It’s a matter of who owns the resource, and your current state assumption is what oligarchs want to change.

Just like PCs, they will structure it so you won’t be able to afford one. For vehicles they’ll use the insurance industry as a wedge as well, and as more and more people lease/rent their vehicle with included insurance(this will be one of the talking points for the owners class selling you one), those trying to not have a rent payment will see their premiums ever increase.

Think about how insane car prices have gotten ecen for used vehicles in the last few years–and It’s not improving even though all the “supply chain” issues attributed to COVID have long ended. It’s the same system phenomenon that happens in gentrifying areas with the existing minorities; property values go up, as do property taxes and even long-time residents who own their home free and clear can’t afford the property tax increases–it snowballs into additional gentrification.

A series of tubes. A big dump truck.

The only memorable line from the entire RoboCop series!

Maybe a state-lecel investment is what it will take to get a true alternative off the ground. I finally mostly left Google maps this year as part of de-googlimg my life but live traffic is essential for many and will be a tough wall to climb without critical mass. Maps took years to improve their navigation and it’s good because so many use it.

Genocide is a damn good reason for someone to get nav moving in a non-fascist, non-profit direction.

Who would have thought AI would be used for this?

Everyone, forever.

I was wondering the same thing; I think it goes to Russia and China so they can get the economic handcuff models for free instead of building them.

People clapping for Internet on planes from Herr Tesla who led the massive data theft of social security and citizen records, and people would feign surprise?

As you said, duh

Meanwhile Trump’s admins first 3 months saw him dismantle the agency division charged with monitoring and controlling laundering and financial crimes. Curious that.

Gotta get that data back to Russia and Israel somehow.

Just make it simpler; liability for not fact checking information and ban structurally important media from being for profit. Get too big? Congrats, you’ve been nationalized to serve public rather than private interest.

Says the fucking Atlantic who portrayed Columbia students protesting against genocide on their own campus as “dangerous”, went along with labeling them “anti-semetic”,meanwhile their editor in chief was part of the IDF: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/atlantic-magazine-student-protest-coverage/

Ffffffuck The Atlantic. To quote Sauraman through Theoden, “you have no power here”.

“The Running Man” is a brilliant encapsulation of the “circuses” end of societies in decline. The Arnold movie was decent only because the story is so timeless, the acting and dialogue were unfortunately lulz. A remake of this would be great.

It’s difficult to make a man see your point when his salary depends on him not seeing it.

What a badass.

Keepass.

During Chuseok, which is Korean Thanksgiving on Fri no less. Samsung must be grateful it’s a chaebol and controls at least half the country

The cost in electronic services is in acquisition; the nominal cost to deliver services to a paying subscriber is lower than acquiring a new one.

Yes you would flatten your margin with existing customers by not hiking their rates (or not as much) but pretending there won’t be defection assumes near monopoly–which the US has permitted largely for the last 4 decades.

Cell phone companies made it super easy to leave by only offering good discounts to new customers.