The sexy bear your girlfriend dumped you for.

They definitely use your data to market to you on their platform. They might not be selling your data outside their network, but does that suddenly make it okay? They are still using your data to their enrich themselves.

A couple of things here, this is of course a pressure donation where people don’t get the time to think about who they are giving to.

If a company does it right it should have information about the charity readily available. If not, this is a shitty practice in my book.

Many nonprofits have a high overhead. If this is the case a big percentage of your donation could be going into the pockets of administrators.

Also, while the company doesn’t get direct benefits, it does get indirect. Like a goodwill vampire the company is leeching on the act of giving.

Lastly, while the company doesn’t directly financial benefit there are no rules saying they can’t promote a charity that their employees/owners/shareholders have involvement in.

While this may not be a bad thing there is nothing preventing them from picking a charity a major share holder runs thus enriching them especially if the nonprofit has high administrative costs.

Something about Trump makes these commenters corny.

You would have to be a masochist to use a Theragun on your ladybits.

Choking hazard, next.

Sounds like a fail to me. We will hold them to the same standards we would be held to. Can’t give a clean test then you are fired. We are also definitely going to watch you pee just like they do to all the poors as well. Turnabout is fair play.

Watch how fast drug tests would be made illegal.

I think the advent of AI really highlights that we are finally on a post artificial scarcity trajectory. Corporations and the government have almost completely stopped caring about IP enforcement in the quest for AI.

The system you describe sounds somewhat reasonable. I was just pointing out it never existed in the first place. It is a compelling fantasy put forth by IP Maximalist to justify their rent seeking behavior. Making that fantasy a reality is probably possible in a non-fascist society.

I am a bit confused by the last part where without an IP system corporations would be allowed to abuse artists. That is literally what they do everyday with the current laws with AI being their ultimate fuck you to artists. I suppose part of the issue is these laws have been exclusively written by corporations to benefit corporations.

This is objectively false. The propaganda of IP is that it is designed to protect the little guy. History shows that this was never the case as copyright was always a tool of censorship and control.

The patent system has been twisted beyond the breaking point since before I was born. It does not exist for its intended purpose anymore and instead is a legal arms race between corporations and governments.

Trademark law has also been leveraged by monopolists. Although arguably its purpose makes the most sense being a commercial protection used exclusively against other commercial entities. It too has been abused regularly.

The average copyright court case is around $250,000+ from begging to conclusions in the federal courts. Asserting or defending your rights is insanely expensive.

Many innovators and developers have been litigated out of existence by not being able to pay to defend themselves in the case of patent trolls.

IP is for the wealthy and their favorite proxy the corporation to create artificial scarcity. They have authored a regulation empire to commercialize our culture. They act as gatekeepers to our thoughts and creations. It really is a bizarre system.

I have advocated for the abolishment of IP many times in my life. Never, in my wildest dreams, would have thought that it would be abolished willingly through AI.

All it took was to show that they could make more money by ignoring it. Like a light switch IP suddenly gets switched off. Now the corrupted federal government considers it a matter of national security and will protect it at all costs.

Truly a bizarre world we live in.

AFTER IT IS DOWNLOADED YOUR COMPUTER WILL AUTOMATICALLY RUN THE CODE 🤯

Is it unethical to eat you half pigeon human ass child? Asking for a friend.

Depends on your definition of funneling money to the top. You need a decentralized economic system designed not to behave like late stage capitalism.

One example of this is Parecon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

Honestly though, most of our problems are not driven by our economic system so much as our culture. You have to face that just about everyone worships greed whether they like to admit it or not.

In the US it is extremely pronounced and we even have idolized phrases about it like “fuck you money”. Where you have enough money that you can do whatever you want and you no longer have to follow the rules.

There is obvious a problem with our culture, but it is not just the US. Fascism is pretty much everywhere and even the most progressive countries still have huge wealth gaps that are always slowly widening.

Democracies cannot exist with large wealth gaps unless the wealth is aggressively kept out of politics. This is extremely hard and that is why the majority of all policies in all governments all over the world are driven by corporations.

The US was founded by the rich for the rich. Anything else is just convenient propaganda to convince the masses otherwise.

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It is always a turd inside you causing the problems.

People still care about Reddit!?

What they did is literally listed as an example of a unlawful order. So either they are incompetent or they are monsters. Either way you slice it they are murderers. Sad state of affairs.

Of all the machines an Emachine. Those were the cheapest and worst built computers ever. They were often obsolete the moment they were sold.

I guess that makes the irony even more delicious.

I remember that year, it was the same year Biden cancelled Christmas. After black lives matter burned all the cities to the ground there was not much left for the holidays. A lot of people forget what really happened!