This is a feature not a bug for massive corporations, do not fall into the trap of thinking that because the collapse these corporations cause hurts the corporations themselves it means that in the end the wasteland left behind that they can consolidate and buy up isn’t beneficial for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

There are ~2 billion muslims on earth, any beef you have with Islam is just beef you have with humanity itself.

2 billion is a number of people multiple orders of magnitude too large to make any sort of meaningful generalization about.

Bigotry, being explicitly an ideology of reductianism and simplification though attempts to disprove that by making a large chunk of earth’s population hateful in the same boring, dumb, incurious way.

Every bigot is in their heart the same bigot, even if one particular bigot is bigoted against another, doesn’t matter, they have the same rotten heart irregardless.

Especially in the US, whenever you go to a protest or in person event I think you should always assume that for every “version” of somebody that is there, there are 10 other people very much like them that just didn’t have the energy, physical capacity, mental headspace and/or they were working/too existentially exhausted from work.

From that perspective the raw amount of people that shows up is only a small window into a greater potential, which is always I think what the spirit of in person protest and events should be about anyways…

Otherwise why do them?

No that is a dangerous and incorrect mindset

Your understanding of what is driving Climate Change has been successfully focused entirely on a complex of guilt and shame within you about your own carbon footprint.

This is leading you to suggest that installing a lifesaving tool that takes up some energy is not worth the thousands and thousands of lives it saves during heatwaves.

Please stop denying your own humanity and the humanity of others and focus on fighting the actual drivers of Climate Change before you end up accidentally killing yourself just because you couldn’t live in a way that perfectly minimized your impact.

This is NOT a slippery slope we all should be obsessed with, it is not that slippery and there are far scarier slippery slopes all around us that should be getting our attention.

Ultimately being against AC is just another form of ecofascism hiding in the language of personal responsibility to obscure the responsibilities of capital, industry and society.

This is nonsense, your life is worth the carbon footprint of AC.

Install Air Conditioning NOW if you are even remotely at health risk, you don’t do anything for the world suffering in pain during a heatwave which if it doesn’t kill you may do permanent damage to your body.

You don’t have to use the AC but you DO need it, heatwaves without AC are terrifying please give yourself permission to treat your body kindly.

You aren’t the reason Climate Change is happening, put that burden down and keep only the self awareness and introspection part of that thought complex.

Do you have an economic or social system in mind where it would be solved or better?

Democratic Socialism

It is on F-Droid

Braiding Sweetgrass - great all around read

The Most Dangerous Book - FASCINATING and really inspiring, one of the most important stories of resistance in the 20th century in my opinion.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff - Podcast about inspiring badasses from history that don’t get enough attention, Magpie the host is awesome and each episode usually has good nonfiction recommendations for reading on the subject!

edit I misread thought this was about historical nonfiction, I’ll have to think but there are definitely lots of nonfiction books that talk about how the are genuine reasons to be hopeful about our future, because the things that holding us back aren’t what is physically impossible or not…

I am not saying it was a fair fight, but there absolutely was, however the endpoint was reached, culture of disinterest about it that was not preordained.

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html

^ I agree with everything Christopher Alexander says about the computer/software industry here in 1996

Well that and the associated failure of tech culture in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to understand the important of organizing in the workplace not only to improve the quality of working conditions so you can truly show up and feel supported to do good work you are proud of… but also to ensure that the industry at a basic level remains functional and ethical.

If you look at the primary motivating reasons of a lot of industries striking in the US, it often has to do with a universal anger and grief that basic aspects of their work are being undermined by carelessness, nursing is a good example of that.

Tech workers had a moment of incredible cultural and material power there, and they failed to translate that into a set of truly professional standards and become something like engineering, plumbing or land surveying, something with a license, a set of high standards that are grounded in a philosophy of doing good honest work… like how doctors have.

This invited in the subsequent dehumanization of tech workers in the last 20 years and the rise of AI further rationalizing more dehumanization and devaluing of tech work.

I think it would be funnier if they were drones carrying drugs, but it was another branch of the US Department Of Defense running drugs being caught by a different branch of the US Department Of Defense who really wanted to try out their new toy and didn’t get the memo about turning a blind eye there.

I feel bad for this new generation of border guards and law enforcement though, if you blow up the drug drone in the air, a lot of the drugs probably won’t survive the crash and thus being the actual person to arrive at the cache of drugs first as the “good guys” isn’t as fun or profitable anymore.

This guy can’t even keep himself from cheating at golf constantly, he is incapable of making any kind of decisive act to de-escalate a conflict that requires his ego to be bruised, but he is also a coward so he waffles back and forth which is legitimately the most dangerous thing he could possibly do with his power.

Trump does not always Chicken Out, what makes him dangerous is he is incapable of backing down because of his ego.

It just seems like kids these days don’t want to work when there are no jobs to work at, and I am finding it harder and harder not to just blame them because it feels good.

thank you for your service

I’m like that but for random your mom jokes on the internet

I think it is kind of mean of you to talk about this like your mom isn’t getting along fine in her pasture.

I just don’t think they’re smart enough to make a dent in an actually competitive industry, no matter how much espionage they got.

Which is exactly why they buy up all the enterprise data streams and machinery around it relevant to the industry before they try it, so they don’t have to be competent…

I don’t disagree with the thrust of what you are saying, but you are also misunderstanding something here, **we aren’t talking about replacing a human employee with an “AI” for a task like creating a marketing image, we are talking about convincing large corporations and entities to feed all of their data into an “AI Lab” and then that “AI Lab” basically does traditional industrial espionage and sabotage to replicate the business model of the company/industry they were supposed to be assisting.

This would likely be done with a lot of automation, but it is CRUCIAL to understand this strategy can be done without AI at all, what matters is convincing organizations to hoover all of their sensitive data over to you and then leveraging it in ways that are opaque enough that blowback either doesn’t happen or is long delayed.

See this interesting paper on the way full perspectives on certain niche data can be exploited, especially at interfaces between highly valuable technical data sets that can give real insight and advantage to a company that is pretending to be an AI company when they are really trying to establish lucrative Fiefdoms of dataownership that will disastrously backfire on the people that relinquished the datasets… it is only a matter of time…

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03877