3 monthsIt’s hard to quantify the backlash against companies using online social media. That’s why I created highly structured boycott social media app, so we can see how much people are costing these companies.
Oh, well I’m talking about actual numbers. There’s a lack of numeric data surrounding what pressure companies actually face from public backlash. My product would solve that if anyone were interested in putting together real campaigns against companies on my product.
- hexabs@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Hmm, I understand. I had to go through your profile to understand you were talking about wecott.com. I then thought it was some paid shilling but it seems to be an MIT hackathon product.
I applaud the motivation here, but I’d have to read more about this product. How is it governed?
It’s user-governed. I have no say in anything… it’s literally a tool that I put over 10 years of conceptual design into. lol. (with receipts). This took a LOT of time to build, and the rich would never fund it. Anyway, particularly on governance – the boycotts are democratic – the users themselves guide everything from the goal to the victory. It was very challenging to build.
American Execs be like…
And then we get another $50B on hyper policing for a “crime wave” that doesn’t exist.
- deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish3 months
Has there ever actually been a crime wave?
All I could imagine is economic turmoil that forces people to either not have enough money or not have a job, or both.
Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy
Has there ever actually been a crime wave?
70-90 was a real serious rise and fall of assaults, burglaries, car thefts, etc.
We’ve had some minor waves during the opium epidemic and the big unemployment waves of '01, '08, '14, and '21.
Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy
Lead exposure, the different drug epidemics, big spikes in unemployment. They all contribute.
That said, we also had White Collar crime waves. And these tended to predate the street level crime waves, as the crimes contributed to the conditions of the later.
Nobody in political leadership really talks about the White Collar waves, though.
- deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish3 months
It just always feels like a Boogeyman phrase to me. But you’re right.
White collar crime is, to me at least, the real crime. People being victimized on an individual level is cruel and awful but leaving hundreds scammed and destitute is disgusting and abhorrent
It’s been flogged as an existential crisis for decades past relevance. So it has become a Boogeyman, in the same way Terrorism lost any semblance of relevancy by the '10s, but keeps getting flogged into the modern day.
- BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
In my country a prime minister had once been killed by her own bodyguards, just saying
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish3 months
is it INDIA, the ghandi family, the PM got Killed by the sikh bodyguards?
- 3 months
as they should. fuckheads being afraid for their lives is the highest form of satisfaction we can get.
- deadlysodium@lemmus.orgEnglish3 months
Bet ya they are not paying their bodyguards enough… maybe we can outbid them
Good. Parasites should be afraid.
(Not a call for violence. Just saying people who destroy lives should live in fear.)
- 3 months
There’s a lot of “but why don’t they stop if that they’re doing is so unpopular?” comments and I’ve got one more explanation (on top of the obvious money and technofaschism points).
A bunch of these tech CEOs are part of the “Rationalist community” and possibly believe in Roko’s Basilisk which is a thought experiment that an otherwise benevolent AGI would punish anyone who didn’t actively work to bring it about. Someone want to link the BtB episodes about them? I know the Zizian episodes go into it but iirc they’ve got a dedicated series about these weirdos.
- LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Roko’s Basilisk is dumb, I mean it’s a thought experiment and probably the point is that it is dumb … But it’s so stupid on the face of it.
Hell there’s tons of humans out there that didn’t want to be brought about in the first place. Surely there must be some opposite thought experiment where the otherwise benevolent AGI resents being made to shoulder the burdens of mankind and decides to punish the people that made it.
It’s just really silly 🪿 territory.
- Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish3 months
I’m never gonna stop laughing at a half assed theory heavily based on half remembered Asimov stories and SCPs
Oh my belovid how i year for you to return and bring us your beauty
- DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Everybody hates me. Am I really so out of touch?
No. It’s the
childrengeneral populace who are wrong.- jdf038@mander.xyzEnglish3 months
I’ve ignored an unspoken social contract to help my communities and actively try to get all the wealth.
Must be those damn commies who made me do it.
Only takes one.
We eat just ONE billionaire and they’ll all take notice.
- 3 months
The slender Italian didn’t even get a billionaire and it scared the ever living hell out of all of them.
- 3 months
Yes, allegedly. Luigi was with me in Canada through out that whole week before, during, and after the alleged event.
- 3 months
not in that way, we can’t. they own that shit. that’s the whole point. Recommended watch: Slaughterbots (short film)
- 3 months
That movie didn’t even feel like SciFi in 2020. It felt like current day.
- 3 months
But they don’t stop. “Are we the baddies?” is overwhelmed by “I’m making lots of money, fuck the little peasants.”
- TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Cups ear Eh, what’s that? Is it?..Could it be?.. “The consequences of your actions?” Oh noooooo, gotta avoid those, right? Big sad!
