Firing a lot people, hiring (less) people for AI instead.

Yes, exactly. I lived in a collapsing society as a child and mostly life goes on, it just gets harder and there are less luxuries.

Er tritt halt leider gegen einen noch älteren Biden an, der seine Erfolge nicht gut verkauft und mit dem Gaza-Krieg viele Wählerschichten vergrault. Vom massiven digitalen Propaganda-Apparat Putins mal ganz abgesehen, der alles daran setzen wird, dass sein Kandidat gewinnt (denn dann kann die Ukraine leider einpacken).

Wahnsinn, dass er trotzdem noch eine gute Chance hat gewählt zu werden. Aber hat ja auch mindestens zwei Frauen vergewaltigt (eine davon minderjährig) und das interessiert seine Kult-Anhänger ja auch nicht. Das Einzige, was vielleicht einen Ausschlag gibt, ist das er damit als “Loser” dasteht.

It doesn’t work like that. It will soon if Disney has their way, with actors selling away their likeness rights for perpetuity with their contracts.

Yes, because that’s what happens when a narcissist has way too much money. A person capable of self-reflection would realize that it’s much easier and safer to trust people around you that know more about their respective areas of expertise. That’s what good leaders do, they delegate. Musk is incapable of that. The companies he owns are not yet bankrupt despite, not because, of him.

Welcome to the mind of a narcissist.

That’s actually not a bad analogy. Politicians are rarely versed in topics they talk about and instead are just reiterating stuff experts told them. That’s why lobbyism works as well as it does.

Die Würze muss fließen!

Wusste gar nicht, dass Smeagol in der AFD ist.

15 percent for banner ads is actually pretty good.

Even worse, only to appease shareholders that are only after short term gains and might even bet on the company failing.

WarnerBrosDiscovery is in massive debt (40 billion) to AT&T, which is itself in even more debt (138 billion). They are trying to make as much money liquid as quickly as they can to pay off the debt, long term profitability be damned. I wouldn’t be surprised if WBD is bought by an ever bigger player in a few years (Apple, Sony, Disney or Microsoft).

I know the second is the groundbreaking one, but I always had a soft spot for this one.

The problem I have with the concept of a conscious soul that survives my death is the question what version of me survives. If it’s the version I was when I died, the younger versions of me still stay dead. If it’s an ideal younger version of me, the older version still died. In fact, the soul would always only be a part of me since it lacks the biochemical processes of the body. So it would be another entity possessing my memories but it wouldn’t be me, I’d still be dead.

Yeah, Socialist East Germany had a lot going against it (the whole restrictive surveillance state thing) but it was a lot more sex-positive than the West.

Ein Krieg mit ganz Europa wäre ein Krieg mit der NATO und kann nur in atomarer Zerstörung enden. Das kann keiner der Beteiligten wollen, nicht einmal der Menschenschlächter Putin.

Only a question of time. Ads are already digitally inserted into movies and shows.

Manche Beamte sind halt gleicher.

Also, the future of Elysium (also Bloomkamp) looks more and more likely, with the 1 percent fucking off to a luxury space station in orbit and the rest of humanity living in poverty on the destroyed Earth.