Companies, especially larger ones, abstract away human responsibility and ethics from the decision-making process, making it easier for people to do bad things.

“We do this for the company!”

Plus, an individual’s ability to live being tied to the continued success of said company doesn’t help things either.

“If I speak out, I’m not a ‘team player’. And those people get fired.”

I think it’s more that the act itself, of having the child, is a choice that is made without the consent of the life being brought into the world. Every child is forced into existence through decisions that are not their own.

Of course, it’s impossible to get consent from the violated party, but it’s still a decision parents take for their own reasons, not the child’s reasons.

Welcome to Germany, land of the pedantry-industrial complex.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is huge on repealing Section 230, which would be disastrous.

It’s likely due to his heavy campaigning for repealing Section 230.

Plus, his wife was a former OpenAI board member.

It now refers to contemporary Muzak

“Just a little more neoliberalism, bro, I swear we’ll usher in an era of prosperity if we just do it harder”

Not wrong, but for the wrong reasons.

There’s also Koito as a Maloja alternative. The Maloja UI was always slow and clunky when I was trying it out.

https://github.com/gabehf/koito

Yeah, the irony is palpable.

I myself need to make an appointment to see if they will let me sign up for an unrelated appointment…

Often the municipalities will offer tax breaks in order for the mega corps to set up shop in their town, so they often don’t pay taxes.

Yeah, one would think that.

It’s all weirdly wrapped up with the wave of digital ID verification laws/bills in the name of “child safety”, which AI companies do want.

Though, you don’t want to buy German either if you want to support “good”. VW, Audi, BMW, all German car mafia.