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E_Snap t1_iueyyds wrote

Or you hold them to the agreements that they made when the US government gave them billions on the condition that they run fiber. You do know that not letting corporations run rough-shod over the country is an option, right? Anything involving changing public policy or other large scale changes should involve moving in that direction, not just throwing our hands up and saying “I guess we have to make incentives for capitalists to not be fuckheads!”

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E_Snap t1_iubc2oa wrote

JFC, can people write a single article about artificial intelligence or robotics without stopping to reassure humans that they’re still magical and exceptional snowflakes? People have repeatedly tried to say “machines could never do x” since the first machine was invented, and they have been proven wrong every single time. Why commit to being on the Luddite side of history?

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E_Snap t1_itu0rql wrote

Yeah, people seem to forget the fact that money and power are thicker than blood. No matter what somebody’s ethnic background or gender is, the moment they ascend beyond reasonable means, all of that stops meaning anything compared to the fact that they are now rich and you are not. Do we really need more minority and female CEOs in this world or do we just need fewer CEOs altogether?

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E_Snap t1_isnqxu9 wrote

You stop intentionally extracting salt from other sources and use the salt that you get from this process instead. Convert sea salt farms to use wastewater from these. Use it as a chemical feedstock if eating it gives folks the willies.

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