Don’t worry, the rich always get golden parachutes.

No it isn’t. It has no tenets, no holy books, no authority figures. By definition it is a lack of a religion.

Atheism isn’t a religion bud.

While they’re both similarly lacking evidence and therefore irrelevant, christianity is unfortunately still relevant, as it is being used as a justification for religious based laws nonstop.

Whether you like it or not, your reproductive rights (regardless of sex/gender) are on the line thanks in large part to christianity. Therefore it’s almodt certainly relevant to you. Same goes for a myriad of other social issues.

I sincerely hope this is a troll or sarcasm.

Jammers only work against remote controlled drones. Autonomous ones have no such issue. And jammers are never a problem against civilians, which tech like this will eventually be used on.

If I had to guess, the government has had this tech since at least the early 2000s. The CIA has been doing shady ass shit since their inception, and shit like that is probably only the tip of the iceberg of what they currently have. Though they’re probably using something closer to grenades than in that film, as 1 drone to 1 kill probably isn’t enough.

That short film is one of only a few that has stuck with me.

I disagree. Ukrainian style suicide drones combined with autonomous robot dogs carrying guns with thermal sensors are the weapons of the future, and it is a horrifying future. Governments will absolutely use both.

Nonsense. You can always use more seedboxes.

It is straight up incompatible with older hardware.

And that’s before accounting for the bloat and telemetry that they have in it, and the shitty changes to the UI, etc.

it’s been a conflict for 70 years.

Oh well in that case it’s ok for Isreal to bomb women and children.

and the palestinian government is no saint either

This is a whataboutism.

Bombing women and children en masse doesn’t make it a conflict, it makes it a slaughter.

They’re intentionally preventing food and water from entering Gaza. It’s a genocide.

every time I’ve worked for a publically traded company I’ve hated it because everything is just about increasing share price no matter what.

This matches my experience quite well. I’m currently working at a place that isn’t traded publicly for the first time ever, and it is significantly better. Granted, it isn’t perfect, I still have plenty of criticisms that are separate issues. And many of those issues could be solved/lessened by workplace democracy, but that’s a different conversation.

OTOH I think investment is very useful for progress though… I’m not sure how investment would work without ownership

End goal would be at most investment works through loans. Somebody has a business and wants to expand, or wants to start a new one? Get some loans, and the interest is how you would “invest”. I am sure there would be loopholes around this to end up with lots of stupidity, but it would be a better system.

It would be a lot slower growth though. And IMO that’s a good thing given that the planet is on fire. Policies and institutional changes that will lessen our impact on the environment is a good thing. We ultimately need de-growth to an extent, and slower growth at a minimum.

The bigger issue here is how to abolish a stock market. When investors catch wind of this happening, they’ll sell as hard and fast as possible, and move their wealth to overseas stock markets. A slow and steady abolishment would probably make it a bit better, but it’s probably worth a scientific study or twenty to look into the long term effects/potential solutions for this.

Yeah, there would be a risk of that happening. But to prevent that, the existing concept of ownership in a company needs to change as well. All companies should be legally required to be 100% employee owned, no other form of ownership allowed.

The switch away from a stock market wouldn’t be simple, and it would probably be quite painful. But absolutely worth it.

Why stop there? Why keep the stock market at all? It’s only real purpose is for the rich to play games with their wealth, to distribute wealth towards themselves, etc. People shouldn’t be making a living off of speculative investment at all. Jobs should contribute to society. Owning is not a job.

I agree with most of these. Key differences that’d I prefer:

• Approval instead of ranked choice voting (easier auditing, simpler to explain)
• Get rid of pretty much all taxes, and replaced it with a land and carbon/pollution tax
• Mandate all companies be employee owned
• Abolish the stock market
• Ban on corporations from owning single family unit homes, every citizen capped to 3 residences, and all multi-unit homes must be non-market housing
• Massive public investment into housing construction

When most contracts are full of legalise, hundreds of pages long, and are required to be signed off on as quickly as possible so that you can get the job you may have already quit your previous one for, reading and understanding every word isn’t always possible.

I’ve worked at two employers who used the contractor loophole. At the first one, the length of the contract and extensions were never mentioned to me ever. The second one constantly played games with extension. At one point I was set to have my final week of employment, only for them to extend it over the weekend.

I’ve been in the contractor shoes for way longer than I should have (which is zero), So as a hardfast rule, “expect your contract to end on its end date” simply doesn’t hold up. Corps like to play games with it, and leave employees out of the loop.

Easy to say that if there is food already on your table.

Our planet becoming nearly uninhabitable or uninhabitable with millions if not billions of people dying seems like a bigger problem. But then again spreading hate about the LGBTQ+ is more important to the spokesperson for ‘god’.