Spyke
lemm.ee

Hypothetically, if Larry was eaten, would other billionaires be on their best behavior and stop positing fascist control mechanisms?

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lemmy.world

You go right ahead. I'm not eating any of those assholes. They're only held together by hatred and bitterness. I'd assume the taste would be influenced by that.

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lemmy.world

But we still don't have to eat the fuckers. Just feed them to the swine, or something.

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lemmy.world

Nope. All their egos wouldn't allow them to believe that anybody would ever do anything to THEM.

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Well then why has Elon been wearing his son like body armor all of the sudden since the United Healthcare asshole got got?

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Actually there are good millionaires & billionaires (I'm being serious)

It's just that, they're no longer Millionaires & Billionaires anymore (Or Alive)

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leminal.space

Dude looks like he's one line of coke away from a heart attack...

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lemmy.world

Yeah, and a simple wooden construction with a movable metal blade keeps billionaires on their best behaviour. Or at least it did in the 18th century.

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Very true! CEOs of insurance companies that indiscriminately murder and torture people are rarely billionaires, but they definitely can be used on them as well!

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tempestreply
lemmy.ca

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

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boonhetreply
lemm.ee

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"

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Madrigalreply
lemmy.world

I thought it was Oracle, the company of “our products are designed for one purpose alone: to tick boxes on RFPs.”

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boonhetreply
lemm.ee

I mean yeah but that's far less sinister than all their licensing horseplay

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feddit.nl

This man is dangerous and needs to go away immediately.

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After 9/11/01, he said, "You have no privacy anyway. Get over it. We should have a national ID card database." (paraphrased, but that was the gist)

I'm not disputing that he's dangerous, but I'm pretty sure his comments are mostly driven by wanting to sell Oracle licenses. Which somehow makes it worse.

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Sho
lemmy.world

But...we got video evidence of someone already having murdered a ceo. It didn't seem to stop the ceo from getting shot tho, remarkable. 🤔

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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-Four

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And 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

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I used to think I was heading toward abject poverty as our bs systems were going into more bs but now Im getting more hopeful. Maybe I will be dead or in prison.

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Free food/shelter or won't need food/shelter, whatever floats your boat champ

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Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

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lemmy.world

'citizens will be on their best behavior'

Compliant. He means compliant.

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stringerereply
sh.itjust.works

Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight Car.

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andzreply
lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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lemmy.world

Somebody read or watched 1984 and thought that's a wonderful idea. Or is he just trying to cozy up to the Chinese government? Or the drugs long term effects are kicking in? Who knows.

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These people are fundamentally narcissistic and think they personally know not only how the world works, but also how it ought to work. You can see the somewhat innocent version of that in Apple's "you're holding it wrong" fiasco.

That kind of arrogance is kind of normal if you're a very intelligent teenager, since most of the people around you are indeed less intelligent than you, but most people get their reality check pretty soon and grow up. Business ghouls like Larry, however, never got their reality check. They managed to become successful early in life and still operate under that childish mindset.

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That dude was never on his best behavior. And now he wants to punish anyone that is going to out live him.

it is an attitude that happens to many rich old people; how dare you live past them and enjoy it.

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what he really means is that "me and my buddies are fucking everyone else and we are afraid that there will be retaliation so we need mass surveillance"

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lemmy.world

There's a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.

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lemmy.world

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.

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lemmy.ca

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.

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lemmy.ca

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

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lemm.ee

Larry I am sure you will be on your best behavior as well.

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including YOU and other leeches?!

ya. didn't think so.

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He's one of the owners of X, he and like 20 other people invested with Musk

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Yep, the more money/power/influence you have the more you deserve to be scrutinized and the more public your life should be. Once you hit $1B you shouldn't be allowed to scratch your ass or pick at a nail without it being noted on your public record.

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Larry and his ultra-rich megawank friends can all go first and show us the way

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lemmy.today

5th of December?

I'm aware of the 5th of November and the 4th of December...

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Can't forget the third of September! That's a day I'll always remember, yes I will, 'cause that was the day my daddy died.

Come to think of it, do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changin' the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away.

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Funny thing about "best behavior" is that it's defined by whoever is in charge of the venue you're in, whether it's society ingeneral or a social media community. Somebody always dictates what's okay or not okay to say.

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Lets use it only on citizens who are billionaires to make sure they remain on their best behavior.

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Usual a few hundred who blow the whistle after the billionaire is dead.

They've heard what happens to formerly-live whistle blowers.

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you hear a sudden beep in your ears

"Sir you've not been smiling. We really want citizens to be smiling!"

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Leave it to the associopathic billionaires to take a look at 1984 and decide to use it as an instruction book.

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I heard a guy tell a story about a vast AI-fueled cluster of bombs strapped to Larry's head set to trigger if he says objectively inhumane, anti-democratic shit can ensure Larry stays a lot quieter.

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Well, if you own a world inhabited by a few billion people, you want to make sure they’re optimally generating value for you and not bringing down the value of your holdings.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Give the entirety of Lana'i to the Native Hawaiians via Hawaiian Home Lands and boot Larry Ellison out into the sea on a raft or something.

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lemm.ee

Queue countdown before this guy's skeletons come out...

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lemmy.world

Have you seen the documentary about him? Some of them are already on display.

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Come on.....don't be so dramatic.

.........we never got to see Brian Thompson's skeliton. We just saw him fall down.

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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.

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Of course it is, because that AI will totally not be programmed to ONLY surveil the lower tier sub-humans, Riiiiiiiiiight ?

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He's like if you made a hybrid clone of Tim Allen and Tim Curry and then had him raised by Josef Stalin and Ayn Rand.

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Say what you will about the Greeks but their anarchy does get people to fuck with them less when they turn it up.

So yeah spread dissent and community and love and then gather your community to burn the methods of surveillance down

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He looks like the plastic version of Tim Allen as Santa from that Christmas movie.

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lemmy.world

Lemme guess... Based on oracle no doubt. The wrong people are gonna prosper the next 4 years.

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Oh, it's absolutely going to be written in Java. Storing data with Oracle DB. And running on Solaris.

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Ellison made the comments as he spoke to investors earlier this week during an Oracle financial analysts meeting ...

Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras.

"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."

Ellison also expects AI drones to replace police cars in high-speed chases. "You just have a drone follow the car," Ellison said. "It's very simple in the age of autonomous drones."

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Police could already use drones operated by humans to chase people. It's already possible and already safer. For some reason the police don't seem to give a shit about that. Their leaders don't care, and their leaders' leaders don't care. But go ahead billionaire man with AI, change the world.

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It will just mean that the citizens will ill-intent will find ways to use the same tools against the surveillance system.

Not to mention, most of the people NOT on their best behavior will be the guys running the companies and agencies running the system.

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Broke guy Agent641 says a vast self-funded purchase of plastic water pistols and a sample pot of black house paint can ensure that Larry is wrong.

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