Post #3249040

2026-05-29 16:48 UTC

@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @keydelk@fosstodon.org @joachim@boitam.eu Now you just sound like an amalgamation of a centrist and a Republican. "Both sides are the same". ""That's what the enemy wants you to believe". I'm assuming it never occurred to you that people have actively used these systems and are pointing out extremely obvious issues that are getting worse after every update? The costs are enormous, the companies running it have no solutions except to build bigger data centers and consume even more water and electricity with no solid goals on what progress even looks like. And don't tell me "oh, the Russians or the Chinese will beat us at this!" They can't even get indoor plumbing to their rural populace, they don't give a solitary shit as to what sacrifices their population will have to pay. And for what? A barely working system that is guaranteed to make mistakes that will be more difficult to correct than if they were never used at all?

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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-05-29 17:20

@jhooper@techhub.social @keydelk@fosstodon.org @joachim@boitam.eu Lets start with I am not a winger in any sense. I regard them as binary failures to ramrod 19th century social policies into not-solving 21st century problems. I made that very clear in my bioblurb. You aren't identical in outlook or culture or character. But you do share many qualities you might find uncomfortably in common. You share problems with bandwagons mythologies. A tendency for ideological zealotry. A bad habit of trying to recast moderates as enemies.

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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-05-29 17:30

@jhooper@techhub.social @keydelk@fosstodon.org @joachim@boitam.eu Next. I have considered the technology carefully and explored it considerably. I regard it as immature, at best. There is a mania fueled by the last century of science fiction that has drastically overvalued its stock value & expectations. Not to say it's lacking use. I think it'll show great promise with some iterative reprioritization, especially for neurodivergent peoples. However it's now become the largest bubble in world history. AI and crypto have now

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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-05-29 17:38

@jhooper@techhub.social @keydelk@fosstodon.org @joachim@boitam.eu absorbed an inordinate share of world GDP investment. Not just the usual suspects either. Old money has gone all in on both, so when one inevitably tanks it'll pop the other. Taking an astronomical collective sum down a fiscal black hole triggering a world recession lasting decades. Paired with the high probability of WW III in the next 18 months it'll reorganize the geopolitical world. These are the last days of a golden age. Go try to enjoy them while you can.

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