• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    The name alone should disqualify then from ever legally touching government data. What are we even doing here. Taking the name from a book doesn’t make it tongue in cheek.

    Anyway, forget about all that, my company SOYLENT is producing nutritionally complete meal replacements available to everyone for cheap. We also seperately have contracts for housing and processing ICE detainees. These are seperate business entities I pinky swear.

    Just because I called myself “cryptocannibalism” and an alarming number of detainees inexplicably have gone missing in my custody and I purchase no obvious protein input to my Soylent factories are unrelated events that have happened in my seperate business entities. You assuming I’m possibly up to anything untoward is commulist and you’re a terrorist

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        The company […] received early financial backing from Andreessen Horowitz

        I swear to God reality reads like crappy fanfiction; the same group of creeps have been funding “Evil (INC.)” projects for several decades now and there’s still no limitations placed on their dealings.

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      Taking the name from a book doesn’t make it tongue in cheek.

      It’s super fucking cringe to me and I don’t even like The Lord Of The Rings so it isn’t because I’m a fan.

      Tech CEO’s love to co-op beloved scifi/fantasy properties to market their insane ideas. Jeff Bezos once said he wanted to make life like Star Trek where you could talk to the computer. He didn’t mean he wanted to build a tech utopia where everyone was treated fairly, he meant he wanted the computer to be constantly spying on you, listening to every word you say and always aware of where you were and what you were doing.

      When they outsource your tech job or bring in a cheap international hire to suppress your wage they’ll say stuff like, “I just hate to think of all the Mozarts and Einsteins going to waste in insert country being exploited for cheap labor and this is how I’m helping solve that.” Except Mozart and Einstein were the direct result of a life-long process of intensive education that began in early childhood. But you don’t see these billionaires dumping money into our school systems so kids can have a better teacher:student ratio and thus become these Mozarts and Einsteins.

      It’s all marketing.

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        I recently saw a yt video where the different levels of understanding of media were discussed. For leftists the deeper meaning and social context is obvious. But right wingers just see the plot on the surface. That is why MAGA folks can unironically say they like Star Trek or Superman etc.

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      It’s like there’s a medical company called Gilead that makes drugs and medications related to female reproductive systems. Do people want to wear a Gilead vaginal ring?

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    Say you’ve been purchased by a global oligarch without directly saying you’ve been purchased by a global oligarch.

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    oooh damn time to not elect a national politician so he can go to EU politics and maybe replace this guy