so kill the shareholders, then they won’t care about their value.

The idea that rich people are buying homes en masse and then keeping them empty makes no sense

Yeah, which is why Zillow’s house flipping business was a disaster and they’ve backed out of doing that. Capitalism does not make sense, you’re absolutely right, and unfortunately we’re at the tail end of its collapse so we get to deal with the last gasps of a system that never made sense, was never sustainable, and prioritized short-term profits over long term financial stability.

None of that changes the fact that we don’t live in a world where people need to be homeless because we can’t house them. Nor do they need to be hungry because we can’t feed them. And the only thing holding us back from feeding and housing everyone is mindsets like yours, where you’re so stuck in the old way of doing things because that’s all you’ve ever known that you can’t even imagine a better world. The funny fucking thing about that is there used to be a time when nobody could imagine a world without kings and emperors, but guess what? Just like the power of kings, the economy is a fantasy. We made it up, it’s a bunch of nonsense rules, and at any time we can just decide not to listen to that bullshit.

And before you start in with any “what abouts” or other nonsense, consider for a second that you’re simping for a wholly imaginary system that has no basis in reality or a physical existence, and also that I do not care to listen to your brain react with shock and horror at the idea of things being different.

Goodbye, and good day.

only thing left is to go out in style. slap that puppy down right in your killbox and let it be the last thing the raiders and your pawns see before you ignite your chemfuel storage.

it figures you would be OK with that, since you were OK with the sexual harassment. what’s a little theft when you’ve already dismissed unwanted sexual contact, amiright?

the reason I’m still talking with you is because I want to demonstrate to everyone one of the other controversies around LTT, that being the toxic fanbase that’s as rabid as Elon’s or Trump’s. and you played along fantastically, dutifully playing the part of fanboy for everyone to see. so for that, I thank you.

but now that you’ve done your job and played your role, I don’t have any further use for you, so ta-ta and farewell!

you would know if you had been paying attention to our conversation.

hey what about the time LTT auctioned off property that belonged to someone else without asking them, what’s your take on that?

hey, since you love “independent investigations”, what’s your take on Gamers Nexus catching LTT taking money for positive reviews of products? where the investigation for that, eh?

it’s not independent if the guilty party pays for it. that’s called a “conflict of interest”.

ah, yes, the good old “we paid somebody to listen to our side of the story and they naturally found nothing wrong”.

as I said, I didn’t post that link to convince you, because you’re not interested in considering it. the link is for everyone else. you can keep on believing whatever it is you want, but since you can’t edit my comment you don’t have any way to stop anyone else from considering the facts.

which are all capitalist, thank you for agreeing with me.

Funny you should bring up touching people in that context, because sexual harassment is the reason LTT stopped producing videos for awhile.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834190/linus-tech-tips-gamersnexus-madison-reeves-controversy

Of course, that article also covers the Gamers Nexus investigation into LTT taking money to give biased reviews.

I would keep going, but we both know you aren’t going to read or watch those videos, so this comment is more for the other people who might be curious about it. And honestly I think your behavior makes the arguments against LTT look better, for no other reason than assholes tend to be followed by smaller, less famous assholes.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer asshole.

There are a ton of videos about his shittiness going back years from quite a few people, you could easily find them if you wanted to.

But I don’t get why you don’t just admit you don’t care about that history, it’s a lot less effort than whatever it is you’re trying to convince people of here.

you got me there. there’s plenty of us who would love to see everyone get a fair share.

the article tries to hide the fact these are tiktokers who are harassing people for views while claiming they are pickpockets.

yeah, the article tries to dress it up, but it sounds like these do-gooders are actually tiktokers who are harassing people for views, claiming they are pickpockets.

except that was just a nonsense rumor. the only examples of anything of the sort actually happening is one tiktok video of a lady grabbing and holding onto a pickpocket, and the one blog post linked below by @the_picard_maneuver@piefed.world claiming americans would do it. I never did find a single parisian or american news article with any names or incidents of it happening.

there was a bunch of tiktok videos making fun of the americans for the weird patriotic fantasies of beating up pickpockets, though.

Well, NASA was in the process of doing that already. It’s still on the calendar, but who knows if Trump will let it continue or not.

the end of scarcity. that’s a totally bogus concept that capitalism uses to keep the rich in power. we produce far more than the whole of humanity would need to feed and cloth themselves, and we have more houses empty than there are families. we could end poverty right now, we just choose not to.

No cause why would anyone pay for Netflix? Everything on there is available for free online.

by using machine learning to analyze a mountain of baking data to create a neural network that does it itself.

except that neither the article nor the vendor website even come close to claiming it uses a neural network. the article even says

It’s a little less exciting than the name suggests.

all the Pizza Intelligence does is use sensors to make sure the pizza doesn’t burn. it is literally as “dumb” as the humidity sensor in a dryer.