"Net neutrality’s opponents have long argued that the rules will put off investors. " yeah no shit. Here is the part where people who are not an ISP give 2 shits. Supply side are assholes.
Investors are shit. If your company can’t make it on the profit from the product or service, it shouldn’t exist.
At the same time, any company large enough to capture more than half the marketshare of any single segment should be broken up into at least 3 companies.
And private equity companies buying up small companies and then trading them like playing cards should be banned as well.
I’m so tired of these lazy, fat, investor class chuckle fucks getting handouts from the government.
Yeah, I know, but I’m hung over and having a bad day. Those people bring nothing to society and in most cases actively harm their employees and customers before gutting businesses, taking the money, and starting over on the next business.
Fuck them, fuck their mom, fuck their dog, fuck the horse they rode in on, fuck their grocer, and fuck them again just for good measure.
Hope you get to feeling better man. And I agree. I work for a company that was bought by private equity and it’s just hot fucking garbage. Multiple times a day I dream of setting the equity partners on fire.
Heavy rock music, mostly pop covers that we converted but we had to play my friend’s original about fucking his ex girlfriend’s sister about halfway through and a blues/rockabilly song another friend wrote about only missing a woman when he’s drunk to close out.
Now I’m watching a hard rock band cover a bunch of shit from the 50s. This is pretty cool.
Usually is! Except the time my lead guitar player/singer got too drunk before we went on and pissed himself then passed out halfway through the set.
I’m a Texas Drunk. He’s almost THE Texas Drunk. Except that trophy belongs to a friend that doesn’t live here anymore who I’ve personally watched kill half a handle of whisky and be functional enough to get a ride home.
It’s hard out here. They get drug tests because of the nature of their jobs. Weed just isn’t for me. I wish it was because the calorie count is so much lower.
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Does metal covers of pop songs. Hes fantastic. Highly recomend his version of toss a coin to your witcher, and watching the video for final countdown just to see him “bring out the smaaaall drums!”
I’m sorry do you have any understanding of how the economy works at scale?
A fundamental part of it is that money has to move. Lots of money that sits is really, really bad.
That’s where investment comes in. Big projects come in (beit R&D, or production, or expansion) and they cost more to start than there is in cash reserves. You could consider a loan an investment as well. And that would be the same, making the bankers the investors (this also applies to mortgages and any other consumer loan).
They must, otherwise companies taking on multi-million dollar projects would have to have more multi-millions sitting dormant in cash reserves. And at the scale of global economies, that is a bad thing.
Pour it into your products and services. Not buying your competition. Research, develop, PAY YOUR FUCKING EMPLOYEES.
You know what moves money around the economy better than handing one asshole 10 million from the wallet of another asshole? Giving your employees enough money to live on, enough money so that they are secure and happy to work, have kids, have a life. Regular people spend their money.
Private equity is just dragons hoarding wealth in the form of businesses rather than literal coin.
Private equity is shit. But credit is a vital part of the economy, and creditors are investors no matter how you look at it.
So without investors you rely on banks. Do you think more power to banks is the solution to all of our problems? Because I sure as hell don’t.
Without investors or creditors, the alternative is being able to self-finance everything. That means sitting on money until a large project can be paid for up front and in full. That means even larger amounts of money staying idle.
But performing those projects is vital to the motion of the economy. Spending $50 mil to build a new factory, for example, means lots of work for tradespeople and everywhere in the supply chain for all materials.
You all bemoan the super wealthy. Do you think the world would be a better place if Musk had 230B stuffed in a mattress doing nothing? Because that’s the world you’re describing.
Private equity is a bullshit industry that shouldn’t exist. You have my agreement there. Companies that exist solely for the purpose of buying and selling control of companies, or artificially inflating the value of commodities are evil, full stop, 0 disagreement. But barring private investment means centralizing power in banks. Even co-ops, I think, at large scale would be dangerous. Everyday people are far too risk averse to gamble their livelihood on long-term investments in their business.
I think the world would be a better place if Elon didn’t have any money at all.
Because most of his wealth was generated off the back of government subsidy, daddy’s genocide emeralds, stepping on the faces of actual innovators, and grift.
How do you expect companys, however they are named and structured in your utopia, to finance large expensive projects that will not generate a return (even assuming a currency-free, post scarcity world, I would think big things still need to happen, and there has to be a benefit to doing them) for a significant period of time?
I’d really like to know what your proposed alternative is.
In a post-scarcity world, the financing of large, expensive projects does not rely on the traditional capitalist structure that prioritizes profit above all else. Instead, such projects would be driven by societal needs, scientific advancement, and the overall betterment of humanity. The collective resources of society, managed through democratic means and supported by advanced technology, would be allocated to these projects.
A cooperative approach, leveraging public funding and shared resources, ensures that the benefits of these projects are distributed equitably. This system prioritizes long-term sustainability and communal welfare over short-term profits, making it feasible to undertake significant endeavors without the constraints of capitalist profit motives.
Your question presupposes that only a profit-driven model can manage large-scale projects, but history shows that many significant advancements, such as space exploration and public infrastructure, have been achieved through public funding and collective effort. In a post-scarcity world, this approach would be even more refined and efficient, driven by a united vision of progress and equality rather than the narrow interests of profit-seeking entities.
In this damn country, slightly slowing down the growth of rich people’s investments is a more effective argument against something than literally killing your customers. If gutting net neutrality takes money out of normal people’s pockets and makes things a bit more difficult for them, then everything is working as intended.
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I’m all for it. As long as they can be remotely turned on, have the capability to stream live, and have the video uploaded automatically immediately after an incident by an accountable party. When your body cam can stream and upload to the Internet there is no excuse for lost footage.
Unfortunately, bodycam videos often contain private info (nudity, PII, graphic scenes, etc), and need to be put through a censor before being made available to the public. So someone like a police chief has the power to cover something up pretty easily. An agency is only as honest as the ones with the power to control which videos make it out to the public.
Nonetheless, I support putting those features on all officers too. Even if it’s not perfect, it does improve things, and put a feeling of surveillance on the officers.
A number of municipalities have made the review boards consist of citizens outside the jurisdiction’s criminal justice structure. This is a great idea and should become more widely adopted.
This seems like big news! I don’t see any comments here though… Which either means it’s not getting much attention or this post didn’t get as much traction as another one here for the same story… Either way, thought it was worth a congrats to those whom this news benefits–this is a step forward!
With any luck this will be the beginning of a larger movement, and we’ll see other stores begin to unionize.
I think they’re making a joke about how AI generated code is ridiculously insecure and shouldn’t be used by anyone.
That said, AIs with the ability to pen test will be a hell of a lot better at finding obscure exploits than any human, so the joke is kind of damaging.
I mean it holds a kernel of truth, but only in one specific use case.
And I can tell you from personal experience if enough people bandwagon the joke, it will kill any interest in developing actually useful AI penetration testing products.
Just like how you chucklefucks broke NFTs.
They could have been THE SOLUTION to protect content creators from platform abuse, but because everyone focused on ONE use case (links to pictures) and joked about it, all the actual useful NFT development to secure creator’s rights and force cross platform compatibility has been completely abandoned and a shitton of you will downvote me for even mentioning it.
One, the blockchain is a benefit, it is only the modern ‘proof of work’ blockchains people hate for their energy usage and poor scalability. There are other much less intensive proof methods like Proof of Stake, and Proof of Historic Compliance. Independently confirmed ledgers are still the best form of distributed high-confidence low-trust dynamic archives. ‘Mining’ for the blockchain is separate from upkeep of the blockchain, but almost none of you naysayers even understand that because you only know what you’ve learned from online memes and jokes.
Two, while those stupid profile pics provided no value to anyone, the built-in programattically triggered contract function is of IMMENSE value to content creators. It is literally the way to guarantee youtube can never screw over small creators again and give them an effortless way to move their content to other platforms without requiring their current platform’s blessing.
And I can explain it to you in detail, but you will still just crackle “But but NFTS are a whack yo” because you haven’t actually bothered to look at the fundamental underlying technology and instead form your opinions from other people’s jokes on the internet.
And people like you outnumber the people who actually understand the value by several orders of magnitude, so your constant dismissive humor (based on rank ignorance) is actively damaging development into the ONLY open source project that can guarantee content creators rights and give them leverage against greedy platforms.
So, instead of helping your favorite content creator secure the rights for their own work, you post stupid image macros based off of 3rd hand incorrect knowledge and keep any tools to help the little guy fight for their fair compensation from being created in the future.
This is what they mean when they say ‘a little knowledge is dangerous’.
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