Fascism emerged as an appropriation of revolutionary left strategies in service of right-wing ideology. That's why the Nazis adopted the name "national socialists." At the time the word socialist was used to refer to pretty much any populist working class movement. Blaming communists for fascism is a bit like seeing one of those spiders that mimics ants and blaming the ants.
Of course it isn't just sitting around unused, it's being reinvested to make more money. Billionaires typically put most of their net worth into assets and stocks and then live off of loans, just like the comic I posted alludes to. Just because they don't have literal piles of cash sitting around doesn't mean they aren't absurdly wealthy.
And let's be honest, if a billionaire wanted a Scrooge McDuck style gold pile they could have it arranged within a week at most.
Reminds me of this:
Not sure if this is real, but you know you've won at life when you can submit something looking like this and still get hired.
All LLMs should be FOSS. They are created from everyone's data, and should therefore be free for everyone.
The reality is even worse. They're going to "learn" all the wrong lessons. They will shift further to the right, like they always do.
historically humans aren't usually burning down libraries on purpose.
How on earth have you come to this conclusion.
The corporations that took control of the Internet don't want us to remember.
When I was young growing up Southern Baptist there was one time where the pastor preached about this verse, and the whiplash I felt when I heard family members bad-mouthing immigrants the moment they stepped outside is partly what led me to read the Bible myself, which led to me losing my faith.
This is not terrorism, it's industrial sabotage, which in the context of the coal industry is based.
Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn't decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.
I would suspect this is an intentional dark pattern. They're probably hoping most people will get tired of waiting and click cancel, which sets it back to the default of allowing all cookies.
The strategies I'm referring to are best summed up as populism, yes. The left vs right terminology originally referred to those who opposed or supported monarchy, respectively. In Weimar Germany those who opposed the political establishment in favor of working class movements were considered socialist, irrespective of their other beliefs.
What I'm saying is that as capital S Socialism gained popularity among the working class, fascist movements appropriated the Socialists populist methods, taking advantage of the work that Socialists had already done in organizing working class opposition to the political establishment. The majority were not ideologues, they simply knew the status quo was not serving them and were looking for explanations, which at one point only Socialists were providing (though arguably not very effectively). That's when fascism emerged to provide an alternative explanation; one which was not a threat to the wealthy and powerful, and played into the deep-rooted prejudices of the time.