional government that operates for the good of its citizenry, or that we don't live in a corporate dystopia where we get charged every last cent they can get away with and barely provide their purported services. You're acting like these networks are otherwise as reliable as they say, provide the advertised speeds, and that these companies aren't doing the bare ass minimum possible to maximize their already egregious profits while paying their employees crap like every other company.

> laws or enforcement

No no no, see, we have those. But we only use them to make sure that our for-profit prison complex stays massively profitable and the people in power retain that power.

Isn't it wonderful that we allow almost entirely unregulated monopolies that have no actual obligation to provide the service for which they take your money?

Telecoms, airlines, insurance scam..ahem companies...

Must be nice. I wonder if I could just stop showing up to my job and keep collecting my check. No? Why not? We allow the entities that write our laws and have politicians rubber stamp them to do it. Seems a mite unfair.

What useless, self-important horse manure.

Thank you. The modern usage of corporate structure as a complete get-out-of-consequences card, combined with the fact that every politician is just a warm body filling a suit at which corporations throw money to rubber stamp regulations...written for the lawmaker by the corporation are the problems. Problems. I'll say it again for the kindergarteners that still think Libertarianism is cogent. These are problems.

They probably just forgot some mundane detail.

I await more of the story campaign with bated breath. I'm adoring it, though the last episode felt a tad rushed, or flat maybe. To me, at least.

I'll go one further, though I expect to receive mockery for doing so: I think the internet as we conceive of it today is ultimately a failed experiment.

I think that society and humanity would be better off if the internet had remained a simple backbone for vetted organizations' official use. Turning the masses loose on it has effectively ruined so many aspects of our world that we can never get back, and I for one don't think that even the most lofty and oft-touted benefits of the internet are nearly as true as we pretend.

It's just another venue for the oldest of American traditions at this point: Snake Oil Sales.

>Big corps could just pick things that are trending up, rip them off instantly and scale their ripoff much better thanks to their great workforce and marketing reach.

Except that they are already doing this, and since money == "justice" in this country and most of the rest of the world, their big bag of money means that you have zero realistic chance in winning any attempt at suing them for doing so.

Copyright is a great conversation to have, but it's a bit like sitting around talking about how to best dry off a plate in the Titanic dining room.