Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/47504963

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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    21·
    1 day ago

    That requires international solidarity. Else they’d just pay off some poor government official in another country to build the DCs there instead

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yes technically “but a corrupt government just wouldn’t do it” can knock down all suggestions and is the ultimate argument for reenforcing total apathy… If that’s your aim.

      Also, don’t bother responding, because an even more corrupt government would just censor free speech online, so no point you saying anything back. See it’s the ultimate apathy.