Google: “You wanted words? Here are some words!”

Should still be somewhere. Maybe in the carpet or the sofa…

“Aww, surely he didn’t mean it exactly like he said it. We must give him the benefit of the doubt since he is a rich and respectable person who wouldn’t say something like that.”

“No, please. Do not give me the benefit of the doubt. I mean it - I WILL literally kill you if I get elected again.”

“That could mean anything, surely he wouldn’t imply that he would kill us if he got elected. He must have misspoken or meant something else.”

I think you just answered the question why monopolists are working so hard at preventing that.

Trebuchets.

But it’s not a problem for boomers who like having all the stuff and not sharing, so why change it?

What do you mean by “other people”?

but creating a training database for your commercial product is distinctly different from research

Oh, but they are researching how to massively profit off stuff they steal from other people, so it counts again.

Not even remotely. That is just the production method of copious cheap labour. Just make them multiply uncontrolled by instilling a dislike of anything in the way of birth control, make them docile and exploitable by telling them that unions are evil and corporations are the best there is and their friends and make them unaware of better systems by limiting their education to how great their own country is (and absolutely nothing else).

That caste is then not who gets to run things. That burden lies upon the rich ones who actually enjoy private education and have all the money they don’t have to spend on fair wages etc.

That’s not the “gotcha” it should be. If anything results in future generations becoming ignorant, gullible and uncritically docile towards authorities, that’s just the system working as intended.

What’s not to get? You convince the more gullible to put money into it, when enough people have fallen for it, you grab and run. Really nothing new.

X, the platform formerly known as twitter, is now dealing in sour grapes.

You didn’t tell me ahead that I wasn’t supposed to murder anybody, so this one’s free…

Pay more. Be good little consumer drones. Not be so selfish when a corporation thinks they should have all your money instead of you.

• cheque fraud 101

I even deliberately put in that oxford comma for once in my life, just to prevent this very “misunderstanding” :)

Two factions: those who hate it, and those who are wrong.

Almost as if the new priority were then profits instead of adequate patient care… Almost…

^Need volunteers.

Well now that there are no good moderation tools left, they can finally embrace all the scammy bots.

this is my surprised pikachu face. exclamation mark.