You’re on a piefed instance, so theres some other guy, but he’s also… controversial.

How do you decide who is welcome?

There is actually an established process for this. We have rules. If you think someone has contravened the rules you report them and then a moderator decides whether that person is in fact welcome.

In fact, telling people they are not welcome is probably a contravention of the rules in many communities.

The answer is: gen AI slop.

However, the obsession with bi-pedal robots is creepy and weird.

I watched someone on YouTube talking about it but can’t remember the channel.

Basically, there is no single task for which bipedal is the best format, it’s only suitable for the range of tasks humans can perform. However, we just don’t have the tech to make that format viable. As in, they can’t do the dishes or clean the bathroom or take out the trash.

Demonstrations of bots doing those things are in tightly controlled environments with loads of programmed parameters.

Its appealing because everyone wants a humanoid to order around, but that’s about it.

but it’s got AI fact checking! /s

You don’t have to welcome them, just don’t tell people they’re not welcome.

Besides which, they didn’t say they support profits over human welfare. They said that corporations will always maximise profits.

Yes, they could have delivered this pearl of wisdom in a more digestible tone, but what they said is true nevertheless.

Its a bit silly to think that a company would leave potential profits on the table.

Sure, but it’s also “stupid” for governments not to take a tougher line with them.

Don’t do that.

It’s fine to not like comments and commenters, but telling people they’re not welcome is something else.

The fediverse is already pretty homogenous, we could do with some dissenting opinion honestly.

We have something like this in Australia. Candidates receive a fixed amount, maybe $2.50, per first preference vote, provided that they achieve more than 4% of all votes.

The 4% requirement avoids creating an incentive for every idiot to register a political party so they can get a few hundred dollars from the Electoral Commission.

The effect is to essentially tie what you proposed into the election itself.

We do still have private donations, but I think they’re somewhat restrictive, and the public funding lessens the benefit of private donations.

I don’t mind at all if people think I’m old, I kind of am.

Thing is, fancy new containerised packages have really changed the dynamic here.

I don’t care if gnome is 5 years old. Everything I actually use is up to date.

Yeah team bar-soap here.

It’s just soap and when you use it you feel soapy and then you rinse it off and you feel like you’ve used soap.

Anything in a bottle is some concoction of bullshit woo-woo like honey and pomegranate or hibiscus petals and seal fur. As in, it’s more marketing than soap.

I guess Google could just target specific types of users to review, rather than everyone. I’m sure there’s people out there who would love to give a shitty business a great review.

I refuse to believe that there’s a bipedal robot that can make my bed, with out ridiculous specific programming.

On the contrary.

We are in agreement that what’s happening is not malice, but incompetence and greed.

Its nonsensical.

If the billionaire class wanted everyone dead they wouldn’t do it with measles

I have et said anything like that, and it’s painfully obvious that you’re deflecting.

Given your criticism of Wong, I had thought that surely you would have some preferred strategy.

Instead it seems like you don’t really have e any idea what you’re talking about, other than “labor bad”

That’s not what I suggested, nor what I asked.

How would you like our foreign affairs minister to address this with a global super power on whom we are heavily dependent as one of our closest allies ?

This was such a bizarre interaction.

El Sayed seems brilliant at responding to these gotcha questions.

I thought so. No answers just criticism because she didn’t show up with a “Free Palestine” shirt.

I wonder how the foreign affairs minister from a liberal, national oor ON government would handle this?

Hmm… No most post apoc fiction is mindful of these issues.

My main concern is that most novels have a token nerdy / accountant type who’s role is to demonstrate how useless our skills are in a post apocalyptic wasteland. That’s me really. An accountant.