You know, it's kind of funny in a shitty way watching banks panic over the thought of someone doing something nefarious behind their back without their full knowledge or consent. It's almost like we're supposed to forget a major bank paid billions in fines not long ago..for uh..

The other funny shitty thing? It's almost like they know how impossible AI litigation would be. Which is insane, considering they have a fucking army of litigators..

If you set one of those off in the woods, do the people not there make a sound?

Instead of tickling immigrants with a sunburn to make them enter a legal port of entry, would you prefer we go back to the Deporter in Chief days of using bullets to enforce a border, like every other first world country does?

Oh, the horror..of remembering your own hypocrisy.

It is way too early to be wondering if some beanie baby fan actually tried to marry their fuzzy hobbythings.

Spanks a lot for planting that twisted seed.

Enforcing a border and insisting immigrants use the LEGAL point of entry, sounds “cruel and unusual” to you?

You sound quite ignorant to me. Easiest way to not get “cruel” punishment? Pay attention to the fucking signs that say “Immigration Processing This Way” instead of trying to illegally break into a country.

Understand what happens when you try and break into a Military facility. Or most other countries with enforced borders. They use bullets to drive the illegal point home, not burrito warmers.

I blame Google for sustaining the “startup” marketing tactics.

Bastards have been stuck in “Beta” since last century.

Problem is, they actually delivered on many of them.

China also has no problem with slave labor. Tell an American liberal they’re working “half” days (as in 12-hour shifts) 6 days a week with no overtime and you’ll find a picket line outside the business complete with marching band and slogans, within an hour.

And that’s just the response from the fucking baristas. Imagine the vitriol at the bomb factory.

Comparing American costs to China on anything, is stupid. Why? Because we don’t treat our people the same. At all.

Honestly, the employers were the first to start racing for the bottom there. For years they have relied on employees having an outdated sense of loyalty to the company that hasn't reciprocated in decades.

Much of the criticism of GenZ in the workplace is really just them giving to the employer what the employer offers them. Perhaps it's time for government to re-take its essential role in leveling the playing field so new players can enter the market and push the dinosaurs into their richly deserved tar pits.

Id doesn't NECESSARILY debase the social fabric. But if it does things like buying crooked inspectors to overlook sub-standard materials, buying off a zoning board to basically take over a residential area (*cough* datacenters *cough*), pays sub-standard wages under the table to people who 'need' to keep a low profile, and then when something goes wrong, scampers off leaving an impoverished shell behind to go bankrupt so the public has to pay for the clean-up, yes it debases the social fabric.

Only because legal enforcement of corporate charters seems to be dead.

There's lots of VERY profitable drug cartels as well, but I don't think we should celebrate them.

By separating the decision making from the execution, the corporation is the perfect psychopath. The structure not only allows all parties to rationalize their own guilt away, it also protects those who make unconscionable decisions from the legal consequences of their actions. That combination can only ever produce a monster. The LAST thing we need running them is someone educated to break the rules (law) when 'necessary'.

Even from the very beginnings of Capitalism, Smith admonished that corporate charters must be handed out exceedingly sparingly and they must be held strictly to their charters. Also note that all corporate charters are in legal theory supposed to be for the public good. Not just as a nice idea but as one of the mandates. A company acting against the public interest is supposed to be dissolved for violating it's charter. Clearly we have failed in that. Let's not double down on the failure by educating people in the image of the incorporated monster and putting them in charge.

There may be some use to something like the LLC, but there seems to be little economic use for corporate personhood. The only public value of a corporation (if/when it has any) is economic.

Rubbish. Most of them have a ratty couch with the least stained side of the cushions turned up (if they can decide which is least stained).

In fact, they need a warrant in spite of the courts bending over backwards to claim they don't. The Constitution doesn't have geographic limits, it applies to the U.S. government and it's agents wherever they may be.

When staying alive is your #1 priority, you tend to not give a shit what color shirt or brand of shoes your bodyguard is wearing. The only "feature" you're looking for, is the only one you asked for; Security.

From a target standpoint, it's the GenX of OSes. It can be a pain and cover your ass, all at once.

Welcome to the Open Side. I'd offer you cookies, but you took the default setting and put the whole damn kitchen behind the firewall..

Tell me again why Hillary should be in prison for her BleachBit sponsorship.

You SURE I can’t just plead the fifth 8,634 times in a row? Seems to work an awful lot..