90% of all news media is owned by billion.

Also math is hard. 1000 individuals have 8 trillion dollars in wealth. That's not money anymore it's power. The power to tell you what to do and you're going to do it or they're going to hurt you and your and your family.

You're a good example of the problem. You can't understand the difference between money and power.

It works like this. When you have more money and you can spend it's savings. You have more money than you can save its investment. Finally when you have more than you can invest that's power.

Problem isn't raw percentages it's the concentration.

But in case there were any 12-year-olds out there who just can't understand the above, 10% of the population has two thirds of this country's wealth. There's a nice simple fact for you to digest.

So they're all owned by billionaires. Everything is or at least 90% of everything.

They are a little nervous that the mad King might try to do something stupid and pointless but make no mistake they weren't particularly put off paying a handful of bribes to Trump with the expectation of quid pro quo.

I guess what I'm saying is every single fucker involved in this is one of the Danes. None of them are on your side at least none of the people in their leadership. And there aren't a lot of journalists left they all got shit canned for trying to cover Trump honestly in 2024. Hell after Trump arranged for Stephen Colbert to be fired from his high rating show the rest of the late night talk show hosts have backed off noticeably so threats work.

I think the problem is people are having a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that America is becoming a fascist Nation. It's that whole it can't happen here problem. Or would I like to call the Dick Cheney effect.

I think you're mixing up communism which is what Karl Marx talked about and a bunch of fascist dictators who borrowed his books for rhetoric...

That said Germany recognized the threat of the far right and they have been clamping down on it since the fifties like you wouldn't believe. What is scary is that the far right has gradually been reducing those restrictions.

It's the paradox of tolerance. You cannot tolerate the intolerant. They will use that against you and then they will murder you in your sleep. If you're lucky. If you're not they will vivisect you without anesthetic.

It's 2026 dude. Nobody believes that anymore.

Unless you have laws and they are strictly enforced with extremely harsh penalties companies will do whatever the fuck they want and you have to suck it down. And we stopped passing those kind of laws here in America in the '80s when Ronald Reagan took over. The few we had left on the books we stopped and forcing when newt Gingrich started fucking up Congress. And the last of our civil rights got rendered moot when we gave up the courts to a bunch of corrupt fascists.

We are at the final line of defense as far as democracy is concerned. The voters and elections. It is possible because of Trump's failing Health we might turn that around just barely but it's pretty touch and go right now.

It's a paid feature for you to access the data but I would be shocked if they didn't turn it on without notifying you anywhere except the finest of fine print so that they could sell the data. If all else fails here in America they will want to give the data to the police.

I mean it could be worse but 8 has been out for a while now and it has a substantially improved modem which is why I bought a phone that has one. The difference between my old Media tech and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is pretty enormous. I can actually get text messages now.

The only thing I can think of is cost cutting because of the stupid price of ram right now

Also monopolies. There are three memory producers. There are tons of companies that make semiconductors that could be entering the market and already there. But they're not going to risk it because the other three ram producers could very quickly ramp up production and run them out of business.

It wasn't ethics and games journalism and blue haired college girls coming for your hobbies it was tech Bros and finance Bros. If we have proper antitrust law enforcement the market could actually work and solve this problem. But we don't so...

Well then you go to jail for resisting arrest.

It's works however the guy with a gun wants it to work. We gave up our civil rights ages ago.

I don't think that's really better. You are giving up economies of scale there. A grid is always going to be better and more efficient than individuals managing their own electricity. What's worse with AI data center is taking over the grid electricity is in danger of becoming a luxury good.

Basically the collapse of our technological civilization at that point.

It's laboratory tests in perfect condition with a tailor made data set designed to make the number look better. In other words it's a lie. It's not even lying with statistics it's just a lie.

It's also an outright lie. Ignoring the fact that facial recognition has a hard time with black and brown faces the figure cited is based on laboratory tests in perfect conditions.

Once again I am so tired of being lied to and in such an obvious fashion.

Sure you will. Eventually it will be mandatory. Because then you have to hand the police you're unlocked phone and that's the end of that.

And your neighbors who are really really concerned about ethics and games journalism or something are going to make you do it and you're not going to have a choice because we all have to drive.

Eventually they'll be a supreme Court case however we have six utterly and completely corrupt judges so good luck with that.

And I'm pretty damn white. There is no way in hell I am going to risk having a cop pull up on me and I don't have my driver's license and registration and proof of insurance ready to go. And I sure as hell do not want to reach for an electronic device in my income bracket driving what I drive with the trigger happy lunatics that pass for police officers in my neck of the woods.

Tie it up in court until a friendly administration that has been thoroughly bribed makes it go away.

Then they will put some very very very minor controls in place that don't actually solve the problem and that'll be the end of that. And things will continue to be rotten and we will all wonder why even though we keep voting for absolutely rotten politicians even though we have perfectly good politicians who are boring as fuck but not corrupt.

But hey did you see the latest cool crazy thing Trump said?

Politics is supposed to be boring. And you're supposed to pay attention to it. If you don't there are consequences. And it's bad news if you're having fun.

Legalize drugs, treat the hard stuff like a medical condition.

Human trafficking is mostly a problem in third world countries that are third world countries because our CIA won't stop fucking with them. Defund the CIA. Take the money and spend it on foreign aid instead. It's cheaper to drop food than bombs.

Make walkable cities and public transportation. That'll take care of your reckless driving problems mostly. People don't drive drunk cuz it's fun people drive drunk because we don't have a functioning public transportation that work and they want to go out drinking and they have enough money for booze and not enough money cab fare home.

It is relatively easy to create a society where less crime happens.

It is however not nearly as cool as rolling up and busting heads or having a Maserati that does 185.

A comfortable civilization where everyone gets to live a good life is kind of boring actually. But I prefer it over the dystopian hellscape that every single right winger imagines they are going to be the king of.

Remember you're going to run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

So maybe make a world with out desperate people with nothing to lose. Again it's cheaper to drop food than bombs.