• fuckemiquit@lemmy.zipEnglish
    131·
    16 days ago

    You know what’s crazy to me - this used to be the crazy guy under the bridge type of shit. Secondly, it’s not the first company that’s done this now. LG. Why aren’t these people being raked on the coals. Don’t answer that I already know. My real question is why aren’t we bringing out guillotines and removing the scum from our planet. There are obviously no fucking rules or law of man on this Earth any longer.

    • Fenloss@lemmy.world
      66·
      16 days ago

      Because a revolution isn’t as easy as killing rich people randomly, you need to organize millions of people to attack the economic basis of society to find ways to make the system collapse, and at the very same time organize a parallel society out of workers learning how to operate society from the bottom in a different (and hopefully more democratic) way. It’s a lot of work, that requires spending a lot of time reading revolutionary theory and thinking deeply about how to apply it in the modern day.

      • fuckemiquit@lemmy.zip
        9·
        16 days ago

        You’re correct; Which leads me to another point I’d like to make.

        People that blame Americans for not doing ‘enough’ my response to them is to look around you. These panopticon devices are being sold in your country as well, we’re all getting fucked over by the same so-called elites that lord over us and have been doing that since the dawn of humanity when they realized they can pit us against one another. I’m so sick of that narrative I am not happy with this world and what’s going on in it even slightly.

        It makes me violently ill to think THIS is the best humans are capable of and now the exploitation of everything - say I create a miracle cure-all nowadays. My days are numbered at best because now it’s not in the interests of the elites to have that.

        I didn’t want to be believe that, that the world was so sickly like this, to be that pessimistic about it all, but looking around for even a moment you can see how far we’ve fallen as a species for total domination of the people these men and women view as beneath them. It’s driving me up the wall. I’ll actually protest instead of typing because nothing is going to get done otherwise - but protesting without violence is not going to solve this shit even slightly.

        I can only do what I can where I am - which to be honest isn’t a lot. Economically I am not even 1/1000000 a grain of sand in comparison to the enemy but we are the sand of the Earth and we fucking outnumber them.

        What are we doing. How do we get the ball rolling something needs to be done GLOBALLY not just limited to one location or country, we have a genuine stain a glut of inhumane monsters that rule over us literally in the Epstein files doing the most heinous shit we consider to be the most egregious things one can do on this Earth and we’re just going to fucking take it? I am losing my fucking mind. Like, what is this. Man.

        EDIT: Formatting. I know this is a long text. TL:DR. I’m not happy.

        • gankouskhan@piefed.zipEnglish
          7·
          16 days ago

          I tell this to them all the time, but falls on deaf ears or they throw logic out the window. Something else I mention is the difference in logistics to pull off something of that scale in the US vs their home country. For example in France they only have one major city being Paris. Scheduling a meaningful protest of sorts would be trivial vs how it would be here in the US. They often forget this. Even communication across these distances without leaking anything to a government who has shown its colors is damn near impossible. This takes time. If they want to accelerate this then come over and show us how it’s done, but I’m not gonna lose sleep when they get blasted just touching the fence out front and nothing happens.

          • fuckemiquit@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            16 days ago

            Yeah, exactly. It’s why places like New York or LA can have these amazing and powerful protests vs where I live, cannot (deep red). It’s like a different country between state lines and I mean vastly different from one place to another.

            Realistically what I see happening is our nation fracturing. I don’t think it’ll happen in the next ten years but thirty or even fifty, I believe we’ll see states secede from the states. If things continue this way then the American experiment has failed. We had a good run but we’re on the way out the door which might be a good thing.

            I don’t know. I just know I wish I could change it. Wish I had more power to stop this. It’s like I’m watching the world as I knew it literally decay but only for us down in the 80% of the K-shaped economy - which I am. When you elect a man like Trump, expect a man like Trump. He only cares for himself and the rich - and it’s not cause he likes them of course. It’s business. Why people thought a business man would be good politics is beyond me.

            Who knows might just be in an echo chamber but it certainly seems like we’re going backwards globally not just in America either and people keep trying to admonish the fact their politicians are also in the cabal of this evil.

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        15 days ago

        Democracy is ok, but I have a slight tweak in mind. Before taking office, every elected person has to pass independent evaluation. You can’t be a psychopath or a narcissist. If your job involves the financial sector, you need to pass an exam etc. If you’re not qualified, you’ll be assigned a different position. Politics shouldn’t be a simple popularity contest. Politicians should also know what they are doing.

        • Shayeta@feddit.orgEnglish
          4·
          15 days ago

          As long as its an election, becoming a statesman isn’t decided by how good you are at your job, but how good you are at winning popularity contests. And all measures put in place would would get dismantled eventually.

          I believe a true democracy would be better - a lottery. Go up to the box, put your name in, lots are drawn randomly and you have your council/senate/whatever. Terms limited to 2-6 years.

          A randomly chosen group without overall malicious intentions will always be more effective than a group of educated, elected, “representatives”.

          • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            15 days ago

            That sounds like a reasonable solution. However, I’m still worried about competence and mental capability. There’s a pretty good chance that a drunken conspiracy nut would eventually hold an important office. Some sort of basic filtering should be in place. Maybe we could give everyone a chance, but incompatible people would need to be kicked out and replaced by more capable people. This system would obviously get abused, just like you pointed out.

            What then? Should we just tolerate the fact that a certain fraction of the population, and the governing body, is more or less dysfunctional? Everyone else who has been trusted with power would need to carry them. If the town mayor is too drunk to wake up in the morning, too deranged to have a sensible conversation, or too hostile to be around other people, some secretary would need to participate in all the meetings and take care of the important decisions.

            • Shayeta@feddit.orgEnglish
              3·
              15 days ago

              The solution is to normalize the outliers by having multiple people. Having 1 person in charge will make a nutcase inevitable one day. Having a 10-person council would require at least 6 nutcases in a single cycle to gain majority, which is very unlikely. And for congresses you up that to ~100 or more.

              I also believe you’re overestimating competence in current governments. Take any council, any senate, you will see most of them attended the same universities, hung around in the same circles, and so on. Even though you technically have a number of different people, their experience in life overlaps so much you effectively have very few distinct opinions in the room. By randomly selecting applicants you guarantee the greatest diversity of opinions, and thus potential solutions to problems.

              Here’s what happens when you get 150 randomly selected people in a room and tell them to lower emissions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Convention_for_Climate#Proposals

              It is true and I agree that somehow getting the right people in the right positions would be ideal, but the less random a selection process is, the greater the influence that can be exerted over it. I believe the human species would have to fundamentally be different in order to have a more effective selection process than random.

              • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                15 days ago

                That was a pretty amazing experiment. Random selection isn’t that bad after all, as long as the dysfunctional individuals can blend into the crowd.

                And it’s also true that human nature is the root cause of most of our problems. If we don’t have a system for keeping humans in line, they will do what human nature demands. So far, that has led to greed and oppression. Fixing such a fundamental issue would require some pretty radical changes in the human mind. That’s not happening any time soon, so having some scaffolding seems like the best way to approach this problem.

        • aksdb@lemmy.world
          3·
          15 days ago

          I agree about the psych evaluation. But regarding the exam: a politician is basically a combination of manager and sales person. Of neither role do I expect (deeper) understanding of the things they manage or sell. They need different skills.

          But they need to listen to the experts in their ministries and be able to convey their results and concerns to other politicians who are even farther away from their topics and to the public. What they absolutely should not do is push some own agenda; especially not an agenda they somehow profit from.

          • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            15 days ago

            That implies a certain level on integrity, honesty and humility, which are a bit tricky to test. Would love to see more of that though.

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          The same but for voters too. If you don’t even understand the cycle of water, you can’t be trusted with weighing on decisions on environmentalism, let alone affordable urban design or how to feed people.

          • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            15 days ago

            Totally true. People vote based on the weirdest criteria.

            “Oh, I’m not going to vote for her because she’s a woman…” Like, do these people even check what the candidate is aiming to accomplish?

          • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            15 days ago

            Yeah, there’s the problem. It needs to be properly audited and independent. Sounds good on paper, but how do we actually implement it IRL.

      • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
        1·
        15 days ago

        They all did a “rush to market” so that it was fast and cheap, but it wasn’t secure. Seriously, do people not know the triangle?

        You can have two of fast, secure, or cheap.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    44·
    16 days ago

    Why would OpenAI ban him for reverse-engineering Samsung’s product? Only explanation I can think of is that he vibe-hacked his TV and didn’t use a self-hosted model to do it. Which means that his findings, or rather ChatGPT’s findings, should probably be scrutinized.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
      15·
      16 days ago

      Why wouldn’t they?

      They’re in control, they have no business letting the little guy feel like they have anything to say when a corpo is fucking them.

      Even if you’re pro AI it should be pretty obvious that letting a corp control your usage of it is a bad idea.

  • gankouskhan@piefed.zipEnglish
    17·
    16 days ago

    It’s funny because I did exactly this in 2020 when they started putting ads on my tv. Then sold it and wrote them off ever since. Samsuck!

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
    5·
    15 days ago

    I hope we manage to make complete sinkhole/host lists for spyware tv’s (or other hardware) soon. That way a lot more people can tell em to piss off.

    • boonhet@lemmy.zipBanned
      1·
      15 days ago

      Main issue is they might not user your local DNS at all, easier to just not let them connect at all.