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A lot of Americans are Googling 'what is oligarchy?' after Biden's farewell speech

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I genuinely can't believe that there is any overlap at all with the maybe 500 people who actually listened to his speech or even read an article summarizing it and those who don't know what the meaning of "oligarchy" is.

How does anyone get engaged enough in the political process to watch a speech from Biden and not recall Bernie Sanders saying this every day of his life for the last 30 years?

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If the 90s smelled like sex and candy what did other decades smell like?

Before the 1990s, it was cigarettes all the way down.

1980s - cigarettes and hair spray.

70s - cigarettes and alternating body odor and heavy cologne/perfume.

60s - cigarettes and canned food.

50s - cigarettes and gasoline.

40s - cigarettes and either gunpowder or a machine shop.

30s - cigarettes and dust.

20s - cigarettes and bootleg whiskey

10s - cigarettes and bloody mud

1900-1909 - cigarettes and horse shit in the street.

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LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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It's not even that.

The technology never, ever works as well as it's hyped. It's a sales ploy, not a feature.

The purpose is always data collection, and the data is always leaked.

Vulnerabilities and the progression of tech make these kinds of bells and whistles age out of practical use faster, costing the consumer more over the long run.

F this kind of noise in particular, this is not progress.

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I posted about this exact thing over and over late last year. Always to tepid response from all but a few others that understand that in the US, privacy is a relic of the old world.

Glad at least Mother Jones got the memo.

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I reeeeally wish they would just embrace and find open source software as a public good and get it over with. The equally glacial pace of adoption of OSS to avoid vendor lock in with MS is not exactly giving the OSS world the boost it deserves.