I’ve been reading a lot about behavior modification and technofeudalism and once you see it you can’t unsee it. The tech companies are quite literally just farming us for data and using their gadgets as a Trojan horse to get us to accept more invasive stuff into our lives.

The product isn’t vr glasses the product is you and for apple to sell the ability to nudge you into different behaviors with subtle cues in your daily activities. It’s the same thing as Facebook but at least Facebook had a use case originally and people used it because they wanted to.

This tech is being conceptualized and designed and marketed at us not because there’s a market for this stuff but they WANT there to be a market for it. They’re doing it right now with this post, convincing people that it’s actually really anticipated, but I’ll ask you this: how many times have you been in conversation where someone brought up a problem that would be solved by ar glasses? Or one level above that, how many people have openly expressed to you a desire for glasses so they don’t have to use their phone? I know you’re not the one who was arguing against my original comment but that should tell you everything you need to know about the market conditions. They’re not solving a problem, they’re creating a demand.

I’m just saying, be weary of these tech companies. They have made their intentions clear enough to warrant skepticism. Here is an economist explaining this better than I can, if you’re interested in the subject.

show me exactly where companies are coercing us

Im not entertaining this conversation anymore

Theyre saying that for the past six months every single news station and paper has been daily uploading stories about “doge cuts” and talking about how much musk was promising to reduce the budget and saying that it was all legitimate and exactly as they claimed. That’s what they’re pissed about.

This is the FIRST article to actually say “what if he’s actually full of shit? What if we looked into it and counted the money? Oh, turns out he’s full of shit and doing the opposite of reducing the budget, here’s what it actually cost.”

It is fucking April 30th. It’s been 100 days, they’ve spent 200 billion more dollars than normal, and this is the only report I’ve seen since the election questioning whether doge is a legitimate government office with the goals it claims. Thats what the poster is mad about. Not the one article doing journalism. The 7 million articles since October last year talking about “musk’s doge plans to cut 2 trillion from the deficit” that were literally propaganda.

You are complaining about me pointing out that there is zero DEMAND for this product. Nobody is asking for “Augmented reality” or whatever. It is not innovative or moving technology forward it’s literally an excuse to harvest a million more data points per minute for no benefit to the end user.

You seriously can’t comprehend how these companies use, manipulate, and coerce you to create a false demand for this slop? There is plenty of great literature on the subject, and if you’d like I can direct you to people with expertise to explain the concepts. Just stop mindlessly accepting and defending this behavior and stand up for yourself as a consumer.

Arrested for “obstruction of justice” like was clearly stated in the executive orders handed down yesterday. Don’t play coy. They were coerced by threat of investigation to pass the ordinances.

It’s in the article but you probably missed it because they’re reporting it in passive language.

The criteria must be wrong because by these metrics half of Americans are below poverty!

They already did this with Google glass and failed spectacularly. There is no market for this. Nobody is wishing they had computer glasses. It is something being forced onto consumers for the benefit of apple and it will not work.

You’d think with the massive failure of their apple vision they’d have learned this lesson already.

I’ve taken to the approach of simply asking “are you willing to die for these beliefs?”

Thank God for Bill Clinton

Cnn gleefully reporting on local councils being threatened by the state to force their immigration enforcement through a vote or be arrested

What a terrible paper

Scroll down and read their first 100 days coverage

Oh yeah I like my memes niche

real niche

Borderlands ass gun lmao

Doesn’t it have some kind of counter balance system so it recoils downward? Or do I have that backwards? I saw something about it years ago and it was indeed interesting.

What we really need is MORE Middlemen to keep a closer eye on all those brokies and make sure they’re not getting too much. That’ll stop the waste, surely.

Don’t worry, someone else will surely stop this before it affects me.

If we strip-mine all the social programs before Republicans get the chance we can do it in a way that keeps the most important part of the system in place. Checkmate fascists!

Interesting. They were expecting the additional diversity of the food web in these areas to lead to the snakes evolving more universally deadly venom.

I think it stands to reason that in an environment with a large variety of food the snake would develop some type of preference or be limited by their own capabilities to hunt certain prey. The venom is tailored to have the strongest effect on the prey most likely to be caught.

A diverse biome could create a larger potential for diverse feeding habits, but who’s to say snakes don’t just prefer eating birds or whatever when they have the freedom to choose which prey they value most?

Very cool study, I’ll be interested to see what comes from this

Yeah yeah this is great and all but can we not fawn over the guy working for a rabid zionist bc he’s doing the barest trans advocacy? Not to get all dark woke or anything but if he’s calling to boycott Harry potter bc JK is a bigot what should we do with his show written by a genocide supporter? It just seems silly. I won’t be watching either show but cmon. If we’re gonna hold people accountable for their hate based views let’s not stop at trans people.

Edit: I’m not writing it off I’m saying there’s plenty of shame to go around. Most people who are rich and famous are shitty people and being on the right side of a single issue because you are personally affected by it doesn’t make you exalted above everyone else in Hollywood. JK Rowling is a demonic cretin and deserves ridicule and condemnation from everyone, not just the one actor with a trans sibling. All I’m saying is it doesn’t make this guy Jesus.

Why do Tesla fans always look like that