Capitalism guarantees externalities are shouldered by society, as that’s most profitable.

You don’t succeed in business by cleaning up the mess you make.

Yeah but most people are idiots, so…

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I’ll give you a hand… The implication is that you need to be brain damaged to want a toilet cam.

Have you tried brain damaging yourself? If that fails, repeat until you something or whatever.

Beyond generic political platitudes and virtue signals (aka lies), do they even bother pretending whose side they’re on right now?

No political class whore will ever confess to their corruption or crimes. Putin still claims he’s fighting nazis. Even the US fascist regime still continuously claim they’re fighting for freedom and democracy. Charlatans will gaslight until their last breathe, as they have no shame, nor integrity.

If the USA has taught us anything, it’s that we can always count on Liberals and Conservatives to forget all their differences and display radical bipartisanship in expanding the surveillance state and building big brother for fascism.

Reminder that, when Reddit first published their user stats, a US base was one of the most active locations in the world.

Always assume that governments, oligarchs, and corporations are waging psychological warfare against you.

After seeing how government orgs manage tech projects from the inside in late stage capitalism I’ll tell you what happened.

Some criminally corrupt parasite in the political class was wowed by bribes and cocaine from the sales teams of the big 4, who assured them they can do it cheaper, faster, better with 100 offshore Indians. Most of the sub-contractors of sub-contractors working on the project were just warm bodies without the skills or experience, requiring the handful of onshore staff to spend 100% of their time in meetings, fighting fires, hand holding incompetent managers and juniors, doing hundreds of hours of overtime, severely impacting their physical Ave mental health.

Meanwhile a team of 20 onshore staff would have done it cheaper, faster, better 90% of the time.

Listen, guys. The oligarchy urgently needs to implement a totalitarian fascist dictatorship before automation renders billions of people unemployable.

You understand, right? They need to surveil everyone 24/7, otherwise the 99% might successfully organise a revolt and redistribute the collective output of human civilisation before we achieve GAI, or have produced armies of killbots capable of genociding the masses who are incapable of providing any value to capitalism.

There really isn’t any alternative. It’s their god given right to own all matter, space, and time in the universe, and — most unfortunately — you can’t exist without consuming or occupying an infinitesimally small microcosm of it.

This is 100% the reality. Capitalism is beating everyone into submission, but the inevitable end result of the enshittification of everything is the whole system being torn down, by force.

Exactly. There should be no big tech. Massive companies are ultimately a negative to society. No company should be able to create walled gardens, consolidate vertically up supply chains or horizontally across industries.

Society will continue the downward spiral until there are enforced limits that encourage interoperability and competing on quality/price instead of artificial barriers, profit sharing with workers and tax payers instead of maximum greed, and overall redistribution of wealth to prevent parasites from forming to begin with.

In northwest Spain, volunteers used strainers to sift nurdles from sand along the Atlantic coast after containers full of pellets fell off a cargo vessel in late 2023.

Capitalist dictatorships, doing capitalist dictatorship things… If you or I accidentally dumped a ton of plastic in the ocean we would face huge fines. A corporation does it and volunteers have to clean up their mess.

“Won’t someone think of the capitalist!?!”

These are laws ghosts written by surveillance capitalist oligarchs. Privacy/sec communities have been suspecting this for decades, and especially since the Snowden leaks and big techs evolution since.

Forget the historical examples, and all the conspiracy denialism from Dems/liberals about the authoritarian attack vector of, and risks to democracy posed by, a secret police and surveillance state… Imagine implementing this draconian shit in a country that is currently being overthrown by a fascist regime. It’s almost like the Dem/Liberal political class is a controlled opposition working for the same oligarchs as the R’s — hell bent on returning the serfs to feudalism — huh?

This is why I consider America to be suffering from a propaganda-induced mental-illness epidemic, and I mean the average American; all the non-voters and average D, just as much as the average R. Sure, the R’s are the most mentally-ill, but this isn’t a fucking contest. The media the average D’s consume has been oligarch-owned for decades, too. They consistently fall in line and support neoliberal, oligarch-financed, corporate-whores like Newsom, time and time again. Instead of viewing him and all of his analogues as an enemy of the people — vital to the success of oligarchy and fascism — they view him as a voice of reason and leader. They’ve been okay with funding blatant genocide the entire time (most still are). They’ve been okay with the destruction of the working class and economic mobility for over 5 decades. They were okay with the Fox News FASCIST STATE MEDIA propaganda operation acting in plain site, for 30 god damn years. The R’s didn’t occur in a vacuum. The D’s were a vital player in the R’s success.

Now here, as always, we have the D’s/liberals continuing to construct big brother FOR FASCISM, even in the final hour, when the coup is almost complete, while acting like they are doing it to “protect” the working class, instead of to enslave them.

“Never again” really means “Always, forever” in the bad place

This is what happens when the political class is just neoliberal corporate-whores who act on behalf of capital. They bend the knew to fascism, the same as 99.99% of corporations do.

There is no room for ethics or morality in business.

You can extract more wealth from the proles if you convince them to pay you to install big brother.

If we could convince our pets to microchip themselves, we would.

Fun fact! Many studies have proven that timing nutrition is almost inconsequential unless you are an athlete, bodybuilder, etc (e.g. differing daily protein intake between 1 dose vs 5 doses will only result in few % variance).

Our biology is designed for wildly varying access to food.

Fossil fuel consumption will not stop until they are made illegal, and military forces are used to keep them in the ground.

That’ll never happen in our capitalist dictatorships, so buckle up.

As the rule of law continues to collapse in the US smart foreign govs and corpos will switch away. You can’t rely on contracts to be enforced, or corruption to not introduce unacceptable risk, in a fascist dictatorship.