When 43/50 states are already locked in and decided a lot of people don’t bother. That’s a huge reason for people not voting.

If elections were actually decided by popular vote you’d see more people voting. The electoral college is a voter suppression tool.

The world doesn’t allow us to disconnect tech and capitalism. Why should we be happy about the tech just for the techs sake? People aren’t adverse to the tech. They are against its use to further our exploitation.

The problems of poverty might be easier to deal with. Not discounting that. But a salary increase under capitalism does not solve the fundamental depression you feel from alienation.

Not to say I don’t have it better. I do. But the emptiness is not solved by a higher wage. It only has allowed me to have the time to become more reflective and depressed by the alienation of my labor.

To have more time and freedom to reflect on the suffering of these systems that I benefit from more than others do.

The only significantly statically impactful group of “non voters” is the population that was unable to or inconvenienced heavily by voting.

Meaning the major majority of voters that didn’t vote were either unable to because of other obligations (work, childcare, etc) with a small subset of that being people that were no motivated enough to deal with the inconvenience of visiting a poll line (4hours in line) after a 10 hour shift.

These are the vast vast majority of people that did not show up. Beyond that an even smaller percentage was the "protest voters’ that even if 100% of which went to Harris she still would have lost.

I guess I just want to say “in conclusion” that the vast majority of voters that didn’t vote were giving you your Starbucks or your Taco Bell.

I think we should spend less time blaming voters and more time being critical of the politicians and party that gives zero reason for the working class to “risk” their shift for.

No one’s gonna “risk a shift” for the policies and messaging that Harris communicated. You don’t get people to “risk their shift” for voting for a lesser evil.

Sounds like a good subscription plan service.

I know he still has a lot of dick riders but, honestly, I think him streaming Path of Exile live really hurt him with the demographic that was his main fans. White young to middle age males that play video games.

It became the perfect analogy to use to explain to that group of people why actual engineers and scientists know he’s an idiot. He could hide behind criticism because the average person doesn’t know enough about those things to know what he doesn’t know.

But when all the gaming channels started mocking him for not knowing the games UI and not knowing his (paid for) character at rank 3 had some of THE BEST gear. Dude confused “level required” vs gear item level.

It was just such a great example to show people how much of a complete fraud he was. At least people in that demographic. You didn’t even need to play PoE, if you ever played a game you could tell he had no idea what he was doing in his supposedly top ranked player in the world.

Though you still had people defending it, I think for the casual Elon “fan” in that demographic it was pretty eye opening.

It also says a lot about him that he thought he could get away with faking that. He fakes all his other achievements.

Star Trek was space communism. So we’d have to kill the capitalist first.

We’re heading more towards Star Wars and the Empire. See you in the resistance.

The point is remove the user “search” experience. Where a user selects options from page results. Yes it is already heavily optimized for directing the user where they want them to go. But AI is even better at it. With every prompt the AI is directing you directly. Its basically turning the Internet into TikTok scroll instead of like YouTube subscriptions or search for example. They want your entire interaction with the web to be through AI and it’s interfaces. This is significantly more powerful.

When was the last time you search something on TikTok? You just scroll and like stuff sometimes. Your experience is entirely crafted by TikTok.

This is what they want for AI for your ENTIRE online life. You will watch videos, research, shop, all from an AI that directly influences all of your decisions.

The entire point of websites is keeping you on their app or website for as long as possible. The best way to do that is to in the future direct everything you do from a single app. It’s a big reason the US wanted to force China to sell TikTok. US capitalist where having their profits hurt by it.

That’s not how these models work. It’s not like OpenAI was sharing all their source code. If anything OpenAI benefits from DeepSeek because they released their entire code.

OpenAI is an ironic name now ever since Microsoft became a majority share holder. They are anything but “open”.

Profit potential. Think of AI as one big data collector to sell you shit. It is significantly better at learning things about you than any metadata or cookies ever could.

If you think of this AI push as “trying to make a better product” it will not make much sense. If you think of the AI push as “how do I collect more data on all my users and better directly influence their choices” it makes a lot more sense.

AI is not there to be useful for you. It is there to be useful for them. It is a perfect tool for capturing every last little thought you could have and direct to you perfectly on what they can sell you.

It’s basically one big way to sell you shit. I promise we will follow the same path as most tech. It’ll be useful for some stuff and in this case it’s being heavily forced upon us whether we like it or not. Then it’s usefulness will be slowly diminished as it’s used more heavily to capitalize on your data, thoughts, writings, code, and learn how to suck every last dollar from you whether you’re at work or at home.

It’s why DeepSeek spent so little and works better. They literally were just focusing on the tech.

All these billions are not just being spent on hardware or better optimized software. They are being spent on finding the best ways to profit from these AI systems. It’s why they’re being pushed into everything.

You won’t have a choice on whether you want to use it or not. It’ll soon by the only way to interact with most systems even if it doesn’t make sense.

Mark my words. When Google stops standard search on their home page and it’s a fucking AI chat bot by default. We are not far off from that.

It’s not meant to be useful for you.

Hey. We just gotta vote harder ok. It’s definitely not just a planned opposition party that will never let there be a majority of actual progressives in their party.

If it was one of his businesses I’d agree. But this is bottom of the barrel AND makes him look like a weak little lapdog for Musk.

You can see the insecure little boy in him so much. Him and Joe Rogan. They are so obviously doing everything in themselves to have some confidence but not even millions and billions of dollars can fill that hole of abandonment.

It was about as obvious of a lie as when people tried to say that Russia blew up their own pipeline.

My only windows is force upon me as my work laptop. I sadly actually work for Microsoft. I literally only use it to SSH to my virtual machine running redhat.

Microsoft really enjoys forcing updates at the worst time when their employees are trying to work. Sometimes it literally just makes me stop working for that day. Their loss.

Reach into your backpack and get 3rd degree burns.

My first guess world be unplug your mouse and keyboard and see if it still happens. Your mouse or keyboard could be sending phantom inputs sometimes. If it’s a laptop maybe not though or you’d have to test it another way at least. But it’s the first thing I’d do.

It’s Arabs and Muslims this time. And the queer community as always. And obviously any commies that try to organize and resist.

And the Zionist Christians that run this country will absolutely love to deport the Jews to Israel.

And it’ll just continue to anyone “unAmerican”

“The Nazis never really went away”

I mean there are a massive amount of people in America in complete support of the genocide in Gaza. But I guess the analogy doesn’t work for Americans because the children dying are brown.