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Comment Re: Real life different than ivory tower (Score 1) 144

Decentralize power from DC so that issues are addressed at the lowest levels of government feasible. Where citizens will have the greatest amount of influence and control.

Not what I'm in fact saying. The kinds of functions which are centralized there generally need to be. We do need to have minimum education standards, it's too bad Rapeublicans have shat that up so they could fuck up children's minds like the do their bodies. We do need to have environmental standards, Rapeublicans used to believe in protecting at least parts of it while raping the rest (they called themselves "conservationists"!) and the EPA was founded even under Nixon — he was a thief, but he could recognize a beautiful country when he saw one he could steal from.

Comment wait (Score 2) 30

shareholders would love nothing more than for Microsoft to quit the difficult and risky game industry to dive all-in on AI psychosis products instead

Like the AI psychosis product industry isn't risky? Microsoft has nothing in that space worth mentioning. They have to buy or rent it like usual. Every time Microsoft buys something they immediately enshittify it, which they have done with a long long list of products which they turned into Windows features, most of which I thankfully cannot even remember anymore (Save, for some reason, Wolfpack -> WLBS. Weird.) and will not look up, thanks.

Maybe they could give gaming customers a discount if they'll let them use their power to run software on their consoles. I'm sure that would be a terrible idea on a lot of levels, so there should still be people who would go for it.

Comment Re: Real life different than ivory tower (Score 1) 144

It's always weird when people bring up Cuba, which we've been shitting on for decades, and then try to look smug about it.

They call what we have in the USA Democracy when it isn't actually operated that way, why is it hard to understand why that's only a reason why you need a functional government with meaningful safeguards no matter what form of government you choose? For me that's direct citizen involvement at all levels of government, because that's what it takes for people to be engaged and for the government to in turn engage with The People. When someone tells you they want to run your Communist future for you, that's an obvious warning sign that they are full of shit, but that's also true of Democracy.

Comment Re: Pay people better (Score 1) 88

Population collapse is not a real problem because more than half of us are doing bullshit make-work that doesn't need to even fucking exist except to support the two-winged bird of the MIC x The Poverty Industry. The benefits for a massive glut of old people are trivially paid for if you just don't do everything in the worst fucking way.

AFAICT we will not solve these problems, because doing so requires making things better. Instead we will mostly focus on ourselves all the way down the drain. But having 8 billion people doing a bunch of unnecessary bullshit in inefficient ways, which is very much the status quo that most of us can see trivially just by looking around or at most going outside and looking around, is fundamentally unsustainable. And I'm talking about the climate change here that you somehow haven't noticed I've been ranting about here voluminously since before you arrived.

Did your closing sentence sound clever while you were writing it?

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