What a bizzare reaction. Sorry I burst your imaginary bubble?

Its interesting to me that your argument is that things completely different to what you are saying is the primary reason you lost, is why she lost but are trying to poorly link them together.

It can’t be both. Either its the change or its the genocide, and its obviously not the latter because the other party is worse.

Even then, your reasoning falls apart because you are refusing to acknoledge that instead people didn’t turn out for harris when they did turn out in normal numbers for trump. For republicans they fall in line, for democrats they fall in love.

Sure there are people who didnt vote for her because her intersectionality of a black Indian woman but that isn’t what lost her election no matter how hard to try to spin your cope.

Just because you want something to be cope as a cheap dismissal doesnt mean it is.

But also like they did historic (up til Trump ofc) expansions in ICE, were deregulating industry,

This is to appeal to the morons they lost to.

deregulating industry,

What??? Biden was in so many ways better at regulating industry than other presidents. Lina Khan did work.

refused to make his campaign policies materialize like single payer healthcare

In what alternate universe did you hear him make that promise?

and ran cover for genocide

Yup, but people do have to remember the alternative we have now is literally worse on this in every conceivable way. Also, I feel fairly confident in my assumption mossad has the best blackmail in the world… The things israel gets away with…

and it was one of the most substantive reasons Trump is now in power.

This is utterly nonsensical. People who are not brain dead did not see trump, who wants the palestinians all to die, very publicly, and think “well joe is still bad, so lets think worse”. That would be a brain rot psyop level of non thought.

I think democrats lost because people were racist and sexist, people didn’t feel spoken too by someone with charisma (partially tied to the first, but also shes literally an EX DA…), the world has been seeing a bad shift in key metrics, and people who don’t pay attention just blame that on whoever is currently in power.

There were probably more, but I think those are the key ones and think the idea that palestine is what made kamela lose is something that people who only pretend to care say.

Is society so broken that we unintentionally produce these kinds of monsters or are some people just inherently born evil?

Unintentionally? Brother there are like a dozen rich white right wing billionaires who have made this their lives purpose. There have been organizations like them for … basically forever with all different sorts of dynamics.

They are very intentionally being created, and of course some people grow up without empathy for those different for them, or without any at all.

They were stabbed by 50% of people going through life not giving a shit about anything, then 30% of the remaining 100 actively wanting to harm others as their primary purpose in life.

You see it in the poll numbers.

Its why republicans consistently get 30% and democrats fluctuate based on vibes maaan.

You also see it in how people act when witnessing someone being abused, where most just want to turn away and pretend its none of their business even when they are in a position to do something meaningful.

Also, I don’t see locking data from search engines as a bad thing. The fediverse isn’t search engine searchable either

The fediverse not being searchable is one of the biggest flaws with it, and make it similarly ephemeral to Discord, except its actually worse because the sizes of communities are just in that goldilocks area of awfulness where there are echo chambers, and people are rude and toxic. Whatsmore, availability due to the small size is relatively mediocre.

However, it’s free and they have to support it somehow.

These arguments might just give me an aneurysm.

This has let so many horrible free to play games off the hook while they literally make billions in profits and have astounding profit margins.

Discord makes money.

In a non hyper greed infested world, they could simply coast at the level of wealth they are at now, still making free money for their investors, paying their workers, and improving the service, without making peoples lives shittier.

There is no reason to justify this shit.

Have you not seen the world? Everything, no matter how horrific, can always get infinitely worse.

The PIF could buy it and ban gay people. Israel could buy it and persecute people against genocide. A rich right wing billionaire could buy it and force even more nazi memes upon the youth. They could make a monetized limit to how many servers one can join that is purposefully below any sane reasonable or normal level. They could make PMs pay per message.

There are infinite ways it can get worse. Infinite.

It also makes giving or getting any kind of support a hellish time sink, but that’s almost besides the point…

You know, this comment just made me realize this might actually be the point for some companies.

Its a cheap way to pretend that you care about customer service, while actually dissuading customers strongly from actually trying. Its also completely easy to bot vs having a human on a phone line.

A great problem of our society is there being too many problems to have any group of people focus on enough to get any of them solved.

If every issue has just 2% of people caring about it, companies can easily just write those 2% off and do business as usual.

This is why to not have an enshitifed world it has to be top down, and people have to participate in politics logically as opposed to based on which groups of people they hate.

The basic maths of it just doesn’t work for any sort of bottom up action.

It would have to be a relative time of quiet and one company sticking out like a sore thumb for long enough for them to be damaged.

You have seen how rapidly things are getting worse.

There is not going to be that happening, and even if there were, it wouldn’t be enough as there are thousands more issues.

I don’t do the work to back up somebody else’s opinion.

Yet you expect others to do that here for you.

You are sealioning right now. You’re asking someone else to do a shit ton of work under the guise of “just asking questions” pretending to have healthy discourse.

A lot of this sites people suck and its filled with people justifying absurd things, but right here, you are asking a question so open ended its tantamount to asking for a thesis paper, and those would still be scrutinized.

That is never happening.

Firstly, because the ram is primarily being used in systems that use ram that is completely incompatible with your systems.

Even if you are a homelaber, the ram used on GPUs is literally just the dies, and of a different type, GDDR, or HBM, which is even more impossible to use.

The servers themselves are requiring crazier and crazier power setups such that you could not power it at home.

The days of just getting a crap ton of hyperscaler stuff for home fun are nearing their end.

Like, even without AI, you’re not getting a serviceable Graviton rack in your home.

The other reason this is not happening, is because even if shit hits the fan, companies will not give you the same prices they had before, no matter what.

That’s just how companies now operate. The shareholders never want them to lower prices, and so they don’t.

The only time consumers see new prices are with blitz business strategies to monopolize whole markets, and those have very obvious monkeys paws clauses.

Your troll shtick doesn’t work once its revealed you’re a troll. You no longer enrage, you just look foolish.

Of course, it would be better if they didn’t, but can you really blame them when the system is stacked against us?

Yes, specifically when they use even a tiny bit of that little free time to beat down others who actually try, or when they don’t pay attention to the only ways they could possibly lessen the awful situation.

You personalized this beyond all reason. There was no malicious reading just someone trying to understand what you where trying to say.

Oh right, thats where the “You are worried someone is going to take this comment personally, get hurt, and then run to their corporate overlords” comes from. From you not being malicious at all.

Apparently, I was dead on

You are obviously a troll at this point. Obviously being completely wrong in every conceivable way confirms you were actually right…

Calling someone a bootlicker for telling people that solidarity is better than inner class fighting is so absurd you being a troll is the only logical conclusion.

Given you have another comment that goes like this::

I made statements, you can choose to do whatever you want with them. Trying to simplify this into good and bad is definitely a failing on your part.

I have spent decades studying this stuff so my perspective will be informed and wildly different than yours. That is okay.

I was raised Republican, became a Democrat, and now I vote Independent based on policy not feelings. I am very aware how all sides think.

I think its pretty much confirmed you are indeed a troll.

vote Independent based on policy not feelings.

Lol

Never had one actually. Like I might have created some temp at some point, but I’ve never really used it.

Just about the only social media I do is either anonymous, person to person (like discord) or linked in because well… for obvious reasons.

Calling everyone who doesnt have the same hysteric based, knee jerk reaction as you an ai bro is just immature counterproductive nonsense.

The fact that you use a study which explicitly says not to use it for the thing you use it for, but then claim its I that has the problem is almost comically ignorant.

And no, DDG is not a friend. Besides having their own LLM-bot, they also still have microsoft ads fuckery going on.

At some point with this level of purity testing, you will just be hurting yourself, and making the people around you annoyed though.

You basically want companies to exist while not being profitable for idealistic reasons.

You’ll say you don’t of course, but the collection of people like you all have similar but different enough red flags that the end result is that you who care idealistically end up having basically 0 effect on the market except making any company that tries to appeal to you walk on egg shells to the point they fail or give up and go for a broader audience.

I mean, I personally wouldn’t mind paying 50 bucks a year for a proper open source, well maintained browser, but that will never happen because the type of person like me, also is probably pretty nitpicky, and tends to have ridiculous things they consider as red flags even if they could just ignore a feature or disable it, and that would mean there is no common paid browser possible.

We are then back to there being free browsers that have many reasons to be hated but that the common person is fine enough with.

In truth, people have a visceral reaction because the world is trending in a way they don’t like, and it has the unfortunate effect that companies that do what these people like the most, or more than other companies, end up the most punished because those people are the most likely to give backlash. This results in them losing and things being even worse.

Right now there are barely any AI integrations in Firefox, so people are just kneejerk overreacting. At worse they have a feature you have to try to hit where you can have the AI LLM provider of choice summarize a page for you and that type of thing.