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Why is no one talking about this?

There have been 125,000 Palestinian civilians killed and injured in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children

Everyone, new league is coming up. We should have a guild. I have 800 hours in game still have no clue what’s going on. Stopped playing after Heist league, wanna try this league. Would be great if comrades help each other in guild.

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After feedback, I am releasing the bot. Here you can chat with Stalin. I scoured and used some old speeches from universities to mimic his style. You can also export the character card using cai-tools addon for using in other role play websites, not just c.ai.

In future, I would like to do this for Mao, Lenin, Fidel etc, and have them in a group chat.

In further future, rp websites like these get even more mature and add long-term memory function to these websites (some of them already have, spotty), and in the memory, I plan to include must-reads for comrades, and characters will try to nudge the users to read the literature (praxis?).

This is a very thorough overview of Kashmir conflict.

There is also a War Nerd episode on Kashmir if you are intrigued.

AI extracted summary for lazy

• Car companies are adding more digital systems to vehicles, which is reducing quality and reliability. Drivers dislike most of the digital features being added.

• Automakers are willing to "enshittify" their products with digital systems because it allows new ways to extract rents and make money through recurring fees, subscriptions, etc. rather than one-time sales.

• This trend is part of the rise of "technofeudalism" where powerful technology companies extract value through ownership of key infrastructure rather than by selling innovative new products.

• Companies across industries are using techniques like VIN-locking and kill switches to limit consumer control and force reliance on the manufacturer for repairs and upgrades.

• Remote attestation technologies like Google's Web Environment Integrity aim to restrict user freedom over their own devices in order to prevent ad blocking, unauthorized software use, etc.

• Overall, car companies are at the forefront of using digital systems for rent extraction rather than improving products, at the expense of consumer agency and ownership. This is part of a broader tech industry push to lock down general purpose computing.

Critique of capitalism

• Capitalism has transitioned to a rentier model where value is extracted through ownership rather than through selling innovative products and services.

• Giant tech companies like Amazon act more like feudal landlords that extract rent from dependent merchants rather than as capitalists selling in a free market.

• Intellectual property laws have been expanded to help big companies control their competitors, critics, and customers rather than just protect innovation.

• Bailouts and economic policies since 2008 have decoupled corporate income from profits, allowing unprofitable rent-seeking practices to persist.

• The article argues we now live in a "technofeudal" system where control comes from ownership of key infrastructure that others rely on rather than from bringing new competitive products to market.

Overall, it critiques modern capitalism for transitioning from free market competition and innovation to a rentier model dominated by a few monopolistic tech giants restricting user freedom.