jtrek

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I'm told the mega corp where I work makes people go into the office because the dying town they're in gives huge tax breaks. So they have people driving an hour in 8 days a month, to work with people that are mostly remote.

Climate criminals. All of them.

Businesses are making more money, they are accumulating cash and so are their employees.

This seems... dubious. Where is the money coming from? Is it a closed system? My understanding is the government typically is putting money into the system through various mechanisms, much of which is giving money to rich people and their businesses.

Is the problem that the businesses have too much money? Because taxing them seems like a better solution.

on "Moral panic" · c/fuck_ai · 7 pts · 1d

Side rage: I really doubt what's his face is actually doing any meaningful r&d work. I assume there's a legion of nameless engineers and researchers who are not keeping the profits of their work.

If you use hyperbolic language when discussing the war crimes that American troops committed in East Asia and explain how that comes back to hurt people in the US. Well, that’s just supporting terrorism.

What portion of US adults are familiar with the My Lai Massacre, would you guess?