what the fuck world do you live in where that take reflects reality?
*everybody *knows the TSA is bullshit that doesn’t help anything and yet nobody would dare suggest getting rid of it despite how deeply unpopular it is. Weed isn’t federally legal despite a majority of americans supporting decriminalization in some form. Universal healthcare is also >50% support and they won’t legislate it.
there are similar issues and cases in all liberal democracies, you understand nothing about how politics actually work.
which party do i vote for if i want antitrust suits brought against tech companies and which party is running candidates who know how to write hello world in any programming language?
consumer boycotts aint shit. we need tech workers, some of the people with the least class consciousness and poorest ethics, to refuse to create and maintain surveillance tools.
we should’ve have called those things AI either but when it’s a cacaodemon in the early 1990s it’s more obvious to everyone that the computer isn’t actually thinking
maybe it’s changed since 15 years ago and newer display tech like oled probably has different constraints but iirc you make big sheets of screen and cut out individual panels like how paper is manufactured in huge sheets and then cut to A4 or whatever size and since a 16:9 panel of a given diagonal (marketing bullshit but anyway) is smaller than a 16:10 one you have a lower defect rate
HDTV is 16:9 and manufacturing processes / economies of scale made panels in that ratio cheaper even though losing 10% of your screen height was always dogshit for doing actual work