The “us vs them” mentality that western media has pushed is backfiring.

In reality its not a competition but western media and government wanted to frame it like that, for 20+ years, and now, oh…looks like the west is losing.

Its the “service economy.” Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).

It does not benefit the individual.

That poor guy, the ai is just ganging up on him

Classic pull up the ladder behind you move.

Kind of hilarious that one component of their complaint is that the DeepSeek model is more energy/computation efficient than theirs. Welcome to the free market?!

Well, in that case maybe you just forget to shut the door ;)

Hmmm…so it costs Waymo $11.25 if you “forget” to shut the door.

Maybe people will become very forgetful.

Or, upon reflection, just don’t use Waymo, and don’t play into it at all.

I’m stealing that post title to use myself

They would love if they can get you hooked on a monthly subscription for human thought

🤷‍♂️ ironfox exists

It is possible to restore the old notepad.

I didn’t include a link because I could not find a non-spammy one, but a search finds a few. I did it on my work PC.

And switching to a FOSS OS is probably preferable, but that’s not always possible.