I think the whole thing might be a joke? 😀

I’m confused, is this a serious take? How they make their money leads to how the game is designed and who for. If it’s advertising it’s shit. If it’s microtransactions it becomes about min-maxing annoyance for most gamers while attracting whales, gambling and is shit. Monthly subscriptions is a model that needs loyalty and should attract people who want to “live” in an permanent virtual game world.

Ideally I’d want a global “entertainment subscription” non-profit that is funding projects for the players benefits and is somewhat crowd-controlled like a socialist bank.

Yes but the issue is that any technology will be used to maximize profit, which results in almost always the worst case outcome. We already have the technology for a global post-scarcity civilization with a circular economy.

Those 4 things are just random ideas but anything that is unprofitable or decreases power or destroys massive wealth of capitalists is basically censored in mainstream political discourse. And today effective countermeasures have been developed to make protests useless and reform or revolutions impossible.

But I do agree that this doesn’t justify radical anti-natalism. Just teach your children profitable skills, multiple languages, subsistence farming, electronics and how to build electric motors and windmills, how to build a cozy tiny house or a boat. I also hope for technological advancements (like 3D printers, genetic engineering) that allow for a more democratic industrial base.

PS: Kurzgesagt has a new video on this: Is Our World Broken?. TLDW: We need to tell ourselves a new story (but that requires we stop believing in the old ones)

How closed minded they must be, to think everyone shares the exact same despair they do, as well as the inability or lack of creativity needed to envision a better future and a path that takes us there.

Lets do a test. Could you imagine supporting:

1. Banning of commercial advertising
2. Abolishing patents or making them free or extremely low cost to use to quickly adopt new / better technology
3. Nationalize all big news and social media companies and turning them over to the democratic control of their own workers (a cooperative)
4. Massive wealth and land redistribution

Most people can’t because they have been programmed to see these as “holy touchstones” of their true religion, capitalism. And that means only economic power may rule, and there are no paths to the future except the profitable ones. They rather de-federate call socialists tankies and than to deal with the angry dirtbag left. They prefer to exist in a calm apolitical space with a total war on good vs evil.

So please don’t insult people who can imagine many paths but also have the wisdom why all these paths are shut. It’s just like a physics problem, you can’t overcome the political energy worth trillions of dollars with a few measly millions of dollars of political energy we could muster.

I guess any used android smartphone should have plenty of apps. Then you can even have video com

What is “media freeze”?

Is labour fixing it or are they just neoliberal fucks too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

I’m curious, how would copyleft license improve the quality of browser development? That is really about funding and management.

I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.

The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.

Something drastic would need to happen to purge this incredibly power imbalance from the captured state. A kind of reformation or practically a coup.

Yeah the “happen to be” was meant to be slightly sarcastic. The only answer is to make conscious and smart decisions to be more inclusive and representative instead of profit motive. Unfortunately there seems a lot of pushback with hatewagons that will make producers more conservative.

The problem is that it’s commercial driven. They want the big stars who just happen to be white. But then want to sell inclusivity for profit that lead to questionable creative decisions.

The rage is misdirected but not wrong. Representation is important but is being exploited by soulless corporate robots.

Unfortunately Trump cheating is probably boosting his numbers with his base. Probably even the evangelicals. They believe in inequality, and Trump as their chosen Fuehrer is meant to have extra special rules.

Well we’re both speculating, but I believe AI will advance to the point it can reliably animate a 3D animated “girlfriend” in a virtual environment and then learn how exactly how to maximize pleasure and create erotic stories. With more advance teledildonics being able to simulate different types of sex it could become better at that then the best “courtesan”. Fantasy is often better than sex already, but what happens when you have visual, physical and erotic narrative woven together?

Alexander Korobko suggested that Bentley’s abduction was because he was mistaken for a spy

Look at all that China aggression!

Misogynists and fascists like disgusting Elon aside, I do believe there is a serious problem on the horizon.

Just existing AI capabilities, “cyberdildonics” and virtual reality headsets. It doesn’t have to be a full sized sex robot, simple hardware like the handy already exists.

Imagine combining that with a ChatGPT and video generating AI that is designed to create “engagement” similar to how social media does this - not just with sexual pleasure but also through generated stories creating a pseudo intimacy based on illusion.

It sounds pathetic but algorithms could relatively quickly generate the “ideal” forms of pornography and stimulation to maximize pleasure, including “aural” stimulation and sex stories. And that generated for the tastes and desires of each individual.

So there is at least the possibility of a kind of addiction or at least habit forming from a kind of “ultra porn”. Long term this will lead to changes in dating and procreation and socialization, if sexual desires are being able to be fulfilled illusionary and in a fantasy world.

No matter how pathetic you think this is, it’s going to be a real problem or at least disruption. Obviously it won’t be a feminist “self own”.

Haha that is a good sci-fi question. Obviously not, because the joy is in giving pleasure. You can fantasize about pleasuring a women but that is not the same. Without AI sentience, a sex bot would simply be a tool to enhance your own pleasure or fantasy.

MAYBE if it was like a game or an educational tool that measures your performance so you can compete with others in cunnilingus? Hahaha but no.

You can’t claim things like “Israel must be wiped off the map”

And again you are victim of racist propaganda in the US. This is a mistranslation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel

Norouzi’s translation of the Persian quote reads; “the Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”

I could also quote a lot of radical garbage from Bush or other worse nutjobs in the US. Some quote meant for internal consumption inside a country does not represent Iranian foreign policy.

And a lot of liberals, progressives and socialists agree that the fascist Israeli apartheid regime needs to be ended and stop oppressing the human beings in the territories they occupy and control as basically open air prisons. They need to stop violating international law. They need to stop with their terrorism and crimes against humanity.

Israel is basically a failed state. The only solution now is a 1 state solution for Palestine-Israel after a period of “de-nazification” of Israel.

Again, you really should try to comprehend that other people might have a different viewpoint of the “benevolent terrorism” by the USA and Israel. You probably have a hard time picturing them as human beings with their own thoughts and ideas and loves and families. They see they are suffering at the hands of imperialist terrorist regimes and of course they fight back.

Well presumably to make more money lol. The good thing is that there will at least be some competition to bring prices down and keep service quality up. A monopoly would be bad. But of course that leads to more satellites. This really shows how our capitalist system can’t really make rational decisions that are for the benefit of humanity. Ideally we’d have a separate economic institution to regulate industry like this under direct democratic control.