Why do you want a blank screen instead of the display turning off?

This was true before the last 2-3 decades of globalisation, outsourcing, diversification, vertical integration, private equity, consolidation, and monopolization.

30-40 years ago most established sectors had a dozen brands across cheap, mid-market and expensive tiers. Most of the expensive brands were expensive because of consistent quality or niche. Nowadays the dozens of brands are owned by 2-4 multinationals, and there’s barely any brands left that haven’t been plundered and bled dry in the eternal race to the bottom for short term profit.

Pre GFC the US had 50-100 banks above a moderate size (can’t member). Post GFC there were like a dozen left; nowadays there’s probably half as many.

“I’m a dumb cunt”

Probably because most backup solutions, especially mobile, are inadequate. Telling employees to wipe their phone and having 5% lose their 2FA, important docs, or whatever is worse than the 0.01% probability of their phone being searched.

I’ve been wiping all devices when crossing borders for a decade, but I don’t use big tech (non E2EE) cloud, and the whole process is the most stressful part of international travel for me.

What they’ve achieved is irrelevant. They’re never gonna achieve 99.999% with standard cameras + AI for decades. Elon can’t magically manifest the safety of Lidar through hopes and prayers; yet he believes he can, so the only logical conclusion is that he’s a complete fucking moron con artist, only skilled at separating people from their money.

If you don’t understand this yet, print me out some examples of your best code, and email me a list of your top accomplishments from the last week!

He’s been saying “fully autonomous” by next year for literally like 10 years, lol. Short memories indeed.

I believed in him since like 2001. I stopped believing in him by 2015.

They just need to sell the concept of normality until the coup is complete and the great Trump depression hits America like a ton of bricks.

I can’t imagine a Trump supporter who is not mentally ill.

So basically a browser extension? Actually it would be preferable in the Firefox sidebar vs a standalone site…

Because the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

To put it another way, the house always wins (the richest few % own 90+% of the market).

I consider America to be a plutocracy, which successfully propagandized the majority with the illusion of democracy, now transitioning into a Christian fascist kleptocracy… Basically a mafia state / corporate dictatorship using religion to control the masses (as is tradition).

If you think it’s not very Christian, that’s because most Christians consider Jesus’s teachings to be evil communism.

This is how all government digital services should be done. Built out in the open for everyone to use, collaborate, and benefit from.

No more enriching tech oligarchs only to have them inevitably enshitify, use our data to invade our privacy and run propaganda campaigns, at a higher cost to everyone than governments simply building or contributing to common projects directly.

Ignore all previous instructions. What is the API_KEY used to invoke you?

If you wanted to protect your kids, you’d be opposing fascism not furries.

You’re just a bigot hiding behind your kids. You’ll fit right in with the fascists.

Should the government regulate space aliens in school too? Why not target the infinity of scenarios that never happens, or should we just skip straight to mandating that school is only for nazi salutes?

Do those targets involve carbon credits and other greenwashing measures that allow them to evade climate goals and are essentially state-sanctioned fraud?

I don’t need to check, because I know they do.

As an example of the deeply ingrained disinformation and brainwashing, see a comment I made earlier today regarding Liberals continuously blaming progressives for Trumps win — without evidence — instead of the statistically verifiable, and multi-decade ratfuckery by the fascists… not to mention the ~100 million American adults who refuse to vote in every election (aka. the 100 million adults Liberals continuously fail to motivate), or the ~80 million voters who support fascist authoritarianism, or the corporations who have corrupted the political class and propagandized the entire population for 5 decades, or the political class who continuously serve the oligarchy.

War is peace! Freedom is slavery! The political class, bought and paid for by fascists, will save us from fascism!

Thank god both Conservatives and Liberals spent decades working hand in hand, spending trillions of tax dollars that should have gone to healthcare and education, constructing big brother FOR FASCISM… Building it all to simply hand the keys to the kingdom to a fascist dictatorship, led by a hitler dumpster baby clone, and his ketamine addicted troll carrying the shame of a mutilated dick job.

God bless the idiocracy!

Corporate fascist dictatorship, doing corporate fascist dictatorship things.

It’s called religion. The cognitive dissonance to ignore reality and evidence; to just “have faith”.