You have to drink a lot to become inverted.

If you want to view the next frame, click pay or donate your child’s data to Experian.

No and in a classic capitalist paradise, in the US state DOLs/BOLIs have emergency funds out of which they pay workers wages. For the capitalists who couldn’t. Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. Learned about that when a regional Thai restaurant chain went under, declared bankruptcy and then the state paid their workers. So messed up. Such a great reason to get corporate shielding so your “personal” gains aren’t subject to clawback.

Corporate law has to change, but unlikely as things are.

One of the few good legal standards around bankruptcy is that unpaid wages to workers are actually, surprisingly paid out of assets prior to investors getting their cut.

We practiced fucking check writing and balancing a checkbook even though online checking and computers existed already ok? At least something you learned was still relevant.

Sure, the apps are recording all of that, my question is around my TV

Inflation is largely not a problem, corporate price gouging accounts for the bulk of increases. Price gouging increases are an enormous fucking problem for people. Calling it inflation is their script, don’t adopt their language.

Consolidation or competitors that has been allowed almost unabated the last 25 years exacerbates the effects.

I Chromecast content from my computer and phone.

If I don’t watch/stream stuff otherwise, and my TV isn’t connected to anything else I’m aware of, is my data being exfiltrated? It’s a Sony from ~2015

… I’ve also heard of some brands (that I don’t remember atm) that won’t even let you go through the initial setup without a connection.

/Microsoft announced new foray into TVs…

Just like the letter I got yesterday from an ISP I haven’t done business with in 4 years, letting me know my birthdate and SSN were compromised. Why did they even maintain it if they didn’t have a need for it? Also, why did an ISP need that in the first place…

They offered 1 year of credit monitoring. Lol. I’ll wait for the class action.

And by super intelligence we mean connected to a lot of things and able to wreak significant havoc, but absolutely fucking worthless for complex thought.

#Skynub

They’ve set the board, and are betting they’re too big to fail and that enough choice has been eliminated consumers won’t have viable options.

Your move America.

Is that bebop or rock steady?

God forbid the enormous amount of money be poured into the actual product rather than spamming an inferior one.

You can’t triple stamp a double stamp! You can’t triple stamp a double stamp!

United is Four Seasons compared to American.

As an employee you can enroll in our voluntary PTO insurance coverage benefit to only pay 40% of your salary to zoom while on PTO, you get to keep 60%!

The #1 feature they won’t add: I hated this job.

They always show industry jobs and suggested connections from all your jobs…if they were human and not interested in maximizing data suck they would have talked to 3-5 users out of their millions and realized people have bad job experiences and want to delete the memory, not be reprompted about it for eternity. Also, even when you decline a suggested person, imagine your worst coworker, they suggest them again later. Fucking stupid robot company

Partenered with? It’s owned by BOA, US Bank, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase. Might be used by smaller folks too but was started by those goons to try to capture mobile and p2p needs and is proprietary and doubtless whores your data. Stay away.

Not really your main point but just wanted to mention Luddites are actually the original anti-capitalist revolutionaries; the term has since been misused to be synonymous with “anti-technology”, but they were anti-mechanization in factories only because they understood this would reduce their bargaining power, rights, and/or they would see none of the gains from increased productivity.

Since Tech finally made it clear in the last few years about it’s intent to abuse all users and employees who have been pulled into free, cheap and useful products in the last 20 years, it’s pretty clear why the Luddite mindset is not only relevant but essential.

Personally I’m a huge advocate for technological advancements, but in the US system of unregulated capitalism they can really only go bad for the common person. https://theluddite.org/#!home is a blog I found a few years ago and has some great perspectives on tech, worker rights and politics.