The thing is you’re absolutely right, it’s not the fault of business that they’re allowed to run rampant and that the system is gameable. It’s kinda their fault that they’re so good at lying and then supporting those lies through lobbying for wrongheaded/poor/ignorant/laughable legislation, but it’s simply the clever thing to do in the situation.

No, it’s the situation that needs to change. The government which allows them to govern themselves with revolving doors and without oversight is the real problem. The justices who put their own interests before their job. The stock market which eventually requires the enshittification of everything, and which does not allow the company to take the correct course. And the politicians, who either knew or had already abdicated their responsibilities, and so let them do it anyway, from plastics recycling to PFAS to climate change - it’s all lies, all the time and too little, too late.

Let’s replace them all with AI. At least it just hallucinates. It’s not yet established itself to be reliably malevolent, and maybe if we get rid of all these shitheads pumping out bad information and bullshit simply to cover their own asses, it’ll start getting better information and hallucinate less, who knows, at least it won’t be actively trying to wipe us all out so we don’t figure out what it’s been up to.

There ain’t no way windows could ever be a secure OS because it does everything wrong, deliberately, so it can not be linux.

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He’s also THE LIVING INCARNATION OF THE CHRIST and shit. don’t mock the incontinence diapers, that shit’s not funny.

there’s that window closed.

but how will our poor politicians become the millionaire superstars politicians are meant to be? /wrist

you’re funny.

man you ain’t kiddin

oh good, i was starting to think everybody thought it was an actual question!

edit: lol, such hostility around here, y’all cute

is this so app makers can delete their apps on my phone when they go under or get pulled or decide to rob everyone?

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facepalm

how about stop supporting them in any way, stop using their products, stop pretending they care about anything other than how to better prostitute themselves, given that it is literally illegal for them to do anything but “increase value for stockholders”. They chose to sell themselves into slavery, literally.

how about reorienting towards the actual problem, your legal system

mithtaketh were made

That’s ok, we were already used to not getting what we wanted from your search and are already working on replacing you since you opted to replace yourselves with advertising instead of information, the role you were supposed to fulfill which you betrayed.

die in ignominy. Open source is the only way forward.

Hope it don’t turn out that’s before the election. he’s signalled every intent to clamp down hard

The reason they don’t have it any more is cuz they sold it. Or fired it…

I mean this is amazing. In the world of the 80s and 90s that’d be enough to destroy a company, stripped down to parts and sold off. Now in this cowardly new “too big to fail” world of Clarence Thomas-reeking doubletalk bullshit, this’d result in no consequences whatsoever

open source is the only way forward for anything. capitalism has created hell

i mean, there’s a game that’s worth not playing

shitty cruel systems texas likes to inflict on its citizens, the gun-totingest murican motherfuckers there are. kinda surprised they just bend over and take it. guess gun toting losers really are just losers