Does that mean the only people to watch would be women in fake beards? Maybe we can get Hegseth to say Jehovah…

Kidding aside I’m not morally against execution for heinous crimes but our system is too inconsistent to be effective. In one state a heinous murder does not get the death penalty, in another a run of the mill capitol murder does. Death sentences are disproportionately given to people of color. Death row is extremely expensive vs a life in prison sentence. Executions fail as a strong deterrent as when the execution is finally performed, it decades after the crime, long after it has left the public’s consciousness. Christa Pike’s crime was in 1995, three decades ago, for example. Following that story it was like: who? What crime did she commit?

Holy wall of text, batman. It would be hilariously ironic if it’s AI generated, but I am too lazy to check. But to the point: what is the “working class” in modern society?

You must observe and analyses the world and the relationships within it to understand how things change and then adapt to these conditions and changes accordingly.

Capitalism is quite good at that.

That political power in society should be in the hands of the working class, aka the majority of the population.

It is in America and many other western nations. The main problem is life is too easy and no one votes. Where big S socialism has been tried on a large scale, that power disappears quite quickly…

Can you be specific where you are pointing as I can find all that stuff in countries that were attacked or interfered with by non wealthy liberal democracies…

Are the capitalists building out wind farms in California, Oklahoma and Texas good or bad? How about all the solar farms in the desert? Is Slate Auto good or bad as it’s partially funded by Bezos? How many data centers is china building? (hint: lots) Your obsession with capitalism seems to ignore the vast variation of human nature…

What you do seem to ignore is that systems beyond capitalism are just as likely to pollute. Per capita pollution may have more to do with poverty than altruism. China is trying real hard to catch up…

I do find tankies an interesting phenomenon. Deluded individuals not succeeding in modern society? Russian bots trying to crap everyone out? Combination of the two? Hard to say…

And speaking of blindness, ignoring the history of communism is your version of bad faith…

And authoritarianism seems to develop from poorly implemented big S socialism. Humans are quite good at thwarting any system to their own benefit…

I totally agree. A lot of Lemmy users seem to have a hard on for big S socialism. As a gen X California liberal I hated the guy since before he was president but Ronald Reagan has a banger of a political quote:

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.

Great advice if you want to get things done rather than generate social media cred…

Simple question, simple answer. It’s China by a large margin. Also check out their industrial ground pollution, which is bad but nothing compared to the old Soviet Union. Your real answer might be humans are the problem rather than specific governmental/economic systems.

Remind me again which country is the largest polluter on the planet and what their government system is?

The other issue is we are finding out that what you do in the AI cloud is logged. It can be subpoenaed, can be sent to police if it fails a safety check, or even stolen if the mathematicians fears are real. It is certainly being used to further train models…

Really? Can you point to a democracy that has done much of note that doesn’t have an economic system based on free market capitalism?

NASA spearheaded the tech behind megawatt wind turbines. Bell Laboratories built the first practical silicon photovoltaic cell. England and the US perfected Hydroelectricity.

Unbridled capitalism is the problem. Well regulated and taxed free market capitalism has proven it’s self quite well.

But is AI going to cure addiction as well?

But is it Nancy with insider info or husband Paul who has a venture capital firm in San Francisco, the current hub of US AI? “Pelosi’s household disclosed buying Bloom Energy shares…” is about all the article indicates…

You posted the exact same article to this sub yesterday…

It’s not going to get here soon enough, if it arrives at all, to save your ass. Tons is an odd measurement of fuel over barrels but: a barrel of diesel weighs about 300lb. 300,000 * 2000 (lb per ton) = 600,000,000 lbs of diesel / 300 = 2 million barrels. The US uses about 3.5 million barrels a day. Even if the tons are metric it’s still just a days worth. Sorry Donnie you are a day late and a dollar short…

I noticed that in 2024, when Bernie was pushing the wealth tax, billionaires funneled a lot of money toward Trump. “Worst nightmares” is a double edged sword…

It’s not the money, it’s control of their companies. To pay the tax they have to sell stock which reduces control. They, rightly I think, also believe it’s a one time tax until the next time the tax gets passed. Maybe this a good thing but it should also be addressed by those pushing the wealth tax…