is making a profit enough to expand your operation stealing from workers?
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I agree with the intent of this 100%
I tend to think the people who might not don’t have a clear understanding of what “for profit” means. My dad heard “for profit” and goes “yeah, that’s a good thing. I work for a profit too”
We need some clearer way to express “exploitative and extractive profit”
When my local mom n pop shop makes a profit, it’s so they can maybe expand their menu or open another location across town. Maybe send their kids to college. Or even buy a summer home, extravagant for most but still pretty reasonable. When ketamine king makes a profit, it’s by exploiting millions so he can feel like the worlds most special little guy and light another 5 years of global breathable air on fire in the process.
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Technology•Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone EarlyEnglish
1·4 days agoI really am interested in a folding phone, but i’m not comfortable with paying apple any new money if i can avoid it. I’ve completed my data migration off of iCloud and into self-hosted solutions, but i’m continuing to pay for iCloud until i’m confident i won’t somehow have issues with nextcloud and immich.
When my iPhone 14 Pro eventually fails to meet my needs, I’m planning on getting a Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, not because Google is any better, I don’t want to be giving them money either, but it is compatible with GrapheneOS.
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Fuck AI•Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself
2·8 days agoI guess so. I’m just so wary of everything revolving around AI, even blaming it. If the idea of AI psychosis gets big, but then undermined by shoddy reporting or research, it could cause people to dismiss it like the McDonald’s hot coffee thing.
I want AI companies to be held accountable, but only appropriately so they can’t use shakey arguments against it to get out of that responsibility.
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Fuck AI•Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself
31·8 days agoI think my concern is with it being called “AI Psychosis”
It doesn’t seem like an effective call to action for treatment for the individual if we simply blame the AI not being “safe enough” or something.
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Fuck AI•Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself
918·8 days agoI have significant problems with AI, particularly around reckless implementation in tasks it is simply incapable of providing real value (most of them), but I struggle to find these kinds of articles as anything but the journalism version of the same lazy application.
Blaming AI for a mental health issue is like blaming alcohol for making someone an asshole. They were an asshole before they got drunk, it just became more obvious while drunk. Same thing here, AI is not causing psychosis, it’s just revealing it in a place that we’re not used to seeing stuff like this come from: a computer.
This article isn’t likely using AI to write it, but the application of AI as the subject matter and tying this person’s crisis to the use of AI seems lazy at best, negligent at worst.
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politics •Kevin O’Leary blames U.S.-Canada tensions as Jim Beam distillery closes for year
10·9 days agoSeems like you have 4 too many questions
The good place really is just democrats
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Linux Gaming•Retro arcade-style rally racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit gets a DX edition with a lot more contentEnglish
2·18 days agooh no. this is a problem for me. i really went hard on earning the gold trophies in the original game last year.
Unfortunately most standards bodies are pretty much this stupid though. Blu-ray, DVD, USB, hell even codecs like H265 and MP3 have governing bodies that are mostly enterprises enforcing their collective power on standards. That’s good in ways because it means they all have to decide on a standard that’ll work wihh to pretty much anything, but bad because they can also enforce bullying like HDCP onto consumers.
Right, it’s not really a 3rd option. It’s more like a negative value option. It exists, but it’s not really in the options list. It’s closer to “the only winning move is not to play”
Jury nullification isn’t that they agreed crime wasn’t committed, but rather that they refuse to agree on a guilty verdict because they don’t agree with the law. It’s sort of a natural loophole in jury responsibility and enforcement.
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Showerthoughts•The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket during our lifetime and become a normalized thing
1·27 days agodeleted by creator
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politics •The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine | A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
2·1 month agoIt’s fucking stupid that I understood this comment and know it’s correct.
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Ask Lemmy•What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?
48·1 month agoI pirate my media. The way I see it, I will pull one over on any company I can get away with that would absolutely swindle me given the chance.
I found ente to be a bit of a pain self-hosted. Setting the storage amount to pretend to be paid was weird, and the iOS app crashed a ton. Switched to Immich and found that to be a lot more stable; though syncing from iCloud from iOS was again a pain, I was able to use icloudpd to import photos directly to the storage location on my server. It’s not encrypted like ente is, so that’s something I need to solve locally.











it’s probably a little bit of both. idk, i’m not involved and disagree with his politics. but he’s a good target for what you’d need to do to change minds because reasonable explanations can get through, but he’s been poisoned by whatever cultural influences reagan imposed on his stupid little kid mind; believes in trickle down myth and such.