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We don’t need citizens to be on their best behavior, we need millionaires and billionaires to be on their best behavior.
This is their best behaviour.
Actually there are good millionaires & billionaires (I’m being serious)
It’s just that, they’re no longer Millionaires & Billionaires anymore (Or Alive)
Lets use it only on citizens who are billionaires to make sure they remain on their best behavior.
Larry Ellison is one of the biggest pieces of shit and Oracle can go fuck themselves.
This guy needs more luigi in his life
A symptom of believing they are better than others.
WAH-hoo!
Who’s watching the billionaires?
The Smash Brothers.
Usual a few hundred who blow the whistle after the billionaire is dead.
They’ve heard what happens to formerly-live whistle blowers.
And by “citizens” you mean slaves.
On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet – [Big Brother was] everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed – no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
– George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-FourAnd even those few cubic centimeters will only be yours as long as we don’t have the tech yet to access that. Once that tech is available, it’s an inevitability that that too will be theirs
By all accounts, Larry is a piece of shit.
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.
— Brian Cantrill
Lawnmowers can be a piece of shit too.
Lawnmowers have the bitchiest machine spirits.
True
Oh yeah, I consider him to be the worst billionaire of em all, even “trumping” that muskrat…
Oracle, the official company of “Look, we’re developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you’ve activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha”
I thought it was Oracle, the company of “our products are designed for one purpose alone: to tick boxes on RFPs.”
I mean yeah but that’s far less sinister than all their licensing horseplay
That’s a real nice day to describe what is basically fraud
Larry Ellison says that North Korea and China are great countries to live in
You first, and then we’ll lock the door behind you, you mother fucker
Pardon my French, but these scum of the earth should rot in hell as far as I am concerned. They are a literal cancer for this world
Not only parasites, but they want to decide everything too.
‘citizens will be on their best behavior’
Compliant. He means compliant.
He’s afraid of the masses.
I wonder why
Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight Car.
Желание, Ржавый, Семнадцать, Рассвет, Печь, Девять, Добросердечный, Возвращение на родину, Один, Товарный вагон.
Edit: I’m Finnish, not russian, lol. Fuck 'em. I just thought we’d do it correctly if we’re going to go that way.
Google translate got me the below but I would not know how accurate this is.
Тоска. Ржавый. Семнадцать. Рассвет. Печь. Девять. Доброжелательный. Возвращение домой. Один. Грузовой вагон.
Toska. Rzhavyy. Semnadtsat’. Rassvet. Pech’. Devyat’. Dobrozhelatel’nyy. Vozvrashcheniye domoy. Odin. Gruzovoy vagon.
Sure, it could, but should it? No of course not, a safe “utopian” society through force is dystopian and still unsafe (just now the danger is sanctioned, don’t run afoul of Lord AI) in reality.
I’ll take the possibility of getting shot by some dickhead over AI overlords watching my every move any day of the week.
Leave it to the associopathic billionaires to take a look at 1984 and decide to use it as an instruction book.
There’s a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.
Right, because billionaires will just fall over and concede - they won’t have their government lapdogs impose draconian security and lockdown mentality on our whole society. Yes indeed, the action movie fantasy that makes you feel badass is a sure-fire winner.
they won’t have their government lapdogs impose draconian security and lockdown mentality on our whole society
That’s literally what this guy is trying to do right now.
Yes it was sarcasm, although I’m not sure who you mean by “this guy”.
It won’t matter past a certain point what kind of tech they employ.
That’s the spirit! Badassedness uber alles!
Right, because billionaires will just fall over and concede
Zombies aren’t real.
