GalacticRobot
@GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
- Comment on How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business? 1 week ago:
He was bound to get caught. Typically if it was the start of a movement, you would have seen organization and actual actions occurring, rather than nothing and health costs still skyrocketing. But hey, makes a good meme right?
- Comment on How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business? 1 week ago:
How’d that work out? Guy made a plea deal, failed to start a revolution and is just a meme on the internet.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 1 week ago:
Depends on the browser. Many have it built in now, so your argument still fails.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
Totally, they really should change those ad blocker buttons. Off to indicate ads are off right? Definitely not ‘on’ to indicate that ads have been disabled. Because that would be too confusing for people.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
You and your post makes no sense. You have to enable ad blocking, so why wouldn’t you enable ai blocking? It’s even well explained in the screenshot and blocked by default.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 2 weeks ago:
I think you would be ignoring the ethics of the energy used and costs of getting off the planet as well. May be more ethical and cheaper to take those funds and reinvest in making the earth a better place rather than leaving it.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 2 weeks ago:
Why? There are plenty of reasons. If Earth is the only place that ever will be habitable or the only place ‘we’ are stuck on, there will come a point where that’s going to be a massive problem, and it seems that time is coming pretty quickly. So figuring out how to explore and expand just beyond earth would be pretty important to the long term survival of the species.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 2 weeks ago:
Probably just as ethical as Europeans coming to North America and taking over native land and exploiting it’s resources for personal gain as the cost of the environment and the people already living there, but ethics gets tricky when you really think about it.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the logical answer is ‘robots’. Humans are cheap and always have been, and it’s easy to make more. That’s the basis of human civilization for 500,000+ years. Expand, strip resources, and expand more. As we destroy this planet, we either find somewhere else to do the same, or perish as a species. Could you go the other way and limit resource exploitation, limit consumerism, limit unfettered reproduction? Sure. But that’s not happening.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 month ago:
Except the government wanting this information didn’t exist. That’s the future, you ID will be tracked (it already is) and the government will know exactly what you say, where you go, and what you do. Throw it at an ‘AI’ for ‘normalcy’ and you have Minority Report in a much sadder way.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 month ago:
Oh it’s not just tech companies, it’s tech companies getting ahead of the government who is going to demand the same thing. Say something that the government doesn’t agree with, boom, you already have the information readily available.
We could fight against it and refuse to use these services, but that would change the things we are all addicted to.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
Ahh, it’s why we can’t actually help the kids and Boomers get all the help. Those who vote right?
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
It would be a very dumb law that has zero chance of passing. It would be like banning cars to keep horses employed.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
$100 isn’t much of a big cart these days. That’s a week or less of food for many.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
I mean when it comes to grocery stores, most have little profit margin to begin with.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
Yeah, you just raise prices 10% and pocket the difference when people end up having to use more cashiers because the self checkout is too full from fools thinking they are getting a discount. It’s no different than all the stores with ‘reward’ programs where you get cheaper or better prices. They track everything you buy and sell it, making more than the amount you are saving. Seems better to recognize that automation of things like checkout is here to stay and incentivize alternative methods to keep people you know, fed, housed and alive.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
Whole lot of scanners are moving towards cameras and detection along with just automatically documenting when you didn’t scan something. Clock over the felony amount in your state and they can just automatically send the info to the police. Target has been doing it for years.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
I mean overall it would be terrible for the economy, grocery stores would just raise prices another 10%.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
General inflation has went up 30% since 2020. So it matches food increases perfectly.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
Also a huge fan of holding food chains accountable for fair pricing. Hope this becomes effective!
Most grocery stores are running at 2% profit margins. There isn’t anything for this to be ‘effective’ for, except you just raise prices 10% across the board and pocket the extra from actual cashiers still being used. It sounds great on paper until you dig in and realize it’s a completely asinine idea.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 months ago:
It’s how media works, rage get’s click and the lack of critical thinking skills is incredible prevalent everywhere.
- Comment on How polite 2 months ago:
Yeah, clearly not a lot of photographers in here.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 2 months ago:
It’s rolling out, so it just hasn’t hit you yet.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 2 months ago:
It’s to stop automated scrapping. Old reddit has less/little/no protections from that. New reddit has a lot more in place. So when you log in (which now you can only make an account with new reddit), it tracks a lot more information so it’s more difficult to get around bans. Basically stops the majority of automated scraping, which reddit doesn’t want.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 2 months ago:
If you are getting banned from new accounts on reddit, you probably were saying or doing some pretty swarmy things.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 2 months ago:
Much like the internet in general. Anything that becomes popular in general goes the same path, even without private equity. That just accelerates it.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 months ago:
Maybe AI companies can exist as long as they fund universal basic income.
That means they would need actually make money instead of just shuffling loans around. It’s a shell game, and the public is going to be left with empty pockets.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 months ago:
No way would someone just make things up on the internet would they?
- Comment on You need to think long term 3 months ago:
I was that dumb kid who got my first gmail invite from a friend and never thought to use my first name/last name because it was during the time that we all were supposed to be ‘anonymous’ as everyone on the internet was a murderer.