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Do they have investments and own property? Then they’re bourgeoisified, they materially benefit when the stock market rises and property values go up. In this way their class position is muddled and they benefit from capitalism even as they are exploited by it.

In shocking twist, “think of the children!” used once again as an excuse.

“Corporations want a way to verify the humanity of users” is a simple answer.

“Governments want a way to easily prosecute users” is also a simple answer.

I don’t see why it can’t be all of these things. There is actually a more complicated answer that I didn’t bring up, which is that smaller websites will have a hard time complying with ID laws, which gives preferential treatment to large websites. That locks out potential competition, hinders smaller projects like lemmy or mastodon, and helps secure the current social media monopolies.

That one might just be a useful side effect, rather than the intentional outcome.

They also want a reliable way to differentiate between chatbots and real users, because advertising isn’t very effective on chatbots.

But also, one benefit of ID laws for the government is that it makes court proceedings much faster and cheaper. Sure, they’re tracking everyone online, but a lot of that information is locked behind procedure. By just requiring ID to log in they can sidestep the procedures, because they can just ask corporations nicely for ID information and they’ll eagerly comply.

It’s absolutely worth mentioning that they are coordinated enough to all meet up to discuss their plans for us. If this was a fringe idea it wouldn’t go anywhere, everyone is ready to consider the idea even if they still need to be convinced to implement it.

Do you think it doesn’t require coordination to have a meeting? Without coordination, no one shows up.

The coordination is already happening and after this it will likely increase.

The headline literally says that Macron is pushing for a coordinated approach with the rest of the EU. From the article; “The main goal is to ​act in ​a ⁠coordinated manner and push the European Commission, ​in the positive sense ​of ⁠the term, to move ahead at the same pace ⁠as ​member states.” I’m not particularly sure why you’re dismissing this as conspiratorial. It’s just out in the open.

We’re talking about exploration. Satellites aren’t exploring anything, they’re basically just infrastructure.

As is depicted in the OP’s picture, I’m specifically talking about sending humans to space, and additionally, using them to explore deeper into space. It’s mostly pointless as anything other than a propaganda tool. Anything that can be discovered by sending humans out in space can be discovered by humans on Earth.

The space station might need humans on it to maintain it, but again, the station isn’t exploring anything.

It’s great propaganda.

That’s about it.

Don’t get me wrong, propaganda isn’t inherently bad or anything, you just need to consider how the propaganda is being used.

The cost of living is inflated by retail speculation and landlords, not whatever you think is happening.

There are cis women with primary amenorrhea and infertility. They do not have periods, they can not get pregnant.

Are they not women?

To what end? What’s the logical conclusion people should draw from this?

Instead of only engaging in politics every few years when its time to vote, people should be politically active all year and engaged in struggle in the workplace and on the streets. Minneapolis shows the way - they didn’t vote to get rid of Kristi Noem, they forced her out by taking to the streets and by launching a general strike. Voting might be part of a larger strategy, but only part of one.

I mean, yes, but to which party do they give more?

Tech companies and people who work in tech tend to give more to Democrats. Palatir is an exception to this general rule, but Meta/Alphabet/Microsoft were mostly behind Harris in the 2024 election. Does this surprise you for some reason?

Thanks for putting words in my mouth and talking down to me.

No, the point I’m making is that both parties serve the same masters. Look at who Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft donate to, do you think they’re wasting their money when they give millions and millions to both parties?

You can vote for the party that supports Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft or you can vote for the other party that supports Meta/Palantir/Google/Microsoft

Also, it’s going to use LLMs to handle moderation.

I guess they don’t realize we’re in the early stages of WW3.

Love to be in full Sun while doing work 🙄

At least have an umbrella or something?

The difference between an hour walking and biking is easily 10+ miles, not exactly negligible if you have somewhere to go.

We already outsource parenting to the government when we send our kids to public school. We send children to complete strangers to be educated because we don’t have time to do it ourselves.

Are you opposed to school too?

Holding parents accountable for what they allow their children to be exposed to would, in fact, reduce the number of children being exposed to harmful things. The question is, do we focus on the punishment side or the prevention side? On the punishment side we find the parents that let their children watch idk ISIS gore videos and imprison them. On the prevention side we force parents to install parental control software, like mandating locks on gun safes if there are children in the home.