TheJesusaurus

Didn’t ask how you know. But how you understand.

Sure you don’t know someone else is sapient. But you treat them as if they are

How do you know it’s not a dolphin in one of their hidden underwater dolphin tech cities?

Literally more likely than a “take the average of the internet and put it in a blender” machine gaining a soul

How do you currently understand whether the thing you’re talking to possesses sentience or not?

Were approaching the point where they stop even pretending

This is one of the dumbest takes imaginable

There’s a real easy way for him to not be eaten. Make sure he has no more than $999, 999,999 in his pocket when we get there

It’s difficult to describe the world in the pre-social media age. There was a time when Google was just a cool software company building cool things, and the don’t be evil motto was probably genuine.

Software used to be an thing that you would buy and use if you needed it. It came on a disk. It wasn’t this ever pervasive network of always on tools living in our homes and devices working to cultivate the ultimate consumer unit

Unlike how corporations behave

But why involve them at all? Why assume they are even acting in good faith?

At least we arrived at the correct outcome

You comfortable with how it’s being enforced currently?

Unlike trustworthy corporations

I mean, you probably shouldn’t. Donate the money yourself or trough charities or in countless other ways.

They literally farm these tax credits from customers to pad their bottom line. You can bet that they are also playing tax and accounting games with the “donations” they make and who they make them to, likely further enriching a lot of their pals before the poor see a dime of it.

You’re just giving them free tax credits

What criteria decided those books? It must be a relatively small number of all books

Uh, this is the second neighbour/ally/trilateral trade partner who’s sovereignty he’s threatened

I guess I have a bit more faith in the American people than you.

What have you done?

You are actively letting them get away with it.

I didn’t think the people propping up this administration ever cared about democracy but I didn’t think they’d cheer for themselves being cuked multiple times a day by the wealthy elite who are spitting down at them from the literal palace trump is building on top of the corpose of the home of the American people