I share your pessimism tbh

I’d really love to see some better propositions for quantifying value that’s better than straight up corporate profit. I’m with you a 100%, just looking for the path to get there.

I agree that we shouldn’t devalue it, and that was my initial word choice. That wasn’t the intent behind the choice, but I get it. I’m not sure “essential” is a good descriptor either. It is essential, but that’s not the defining quality we’re after.

Only if we continue to be dumbasses

We need to take universal basic income more seriously as a future policy

Having robots to do grunt work and that somehow being bad for our society is just the dumbest timeline. Fucking cunts

Definitely helps that Hamas uses the Palestinian people as human shields launching rockets from schools and hospitals.

Just stop and consider the psyche that takes. You have to 1) be completely willing to sacrifice the most vulnerable of your own people and 2) admit that your enemy doesn’t want to kill those same people. Imagine how things may go if Israel attempted to use Jews as human shields against Hamas.

This isn’t the Palestinian people “resisting”, it’s their batshit “government” that would kill us all if they had their way, killing as many people as they can regardless of whether it actually helps the cause of their people.

There is no doubt the Israeli government has and continues to commit war crimes. But supporting or justifying Hamas is just insane.

Money

You were given a lot of proper responses despite your unhinged edit rantings

Just spiteful. And ironic if you really want to claim to care about public health

Well research teams have been working on it 10 years

I still think I’m pretty ok with that. In comparison to trying to correlate how long I look at something and my scrolling patterns and build this into a larger profile with finger printing and ip’s.

Is “everything you do” including everything you look at and all of the telemetry? I assume that’s client dependent. And would be surprised if any Lemmy clients are doing that kind of thing. Everything you post being public is one thing. But I’ve always found the behavioral telemetry more offensive.