It’s litigation around what a machine can freely use in its learning model.

No, its not that, either. It’s litigation around what resources a person can exploit to develop a product without paying for that right.

The machine is doing nothing wrong. It’s not feeding itself.

This is Elon Musk erasure.

Meanwhile, capitalism not only reliably devolves into dictatorships of the wealthy, but also dictatorships of whichever caste or ethnic group manages to rise to political dominance.

Or do you think the consistent and aggressive disenfranchisement of people of colour is just democracy in action or something?

I don’t think anyone is advocating for literal communism.

So, you think the rest of us are as stupid as Fox and your Republicans, then?

This was definitely one of the cutest of the shots I got. Though, theyhave this feathery plumes on their fronts and backs that make them kind of adorable from all angles

mostly just a history of bad choices

What a weird way to spell “chronically overstressed”.

No. No, no, no, no, no.
No no no no no no no no
Noooooooooooooooo no no

… … … …

Yes.

Ooo, I haven’t had Velveeta in like 20 years. Now I’m going to go and eat a whole block of it, and I refuse to shoulder any of the blame or responsibility for that!

Not explicitly, maybe, but implicitly, absolutely, and in multiple ways:

• Supporting the system that creates one over the other
• Having ‘bootstrap’ attitudes about the poor
• Worrying about property value over utilization
• Complaining about the homeless rather than the lack of action on housing
• Voting against people who run on public housing

In so, so many ways, people say they prefer the latter over the former. Usually just with the caveat that the homeless people also be invisible.

*croaks* Bud…

Canada* geese.

Many different geese are Canadian. But Canada geese are the specialist little assholes.

“I joined a social media space founded on anti-capitalism and opposing the enshitification of life, and I’m annoyed by all of the anti-capitalism and discussions about the enshitification of life” sure is a hell of a take.

The entire factory industry, worldwide, uses the assembly line model invented by Ford, an American company. This system also brought prices down on cars, making them a staple of life rather than a luxury.

Right, but if you have the motivation to make things affordable for people, you can and will get to the same place. The profit motivation and the centralization of wealth are not the key motivators here.

They’re just the ones that made Ford rich and famous enough to aggressively publicize himself.

They make it obtuse on purpose, both to prop up the tax return industry, and to make it both possible to create loopholes for the rich to avoid taxes, and make it so that the rest of us can’t really benefit from those loopholes.

It’s Byzantine on purpose. They could simplify it any time they wanted to.

What a weird way to spell “compulsively sticking its nose and guns in everyone else’s shit”.

Once you have enough money to meet your needs, all money is is power.

Wow. And this is just with the telephoto lens? That’s incredible! Did you have it on a motorized mount?

Yeah. One of my favourite restaurants closed a couple months ago because they just couldn’t justify charging more for food, but their suppliers sure could.

No, no, see, you’re talking about crony capitalism! Or corporatisim! Or monopolism! Or…

Real capitalism uses fake smiley masks.

But how far away is the chemist’s?