cattywampas

We all do the best we can, so whenever anyone criticizes your choice of consuming something, just hit em with ol' reliable "no ethical consumption under capitalism"

Couldn't get through on any site last night. But, I'm signed up for the Nintendo preorder on 5/8 so I feel pretty good I'll get one of those.

And if not, whatever. They'll make more, I'll get one eventually.

Pick your poison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation?wprov=sfla1

What in the boomer is this post

And all goods and services require some amount of humans putting in work in order for them to be provided. Nothing is truly 100% automated yet.

But labor is a necessity to survive, and always has been. We need the production of goods and services. Of course the distribution of wealth and goods is also an issue, but somebody (or something) has to produce the things we use.

Not yet, but it's an interesting thought experiment if nothing else. Someday, thanks to advances in robotics and computers, human labor will become largely obsolete. So the question is how do we structure our society when that happens?

I got the YouTube premium family plan a long time ago. Been worth every penny for the amount of YouTube we watch.

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but if there was one streaming service I was gonna pay for it'd be YT premium. You can pirate everything else pretty easily.

Data's poem was written by real people trying to sound like a machine.

ChatGPT's poems are written by a machine trying to sound like real people.

While I think "Ode to Spot" is actually a good poem, it's kind of a valid point to make since the TNG writers were purposely trying to make a bad one.

That's still selling your labor though.

What's the alternative then?