wonderingwanderer

What if there are enough resources to produce thousands of hammers, but the hammer monger decided to buy up all the production capacity, thereby creating the scarcity being discussed, and then goes on to say that if you own a hammer, you’re depriving your neighbors?

He says he hasn’t changed at all since he was 6 years old.

Our president has the mind of a 6 year old.

I think it has something to do with powdered milk

Fuck off. Russia can end the war in Ukraine any time they want. All they have to do is leave and stop bombing them.

If you have a hammer in your shed, are you depriving your neighbor of a hammer? Your neighbor can get their own hammer, and you’d both be better off than if you had to go rent one from the local hammer monger.

Altman is creating the RAM shortage that he points to as justification for hoarding all the RAM. It’s a circular argument. If he didn’t manufacture scarcity, then everyone would be able to have their own RAM.

He’s the only one in this situation depriving anyone of compute power, and it’s because he wants to rent it all back to them. (Yes, Musk, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai are guilty here too).

The one swallowing up all the RAM and creating the shortage: “There’s a RAM shortage, so none of you should have any because I need it all!”

Until google stops letting you log in because you didn’t link your alt account to your main…

It’s not?

washes dick

Yeah I knew that.

Yeah it’s not like there are just dozens of disjointed powdered milk memes popping up on the fediverse at a given time, and they just happen to be concentrating in your feed because some blackbox marketing algorithm stole your personal data and decided you would be interested in powdered milk. The fediverse isn’t big enough for that to happen, plus it’s not a profit-driven proprietary platform, so it wouldn’t happen anyway.

No, it’s just an organic conversation unfolding between a bunch of fediverse users who find a sense of human companionship in being a part of the trend. Surprisingly wholesome.

It’s like a bug zapper for tankies

Are you seriously calling him a nazi for citing facts about Mao?

Um, duh.

Another item for the next administration’s checklist: break up all these damn corporate monopolies

Did you select a preference for “What to do if this item is out of stock” or did you just wing it and get mad when it wasn’t what you wanted?

That’s fucking bullshit! Anti-competitive, monopolistic practices like this should be blocked by the anti-trust laws that we have in place to protect against precisely this!

What the fuck.

He’s a wannabe muckraker who has to manufacture outrage because the shit he’s trying to blow the lid off is all made up in his head.

Also a fraudster, yes.

Republicans: “We’re going to hunt down anyone breaking election laws!”

Also republicans:

The words aren’t what doom us, the phenomenon they describe is. Without the words, we remain in ignorance, which compounds with the thoughtlessness.

Conversely, putting words to it gives the mind something to work on.

Errm, I don’t know how to tell you this, but…

I wouldn’t wish that evil on anybody. Besides, there’s my exit plan.

Hungary had the right idea. They proved it’s possible to say no to fascism.