This is about surveillance and eliminating anonymity on the internet. A handful of victims lobbying doesn't do jack shit anymore if it ever did.

That kind of naivety is why we can't actually solve problems.

They want to dismantle capitalism and installed themselves as feudal Lords.

They are sick and tired of being dependent on consumers and employees. So they want to automate basically everything so they can eliminate virtually all employees and then keep a handful of people around to keep the machines going and then a handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line. Maybe mix in a little bit of religious zealotry and extremism. Set themselves up as gods like the emperor of Japan did maybe or the Pharaohs.

The rest of us, including you, will live in the most unimaginable abject poverty. Think like South Sudan or the remains of Gaza or the Indian reservations before the casinos. Every now and then they'll probably use drones to fire bomb us when our numbers get too high and we might pose a threat. Basically pest control.

It remains to be seen if they will pull it off they've been at it for about 60 years and so far they have achieved all of their goals. They have unlimited money and power so they never stop trying and the vast majority of us are blissfully unaware of what they're doing.

But holy fucking shit did you see those 14 trans girls playing field hockey in the midwest? Stop whatever you're doing right now and stop whatever you're thinking that is the most important thing for you to be concerned about right now.

Facebook was aware of the scams and was actively ignoring them. These are cases where they had upwards to 500 reports that the advertisements were scams, their internal checks detected they were scams and we have leaked internal communications where Facebook employees talked about them being scams.

Those leaked communications also say that they made sure to let the scams go so that they could keep getting money from them. All told 16 billion dollars.

At that point you're just plain complicit in the scam and you're committing a crime. It isn't legal to allow criminals to make use of your business when you know they are criminals. There's a wide variety of laws governing that that were put in place back in the days of the mob.

Then all the other theft combined. Look it up. Corporations steal more from you than any Petty criminal ever has or ever will.

They knew how to spot the scammers and kept taking their money. 16 billion worth

Off of the most scammiest of scam advertisements on their site. I don't mean all the other ones that are probably scams but the ones that are so obviously scams that they had been flagged hundreds of times as scams.

Some internal documents leaked where Facebook employees were talking about how they needed the extra cash to fund all the stupid AI bullshit they were doing.

The government should obviously be stepping in and investigating and regulating. It's one thing to get duped into running a scam ad it's another thing to know that you're running 16 billion dollars worth of the worst and most obvious criminals advertisements.

But fuck me laws don't matter anymore. Keep an eye on your grandparents people or your parents if your old like me. It's open season on them.

Diligence my ass. They won't do that because means testing helps dismantle programs and because they get off on hungry children.

I mean, if those 14 year old girls aren't poor and hungry then they're not going to be as impressed when a republican picks them Up in their beat up Camaro and they're not going to put out.

You're going to do a 60 minute commute one way and you're just now noticing the bridge you're stuck under is crumbling because we haven't built infrastructure in 30 years.

It's almost as if giving all of our money to the rich because we were busy being distracted by moral panics was a bad idea.

The funny thing is when I say moral panic everybody agrees with me but if I mention the specific moral panics that caused you to give all your money to the rich then everybody gets upset.

Part of me wonders if Disney is still somehow nervous about the old deals forbidding toy deals around Spaceballs.

As far as I know they no longer apply and Disney can do whatever they want but when it comes to weird edge cases companies can get weird.

The method we use to calculate unemployment stats was explicitly designed to hide the real unemployment.

Unemployment is going to be closer to about 8 and 1/2 to 10%. That's the underemployed and people who gave up on looking.

It also doesn't include people who don't are elderly and would be working if they could get jobs but who are basically unemployable and a doctor wrote a disability script for them so they could get enough benefits to not die in the streets. That's a dirty little secret of our economy we don't like to think about let alone talk about.

But a better statistic is 2 and 5. That's the number of quality jobs. There are two quality jobs, defined is a job that can support a adult and isn't paycheck the paycheck, for every five Americans. Basically the majority of jobs cannot support an adult.

We are rapidly becoming a failed state. A third world country if you will. It's why we keep doing stupid crap like electing a game show host with a history of sexual abuse. People under a lot of pressure don't make good decisions. That's a TV trope but the real world that's not how it works

Eh, fair- but it should have been obvious what I meant from the context of the paragraph- non-Residential-private-citizen-usage.

No, because it's the producer that's engaging in the level of inefficiency- not the consumer.
You can argue that the consumer is vaguely aware that buying shit from China is terrible for the environment, but if you're trying to argue that CO2 isn't an externality, this is going to get amusing.

So, if I get this right, Americans are responsible for Chinese fueling their factories with coal. Is that correct?

I'm not blaming China for anything- I'm pointing out the complexity of the situation.
I said you can't simply say, "per-capita", because the picture is insanely more complicated than that.
Chinese per-capita usage is going to explode (it's already exploding) as more and more of their 85 year old pig farmers die and are replaced by people who actually use their electrical grid. You can't compare the Chinese population's personal energy usage with any first world country.
The average for all of China is just a little over 1.1kW constant load for each person.
Think about that.
While all Chinese people may be connected to the grid (or so I read), many are obviously not using power at all.

And still twice as bad as the Netherlands, and the EU on average? 5x worse than the Netherlands!

Why do you guys suck so bad?

Well, I said victim of violent crime, not murder ;)

Speaking of which, you're almost twice as likely to be murdered in London than to be killed by a car. You people have funny priorities.

The part you don't fucking get about any of this, is the cultures are different.
You have a safety culture. Every fucking square inch of your country is covered in CCTV cameras that the police can access without warrant.
That's not the culture we have.
If we wanted that culture- we'd have it.
Our culture is probably not for you, and your culture is very definitely not for us.
I thought this was settled back in 1781 when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, but who knows.

Your generalizations are stupid. The most dangerous state in the US for pedestrians is fucking New Mexico. It's not because of stroads.
Are stroads a good idea, or bad? Who knows- who's to say. There's arguments in either direction, but no strong evidence. But you call it objective. You need to pull your head out of your own ass, you limey fuck.

No you didn't.

Yeah I don't give a shit if they claim this isn't a problem because it unlocks when the fire alarm goes off screw that noise. This is a little bit of improper maintenance away from being a death trap.

I want to say I wouldn't shop there but I know damn well that with all the monopolies around nasty shit like this will spread everywhere and most places only have two or three grocery chains.

I want to take away the power corporations have to do this and I want to take away their power to starve people so that people aren't feeling the need to shoplift groceries.

As for shoplifting booze since a fuck wad like you is bound to bring it up, people over the age of 21 don't steal booze for the hell of it they're using alcohol to cope with the misery of modern Life. And kids do it here and there and that's nothing more than a youthful indiscretion. Alcohol is cheap and ultra high profit and don't be an idiot if you think corporations will cut prices because shoplifting goes down you don't know the first thing about supply and demand.

What happened to you to make you so mean spirited and angry that you would revel at the thought of people getting punished for stealing food or a little bit of booze to cope with life? Did your dad beat you or something? I get it that sucks but don't take it out on the rest of the world. Be better than your dad or whoever the fuck did this to you. End generational trauma.