man talking sense right here

i think i’m going to stick with my regular brush.

geee

damn.

but why one needs a smart toothbrush that requires an account in the first place? does it have a loudspeaker so you can listen to some Cannibal Corpse on Qobuz while brushing your teeth?

well, it’s a bit more complicated than that but yeah

or you can’t travel because of martial law

there’s massive difference in scale though that brings in a lot of variables that would require a full lock-in before implementation. Given how globalised and interdependent modern economies are - there are too many unpredictable factors outside of governmental control that can whiplash onto national economy and wreck the plans even more than usual. And that might render any UBI-type system a huge burden that would get targeted by folks from IMF making “valuable” “suggestions”.

exactly. If elections ain’t doing the trick, Somalia is doing all of the tricks

I mean Somalia is right there, mate

it’s not like governments are trying to get there when it’s not an election season though

except the national economies aren’t organized in a way to enable any form of UBI.

and yet tech bros scrape it for model training and content research. i used to like AskPhilosophy and the likes back when it wasn’t wackjob agora for clinically insane (a decade ago in not more?) but seeing that shit getting mined is baffling because it is basically a deliberate data contamination.

Reddit should crack down on human users instead! Let Reddit be AI Bot Exclusive space!

following this logic - they must be Windows.

iOS users are eloi

That’s some rice field level bullshit

except for Steve Hoffman forum. It’s a colloquy

probably depends on how people use in different regions. down here it is mostly a news aggregator or thematic dumpster type of thing - so kinda like reddit. i had to look up when was the last time anyone wrote DMs to me in Telegram and it’s been a little over 4 years. Viber is the go-to messenger down here, followed by WhatsApp and Signal and it is always a headache to figure out who is using what and when someone uses a couple of those it is a bitch to find anything across multiple chats.

well, duh. it is also deeply annoying to navigate. It is like even shittier and less engaging reddit