The few sources I looked at point to paint having gone up in price significantly since the 80’s, I also know that there are tighter regulations on paint (lead banned in 78 in the U.S. for example). I think dealerships started charging more for specific colors, and ultimately most people don’t view their cars as symbols of freedom anymore. Who cares what the thing that brings me to my job looks like? I’d give it and more up to be able to live without working.

I don’t think it’s about all businesses not giving a shit, times have just changed. If cars being black, white, silver, and grey is the price we pay to not have lead (and other things) in paint — I think it’s a fair trade off.

Edit: Some definitely do not give a shit. Nvidia seems to be a business that does not give a fuck who got them to where they are.

It’s been this way for decades, this is not a new phenomena and it is not a conspiracy - these things are driven by consumers.

No they had Claude summarize it for them

Well, for what it’s worth, I hope your company actually does use AI sustainably. I’m reminded of some of the blockchain startups that were attempting to make genuine use of the technology outside of cryptocurrency. There are legitimate use cases for AI just like there are for blockchain tech.

Yeah without telling us the companies’ name this has major ‘trust me bro’ energy.

Edit: I get why you haven’t, I’m not saying you should doxx yourself.

Joe Biden

China owns Putin and Putin owns Trump, so this is all part of the plan.

He dropped out in his sophomore year.

This is just plain old rich person advantage.

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I don’t think the payout is as important as taking money away from tech giants is. It isn’t an efficient usage of the money, of course that money could be spent to greater effect than just splitting it up piecemeal. Yes, it likely is a pittance compared to what billionaires are worth. However if literally everyone struck these people at the same time, class action lawsuits being brought against all tech giants alongside general strikes — suddenly they’re hemorrhaging money outside of the lawsuits and their technofascist bubble pops.

Certainly naive to believe — as I’ve said the people I’m talking about are mostly spineless cowards that are contributing directly to fascism. I have no misgivings about whether what I want to happen will happen or not.

Not the point of the thread Canadian, you’ll notice my initial comment calls them spineless cowards.

I wish people would turn their suicidal ideation into rage.

Don’t kill yourself. Kill a fascist.

Class action lawsuits + general strikes? I’m pretty sure that would mean a hell of a lot, especially to the people drowning in despair due to… the ‘everything’ situation.

How this doesn’t result in a class action lawsuit is beyond me.

Spineless cowards contributing to the death of the U.S. .

congresswoman

Put some fucking respect on her name, it was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Did you think that this was a gotcha?

Congrats on your tag, I’ll see ya around.

Sometime after an amount of these, I don’t have foresight.

Many young people are on Twitch. You go where the people are first, then go where you want them to follow. You have to interact with society to change it.

Wild thought, but maybe apartheid is bad guys