Yeah that’s the way it was before their job was automated. But now you don’t need them to work.

I’m a soulist. Soulists are always saying things like that. It’s the best version of leftism.

Proud luddite here. The original luddites destroyed machinery owned by capitalists which threatened their jobs. The choice was either destroy the machines, or stand by and become unable to feed your family while a rich man gets richer.

I have no opposition to technology which is used for good, and whose control is placed in the hands of the workers. Your self-hosted AIs are fine, although I do ask that you only use energy intensive processes if you have solar panels. After all, this planet is the only one we’ve got. At our current rate of pollution, soon the world will only be inhabitable to AI.

But I downvote anything promoting corporate AI designed to replace people’s jobs. I am all for replacing human jobs, if the humans get to relax and live comfortable lives afterward. But I am against replacing jobs if we choose to have a society where you need a job to live. That’s not nature, it’s a choice we make as a society. The minute you automate someone’s job, you do necessarily admit that society doesn’t need that person’s work to get by. The only reason they shouldn’t get to put their feet up and take it easy is political. And politically, we have decided instead what happens is they die. That’s unacceptable, and until it changes, we can’t afford to have job replacing machines.

I agree with you, electric bikes belong on the road.

… after all cars are banned

Can someone explain Major Tom to me?

It’s the kind of moral stench that comes from being a rich slaveowning cop

Harry Potter stinks

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The idea of secret laws seems incompatible with democracy

I want to subscribe to NASA not understanding women facts

Nah, readability is low and you can’t divide by three OR five easily. Binary has even fewer prime factors than decimal.

Meanwhile I’m bucking trends as an advocate of the dozenal metric system.

Americans are still using monarchy units while the rest of the world is on freedom units.

Fuck your decimal system. Dozenal is the most intuitive number system. Arithmetic is so much easier to learn in dozenal and you can even count higher on your hands if you use phalanges instead of fingers. Base 10 is a crap number system. It’s barely composite, it only has two prime factors.

Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?

Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky… But not in dreams, no siree!

I think even one life of a trans person or Palestinian is important.

You didn’t read my other comment in this thread where I directly said Biden was supplying arms to the genocide in Gaza, did you?

Look, you’re obviously so committed to defending capitalist Vlad that you’ll never realise “Genocide Joe” is a nickname for a guy whose name was actually Joe, Joe Stalin, so I’ll engage you on your own silly terms and post a list of things Biden did to help queer people. https://www.hrc.org/resources/president-bidens-pro-lgbtq-timeline. Biden has done plenty to harm queer people as well, of course, but nothing he’s done is as bad as a law sending all gay people to prison, which is what the original Genocide Joe did.

Oh, sorry, I meant the other Russian Genocide Joe. The one who banned being gay.

It’s talking about the Genocide in Gaza, which Biden has been supplying with arms. OP is conveniently ignorant of the fact Trump said Israel should “finish the problem”, he has promised to ban immigration from Gaza, and that Trump’s press secretary claims Trump has done more for Israel than any other president.