Please don't feel guilty about muting or unfollowing me if my timeline is too much, I don't consider following or not following me to be an endorsement of me personally. I'm pretty mad at the moment and probably will be for awhile
You could frame the introduction of robot assistants as "your elderly care needs just became easier to meet" or "now we can cut injuries from dangerous jobs", but the investor class responded with "HAHAHAHA, BARTENDERS GOT TOO UPPITY, THIS IS REVENGE", which is revealing.
We are still pretending that applying for a job involves sending off your CV, as opposed to answering multiple essay questions and sending a covering letter, to see if you get a telephone interview, to see if you get a technical assessment, To see if if you get a real interview
Randomly remembered that Corbyn wanted to tax the use of automation and AI so that the tax revenue paid on the jobs lost to it won't just vanish into tech company pockets instead. It got mocked as a "tax on robots" with jetsons pictures, now here we are
You say you hate the police but who are you going to call when you need to wield the state monopoly on violence to intentionally traumatize a 9 year old girl?
That's pretty scary. Imagine if an entire tower block of people burned alive in the centre of Beijing and the official response was to hold press conferences, declare that nobody was at fault for anything, and then pretend it didn't happen.
From the incredible blog Chinese DoomScroll:
If you ever see a disaster in China where exactly 35 people die, it's because 36+ means the mayor gets fired. It's fascinating in a horrifying way how authoritarian systems always develop their own unique post-truth quirks.
People who say this get made fun of on here, but I truly believe that within our lifetime these things will be chasing people down and breaking their arms