Because most people don’t care and even enjoy being manipulated. Mark Fuckerberg and other elites know this. But for people who do complain, Mark is like “Yeah but what are you going to do about it?”

I wonder if your friend can sleep only five hours and still function to the maximum. Apparently it is genetics. Napoleon and Thatcher could sleep less than 7 hours and could still think sharp and be fresh as a daisy.

I just don’t understand why people feel the need to share everything they’re doing constantly or how they get upset if you don’t have the energy to react to it all.

Dopamine hit.

They will be used in World War III.

He defrauded the wealthy that’s why he’s not getting away with it easily.

Well the red flags have always been there from the beginning but the people chose to look the other way, considering the genocide of Native Americans had been a policy since the beginning.

I don’t know what you are whining. I’m not even American, but Lemmy is American dominated whether you like it or not and there is nothing you and I can do about it no matter how much either of us whine. Go to your country’s community website if you don’t like it. That’s like complaining Nairaland is full of Nigerian posts.

You know the expression: when America sneezes, everyone catches the cold.

The American tech giants, which are tied to the government because of military and surveillance contracts, despise EU regulations. The US Department of Defense strategy already deemed Europe to be a bigger threat than China and Russia. The American tech companies are also lobbying the EU to loosen the digital privacy laws and regulations. So it helps to keep tab once in a while of American politics.

I have a news for you, this isn’t just American internal politics. Surveillance capitalism is happening across the world. There are those pushing for chat control in the EU and UK is starting to do the same and contracted Palantir to manage the NHS data.

Me: People still watch game reveals from big events?

For over twenty years, I stopped paying attention to big gaming announcements from big events like E3. I just learned the hard truth that it’s all marketing jazz and when the game is finally released, it is nothing like what was hyped up to be. I don’t even remember what was the game that disappointed me so hard to make me give up looking up game reveals.

I just let the finished product and reviews speak for themselves to influence me on whether or not I will play the game.

It reminds me of the room where Abstract Daddy is in Silent Hill 2.

Obligatory: if you know, you know.

A friend’s boss retired to become a children’s book writer.

Money–or lack thereof-- is what really hinders most of us to do what we want. I grew up admiring polymaths and I want to do whatever I want because I want to learn about the world. But it is in the past couple of years which I realised, that the polymaths I admired? They are rich while I’m not. Polymaths in the past were more common back then because they inherited lots of money from their parents as safety net, and don’t have to worry about specialising and finding a “secure job” but is soul sucking.

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I see you are totally correct and not moving the goal post at all. Per capita suddenly matters when you just said the number of billionaires in China is decreasing over time, which does not totally contradict what you just mentioned. Very astute analysis and a chef’s kiss debating skills from you 👍🤛👌🤌 big brain moment 🧠

As for socialism, it’s a system where the working classes control the state and public ownership is the principal aspect of the economy.

If the worker controls the state, according to you, then if the state controls the economy, according to you, then nationalisation?

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Oh okay, sounds like everyone there is paranoid that their loved ones are secretly capitalists. Must have explained why from 285 billionaires in 2019, an additional 800 or so more billionaires have sprung up in China just last year. Did they eat the rich after finding out their neighbours and loved ones are capitalists, and then shat them out to produce 800 more billionaires? It sounds counterintuitive for a worker owned, socialist StAtE.

Ah yes, I’m sure the Chinese working class who totally own the state love to use AI and technology to spy on themselves.

Gotcha, if capitalist countries already spy on their own citizens through technology and AI, then I am certain China won’t be doing the same since they are on the opposite political spectrum.