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Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy(techwontsave.us)
85 points by shrubby 22h ago|39 comments
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by shrubby 6d ago
I 105 percent trust anything and everything a zillion dollar company promises!
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by shrubby 6d ago
Exactly. I did this on purpose this spring. I had a shitty winter in terms of endurance and was pretty much starting from the gutter in February. Spring and early summer we're stressful so I did mostly Z1/LSD cycling in the form o
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by shrubby 6d ago
I have the same. It has saved hundreds of dineros for me and my friends and even better, prevented those ending up in the bottomless trickle up coffers of the zillionaire.
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by shrubby 7d ago
Okay, this cannot be unseen!
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by shrubby 9d ago
Yup. I tried to say that conventional taxation is not enough. As the power is hidden in Panama bank accounts we need to figure out means beyond taxation to neutralize it as it being used to obliterate the future.
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by shrubby 9d ago
https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_fo... Here's a nice summary. Haven't read the book yet though it's on my list.
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by shrubby 9d ago
The power is in the hands of a few people obsessed or possessed. Gambling addiction, narcissism, power hunger. Taxation will not solve this before the global society collapses so the question is whether we figure out a way to level the powe
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by shrubby 17d ago
I've decided with all my commercial e-readers that the USB+calibre is my only option as I do not wish to share my reading habits with the zillionaire overlord. There might be new and fancy UI or something, but I spend 99% of the time o
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by shrubby 21d ago
Voting is in many parts manipulated or gerrymandered... feature and for it to work we'd need a lot of work. So not the best metric for what majority of people want. Also the wants are manufactured in many parts.
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by shrubby 21d ago
Yes, it's awesome and exactly what I had in mind. The century of the self must be recommended also.
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by shrubby 21d ago
Valid point! I was just a while ago writing elsewhere (sorry, not totally on topic): "But now almost everyone has figured out what the signs of the corruption are so we can spot the ones getting ill from the power and remove them. I wa
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by shrubby 21d ago
Yes. Aleksey Yurchak coined a term Hupernormalisation and it works here too. We know the reality, yet leaders keep telling us via TV, social media... that everything is fine. We know that they know that we know. Fake world? Matrix? Escape f
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by shrubby 21d ago
This is brilliant! Immediately forwarded to the boss.
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by shrubby 22d ago
From the casinos (Natasha Dow Schull and Addiction by Design) to Stanford and BJ Fogg's Persuasive Design Lab fast forward to AI to hyperboost the addiction and that's where we're at. Not even grown ups have the capacity to r
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by shrubby 22d ago
His book was so good. Real agent stuff!
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by shrubby 22d ago
And I took some math in university before dropping out of CSC decades ago, so it isn't too hard, but my hunch is that with the BSs students the statistics in decent level would've been too much anyway. Dunno really.
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by shrubby 22d ago
I'm a bachelor of social services and healthcare from applied side so if statistics we're mentioned they must've been in the small print.
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by shrubby 22d ago
I started thinking about this percentage on decision makers around the world and got a chuckle. I've been trying to talk about the median vs. mean with a bunch of politicians on themes around the zillionaires, wealth or consumption and
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by shrubby 22d ago
M4 with 32 gigs and a 1 terabyte here and how I wish this could run Linux properly. Windows sucks and MacOS perhaps even more, but we're locked in. Perhaps soon everything will be reversed by AI and we can use whatever OS we wish on wh
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by shrubby 23d ago
Yes. Nietzsche once said God is dead and I guess the time has come to say "the systemic change is dead". Our destiny is not decided by a abstract superorganism, but a handful of people given godly rights create the rulebook. And t
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by shrubby 23d ago
Yup. I have once gotten a copy when visiting somewhere abroad as a teenager, it had a blue car on the cover. We didn't have those. I have been amused by this memory occasionally while doing the middle aged version of maxim.
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by shrubby 24d ago
Or resuscitation of complex electrically faulted cars. Or or. I have a bunch of iPads stashed for this.
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by shrubby 24d ago
When do the locked old apple pads open up for Linux?
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by shrubby 24d ago
When will reversing unlock old Apple devices for other OS'es?
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by shrubby 26d ago
After spending most of today circling around maxims I appreciate the application. Though I must state that the pic almost had me closing the tab before reading. Here's another venting out, somewhere near Categorical Imperative https:&
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by shrubby 26d ago
Or basic humanity
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by shrubby 28d ago
Okay, I wanted a Pixel because of GrapheneOS, but thanks Google for wiping that desire.
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by shrubby 1mo ago
It's also poverty holding back millionaire consumption. There was a research, which I can't be arsed to google with mobile, that compared western vegan diet and Indian omnivore and, yup you guessed it, the western version was less
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by shrubby 1mo ago
My cringe has been handcrafted and vegan. Pure human slop!

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