Change no, but it was my humble intention to add a little bit.
Understanding things/humans & why we behave bad is important imho.

Basically banning minorities together is in a lot of ways how the majority is made. And those never behave in the interest of most.

The oppressive class usually isn’t a majority (capital owners/rich, religious fanatics, morning people), but they dictate so much more of our lives, what to feel, who to hate - so much so that they make the majority work for them against the minorities (that don’t affect the lives of the majority in the slightest - but that’s just how the oppressors retain control & power).

Yes, I agree.
But Sony has drivers out there for a few more devices.

I used Maemo on my N900 <3.

I don’t wanna use Sailfish bcs of the phone support tho, I’m shallow af & I need my hardware :(.
(I also have a few other Sailfish issues, the source code/availability/package, the licencing - but I feel like all of those could/would change with some growth.)

Gemini replaced Bitchxby on the latest Samsungs.

It’s in the firmware.

With the S25 series they even give you a year of full subscription.
They made it the centrepiece of the launch event of the product line.

Galaxy devices now come with Gemini, your powerful AI assistant from Google. Long press the power button to get started.

The Samsung’s front is called “Galaxy AI” but Gemini runs every new feature really - including “cross-apps actions”.
(The non-obsolete Bixby features retained the name but are part of Galaxy AI now.)

But even with everything off One UI 7 (and Samsung apps, like camera) is still littered with AI buttons.

youtube.com/HinL5jCy_oI&t=1270
(Gemini is now the default action for long-pressing the power button)

All I need is a good enough emulation of android apps to fool them (eg for banking).

Nooo!! :‘’'(

*monetary value
(in relation to toxic culture)

(bcs value that people actuality bring to society often isn’t fairly valued in terms of money or even not at all)

Even if so - the definition of oneself is what that person gets paid for, not what that person enjoys doing (or even is just good at)?

(Especially with jobs, folk on LinkedIn will describe their job as anything but their actual everyday job, or lie/exaggerate about their job when with other people - so not even that “role” is true.)

… like, lmao, except if it’s like a weird grinding kink or something.

I think there is no possible world where people are without meaningful work and are happy about it.

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Even if they collected $10,000 a month and got to spend all of their time doing hobbies and spending time with family, it would feel pointless and hollow.

What is the difference between “hobby” and “work” if not what random people decide what is better monetised?

Both is labour & value added.

In a world where everyone gets enough money people could do what they actually want. So a CEO wouldn’t be “stuck” being a CEO if they don’t like that job & would rather be eg a baker. In the current system bcs of a huge pay divergence you get an unhappy CEO (who ofc won’t quit) and an unhappy baker that just couldn’t get a more suited paying job.

But we as a society would get a lot more out of life & cultural progression if people would be happy & satisfied at what they do (job=hobby).

Empirical evidence (even USA did extensive tests in the 60s) show that given a universal income (so basically no scarcity) basically nobody just sits around watching TV all day, everyone is productive (research, art, services, etc).

Imagine only having customer support or food industry workers that truly enjoy their job & want to do it.
How many prodigies are stuck at random dead end jobs with no prospects and life options?

Labour is what we all benefit from.
Work is what the employer/owner benefits from.

Yeah, but internet was for the people for decades.
(And it didn’t really cost nature as much. Or stolen from the people so much - even by current laws LLM companies do that illegally.)

“AIs” are getting their enshitification & monopolies pre-baked into their core bossiness models from the start.

Not to mention that AIs will definitely worsen inequalities all over the world (like assembly robots that replaced people but aren’t owned by people, and people still need to work 8h/day for decades for some reason).

(This but AI. I’m not saying, there aren’t/won’t be other jobs, just pointing out how this reshapes & concentrates wealth that on the other hands allows for slave wages with no prospects for full time jobs.)

If AIs will affect the world as much as the internet (and do so with peoples data), then they should be seen as core infrastructure - and government or non-profit owned.

Monetisation of all the things is killing us.

True, but only European countries (and in a specific timeframe) are referenced so I figured the definition was such.

(Not that I’m equating it in any way with Yugoslavia)
Would Nazi Germany technically fall in the union definitions? Or did the annexed areas not represent countries (but the Reichs subdivisions & different states compared to og countries)?

(This is besides the fact none of them joining voluntary, not even Austria.)

Decades implies that it once (in USAs history) wasn’t so, which is false. The rest of it if very true tho.

Yeah, they are gonna notice the violence & greed too in terms that it impedes progress of the species & degrades the environment we depend on.

But butt-stuff too, yes, it’s very popular on the galactic local sector news.

Yes, but you are not describing how the elite lives, or does business/opportunities.

They have people for the toughest of work & decisions. Their only work is moving capital around & giving general ideas to people working for them. The people working for them are paid millions.
(The “manual labor”, such as designs or wherever, is like a hobby, not a business/success necessity.)

There is an unimaginable difference between people with 10s of millions (“rich”) vs billions.
(And, since you mention ‘promotions’, there is a total mentality shift between the owner class & the working class, even when the latter get paid millions.)

And/Tho workaholics aren’t really tied to a class.
I know plenty of workaholics that are lower or middle class, overworking themselves bcs they can’t really not do it, even when they know they are missing on family time & extra work won’t provide extra finances.

Once basic needs met (air, water, food, shelter), I believe that money can start creating more problems for people than it solves.

No.

The whole mentality of “yo, it’s really hard to be rich, not worth it, feel sorry for me” is literally just propaganda for the workers to be docile & keep working dead-end jobs.

With tons of money comes tons of distractions, and temptations; there aren’t any poor people on the Epstein list.

Plenty of low-income junkies.
Plenty of low-income pedofiles.
Just their surroundings are different if they are billionaires. And their power and immunity too.

Its just people, all of it, with the difference that a few benefit from the work of/added value by many.

To that extent, I do feel somewhat sorry when I hear that a billionaire has died, because I know that they likely spent most of their life pursuing things that are ultimately worthless, and it makes me re-evaluate just what I am doing with mine.

But billionaires def work less than a lot of people without monies.

There are billions that work 10+ hours per day just to survive (working for and making billionaires richer).
A life with much less experiences than any billionaire, less vacations, less family time, etc.

Yeah, the logic overwhelmingly tells you it doesn’t make sense and won’t work, the past experience empirically proves it doesn’t help the vast majority of the people, the politicians can’t really explain why would that work for the people, we absolutely know who pushes this agenda (the rich that are about to get richer, investing in lobbyists and marketing/propaganda) … yet here we are, listening to how this will be great, this time.

Yes, prolonging the status quo is one of the most common lobby tactics, and the most successful.

That’s why we have petrol based plastic recycling instead of naturally degradable plastics.

Completely agree - I was on about the (growing) front height of the vehicles and that the trend is clear.