Capitalists are selfish, and have short planning horizons. For a capitalist, slavery is absolutely rational. The only reason why they don't do it today is because it's illegal.
Which is why it was the pseudoaristocraric south which provided the main source of abolitionists and the first to abolish it. Is what I would say in opposite world.
Selfish capitalists want to accumulate capital and grow the economy. Slavery is a bad strategy for achieving these ends. There is ample historical evidence of this, and it also lines up with mainstream economic theory.
People who argue otherwise simply cannot escape their zero-sum worldview.
America has a proud tradition of offering college students a very broad education. Unfortunately, this trend doesn't seem to have made it to the techbros -- the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world -- who are not only spoilt, sheltered rich kids and uncultured philistines in their own right, but are also college dropouts; shamelessly so. That lack of culture drives their wanton disrespect for others' artistic output.
The entire AI wave is built on the shameless wholesale theft of the hard work of others. This exploitative, extractive business model is really no different from the legalised banditry operated by PE value extraction outfits like Vista and their ilk -- just on a vastly greater scale.
Late stage capitalism stopped building value years ago. It's now all about building wealth pumps and toll booths all over the economy to immorally extract as much value as possible, from as many different people as possible, as efficiently as possible.
This is the product of a massive own-goal by America's rightwing feral business overclass.
They were bragging to shareholders about how AI was being used to slash headcount, to gratuitously ruin thousands of lives to pump up the bottom line and "reward" their already-pampered shareholders. They themselves got handsomely rewarded for it.
Now they're crying and acting all butthurt for the intense negative public reaction their greed-driven communication strategy provoked.
You're not serious, are you?
Who is being "murdered" in Ukraine?
Do those people have any right, or any business to be there?
Whose country is Ukraine anyway?
In the phrase "murder drones", murder describes the the drone itself. It doesn't make a qualitative statement about the murder itself. A murder drone is a type of drone that operates autonomously, without an active operator, like an autonomous landmine. You have over indexed on the word.
Unfortunately, this is typical of the feral business overclass. It seems that the rampant Trump regime, the advent of AI, the long-term decline of the United States, coupled with the complete impunity the business class were granted during the 2008 crisis, has gone to their heads. The hate saddens, but doesn't surprise me.
In the fictional universe of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, it is legal and normal for defenders to go kinetic on cyberattackers. How long until it is simply easier for governments and big business in the countries victimised by these criminal groups, to find the path of least resistance and go after them personally?
We can’t even prevent shoplifting, what expectation should there be that we’d be capable of mounting any sort of offence / defence against malware outfits.
I dunno, some people just have no sense of humour.
Dibberdobber, I was with you up until you trotted this one out. Civility is dead on the internet, and you need to get your burns from someone other than Ned Flanders.
My understanding is that the problem is more that calling in the heavy artillery for what amounts to an annoyance, and maybe some financial harm, is generally considered impolite, even among nations that have conflicting worldviews.
It’s another thing to have the entire Iranian parliament broadcast chanting “death to America”.
I’m not even American.
I don’t even agree with half the stuff Trump says or does, but I’m onboard with at least 20% of it, and that’s infinitely better than the last bunch of clowns.
If that school was being used as cover for a military operation by Islamic extremist who recently shot up a music festival I was at, capturing some of the females and raping them then shooting out their eyes and vaginas.
Enough of the false equivocation.
My coffee was a little two hot this morning FUCKING JEWS!
Attackers are just having fun due to abysmal state of npm and some of the insecure design choices by GitHub and GitHub Actions. Every attack gives them credentials which in turn used to stage more attacks.
Chinese printers, like Chinese drones, Chinese PV equipment, and Chinese electric cars are inexpensive but that's because the Chinese Communist Party loves to pick winners.
They subsidise the living heck out of designated national champions, dump oceans of cheap product onto the international market, kill off international competitors, and then seize control of markets. It is neither legal, nor morally defensible.
Want a printer that happens to not be made in China? Good luck. Pay more, or knuckle under, and accept Chinese control of your technology, and increasingly, what you are allowed to say and think.
Actually try building something somewhere else - here's the process Smarter Every Day went through for a VERY simple item, nowhere the scope or complexity of the 3d printer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
I trust BambuLabs about as much as I trust the Chinese Communist Party. That's to say, that they are obviously a cat's paw of the CCP, and bring the reactionary, authoritarian attitude with them, whilst using every underhanded, sneaky trick in the book to put Western manufacturers out of business, and ultimately compromise the West's ability to defend itself.
As a Westerner, I value my freedom, so I will happy pay way over the [Chinese-imposed] odds to build a 3D printer of my own than suck on the teat of the CCP and buy a subsidised 3D printer that attacks our freedoms.
I would encourage other right-thinking people who value freedom, democracy and rule-of-law to do the same: build your own or -- at the very least -- support Western 3D printer vendors like Prusa who share our values and contribute back to the community.
Don't forget their rampant channel-stuffing, which is so flagrant, that it makes Ford's and GM's channel-stuffing antics look like kindergarten games in comparison.
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