Are you like… just not reading the parts where I explain how these are massively different situations?

2 things can be bubbles while being massively different in the forces at play.

I dont think I misunderstood, I think you’re thinking that this would make places dark where they shouldnt be or light up a whole country or something, but thats not how it could work

No. The housing crash really started to go off when regular people could not pay their bills. These arent regular folks here. These are mega corporations.

This is in a category I’d like to call hopebait. People so badly wish things they feel are bad simply stopped themselves, that they’ll upvote anything that appears to confirm this.

In this instance, there is nothing of substance in this article to suggest the end of anything is anywhere near in sight.

One guy, who makes bets constantly, made another bet.

As mentioned in a different comment, this isn’t the problem.

These aren’t planned to block out the sun everywhere. They’re planned to light up specific small regions.

There are real problems like the potential for mishaps blinding pilots (hopefully only temporarily), ruining earth based astronomy, adding to space waste, and more, but the fear of blocking out the sun would only be a real one if they had an amount of mirror coverage its hard to imagine.

Lets be real, this isn’t the problem.

These aren’t planned to block out the sun everywhere. They’re planned to light up specific small regions.

There are real problems like the potential for mishaps blinding pilots (hopefully only temporarily), ruining earth based astronomy, adding to space waste, and more, but the fear of blocking out the sun would only be a real one if they had an amount of mirror coverage its hard to imagine.

This bubble is largely self dependent with all invested parties incentivised to prop it up. Completely different type of situation.

The thing is, the “people” propping it up, are massive tech companies with collectively trillions of dollars to burn on this thing that is making their stock prices soar.

They have no incentive as the primary investors doing the circular buying to stop. The big problem here is the stock market provides awful incentives to everyone.

Lets not also forget that for a bunch of them, they want to completely replace lightning fast, simple UI with AI so they don’t need their own programmers, and your experience doing things is outright painful.

This is stupid though. IP addresses in many homes rotate, so IP ban lists are utterly ineffective and could very well ban the wrong people.

bud this is all tldr.

There are 2 sides that you can vote for in American politics.

That’s not being unable to see nuance, that’s being able to see facts.

You seem stuck on making a point that is irrelevant and increasingly more incorrect.

I can’t care to engage with someone who isn’t reading what I’m saying. It would just be talking past each other.

Your post starts with a sloganeering, hyper-reductive take of what I wrote.

This is such a hopelessly lazy dismissal of that criticism I’m just going to ignore it and hope you have anything better to offer.

Nope. Skimmed through it and you’re still making the same strawman argument. I guess there is nothing more to say here if you don’t recognize it.

This is Politics, it’s not 1D or 2D, it’s N-Dimensional

This is the point I made and that your comment ignored.

it’s not just possible but pretty much a Mathematical certainty than in a country were there are only 2 parties they will match perfectly on some dimensions, even whilst not at all matching in others.

This is a strawman. No person is claiming they don’t have any aligning opinions.

Trying to dismiss away that aspect of Reality (which is incoveninent for tribalists) with sloganeering like “bothsiderism” is just parroting propaganda meant for simpletons who see reality as having just one dimension where there is nothing more than 2 sides.

This is you continuing to argue against the strawman.

The rest is also that.

They are fine with this trade

This bothsiderism is pretty thoughtless.

It is true that both contribute to a surveillance state but to equate both is to just ignore all policy differences, actions and more to pretend to be nuanced while painting everything as the same shade of grey, which is a downgrade to even black and white thinking.

know the kind of people you’re actually talking about. There is still value in electing the lesser evil, and pushing to get better and more progressive Dems in office (that are usually better at pushing back against fascism anyways)

This is exactly my point. The democrats have huge AIPAC backing and support some awful things, but they are fucking saints compared to the only other options in this political system.

They are the only potential vehicles for long term change and stability exactly the way you described.

Progressive candidates have to be winning primaries despite swimming upstream, and democrats have to continue winning federally despite the bad taste (chemo) they put in your mouth.

The crazy thing is that so many issues matter all at once.

And yet still, somewhere out there, there is a fake or brain dead leftist spouting on about how democrats support genocide.

“Chemo makes me sick, so Ill stick with Cancer”

The noose keeps tightening.

Google also has been trying to argue that modifying client side javascript is equivalent to hacking.

Modifying code running on your own fucking machine, in your own fucking browser.

They might not need it to last longer than that.

This is a takeover.