This feels like a bit of a contradiction. AI is good for healthcare tree planting and lifeguarding but a retail robot is capitalism gone to far. I dont buy the idea that this is purely driven by capitalism and corporate greed because it neglects the fact that these robots are currently way more expensive than human labor. This is emerging technology and what we are seeing here is a partnership between two companies to start realworld testing a new tech. They dont expect it to be better or more cost effective its R&D. We would expect to see the same in every single effective economic system because its just a basic human development process. Maybe a decade down the line when these become more cost effective than human labour you could say they’re replacing human labour for profit but we arent there or even close to there. Then even when we get to that future reality where your comment now makes sense its still not the result of captialism, every half decent economic system would cashiers with robots if they were good enough.

As for the bit about there being no protection from the big scary captial class, we do have protection it’s called a government. Capitalism and public regulation aren’t mutually exclusive. If the need to increase tax and welfare arises then we can do that within our current system but the reality is there is still a normal amount of employment available for humans considering we’re entering a world recession.

Hopefully I was interpreting your point correctly, if I wasnt please let me know because it was a bit chaotic.

how is it captialism?

Where did you see these posts? On the ALL post feed?

I am on the same side of the issue as this author and I should be reading this and agreeing. But I disagree with nearly every statement, god this is such a bad essay. I think it does a terrible job of making its case.

The cherry on top for me is the author making a fucking RSS reader… I swear people in this space do not understand why its dying. They keep doing the same things over and over again instead of trying to actually fill the gaps. The solutions back then were solutions for the time, we can take them and improve them.

Thats way more than I expected when I made the comment and I think that changes my opinion on it being a small amount.

Thats depressing. % stats like this always oversell it. There are probably not many people installing duckduckgo so a 30% increase is a small handful of users. I’d expect like 500% if there was actual pushback.

To late I already implemented my own linux age verification. Every time I log in I scan my face and my drivers license and email it to microsoft, google, meta and the CCP. Get owned privacel

you’re implying it’s a binary choice. Either we support labour or we support the right. The way I see it, they’re a centrist party now at best. I want to support a more leftist/libertarian party.

I understand that perspective and im not trying to say its binary because its fine to vote that way. I just think even if you want to support a more leftwing party people should refrain from carrying the exaggerated right wing narratives against labour because they still need a strong center left party to pickup the votes for people who arent as far left.

Lastly, I don’t think it’s good to excuse bad policies by saying they also did other good things.

I am saying that the good things are bigger than the bad so you should focus on the good rather than the bad. They already have every right winger focusing on the bad, they dont need it from the left as well. Theres a difference between talking about the bad policies in a critical way and then shitting on them every single time their mentioned and running down their list of worst policies. Rail nationalization is huge, its a huge win for the left and it should be talked about at every opportunity so people are encouraged to vote left.

From what I’ve seen the good far outweighs the bad and it is what I would consider left wing. When you look at the reasons why he did the things you’re attacking its not like its his ideal policy, he had his reasons and seems that if the circumstances were different he would be more free to pursue a further left wing stance. Government isnt always getting what you want, you must balance the budget and fight to spend your political captial most efficiently getting wins where they matter most. I dont think hes done a great job but its not half as bad as people claim.

Yes I understand being pissed off at some horrible legislation but focusing on single events and painting an entire picture will destroy any politician. Focusing on his worst legislation ignores all the good stuff he has passed and makes people think the left is just as bad when objectively that is not the case.

Like even looking at the online safety act. Thats popular legislation with majority support. Think of all the things that wouldnt have happened under a conservative government, rail nationalization, strengthen labour laws, green energy expansion and reform, prison reform.

All his biggest controversy kind of pales in comparison to the good done. So to throw all that out just seems very stupid to me.

The metadata we’re talking about is stuff like ip and time of connection.

the UK has it rough. They have a dogshit conservative government for a decade and then get pissed when the left cant clean it up in a single term. Also most of the voters are still falling for conservative outrage bait drumming up a ton of distraction issues like migrant crime and rape gangs.

every single one of those cases was the activist fucking up basic opsec not proton. They are open about the metadata stored and that they can be forced to comply by court order.

Hasnt microsoft been doing offshore datacenters for nearly 15 years? The one off the shore of the UK was almost certainly majority wind powered.

PC players arent starving for games. We’re drowning in them

This is economics mixed with some rage bait. None of this is a workers rights issue. This is just standard business in America they enjoy the benefits and consequences that come along. These are very highly mobile workers who were well paid and well compensated. These workers got better exit packages than every country with “strong workers rights”. There is absolutely zero reason to pretend to care about this. Should cisco should just constantly expand its workforce infinitely, should they have published a detailed reason for letting every person go.

You’d expect this to be like oh 4000 people were laid off because cisco predicts a downturn in the economy but they’re just restructuring and no longer require those people. They will hire more back for the new path.

Do you honestly care about the month to month hirings and firings of Cisco? These companies are giants and restructure regularly. If Cisco comp their workers properly which they did then IDGAF.

Seems fine, employees were well compensated and supported. Its a big company 4000 isnt a huge amount. Interesting to see a bigger pivot to silicon and optics.

Waiting for the X.com Glasses that connect up to my neurolink so I can view a constant feed of rightwing propaganda while the neurolink listens to my brains reactions and feeds it back to optimize for the most rage.

LTT storage is excessive. He stores all his footage in full quality instead of just storing his final edited videos in a compressed format. Plus if you’re a youtuber with millions of subscribers you can afford to pay for a few TB of storage to hold and serve your videos. Its not that expensive.