[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 week ago

They're bringing back Enron? Who's fucking idea was that?

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

The pearl clutching from the bourgeois is becoming a bit annoying.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 month ago

No. And they've said as much.

"Clinton would not pledge to support Sanders if he won the 2020 Democratic nomination."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-sen-bernie-sanders-likes/story?id=68424746

“However – I do reject socialism as a economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party.” - Pelosi

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/15/politics/nancy-pelosi-socialism/index.html

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Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”

It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished...

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[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 42 points 4 months ago

In the words of the pod, the majority opinion is that "the long tradition of police doing whatever the fuck they want is so important that it outweighs the clear language and intent of a law" that was written to protect women and children from domestic abusers.

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"This is a gruesome case, brought in 2005 by a Colorado woman named Jessica Gonzales. Gonzales had a restraining order against her ex-husband. But when he kidnapped her three children, the police ignored her requests for help. All three children were murdered. The Supreme Court ruled that the police had no obligation to enforce the restraining order."

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Rugrats, Pokémon, The Simpsons, The Clone Wars... There's a bunch of possibilities.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You know it didn't use to be this way? There was a time when you could be 'A GE man'. You could work at a company for your whole life. You would not get laid off and rehired whenever it was convenient for the company, rather they'd show you some loyalty and you'd show them the same, this would be backed by employee profit sharing schemes, incentivising higher performance.

The heart of this deal between workers and management was ripped out when management chased higher share valuations, with stock bonuses for themselves instead of workers. It became cheaper to fire 1/80th of the workforce because you could break up unions that way, management could write off all those salaries to bump up the quarterly earnings, increasing the stock price and earning themselves bonuses at the expense of workers who as you said, just learn to get by.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 34 points 6 months ago

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance... Is there anything they've ever bought they haven't slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?

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[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 33 points 10 months ago

"Fraggles don't have any bosses [...] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other." - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock

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...“We believe Artificial Intelligence can save lives – if we let it. Medicine, among many other fields, is in the stone age compared to what we can achieve with joined human and machine intelligence working on new cures. There are scores of common causes of death that can be fixed with AI, from car crashes to pandemics to wartime friendly-fire.”

As I type this, the nation of Israel is using an AI program called the Gospel to assist its airstrikes, which have been widely condemned for their high level of civilian casualties...

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 year ago

I have never had any thoughts about anyone in my gym beyond "I hope no-one heard me fart on that last squat."

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 year ago

National boundaries just divide workers to obscure the fact that they have more in common with each other than with the ruling classes.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year ago

The most obvious sign of a deeply embedded dogma is to think that picking the status quo is not an ideological act.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That whole not paying rent thing becomes even murkier when you dive into one of his many other lawsuits.

  1. Elon doesn't pay rent, one member of the transition team told Hawkins. Another member of the transition team put it more bluntly to Killian: Elon told me he would only pay rent over his dead body.
  2. Both Killian and Hawkins were told that for Musk, the fact that Twitter was legally or contractually obligated to pay a particular sum would be irrelevant to the decision of whether to actually pay it when that amount came due that Musk operated on a zero cost basis"

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  1. Between the demands that he effectively participate in theft and fraud and instructions to take actions inviolation of California law and that could put his colleagues lives at risk in the event of a fire a possibility only increased by the unlicensed use of space heaters Killian had no choice but to walk away from the job he had dedicated over a decade of his life to .
[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year ago

It's so good to have diverse voices to hear from.

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