Gsus4

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

But that nuance exists in the books, there are family ties that cut across faction allegiances, double agents, traitors, misunderstood people, ambiguous characters. However, faction construction and ideology is very reminiscent of 20th century european history, so there is a grounded sense of black and white, unless you consider elitism, classism, racism and gratuitous violence to subjugate others as something that can be seen in a good light, somehow.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

She ruined her IP, I used to look at death eaters as fascists and the good guys as people who were kind, welcoming, wacky, they transfigured, they were free to be whatever they wanted without having to prove their purity, now I'm not sure what she thinks death eaters are...and have to look at all the hidden stereotypes in the book in a different light.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 75 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

I'd guess it would be a vertical breakup rather than horizontal: separate android, cloud, youtube, search, chrome, ads...depending on how aggressive they want to be.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 179 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Antitrust comes in waves in the US. First, it's a free for all to let the tech develop freely...then you see the horrors and a time of antitrust kicks in. This would be the 4th wave since the Sherman Act. Let's hope it's a good one.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Every day he outs himself as more of an insufferable dumbass. These two were made for each other.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

that's the point of brainstorming, all ideas are allowed, filter later.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And to think it took this much self-inflicted falling from grace before it became admissible to point that "boy genius"'s enterprises should be prosecuted as much as anybody else for wrongdoing.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm worried that the facebooks and elons out there will build private armies of these, not even the terrorists.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

hehe, I love where this is going. Name and shame, folks, name and shame.

PS: https://carbonmajors.org/Entities has a list of the largest emitters (I don't think this list is full historical emissions, just current)

Get naming, folks.

e.g. Hurricane Aramco, Firestorm Gazprom, Heatwave BP, proudly sponsored by...BP

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

They wanna fucking integrate it in everything, dumbfucks. This is why meritocracy is dead, the people with the means to determine where we go as a society are "number go up" people.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Housing is often a market failure, because construction does not respond dynamically to house prices due to some regulations and nimbys.

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