I think there may be some social issues with a for-profit company being financially incentivized to promote and sell pedophilia to people.
How would you rather deal with this? A boycott? Do you have money in child sex doll manufacturing that you can withhold?
So he can think of it as a child in his head.
That's not really what this is about. You're trying to assess this on a personal freedom level when what we're talking about is a guy with a megaphone.
Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person.
You can't know if a decision is good or bad without a person to evaluate it. The situation you're describing isn't possible.
the people who deploy a machine [...] should be accountable for those actions.
How is this meaningfully different from just having them make the decisions in the first place? Are they too stupid?
I live in the US. This American apathy and resentment of political power, this vaguely libertarian vote-with-your-wallet thing, is specifically what I'm criticizing. It's a kind of political advocacy that abstains from the reigns of power. It's also, like, a step above changing their profile picture.
I'm aware that everything is broken. But, it was less broken in the past. It'll be more broken in the future. I look around, though, and I see so little interest in reclaiming the power we've lost. Nobody wants to hold the reigns. Zohran does. He's trying something.
I worry that a lot of Americans, if not most of them, desperately want politics to go back to being something they don't have to think about; which isn't good—that's not a good thing. You don't win a game of chess by skipping your turn every time it comes up.
Okay, I'm trying not to be needlessly irate because I'm not yelling at you so much as I am lamenting the current state of political advocacy.
My problem is that you are confused. If we have enough people to do this:
If enough people are willing to say "no, I don't want to see that show enough" then there is the possibility of change.
Then we have enough people to enact regulations. These aren't different strategies, it's the same strategy. You need coordinated public willpower either way. You need something tangible to actually direct the currents of the ocean.
People, today, broadly, don't seem to believe that they can wield the government to their advantage at all. They don't even see it as an option. They don't have any ambition.
I'm not saying that you should spend money on a morally bankrupt company. I am saying that this won't accomplish anything. It isn't a solution. Certainly not if you don't believe the regulations option is even possible.
I still have hope, you know. But, it's dependent on people remembering the union, bar-brawl fistfights their grandpa used to get into.
I'm saying that people like boycotts more than they like actually doing anything. I think it's a power fantasy, personally.
That said, I don't expect anything to happen in the next 10 or 15 years given who's currently in charge, so may as well.
the only way to defeat them is by not giving them money
Is this what it's like to grow up on tiktok? Nobody has any ambition. It's all just bootstrapping and personal responsibility.
I... what tips and tricks does this person think they're going to get? You either sell the car, or you stop bringing it with you. There's no third option. Is disguising it a third option? Wrap it in a little rubber chicken costume?
People would ask questions like this in reddit AMAs all the time, too, and I just don't understand the impulse to ask strangers online before you've thought about it yourself even a little bit.
Elon actually hands these out to people who don't want them because they were unpopular and an easy means of telling chuds apart from... uh, chads? There's a good chance hers is a forced advertisement and not something she's actually paying for.
I think if they only advertised the post-tax number, there wouldn't really be a problem. Like, "hey, the jackpot is some amount, and after tax you could win 400 million"—that would be fine. As it is, they're kinda just building resentment for taxes in general by making your final winnings seem so disappointing, even though it's still 400 million.
Jesus. That was an uncomfortable read. I hope somebody gave anon a hug.
Oh, you poor soul.
Here's the wikipedia, if you wanna read.
And here's a video about the history of slavery and its after-effects that is kind of relevant.
The tl;dr is that there were laws, like vagrancy (i.e. not having a job), that were vague and applied to "everybody" but realistically only applied to black people through legal jiu jitsu and selective blindness on the part of police. Sundown towns are known as such for that behavior. They were (are) very unwelcoming if you're not white.
I thought you were referring to Disney's live action remakes, which are ass and way the fuck more sexist, but do have one black woman in them, so congratulations to Rob Marshall.