That’s a fair point. I am just sharing my interpretation.

From the first time watching the movie in 2006 to a recent re-watch, I always got the impression that the eugenics piece was never meant to be taken seriously (or literally). If anything both parties were made to look rather silly in the intro (in their own way). Felt like more of a story setup.

There were definitely many critiques of US corporate culture (I was living in the US around that time after living in Europe and Asia) and the complacency of US society. The TV commercials/shows/ads, the Fox news show, the overboard consumerism, costco university, the Brawndo slogan. It made all of them look bad and stupid.

One could argue that an average guy solving all the worlds problems while the corporate types failed is a damning take on oligarchy.

The director, Mike Judge, didn’t emphasize the more sociopathic and dark elements of oligarchy, but the movie was meant to be a comedy.

Google, Apple, Meta it’s all the same to me. I don’t do fandom for oligarch conglomerates. I am not from North America.

In reality, I think you’re being deliberately obtuse because you want to defend Google’s business practices for some reason. You’re conflating the way Google collects sensitive user information for the purpose of advertising in every single one of its products, including from non-Google apps and webpages with some technicality around verbiage in a privacy policy, which you have not even cited yourself.

All right, all right! It’s all a big conspiracy to protect Alphabet and discredit poor little Tim Apple.

You got me partner. It’s all technicality in their privacy policy!

So have you or have you not read the Apple privacy policy?

Where did I say Apple has a search engine? I said Apple tracks and logs your searches.

At the end of the day it was a comedy. Sometimes subtly is a virtue.

It’s pretty clear that the movie satirizes and critiques the corporate world.

At the very least, he deserves several decades as a junior janitor in the Bhasan Char refugee camp (with full asset seizure) for his contribution to the Rohingya genocide. A similar rehabilitation approach should be applied to multiple other Meta executives as well and the whole board of Meta.

And when I say “asset seizure”, I mean every last cent, with all family members and business partners being forced to sign affidavits agreeing that should any assets be found and there is reason to believe they were involved, they’ll have to partake in the same rehabilitation program as Zuckerberg (including affidavits for their family members and business).

It’s a scalable and efficient approach to justice.

I am just curious, have you ever read Apple’s privacy policy?

What makes you think they don’t log your searches?

Like those scenes in Minority Report. The world in the movie was rather dystopian.

FWIW, from my last reading of their privacy policy, they openly stated that they do share PII with other companies who they consider to be their partners.

They claim that they don’t share PII with third parties “for their marketing purposes”.

That being said, you’re at the mercy of their definition of “partner” and interpretation of “for [the third party’s] marketing purposes”.

I should honestly just re-read their privacy policy (and the same for Google and Meta).

Their service line was growing much faster than hardware, it is a big part of their business. So their business model does depend on data collection.

The last time I read the Apple privacy policy it sounded like they pretty much collect everything and let themselves share this data with whoever they feel like.

There was a lot of calming language, but it didn’t sound convincing to me.

That being said, if you like the Apple ecosystem and UX, it’s a solid option.

I personally believe their statements about privacy are nothing more than PR.

They are an ad company. If you read their privacy policy it’s largely the same as Google or FB but with more calming language that is meaningless.

Their financial reporting explicitly mentions privacy laws as a danger to their business.

Don’t buy their propaganda, they are not better than Meta or Alphabet their attitude towards the public. They just have better PR and more committed fanboys.

They are all trash. Now that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t choose iOS over Android, but this should be driven by ecosystem or UX preference, not hope that Apple cares about your privacy (or cares about anything beyond money).

I generally agree with you, except I don’t think we can speculate whether it will be like 2008 the dot-com bubble.

The world economy is different from what it was ~25 years ago. I believe the reliance on index type funds has increased at a drastic rate.

There is also things like the relative concentration of AI-influenced stocks.

Another new piece is America becoming much more corrupt. Americans might not care about this, but it would be naive to think this would not have a caustic effect in the medium term on the real world.

Mind you, I am not necessarily saying I know the correct answer, just pointing out some things to consider.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case, but since we are using YT to start with (I do use Peertube, but it’s a lot smaller), this is a good baseline approach IMO.

Use YT as hosting/player service, not as a discovery/library management service.

The best way to use YT, is to have a bookmark folder linking to the recent video list (Descending by release date) of the channels you enjoy.

YT/Google by definition (large American technology company) cannot be trusted.

But then you have the question of what do you define as critical mass and which specialized instances to exclude.

Don’t get me wrong, I support your idea and I generally think an instance should always be pre-selected for a new user (with an option to pick your own). Some of it should definitely be based on geo/regional factors.

Threadi is too small for that, if it had 2 million MAUs (50% English / 50 % other langues), what you are proposing would be semi-viable.

Between Lemmy / Piefed / Mbin, we have something like ~50 K MAUs tops.

Nice one!

Of course I am influenced by various things, we all are. I am not implying otherwise.

On a personal level, I don’t see the connection between posting on a forum about articles on the possibility of an AI bubble and investment decisions.

I am not necessarily disagreeing with you. I think people are a bit more complicated than that and circumstances can be very different.

That’s fair. For me personally, I don’t see a connection with forum posts and investment decisions (in aggregate, retail investors to my understanding make a small part of the market).

Perhaps, but how do you know that this is an actual trend?

An argument can be made that there are more people with your sentiment or perhaps the news about a bubble will attract short terms investors (trying to cash in as the wave is rising).

Generally speaking, discussion on Threadi, even ones that mention bubbles in context of AI/Nvidia, don’t mention investment strategies.