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Normal cars vs the fever dreams of a ketamine addict.

That's basically the F150 or a rivian

The existence of few competitors is not proof that monopolistic power doesn't exist and isn't being leveraged. Saying Google isn't monopolistic is being willfully wrong. You're more wrong when we look at the browser market, and Google has lost anti-trust suits on this very topic in the past couple years.

A public mail service is required by our constitution. It's cheaper than the private options and often the only option for many rural areas. It's not a monopoly.

Comparing something to a public utility is not me saying it's literally a public utility. Google runs a monopolistic service that is essential to a lot of our public life, in a segment that has high cost of entry and infrastructure cost. They make the service worse to make more money. It should be a regulated utility like electricity or railroads, we should have a public alternative like the post office is to UPS, or it should be nationalized. The situation gets more dire when you consider their browser monopoly.

We'd rather have medical bankruptcy than a functional system.

And Google search, a service on the level of a public utility, has been degrading noticeably for years in the face of shareholders demanding more and more returns.

The solution is single payer. Any attempt to solve this with technological band aids is completely futile. We know what the solution is because we see it work in every other developed nation. We don't have it because a class of billionaire doners doesn't want to pay into the system that allowed them to become fabulously wealthy. People who are claiming AI is the solution to healthcare access and affordability are delusional or lying to you.

You are blind.

It's a funny defense coming from the most corrupt administration since Nixon

All of these companies are losing money in the billions every quarter. Look at how frequent the raises are.

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Damn you got his receipts

Something that annoys me about all the AI hype is that it's breaking a bunch of systems that seemed like they were chugging along just fine. Fundamentally all those podcasts probably have the same listeners as before, why is it necessary to totally rethink how we advertise to those people? Seems like we're causing a lot of pain by breaking things to make a bet on something that's totally unproven.

Safari lol

They figuratively tried to burn the NIH to the ground and have been routinely and illegally canceling grants and holding research funds hostage to bully universities into going along with their moronic cultural program.

It's not mutually exclusive to have more wealthy people while also having capital concentrating in a way that means most people have less access to it.

So true

Historically, the point of a university is not to be a jobs training program.

We don't know how brains work.

No thanks.

DB is known to be a weaker offering.

https://www.omscentral.com/

AOS destroyed me lol. Video Game Design is excellent. Graduate algo is a requirement for everyone and has great lectures if you're looking for an introductory course.

Lmao absolutely right

It seems like every organization in America is compromised in some way if you dig deep enough. Certainly you can find reasons for every big tech. There's still a balance to be struck though.

Revenue isn't profit

That's how the mongols communicated but with guys on horses.

Well put and captures my feelings on this

Until healthcare and housing aren't tied to employment, making it easier to fire people will always be the monstrous position. If you want firing people with abandon to be socially acceptable then you need a public safety net. Until that's in place, I'm always going to be on the side of labor organizations demanding dignity than the people destroying lives.

I'd rather have the protections for my working conditions than worrying about whether my co-workers are contributing enough to the company's bottom line but maybe that makes me an outlier here.

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