I mean…I don’t disagree with you

But there’s a hard truth I know I’m still grappling with

None of it matters. Most of our allies are not at a level they will engage with the truth of the matter. If their faucet is blocked by a tree root, they’ll be further convinced, and if they always have water they won’t be unconvinced

So if they care about water, good messaging means that water becomes the stand in for the right to privacy. Nothing you say (or at least nothing I have tried to say) will make them understand the privacy implications. I haven’t convinced a single person that privacy is actually critical to democracy. And trust me, I’ve tried a lot of angles with many different people

We just have to accept they’re pointed in the right direction, and that trying to educate them can only hurt the cause. They won’t be ideologically won over, but on the flip side, it’s not really about water for them either

Even if we did reach them on the issue, that wouldn’t wake them up. They won’t care about the next issue, like the cameras, until they’re worried that agents are laughing over their genital pics or something, whatever they latch onto next

So just let water be the metaphor. They’ll cheer with us, they’ll march with us, and they won’t blink when you tell them AI water usage is eroding their rights

Nah, people latched onto the water use for some reason. We’re rolling with it

Our enemies have long had no understanding of why they opposed making things better for everyone, when they come ranting about Amazon stealing our water we need to welcome them to the cause and tell them the bad guys are developing mad Max militarized AI tanker trucks to steal it harder

Yuuup. There’s people overseas always demanding Americans take back control and stop the madness…

It’s like, my brother, you have no idea what you’re asking. We have so much to fix. We don’t even have the mechanisms to fix the foundational problems yet. We are working on it, all of it, while also fighting like hell to avoid letting tens of millions die for easily preventable reasons

And the world’s most powerful interests are fighting every single little step of the way

So, sorry to depresses you, but I do appreciate the empathy

This is huge… if it goes through

Like I said, this is huge, if it goes through

$200 billion isn’t a slap on the wrist, it’s a real punishment. Facebook can’t just cut a check and continue on, they’re going to have to make hard choices if they are made to pay up. Florida alone could still drain the company dry on this case, but more importantly it sets a precedent

Since we don’t have a functioning system of corporate punishment, it’s all case law. I’m sure Facebook is going to fight it with everything they have, so it’s not nearly over… But if this goes through anyways? That could change things

Fuck if I know. We can revoke a corporate charter through an act of Congress for any or no reason, we have trust busting laws that allow courts to split a company, individual states can decide to restrict or kick out a company…

We have mechanisms to do these things, but we don’t really have a system of corporate criminal punishment. It’s one of those problems of using an early version of democracy… Courts can fine and impose sanctions, they can prosecute individuals for their part, but as time went on instead of legislating a system of corporate punishment it’s just been left to case law

Which doesn’t work out well, because corporations have grown to the point they can dump more way money into legal defense than the courts can put into prosecution

So the answer to your question is basically that it doesn’t matter how much they violate the law, they’re to big and too powerful for the courts to handle them with the tools available

Normally I’d agree, but if one of the more populated states fined meta at this rate it’d be a corporate death penalty

For context - New Mexico has a population of 2,124,222, making it the 36th most populated state in the country.

That’s under 1% of the country. California has 39,355,309… No company currently in existence could survive a 4 trillion dollar fine

This is huge… if it goes through

To be blunt, you advertised it instead of organizing it

Very few people are going to show up to a game night where they don’t know anyone. Especially if they don’t have a vibe check from hearing about it from someone they know directly

And if there’s only one person there when they show up, most people are going to feel very awkward. It’s likely they’d peek through the window and bail out

You need people to buy in. You need at least a core group that will be there before the start time so people will see a game night going on if they do show up, and to spread word that its a good time. It’ll grow organically from there if everyone has fun, and that’s the point where you can advertise if you want to keep growing

How you find that group I can’t help with, but it can’t just be like an RSVP on Facebook or something. You need to communicate with people directly what you’re trying to do and organize with them

That’s what I’ve been saying… There’s no 5d chess going on here. They left an aircraft carrier out for almost a year because they fucking forgot about it

The only plan in place is “how do I profit off destroying the government”. And they’re short sighted even on that simple plan