aaron
@aaron@infosec.pub
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 4 weeks ago:
You are the capitalist society. It is all you vote for. Bernie Sanders is just the limited hangout. You surely don’t expect the rest of the world to buy it any more do you?
- Comment on Historically love sugar 4 weeks ago:
In terms of overwhelming media coverage think of them as the Brit version of the Kardashians (maybe from a few years back no idea how often the Kardashians are in the news these days).
Other than that I think we probably never greatly reduced the role of our monarchy at the end of ww1, the way much of the rest of Europe did, because at that point we were still global reserve currency and similar to Americans today - things seemed to be going relatively well and we’d just ‘won’ ww1 so why change it? Our coal production peaked around 1921 (iirc), after that the £ began its decline before being bankrupted by ww2. We did alright with a somewhat socialist society until the late 70s, from which point neo-liberalism took over and we have raced rightwards, like the US, and the monarchy needs to go but is the least of our problems.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 5 weeks ago:
Well they’ve promised so that’s that. No story here.
- Comment on Honda lands a rocket as it pursues re-usable launchers 5 weeks ago:
It’s ok America, capitalism and successive American governments decided ELON will lead America’s challenge in the new space race.
Go fast and break things, over and over again until the several billion the public ponied up runs out, at which point you cheat an election the go fast and break the agencies that might investigate, not to mention NASA!
That’ll do it, don’t worry international prestige WILL BE MAINTAINED!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Have you got some sort of Bill Gates bondage kink?
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 month ago:
Hijacking this post to say: there are too many Americans in this thread arguing about the second world war, somehow apparently suggesting the US is not an untrustable former ally, rather than the important story itself.
- Comment on For Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers | Amber Scorah and Psst are building a “digital safe” to help people shine a light on the bad things their bosses are doing, without getting foun... 2 months ago:
You could call it something like, I don’t know, what about something like ‘wikileaks’?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Post-modernism laid the groundwork for an ‘I have my facts and you have yours’ culture. Or call it ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’. Community has been replaced by an atomised screen time facing our individual echo chambers. Decades of neoliberalism has impoverished swathes of the population, materially and intellectually. There are many chickens coming home to roost.
- Comment on Australia Treasurer Warns of ‘Seismic’ US Global Economic Shock 3 months ago:
paywall
- Comment on Is there any negative consequence to wearing socks inside out? 4 months ago:
Seems ostentatious.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 4 months ago:
Do you really want to carry your lifetime supply of honey around with you every time you move apartment?
What other foodstuffs are you going to buy your lifetime supply of? Dried goods? Tins? You could get yourself a winnebago and fill it with all your lifetime’s worth of food or something, which would make lugging it all around with you forever easier. Just hope nobody nicks it.
- Comment on DOGE slashes entire government agency with average salary of $131,000 a year to just ONE staff member 4 months ago:
Any reply is a win for you.
Easy block.
- Comment on DOGE slashes entire government agency with average salary of $131,000 a year to just ONE staff member 4 months ago:
There isn’t anything to see.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 4 months ago:
This might sound daft but I’ve traveled for years and literally found that mime, the more extravagant the better, works fine.
- Comment on DOGE slashes entire government agency with average salary of $131,000 a year to just ONE staff member 4 months ago:
/u/Donald_Musk is completely oblivious to the privileges printing the world’s reserve currency has bought to the US, and the obligations the US has in order to maintain the dollar’s position.
Where on Earth does the US think it is going to find the money to pay its debts going forward if it isn’t printing the money everybody else is using to buy oil?
Musk and Trump are speed-running the US’s collapse. They are simply nowhere near intelligent or experienced enough to maintain the US’s position of dominance. It is kind of fascinating to watch it play out, kind of horrifying, kind of banal.
Ultimately the American people voted for this. None of the people really destroying the US hid what they were going to do. Chaotic times ahead because if Trump has a plan it appears to be to try and bully his way to global dominance. He couldn’t even manage the taliban.
On a personal level I can say that I take almost zero pleasure in seeing the predictions I and many other people dismissed as ‘doomers’ have made over the past fifteen years (in my case, others longer). I won’t be replying to any messages from previous acquaintances that say ‘hey you were right’.
Let’s see how long it takes for the US to resemble a country like Brazil. The shanty towns are already being formed.