• Creddit@lemmy.world
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    55 minutes ago

    The biggest mistake we made after the last financial crisis was not putting heads on pikes. Justice should be far more punishing if it’s ever going to threaten white collar criminals.

    I’m not holding my breath, but I hope current political extremism breeds actual consequences for the wealthy elite this time around.

  • Corvidae@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    How many times has it been the end of the world? When I was a kid, it was the Cold War, every day the newspapers had articles about how we were on the verge of nuclear war. Famine was another, there was not enough water for the crops. There was AIDS, we were all going to get ill and die of Kaposi’s Sarcoma. There’s got to be a list of these somewhere…

  • eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 hours ago

    An AI CEO advising people to stock cash, food and a hand crank radio in case AI takes down banking is some spectacular product marketing. Silicon Valley spent years insisting AI would run everything. Now the contingency plan is to make sure nothing you own needs a computer. Progress! 😳