NotANumber

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on How do you feel? · c/memes · 2 pts · 59d

It’s badly phrased but I think that “workers democratically control the means of production” translates to “workers own the means of production”.

So I think you are ranting over nothing.

As for worker co-ops in capitalist countries I would argue that those are indeed bubbles of socialism within a broader capitalist system. Just like you can have communes inside a capitalist country. Have you heard of socialist market economy or economic democracy?

That’s mostly because India and China don’t have the same standard of living as Europe and the USA. Though China in particular are trying very hard to fix that. I think some anti-climate and anti-renewable forces in the USA also don’t help.

That’s not entirely true though. Emissions from Europe aren’t really that high compared to China and India. I could be wrong but I don’t think the CCP have the same beliefs as the governments of Germany or France or even the USA.

I don’t think this is a good example of this idea as everything the blue character says is fairly obviously propaganda. They should choose something that’s actually fairly believable if they want to make this point.

on Violent rhetoric · c/politicalmemes · 1 pts · 72d

Maybe because I wanted to know who the fuck you were talking about? I wouldn't have had to comment if you had used their actual name. If anyone had used their actual name. Then when someone asks you about it you decide to be snarky for no reason. We aren't all terminally online people who pay excessive attention to the politics of a dying nation.

on Violent rhetoric · c/politicalmemes · 0 pts · 72d

Then who are you talking about? Why would you know intricate details of another countries politics if you have never been there?

I had to Google who that person was because why would I have any idea who some random US states person is? Apparently whatever she did she resigned from anyway. So I don't really see how this is relevant to my existence.

on Lmao · c/microblogmemes · 0 pts · 92d

AI generated images are something you can do on a gaming GPU at home. It's not really that demanding compared to frontier LLMs and agents.

on Lmao · c/microblogmemes · -16 pts · 93d

There was no significant movement against datacenters until recently. You all still rely on datacenters everyday for posting on places like this or just using the internet in general. So this does look very manufactured and people were pointing this out even before OpenAI started talking about it. People didn't really seem to hate AI before the past few years either.

I don't think in the USA the leaders or the people are really spineless. You elected Donald Trump twice. The time he lost the people threw a terrorist act of insurrection. Those are not spineless things. Just because the result is not what you wanted doesn't make it spineless. In fact it's pretty much the opposite.

In my country weed isn't legal. I get what you are saying though. NIMBYs are a problem everywhere. Which makes me wonder why you are saying that these data centers can build wherever. Surely if democracy and local government works as well as you say it does they wouldn't be able to build anything that big without the say so of the local people, no?

I don't think this is quite how the world works. The reason people need to work to survive is because we can't survive if everyone stopped working. We have to make people work under threat of homelessness because if we didn't there is too great a risk they wouldn't work at all and that would eventually mean the collapse of society. How many people would quit their job tomorrow if they won the lottery? Sure some would find work doing something they preferred, but not all of them, and often the thing they prefer doing is not the job that actually needs doing the most. If it's something they even are good at. Loads of people would love to be an actor, but how many actually have both the talent and the skills needed to do that?

In a society where most people actually don't need to work because most work can be handled by machines without significant negative consequences things would change to be very different. People like to think rich people or politicians or kings control the world by themselves but the reality is there are always limits on what they can actually do. If you dick around too much even in an absolute monarchy you will be overthrown one way or another. Typically by your own military, underlings, or family, sometimes by revolution or insurrection. The same thing applies today to liberal democracy. In fact it applies even more so. Anyone who tried to kill off the working class as a whole would find themselves very quickly dead or dethroned one way or another.