The big lie is that everything that needs to be built is being built by big tech.

Meanwhile, we need nuclear power plants to keep up with massive growth in electricity demands.

We need desalination plants and people to dump salt in the middle of the ocean to replenish water in local ecosystems.

Those are just two obvious things.

We also need the arts, and more people reading books.

Capitalists only care about the profit in their own silo. The oligarchs are preventing more silos from being built.

That is why you tax their profits at 99% to force them to actually invest their money or pay it out to other people who can find better things to do with it than hoard it.

Sure. One machine is compromised, in the MS engineers' heads.

The trouble is now there is a standardized, repeatable location and methodology that can be used to now get ALL the passwords ever typed into edge. Suddenly the text file sitting on my desktop named nextcomputerbuild.txt is a significantly less likely to be directly targeted by bad actors.

They need to think through - yup machine is hosed. Oh well...should have had better antivirus.... and eventually get to the point of realizing ermagerd now my bank accounts and investment accounts are emptied out and being used to fund terrorism.

I think the odds of him being used by a legit cyber crime organization vs the french victim organization just plain being criminally negligent are pretty even.

Potentially just wildly incompetent...but if I was defense of some 15 year old, I'd lay it out pretty hard that the security was probably so bad my mother could have tripped and fell into the data.

Of course they approved the deal. Somebody is willing to pay super big bucks for something that doesn't have even close to that level of value.

How in the world did you write my story?

Exactly the same. Same origin story. Same frustration with Ubuntu. Same landing spot for same reasons.

... until it affects rich people.

People giving up their thinking abilities is nothing new.

The trouble with protondb is that there are gorillas out there that approach a gold rated game, then proudly display their 15 commandline options, some of which aren't actually real, and then declare the game was stuttering, unplayable, or doesn't even launch.

Yo. It launches. Quit screwing with stuff. Just doubleclick the button.

What part of that fiction has any connection with the reality of the 1%?

The social media platforms would rather have it treated like an R rated movie that kids can't get into than simply not run ads or show content for people they aren't explicitly connected to on the platform.

Because most people would opt for that.

Imagine only seeing content from people you follow and who follow you back.

The British traded spice. They didn't use it.

Even if we want oil to be the currency we use to manipulate the world, us using it is a very silly way to go about it because it just makes us susceptible to manipulation.

We're supposed to want OTHER people to be dependent on oil and for US to control it.

Instead it's just us shooting ourselves in the foot constantly. We're supposed to be hoarding oil to drive up prices. Not consuming it.

Is it too much to ask for a tiny little lovenote somewhere acknowledging that the PHB that allowed this to happen in the first place is enjoying a severance package?

In what world do you let a newguy do anything important...let alone a newguy that doesn't even breathe.

De Immenso et Innumerabilibus On the Infinite and the Countless By Giordano Bruno Of Nola

is essential reading. It sounds like 1950's sci fi.

The fact this was ever a question is a farce.

We all pay for the gas in our cars to get to work. We pay for the electricity that runs our homes and computers.

Somehow, big tech thinks they can just mooch instead of paying for the batteries for their toys.

Crypto and AI should have launched a great leap forward in clean energy.

All the oligarchs care about is profit, not legacy.

I hate that I can't run MS Office on my cluster of headless Linux servers.