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tacocatacoon Move Fast and Abandon Things

It's not a Universal Basic Income if it's not Universal.

It's been a while since I watched the series admittedly. IIRC it's honor, influence, and prestige that motivates the people working for the federation.

tacocatacoon Move Fast and Abandon Things

Not everyone links their level of wealth to their self esteem. Different strokes for different folks.

tacocatacoon Move Fast and Abandon Things

The minimum wage was meant to be a "universal basic wage", and it has been corroded to uselessness over time.

$7.25 an hour

What is different in modern times that would prevent the same from happening to UBI?

tacocatacoon FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

Innovis? That's new to me. How long till they spin up yet another credit check corporation that I have no choice but to involve in my life?

I was also informed you can freeze opening checking accounts here.

https://www.chexsystems.com/security-freeze/place-freeze

tacocatacoon FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

If people had a better work/life balance, perhaps more would have the mental bandwidth to jump through an Olympic gold winning amount of hoops like you did.

The rest would probably use the extra free time to raise their kids/be with family.

tacocatacoon FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

We should stop begging the for profit house building industry to make affordable housing. Just use the army core of engineers and build the mega cities from Judge dredd.

tacocatacoon FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

The prohibitionisn't over. The war on drugs is still going strong, even with marijuana legalization in many states.

tacocatacoon Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

Samsung appliances are awful. I'd rather do my own dishes or put my food in a cooler.

tacocatacoon Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"

Last I checked, there was a movement in the biggest instances to defederate from meta's embrace stage of "embrace extend extinguish" playbook. I didn't check back to see if it got pushed through.

Given the nature of the fediverse, if it happened or not depends on the instance you use/follow.

tacocatacoon A Post-Google World?

Nationalize it and fold the services into the post office.

tacocatacoon We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad

Starsector is written in java and recently had an update.

It uses a modified Version of Java 7 IIRC.

tacocatacoon US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements

Every time you drive you put your life on the line. IMO that's a pretty huge factor.

Is your job worth dieing for?

tacocatacoon US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements

IANAL, but the catch all that is usually used is the Commerce clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

tacocatacoon Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]

If corporations are people, why doesn't their corporate charter get revoked while they "serve their time"?

tacocatacoon Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

– Banksy

tacocatacoon Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

There is no ethical consumption while living a capitalist way of life.

tacocatacoon Robot dentist performs first human procedure

We should all strive to automate what we can in a safe manner.

The only reason it is seen as a bad thing is that the economic system coerced you into proving you deserve basic necessities.

tacocatacoon Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon

Just prestige and start your career over. Not everyone wants what you want.

tacocatacoon Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon

A financial benefit?

tacocatacoon Every company should be owned by its employees

The voters, who elect the representatives who regulate the executives.

Unfortunately the voters are handcuffed to the two party system by First Past the Post voting and the spoiler effect that comes with it.

tacocatacoon Every company should be owned by its employees

Mondragon is probably something of interest for this discussion. It's a federation or worker owned enterprises.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

tacocatacoon Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available

Those employers are used to having economic coercion to push people into their arms.

They cannot fathom treating their employees with respect. Their employees are tools to be used, abused, and discarded. Human resources.

tacocatacoon AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point

If we owned our own data truly, we could all have passive income.

tacocatacoon Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study

You'd think the salt levels would be much higher.

tacocatacoon Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study

> The tragedy in American civics is far too many are too poor, tired and/or uneducated to fully engage.

Engage with whom?

First Past The Post voting ensures I have no viable political party to vote for that would reasonably represent me.

tacocatacoon Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World

https://unhook.app/

I know it's an addon. I can't think of anything else other then using a different service.

tacocatacoon The Silence Doctors Are Keeping About Millennial Deaths

Thanks

tacocatacoon Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back

> The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_...

tacocatacoon Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says

Haven't we been trying fines? Revoke their corporate charter, the survivors will take notice and behave. Or else.

tacocatacoon US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing

Trillions spent on defense, and there isn't a factory just sitting around waiting to spin up and crank out artillery shells for ukraine?