A photo of Marc Andreessen, billionaire Project 2025 architect, known on Epstein Island as "The Human Buttplug"
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If I ask you to body shame, is it not cruel to do so?
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And then a couple thousand years from now we have the butlerian jihad, thanks.
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Lelelele
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*cone heads
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Ok, that is a good point, I can absolutely see that I may be wrong to call is fascist, but it is definitely authoritarian, where the coders decide the rules and the program enforces them, I can see that applying a left/right political bias can be wrong.
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Damn, I just replied with the same picture, scrolled down, saw yours, scrolled up and deleted my reply.
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Code is a language that can describe all sorts of systems, some of those systems have rigid hierarchies and some of those systems are distributed.
Software development teams also tend to work in collaborative ways, as much as Agile and Scrum development practices are bastardized in many large companies the core philosophies are very worker-empowering.
In the cases where companies use "waterfall" or misuse Agile the culprit seems to be managerial interference or very rigid and important requirements (e.g. a plane software system that must not fail)
I see your point, but per the above I would say it's not universal and I would also counter that software architects have very open-ended solutions to choose from and are used to thinking about a system as a whole, which in my case at least leads me to questioning how our political and social systems can change for the better.
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I totally get it. I just feel for the normal everyday person who has an unusual head shape that they are self conscious about being hurt by this instead of the asshole billionaire who deserves it. It's like making fun of him for being fat or short.. Innocent people catch the strays. I stand against body shaming. But I feel you.
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Head like an egg, head like an egg, his head is shaped like an egg
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This is the reality. Not these pseudo-psych takes. Learning to program made me more socialist, as I realised the entire internet, and success of modern computing and information systems, was mostly the result of FOSS (socialist) software. Walled gardens and proprietary software are now the bane of my existence.
If you look deeper into every tech billionaire/oligarch, most of them were already born into the richest 1%; all born on 3rd base and believing they hit a home run.
I am now nearly certain that extreme wealth and power create the mental illness of narcissism (or at least surfaces/activates these tendencies, suppresses empathy, etc). Add in the fact that capitalism actively rewards narcissistic and criminal actions, and you end up with nothing but criminally corrupt narcissists.
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Well said
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"coup coup ca choo"
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Maybe we can knock him off of some walls.
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This can be - and has been - generalized to all industrualization.
Tolkien wrote Isengard the way he did for a reason.
The history of Brutalist architecture is closely associated with fascism as it promotes societal ideals of a neatly segmented and ordered life.
Henry Ford. Just, Henry Ford.
Elon's technocratic nazi grandfather.
I would also like to remind everyone that fascism is simultaneously extremely dangerous but doomed to fail. That obsession for finding rigid rules where there aren't any, of constraining the real world to simplified models, makes fascists eventually lose touch with reality because they can't account for the messiness and human factor. At first they destroy everything they touch, kill anyone that doesn't fit the model. They then make fatal, obviously irrational mistakes like opening an Eastern front in Europe before tidying up the Western one because the Ideology says Bolsheviks are weak. Attacking the US in Hawaii. Not installing Lidar in supposedly self-driving cars. Invading Ukraine with an incompetent army and cardboard supplies against a dug-in western-supplied army.
It's not particularly helpful to the tens of millions killed by fascism yet, but at least we can rest assured that the fascist technosolutionists will lose and that plants will grow out of their corpse.
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Let's say he's an alien and attack him to save our species.
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If ben carson could read he would downvote this comment
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You want to know what makes Elon so great? He can buy things.
He bought Tesla, he didn't invent electric cars.
You and me can buy stock in companies like Tesla too. But we can't buy a 50% stake.
He is also willing to take risks. But it is so much easier to take a 1 million dollar risk on a few start ups if you have 250 million.
These techbros may very well be competent at some things but their number one qualification is their immense wealth.
