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Surprising no one.

Google removed "don't be evil" for the same reason

You're either selling a service or a product, you don't get to lay claim to both, and you don't get to walk with peoples money by using linguistic tricks

Remember kids, if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

Yea, your intellectual dishonesty regarding this doesn't really change the core of the matter of morons doing or believing anything a celebrity says or does.

But good try

If you're braindead enough to just go out and buy anything a celebrity endorses, I don't feel anything but derision for you.

Most celebrities don't even have the education or critical thought to back most of their wholly incompetent opinions, so people getting tricked by AI is really a non-issue since they're dumb enough to think that what a celebrity talks about or endorses has any meaning or impact whatsoever.

UBI is neither left or right, it's ridiculously logical. If people don't have money, you don't have an economy. No economy, no taxes, no taxes, no government, no government, no support for the people and no military, no military, no defense from aggressors, no defense from aggressors, welcome back to the age of Gengis Khan.

You don't need to assign a political leaning to something that's fundamentally economic in nature.

There are entire industries that are dying as we speak and they will NOT be returning and they will NOT have jobs to replace them like there has been throughout history of automation. (Manufacturers got automated bots, but those bots required people to set, align, and assist or repair. Now all of this will be able to be done by other bots with a single site overseer who, eventually, will also be a bot)

This isn't a printing press situation where the writers are replaced by a printing press so they can better focus on journalism instead of writing individual papers by hand, this is a situation where we will have entire industries die and entire sets of professionals age out and entire professions lost to the void.

Another example of this would be bank tellers vs ATM's back in the day, the tellers thought ATM's would remove their jobs, it reduced their jobs at first, then changed their jobs outright to financial administration and management, rather than doling out cash to people, made their jobs more efficient and fundamentally different.

This is not that situation. The tellers will lose their jobs as well this time, and so will the bank managers and investors.

Nearly all IoT items are developed for idiots, which is interesting because most of them are also made by idiots.

I don't pirate games anymore because steam solved my access problem.

Amazing that all these shitty streaming services make me wish blockbuster was a thing again.

But, since it isn't and never will be, it's a yo ho ho from me.

(Until a reasonable steam-esque service for movies/shows turns up anyway)

Yea, I'm sure your personal dislike of AI is absolutely going to impact a company's desire for a worker that doesn't take breaks, require holidays, food, water or sick leave.

Stop bitching about ai and start bitching about higher corporate tax to fund UBI.

Backwards ass arguments by incompetent morons with zero education in business, computing or technology as a whole, let alone IP law

And not one c suite member was fired.

Right, and what about the people who didn't reuse passwords whose information was stolen?

Just fuck them?

Did you think about this at all before you typed out that ridiculous comment?

I hope that works out for everyone that uses it but the key reason I ended up getting an electric vehicle after my ICE vehicle broke down was to avoid oil and gas prices, especially in regards to the continuing degradation of the geopolitical situation in the middle east where OPEC+ produces and transports more than 80% of the world supply of usable oil.

I hated waking up and wondering if the dice roll would break my bank that day. Although my car ended up a fair bit more expensive than I had wanted, the vehicle has nearly paid for itself with all the charges I didn't have to pay at the pump.

This isn't an endorsement for electric vehicles just a note of a positive side that I personally was able to avoid.

If my country wasn't completely backwards and we had more nuclear facilities and less dependence on oil barons, I'd be happier, but the reality is not everyone has the ability to change over, and even I would still be using an ICE vehicle today if insurance didn't cover the rest of the price of my old car when my accident happened.