frashelaw's comments

Exactly. Ultimately these problems must be addressed on a greater societal level: by policy designed specifically to target them.

Individual donation will only ever be a band aid. The funds required to alleviate hunger, poverty, etc., will come from redistributing the wealth of the super rich.

> Why was this vaccine even approved, instead of just having J&J produce the same vaccine Pfizer and Moderna are making, which would be in the best interest of the world? Is this some utterly idiotic capitalism bullshit that prevents J&J from making a 94% vaccine as well?

Exactly. There should be no place for vaccine profiteering, especially now that we have two extremely good vaccines. But in the interest of pharma profits, instead of cooperatively manufacturing the best vaccines, unburdened by patent hurdles, instead we have massive amounts of public funding going to pharma corps so that they can make profits off this medical crisis. Truly shameless.

Exactly. PG's essay completely misses the point of the left: it makes it about some vague idea of labor being a potential path to wealth. The left fights for worker solidarity, power, and people's democracy to end exploitation from the owning class.

Large scale wealth redistribution!

> Patel wrote about the end of scarcity, so technology that brings scarcity back seems like a panacea. Perhaps Swift’s 2014 vision was simply ahead of its time?

If our technology allows us to now distribute media in a post-scarcity environment, isn't that a good thing for culture? It's absolutely ridiculous that artificially reintroducing scarcity is seen as a good thing.

It also serves as yet another example of the reliance of profit on artificial scarcity, and the irrationality of the system- as well as the lengths to which people will go, just to desperately preserve an outdated model.

> corporate business newspaper is a mouthpiece for the "left"

you mean liberals, who are by no measure left: they simply want woke capitalism. leftists want to end capitalism.

Advertising is a scourge on the internet, and society in general. I doubt anyone would really miss those awful things. So yes, I want to kill advertising.

This indeed is also my main fear. All the nefarious, intrusive, methods of advertising will get a hundred times worse, but now be directly beamed into our brains. Our hypercapitalist economy will only accelerate and exacerbate this.

> From this article: no more keyboards / mice? No typing, you can "think" to write. What about recording your own thoughts and then playing them back to yourself later? How much further can that tech go? And there is so much more beyond BCI, we are just understanding the basic building blocks in many areas, but making amazing progress.

While this itself is certainly an interesting concept, I'm worried at its consequences when implemented in our hypercapitalist economy: We'll almost certainly, along with this incredible interaction technology, have advertising beamed directly into our consciousness or something similarly intrusive. It's honestly terrifying how much worse intrusive tracking and advertising would get with this technology.

Yeah, that's a much more realistic picture of the US State Department's international role

There is a discord server where the developer is very active, you can join and ask your questions to contributors directly, in my experience they are very friendly and eager to help!

There is also this package: https://code.dlang.org/packages/dray

Though it looks like it is for Raylib 3.0 (latest is 3.5).

They are blatantly an apartheid state, when you call it "laughably biased" you are implicitly taking the side of the settler-colonialist aggression against the people living their, placing them under siege and military occupation.

As long as it remains massively profitable to collect every ounce of data from us, tech corporations are going to keep doing this.

Even with some existing laws, the profits are enough that they are willing to flagrantly violate these laws and simply pay meager fines.

It's also unlikely that we will ever get significant legislation to protect us from this either, because all these tech profits allow big tech to buy our government, because policy is heavily swayed by corporations.

As long as it remains massively profitable to collect every ounce of data from us, tech corporations are going to keep doing this.

Even with some existing laws, the profits are enough that they are willing to flagrantly violate these laws and simply pay meager fines.

It's also unlikely that we will ever get significant legislation to protect us from this either, because all these tech profits allow big tech to buy our government, because policy is heavily swayed by corporations.

Those "left" are liberals obsessed with identity-politics, hardly the same as the actual left

Remember anything about Snowden's leaks? American companies happily share all the data they collect with local police departments and intelligence agencies, in bulk, with absolute impunity.

If anything, you face a much greater threat from the American intelligence apparatus than one in a foreign country.