Star Trek was space communism. So we’d have to kill the capitalist first.

We’re heading more towards Star Wars and the Empire. See you in the resistance.

The point is remove the user “search” experience. Where a user selects options from page results. Yes it is already heavily optimized for directing the user where they want them to go. But AI is even better at it. With every prompt the AI is directing you directly. Its basically turning the Internet into TikTok scroll instead of like YouTube subscriptions or search for example. They want your entire interaction with the web to be through AI and it’s interfaces. This is significantly more powerful.

When was the last time you search something on TikTok? You just scroll and like stuff sometimes. Your experience is entirely crafted by TikTok.

This is what they want for AI for your ENTIRE online life. You will watch videos, research, shop, all from an AI that directly influences all of your decisions.

The entire point of websites is keeping you on their app or website for as long as possible. The best way to do that is to in the future direct everything you do from a single app. It’s a big reason the US wanted to force China to sell TikTok. US capitalist where having their profits hurt by it.

That’s not how these models work. It’s not like OpenAI was sharing all their source code. If anything OpenAI benefits from DeepSeek because they released their entire code.

OpenAI is an ironic name now ever since Microsoft became a majority share holder. They are anything but “open”.

Profit potential. Think of AI as one big data collector to sell you shit. It is significantly better at learning things about you than any metadata or cookies ever could.

If you think of this AI push as “trying to make a better product” it will not make much sense. If you think of the AI push as “how do I collect more data on all my users and better directly influence their choices” it makes a lot more sense.

AI is not there to be useful for you. It is there to be useful for them. It is a perfect tool for capturing every last little thought you could have and direct to you perfectly on what they can sell you.

It’s basically one big way to sell you shit. I promise we will follow the same path as most tech. It’ll be useful for some stuff and in this case it’s being heavily forced upon us whether we like it or not. Then it’s usefulness will be slowly diminished as it’s used more heavily to capitalize on your data, thoughts, writings, code, and learn how to suck every last dollar from you whether you’re at work or at home.

It’s why DeepSeek spent so little and works better. They literally were just focusing on the tech.

All these billions are not just being spent on hardware or better optimized software. They are being spent on finding the best ways to profit from these AI systems. It’s why they’re being pushed into everything.

You won’t have a choice on whether you want to use it or not. It’ll soon by the only way to interact with most systems even if it doesn’t make sense.

Mark my words. When Google stops standard search on their home page and it’s a fucking AI chat bot by default. We are not far off from that.

It’s not meant to be useful for you.

No. DEI was always performative. Companies realized that they no longer had to pretend to care so they stopped doing performative “DEI training” because it was no longer beneficial to their bottom line.

It had nothing to do with people shooting cans of Bud Light. It had everything to do with the entire country shifting further with right wing reactionary beliefs.

Unorganized boycotts with no demands and no pressure from labor unions are useless. Boycotts in support of labor are absolutely class solidarity.

This one is useless. As most “reddit” boycotts are.

Would love to know where you’re getting your numbers from for the US and China. I surely hope it’s not just the AI response on top of Google. But that’s what it seems like. You’d literally have to write a whole research paper to get a good comparison because these are heavily consumer based subsidies within each country and China just has a much larger market it sells to heavily inflating the credit because of population. Also, you didn’t list a date range for your 30 Billion number.

You also have to account for state level subsidies and tax credits in the US in addition to Federal programs, grants, loans, etc. Would love to read a paper on this if you have a source.

But, even using your numbers 30 Billion (something I don’t think is accounting for State or EV infrastructure spending; but again, I’d like to see a source) is not a “drop in the bucket”. It’s 13% of what you listed for China over 14 years. Interestingly enough China also outselling the US in terms of market share. Comparing the subsidies of a country that owns the plurality of the market to one that does not is silly. Subsidies are going to increase WITH sales. China is selling significantly more cars. You’d have to compare the subsidies and adjust them based on units sold.

Doing some “Google AI response results” myself China is selling about 8x more EVs than the US (in 2023).

Hmmm. 8x30 = 240 billion. Weird. Again, I’m not taking my numbers seriously but I’m not taking your numbers seriously either because you didn’t sight a source, adjust for units sold, or give a date range for your US numbers.

But you’re just not comparing this correctly. You HAVE to adjust for units sold. Which you are not.

My dude the US subsidizes the shit out of its electric car industry. When someone brings up “supply and demand” and just tries to pretend that the economy is exactly what they learned in their econ101 class.

They are doing the tarrifs on Chinese EVS because (1) they can’t compete on price and (2) the Chinese EVS are just a superior product.

You’re right on China though. They are just doing exactly what the US has done for decades. It’s just that the US doesn’t like having to actually compete with another country. So instead of actually making better and cheaper cars they instead just decide to tell the American people “nah, looks like you’re just being a shit Tesla”

The US loves to say “free market” but notice how they don’t allow a free market to force their industry to actually innovate and compete.

China is not “cheating” by subsidizing it’s industry. That’s literally just standard shit every government does. Thats just an excuse. America is subsidizing it’s EVs too. They just have worse EVs.

Nothing quite says “American Capitalist bootlicker” more than proudly paying more for an inferior product while complaining that it’s the Communists fault.

It’s not ignoring the topic. Mutual aid is an organized operation. Literally says it the link. This is not mutual aid. The topic is about “mutual aid spam” which this is not at all an example of “mutual aid”. This is just begging or panhandling or scamming.

How is this mutual aid spam? This is by definition not mutual. It’s begging.