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[–] 93 points 2 years ago

A bullet to the head of billionaires will also ensure that they will be on their best behavior.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Exactly. The problem isn't one of theory, but of execution. This is the fundamental problem of books like 1984, with the creation the meme of "Freedom is Slavery", or people who misquote Benjamin Franklin.

    We in the U S. already give up essential freedoms as part of the state apparatus, if the state cannot provide us with reliable security in exchange for those freedoms, then we do not owe anything to that state. The saddest part is that, in the past, these were essentials of the most basic theories of liberal government. It is unsurprising though, given the conservative state liberalism has retreated to. Now, there is only one protected class whose freedom or security matters, and the rest of us can essentially go fuck ourselves, with neither freedom nor security. Basically feudalism without God.

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    Lemmy users say a vast citizen-powered guillotine system can ensure ‘billionaires will be on their best behavior’

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Do we have any FOSS designs for a guillotine?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sadly there currently only appears to be purchasable closed source blueprints, or fairly vague historical instructions.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    So much for “land of the free”.

    This will probably be embraced by the same people who disobeyed covid lockdowns because “muh freedumz!”

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Minority Report: "This bad actually and leads to problems."

    Larry watching Minority Report: "What the fuck this is awesome"

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    I sincerely want this guy to be at the bottom of the ocean

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The guy who helped a government develop a database system is in favour of the government developing data gathering systems? Well, I never...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    A shit-ass database system that treats empty strings as null values, and doesn't do automatic casting between ISO date-formatted strings and date/datetime types, yet costs a fuckton to license. Even if he weren't a multibillionaire piece of shit, that fucking prick still deserves the guillotine just for OracleDB's unholy existence; that software wasn't released: it escaped.

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    :Ahem: 📣LEARN TO HACK. LEARN TO QUADCOPTER/DRONE.📣

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    The Deserter: The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world... (he's silent for a second) You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know.

    You: What?

    The Deserter: That you should not make the mistake of mistake of anthropomorphizing the bourgeoisie

    the-deserter

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Surveillance that billionaires themselves will not be subject to, I'm sure.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Oh wow! Wouldn't you know all the systems stopped working specifically in the general area at coincidentally the exact same time this rich boi was doing something naughty. Geee I guess itxs all hearsay and inadmissible now. Shucks. That's too bad. Case closed.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was watching 90 day fiance the other way and one of the persons wife is in China. When they were driving around he would see a "flashing light" and freak out. It got to the point where they had a fight over it, she was like "I donno maybe the apartment camera or something" and he'd make her drive around to catch it again. On stormfront, people were saying it's probably China watching them and other propaganda bs.

    Now I know in the US, there's hella cameras in public places plus we're encouraged to surveil on our own with ring cameras and the like. So what's so scary about a camera flash? It's scary when it's tied to the evil seeseepee but we'll gladly sign our own privacy away for any private company that contracts with the state anyway

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    yeonmi-park In capitalist America their oligarchs use AI cameras to micromanage all their citizens and punish them publicly in real time.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Cyberpunk styles are going to involve makeup that puts extra eyes and facial features to confuse AI face trackers or even just going outside with billionaire face masks on

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Let's put it in Larry's house first for beta testing

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    Dude looks like Bert Kreischer and Brendan Schaub did a fusion dance to create the perfect dickhead

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    He lives in a different universe than the citizens. Why does he give a shit what kind of behavior they're on?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It's incomprehensible to us because we lack the Billionaire Mindset: a severe degree of narcissism that compels them to control everyone and everything at the costs of cheapened human lives and the moral bankruptcy of their own souls.

    Basically because he's a vampiric husk man.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Every accusation is projection

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    we already fuckin have that the only waffling you could do is by arguing about the definition of “ai”

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