Those are way higher numbers than I would expect for any county.

I’m not just shitting on US, just in general I think those are high numbers of opinionated people - the methodology prob excludes or doesn’t offer neural views, just a positive or negative look … as two options total, not as a range of how much one views a country positively or negatively. For example, a country that a lot of people see barely favourably would still score high?

If my math is correct - those sick bikers are just carbo-loading & farting so much they don’t even use pedals.

(It’s the only way it would make sense.)

Yes, this - afaik for it to be undoubtedly Bastet for like religious purposes it needed to be not a normal animal (so sigils, items, un-animal acts), but normal cats would still held symbolism bcs of Bastet.

Lmao, the dude is looking at some tits.

The dudess has a nice Viking axe tho.

Oh, no, no - that’s not what I meant at all!

Not literally any complaining (actual free speech & law protections apply), with the article as context - these are professionals acting from/on behalf of the company amplified by the money & media relations that company has (& possible political party relations).

So if I use my corp assets & relations to push out “well” precisely written points about how strikes are bad that is not at all comparable to a random person just being a bit frustrated & bitch about it. It’s deliberate, amplified, and solely for profit. And it leads to shit like when in developed countries govs/parlaments/presidents literally outlaw strikes (eg per sector even when it’s uncalled for), and the public doesn’t care.

Yes, true.
And in return held in higher regard even by average workers (perhaps not in that one specific company tho).

Yes, but ads work on all our brains & most of the time the public opinions form in regards to articles such at these (ie anti-strike without knowing the reasons, and in turn in support to political parties holding such views).

… (even heavily alerted) school textbooks would have you think they had a whole civil war about this exact issue.

Our attitude should be that anyone complaining about strikes should be immediately excluded from society, unable to get rewarded or get a new fancy job & forced to start the career over.

Basically what we (apparently) do to people protesting against funding genocides & climate change we should be doing to people oppressing workers bcs they want profits to be higher.

Just deal with the strike, make it work without a stick or accept your business isn’t viable (or at least not with you in it).

The crackdown on activists (especially oil & Israel) in EU and UK scared me too. I just didn’t really think it possible without a huge backslash, and certainly not this easy (very little to none political debate - everyone is acting like this is the most logical if gov actions).

The reboot we deserve.

It’s the style how all news in this era (the late you are not gonna believe this period) is written.
Don’t worry, it ends abruptly when the journalist are banned and AIs takes over fully with everyone using their mandatory personal AI to tl;dr the articles (this is during the early years of the enshitification maxima).
It gets intellectually much better after that when the stone-tablet tech gets back into regular use.

Crack open a cold rock with the Mars robots.

And if you can - they’ll make sure they own your uploaded ass & are gonna make you solve AI prompts all day.

I know it’s a popular saying, but idk if it cancels shit out.
Like, try taking about dead Nazis & how good they are - feels weird bcs of all the bad shit they did.

So no, perhaps just no good Nazis.

It’s hard to tell bcs there are many options (again, like for interment & smartphones this wasn’t the only form of dependency - just what worked the best for the giants to solidify their positions, some didn’t name it, and foss lagged in market share).

Also disruptions and monopolies arent about offering something new/more/better, their aim is to get the market share to control the demand too (eg Uber was never to be profitable at first as a market competitor, they dumped capital & underplayed workforce until the taxi companies went out of business then started charging more & paying less bcs monopoly that they essentially bought - that was the plan, no investor dumps money in a company that isn’t & won’t be making money for a decade, the calculation was future profits).

Random about how AI can become mandatory: maybe a lot or communication platforms could requires AI to function (like Google services require ads). So no AI sub, no access to your chat platform of choice (unless ofc foss, like Signal, Matrix, etc).
A stupid example (at least at the moment) but megacorp apps & OSs (Android/Windows) could for example stop providing simple search (Ctrl+F) options overall unless you have AI bcs “their search is AI powered and they refuse to provide you a less then the best experience” … so now you have to manually search for a simple key word or pay AI monthly sub (+sell your data & thoughts).
This works bcs most people won’t look for alternatives or go open source.

Or maybe services from other companies (AI) will demand to speak to your AI for a simple sign up (no longer email & password and/or mfa).

Maybe there will be AI ring fenced gardens where you will need different subscriptions for services (companies) that only work with one but not the other.

Or again with the smartphones - the big manufactures (+Google) will tie functions with AI subscriptions (eg camera app, settings, desktop customisation, etc.).

We haven’t yet seen any mass monetisation, how the payment models would work, how many tiers, how high the prices, etc - but how high the prices can be is determined by how much of necessity it is. And since market entry barriers are high, and megacorps already have their gardens, they will absolutely work on how to shape the environment to make (their) AI a basic necessity.
(It’s what shareholders demand, it’s what all this money now is for - the investments are so high & the race so fierce that it doesn’t make sense unless they can squeeze their users later.)

(in a fight, right?)

Idk, umbrella asked me that, I thought it was oblivious too.

Why not fight boot-licking now?

That’s why I’m super pro-foss & anti-megacorp.

I wouldn’t blame Belle if she was disappointed and called it off.

Tales can be cruel:

And people underestimate big dommy furries: