• miz [any, any]
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    3 days ago

    spotting potholes

    yeah because the real problem was finding them, there's not already a list of hundreds waiting for repair

  • blight [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    freeing up teachers to teach

    honk-enraged FREEING THEM UP FROM FUCKING WHAT KEIR

    • Lemister [none/use name]
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      3 days ago

      Those literacy rates need to in the single digits. Cant have serfs who can read.

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        You jest, but please for the love of god if you are anything less than certain you will never have children in your lifetime, stockpile physical media and burn things on CDs.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      porky-happy: “From being a dirty worker, of course! Now they can go to trade school and start their OWN plumbing business!”

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    lmao yeah let's invest all the money we have in a technology that's famous for being a money bonfire with lackluster results, surely that is the key to a great future

  • plinky [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    geordi-yes Money for burning electricity to make white girls around immigrants

    geordi-no money for fuel subsidy so your nan won't freeze

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    Blair's Labour government burnt billions on centralising computer systems by farming out the bids to dodgy firms (with a good bit of corruption thrown in too).

    This is going to make that look like an exercise in public fiscal responsibility, handing over billions, and billions more in ongoing contracts, just before the bottom falls out of the AI grift and little to nothing is delivered.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 days ago

      Wrong on one count: all that personal data held by the government will be delivered to those private contractors with a little ribbon around it, useful to them regardless of what happens to the infrastructure.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    “You see in free market you always have a choice….now you’re going to be forced to use AI and YOU’RE GONNA LIKE IT!”

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 days ago

    I really wonder how many bad decisions could have been avoided if their makers took a second to think about them in the light of the exact metaphor they used to describe it.

  • JohnBrownsBawdy [none/use name]
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    3 days ago

    This is definitely to make peoples lives better and not a way to keep the financiers/tech shitheads on board with labor.