Bingo... these are marketing and product design issues. There are no genuine moral or philosophical concerns for American capitalist, save those that can be productized (preferably with a monthly subscription fee).

Sometimes I think the general gist of Republican philosophy is to extract the maximum amount of wealth possible from ordinary people. For men, that means maximally exploiting their labor, even to the detriment of health and safety. For women, that means usurping their reproductive autonomy (to ensure a ready supply of future workers) and subordinating them to their husbands (to redirect man's resentment at being exploited). To them, a young man playing video games is a tragedy because that time could be spent working or gaining useful job skills.

Note to self: after the collapse, and after reestablishing the republic, let's outlaw the shit out of these companies. Markets should serve mankind, not the other way around.

Who said it has to be based on commercial cell technology? Design the radio to talk to satellites you control, like when the U.S. bugged China's equivalent of Air Force One.

I'm not worried... humanity faces practically no risk from this existential threat with all the other ones we have on our plate at the moment. :O

... until war, revolution, plague, or famine kills a bunch of people. After that, things sort of reset because (1) elites are nicer in a growing economy and (2) power was effectively democratized by the catastrophe... especially when you have a bunch of young men coming back from war. The decades following WWII are a good example of this.

Moreover, we can get together and pass a law that explicitly spells out what is and is not allowed in a software license. We can structure the market to protect the moral rights of consumers. The world does not belong to businessmen and lawyers, but to all of us.

You don't mistrust the math (which can be reviewed and challenged in any case), you just want the rest of us to suffer spending all the extra time/hassle/money on prepartion.

Yep, pretty much everyone is against education. Evangelicals want religious indoctrination; business leaders want worker drones; Republicans want a dumb populace and impoverished teachers; Democrats want to smother schools with bureaucracy; Libertarians want to lower their taxes; parents either want to micromanage everything or they're completely uninvolved and just want daycare; administrators just want to not get sued; teachers just want to drink (because who wouldn't in the middle of such a circus); and students just want to get back to their phones. What we need is a wide societal appreciation for education, the willingness to pay for it, and the wisdom to not overmanage it

Zero harm? Are we using the same internet? Cause mine is full of AI slop. And AI-accelerated scams. Then there's the further hollowing out of customer service, to the detriment of both customers and workers. Lastly, what's society going to look like when the vast majority of the emerging workforce has gotten their degrees by cheating?

Filing a DMCA takedown notice should be done under penalty of perjury (exactly like filing a counter notice is). Filers who make false claims (especially at scale) should face escalating legal repercussions.

Also, right of ownership should criminally penalize companies for stealing functionality in stuff they already sold you.

"some pain" probably means a lot of people dying and maybe even the return of slavery. We could make utopia, but we won't.

The pronoun people aren't the fascist; obviously they're more Marxist instead. They do share some authoritarian tendencies with MAGA though. (See "horseshoe theory".) Moreover, their contempt for the narrative of American freedom is their undoing... yeah, America was never a perfectly free nation, but people who fought for freedom and pressed for freedom under that narrative routinely won it.

Maybe Libertarians can use the current crisis to finally achieve their political ascendency, but they'll have to learn the value of coalition and cooperation first, which aren't exactly their strong suit. Still, America needs saving from fasiscm, and I don't see the pronoun crowd getting the job done.