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This makes me far more angry than this image would have you believe.

Sure, you and I know that. Most people don’t.

I wasn’t talking about what’s necessary, but how it’s marketed. Most people don’t even know enough to have accounts on Lemmy.

It sounds stupid (and it kinda is) but modern smart beds track all your vitals and give you a readout of your brainwaves with suggestions on how to improve your sleep.

I can totally understand how people desperate for sleep would buy one.

It’s mostly marketing fluff plus that thing where more data != more knowledge, but I do get it. Sleep deprivation is the worst.

e: plus, you can’t expect sleep-deprived people to make good decisions.

It’s all fun and games until your $1200 bed folds you into a pretzel in the night.

I’m so glad they’re spending all that money on this, when all the social programs (Medicare/Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, Social Security – including disability – and everything are losing funds.

Let them eat cake!

e: I am desperate for people to start throwing pieces of cake onto the WH lawn as protest. Pretty sure that wouldn’t be lost on most people.

i posted this the other day: Forrest Valkai on helplessness, activism, and why your voice matters.

I think it’s even more relevant today.

Aw, they really wanted to provoke us into widespread riots.

Poor babies didn’t get what they wanted. Instead there are even more of us now. So sad.

Holy shit, my dude in the middle with the trump tie. I really hope his friends are staging an intervention. That’s so sad, I can’t imagine not saying something if he was in my life. Just, ouch.

Someone needs to show him there are other ways. We’re so much better without this shit.

These movements will only be effective with wide public support, though, and if they’re able to loop footage of protesters ‘being violent’, public support will collapse.

Even when they provoke us, we need to remain as peaceful as possible, not because doing otherwise will incite more violence from them, but because we need it to be obvious that the violence is entirely one-sided and unwarranted.

They’re already lying about us – we can’t verify their lies.

I disagree, because I think all of these things address the wrong problem.

Individuals should be able to gain from their own inventions, and others shouldn’t be able to force them into poverty by stealing their IP. Corporations especially should not be incentivised to do that.

Then again, unfettered capitalism is geared towards incentivising corporations to do that.

The answer isn’t to weaken people’s already vanishing IP, but to change what’s incentivised. Also to stop treating corporations as people. They aren’t.

I guess this is good, though it’s annoying that it’s unique enough to make a headline. This should be completely uncontroversial.

That’s why you need to keep a close eye on it. Don’t be afraid to take the bones when they’ve been stripped, just jump in there, and watch your ankles and dangly bits.