You can instantly stop yourself from hiccuping.

Pretty sure fascist already broke off the UK. While I will agree the US is ahead, it is everywhere already.

This is a worldwide problem unfortunately.

If you have conservative reps you could try calling and writing their office and demand they compromise on health care. With enough pressure they will cave.

If you have progressive reps call and congratulate them and tell them not to stop until the conservatives start participating in governance

Many of your later questions would rely on too much conjecture to answer. The simple truth is this unprecedented and we don’t know what is going to happen.

I share many of your concerns as many people here do.

Yes, it is over. The selection is shit, they pull shows that they have the rights to to manipulate people into watching what they want. The value of services like Netflix being a one stop shop for content are long gone. Enshitification in the name of control has reared its ugly head and the value is gone.

Probably was sealed in a hot water bath instead of using a pressure cooker.

Stop othering people.

Because they are assholes losers that care more about winning than the disgusting things they have to do to win.

There is no honor or decorum left in politics, just naked greed and the concentration of power. Our politicians are the result of the corrupt environment they live in.

Until we seriously start removing money from politics we will be stuck in a ever increasing enshitification feedback loop where the only people who are represented are the wealthy.

Right to repair is not about demanding unlimited software support it is saying we want access to the API so we can do our own support if we choose to.

It is about designing products that can be repairable and providing the means to do so. Regulations will be required to do this because a big part relies on standardization of parts.

This is because we can’t expect manufacturers to continuously supply parts. That is unrealistic. On the other hand, if you require standardized parts then it becomes repairable without the burden on the manufacturer.

I see your point. I would like to add that you probably can’t ever have fast or cheap without negative externalities. I think this is the missing part of the equation that perverts these systems and produces the garbage results we have to deal with like ewaste.

Unregulated capitalism seems to thrive by externalizing as many costs as possible. So we end up with a systems that ignores the environmental and social costs.

No, this requires regulations to prevent massive amounts of Ewaste. Consumers can’t change this behavior.

Like right to repair or privacy. We need real regulations. Corporations are too big and powerful and even something like choice has been turned into choosing which shitty corp you want to buy from.

There need to be strong regulations to prevent this sort of Ewaste. As long as companies can get away with this they will.

And no, voting with your pocket book isn’t going to change their behavior.

This is a well reasoned response. For sure the problem is just exacerbated by AI. The real problem is Intellectual Property in the first place.

There is no theft period. There is perhaps copyright infringement for commercial entities. This is a civil legal matter and has almost no bearing on anything you are discussing.

You must also consider all art is iterative. This means all art is based off art that came before it. You cannot create art in a vacuum and every artist borrows heavily from our culture

We are not here to judge what is or isn’t art either. This is a treacherous road where people can deny art like a collage because it doesn’t fit their definition of art. Everyone is actually an artist by definition unless they have literally never spoken, written, sang, or drawn.

There is definitely a worthy discussion around AI art. Right now we don’t really have AI so it is not really creating anything. It is more of fill in the blank taking the best guesses based on prior work.

I believe, as other posters have stated, that Intellectual Property is actually anti-art, anti-science, and anti-technology. The problems we face with AI pale in comparison to a broken system beset by capitalists hell bent on controlling our culture and extracting as much money as they can through doing so.

The current political climate is really stupid making people unsure about what to do.

FTFY

Translation: People pay us to push propaganda that hurts people. The government told us to stop and that hurts our pocketbook!

Medical misinformation is not political speech. Fuck everyone who made it this way.

Looks like we just found our new head of marketing boys! Tells us more about ads in people’s sleep.

A lot of people decided to create a parasocial relationship with him posthumously. It is pretty fake to be honest. The fact they want to punish others for supposedly one person’s actions is beyond fucked up.

So much projection in that monologue. They are coming for us! So transparently stupid.

He was most recently in Japan meeting with their far-right movement. Apparently they had big plans for this loser like next President big plans. This is why they pretend to be so upset.

Corruption with a capital C.