Also frustrating: how end users don’t care. You can explain how Uber mistreats employees or Airbnb causes rents to rise double digit percentages, but they’ll just be like “oh but it’s convenient”.

Twitter is a Nazi bar but “it has such good memes!”

If people cared just a little more, things could be so much better.

every American worker pays into the social security system as a tax on income.

One irritating note on this: there’s a limit to how much social security tax you pay per year. So if you’re making a lot of income, you just stop paying this tax partway through the year.

This is pants on head stupid and regressive. It should be the other way around. Your first, let’s say $10,000 should be exempt from the tax, and it should get steeper as income goes up.

Rich guy absolutely does not need the bump in take home pay from hitting the cap. Poor guy definitely could use the extra income early income not being taxed.

I’m just so mad all the time about people licking the boots of the rich. They don’t need breaks! They’re rich! They’re going to be fine!

Right! Resigning is not enough! If a regular person leaked secrets they would face more damning consequences.

I’m thinking what Musk would have done at the end of endgame. Certainly not a heroic sacrifice.

They believe in “there must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect”.

Reddit is a for profit private capitalist enterprise. It has no soul and no sense of right and wrong. I’m not saying we should execute their leadership, but i wouldn’t be mad if they all died

It would have been really bad but I would have been briefly ecstatic if like all the key Republicans were just rounded up and shot for being traitors.

Probably be better off overall.

I remember talking to a coworker at a tech startup once. He was leaving to go work for some like military intelligence spy company. I was like, “But what if they have you work on something fucked up, like spying on innocent people, or sending drones to kill people?” He was like, big shrug, the pay is good.

Some people just don’t care about other people. He was nice to people he knew, when it didn’t really cost him anything.

Our society isn’t really set up to discourage that kind of worldview. That kind of selfish person typically thrives.

This is a deeply off topic whataboutism that only serves to distract from how horrible the trump administration is. You are benefitting the conservatives.

Even if they all stupided themselves to death today, it would take years to repair the damage. Some of the damage can’t be repaired. And we’d still be behind where we could have been if we had had competent leadership to begin with. Or even just less bad leadership.

We should never forgive the Republicans. Every one of them should be a pariah.

All the people who were mad about Clinton’s email that aren’t furious about this are hypocrits that should never be taken seriously again.

If you think ‘voluntary’ is acceptable for anything important you want corporations to do, you have no business making decisions about real life. If it’s voluntary, they’ll only do it if it benefits them.

You’d revive that program over the bloody corpses of many conservatives. Which, actually, yeah let’s do that. A lot of other problems go away if the right wing bleeds out.

I think we should organize and go demand everyone working for DOGE… stop. And not demand like with funny signs and chants, but like with 2nd amendment arms.

That’s really bad. You might get other people sick with what you have, but if they’re immune compromised or otherwise vulnerable they could have a really bad, possibly fatal, time.

Apply it to healthcare, science, finances, and the world will become a better place, especially in healthcare.

That’s all kind of moot if we continue down the capitalist hellscape express. What good is an AI that can diagnose cancer if most people can’t afford access? What good is AI writing novels if our homes are destroyed by climate change induced disasters?

Those problems are mostly political, and AI isn’t going to fix them. The people that probably could be replaced with AI, the shitty “leaders” and such, are not going to voluntarily step down.

There’s a shared theme with like all of humanity’s woes: people don’t care that much.

From pollution to injustice to shitty websites, if people cared just a little more the problem would be dramatically reduced or even eliminated.

But so many people are just apathetic. Overwhelmed and checked out.

Conservatives aren’t generally considered smart, kind, people.

Ah, I always liked Three Panel Soul. Shame it doesn’t seem to update anymore.

Public transport and walkability is really nice. Big changes are needed to level up the car-first spaces we built, and people don’t want to pay that debt. But that debt carries interest, and the longer we put it off the worse it’s going to get.

Probably not the most effective metaphor because humans are famously bad at long term thinking.