Maybe hold the parents accountable. Betya then they’ll start caring about what their children are doing. Because yes, while there are adult perpetrators, there are also children themselves selling media they create on things like roblox servers. It’s a rabbit hole.

Bonus: you don’t have to invalidate everyone’s right to fucking privacy.

Extra credit: you can still tax the fuck out of these trillion dollar corporations that are ruining the world.

The NIF’s work is genuinely impressive. Achieving ignition ten times with a record yield of 8.6 MJ in April 2025 is real scientific progress and is amazing. American scientists are not the problem, nor did I say that they were.

But notice what you just linked me. NIF is a Department of Energy federal research facility. Publicly funded. Government science. The same category of institution the current administration is actively dismantling.

While there were past achievements, at the same time the Trump administration proposed 40% cuts to NIH and 55% cuts to NSF in 2026. By November 2025, $2.3 billion in NIH grants and $700 million in NSF grants had been frozen or terminated across nearly 4,000 projects. NSF awards dropped 50% in 2025 compared to recent years. Over 25,000 science agency employees left, many voluntarily through resignation incentive programs, many at early career stages. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship halved the number of fellowships awarded in 2025. Universities across the country froze hiring and cut research spending in response.

The fusion breakthroughs you’re pointing to were built on decades of sustained public investment and institutional infrastructure that is currently being systematically defunded. The scientists who achieved those results are the same ones that are now being told their grants are frozen, their fellowships are cut, and their agencies are being restructured around defense priorities.

So yes, the US has done remarkable fusion research. Past tense is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The comment was about where we’re headed, being present tense. And where we’re headed is a country that just told its early career researchers their scientific purpose has been knocked off course by illegal funding cuts while other countries continue to make advance after advance with no signs of stopping, even further, being fueled by the exodus of researchers.

So, yes, the US is sitting in the corner having, at present, taken a very anti-science and anti-education stance through funding cuts and deregulation.

Reading comprehension gets them every time 🤔

Budget cuts:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/cost-trump-administrations-attacks-research-funding

https://cen.acs.org/policy/nih-nsf-ostp-science-research-funding-cuts/103/web/2025/12

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nih-nsf-cuts-2025-data

https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/federal-research-cuts-threaten-us-innovation-and-leadership

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html

Proposed cuts:

https://cen.acs.org/policy/trump-budget-fy2027-science-nsf-epa-nih-fda/104/web/2026/04

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-proposes-massive-budget-cuts-to-science/

Researcher exodus/brain drain:

https://medium.com/scitech-forefront/science-funding-cuts-break-the-research-pipeline-ce02c7073253

Meanwhile, the US sits in the corner playing with their feces

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Agreed. Most people, generally, tend to be good individually. We recognize we’re all humans. We all get hungry, we all love, we all struggle.

It’s the vocal minority that are bigoted and utilize DARVO just like rapists and billionaires 🤷‍♂️. They very well may be on a sociopathic spectrum and/or have devolved by losing empathy, which humans evolved to build society and community and thrive together.

Chasing that diamond in league.

Who am I kidding, they’re chasing silver.

It’s just Asmeinkampf and his filth that give most of us a bad name being a loud minority.

Most gamers who play more than CoD and League tend to engage more with the medium and stories that are told, able to empathize with the characters and introspect upon our own lives, similar to any other form of art/media. Arguably, sometimes even on a deeper level given the interactive nature of the medium.

We couldn’t be further from someone like Marc Andreessan who believes he’s a genius and proudly states he has no introspection. Yet we’re the ones that take the brunt of criticism. Thanks Epstein for your fucking psyop in the gaming alt right sphere.

We’re closer than we were, and I appreciate you engaging honestly. But I think the “capitalism as a tool” framing is where we still fundamentally diverge.

A tool is neutral. A hammer doesn’t have preferences on what it impacts. Capitalism does. It has a built-in optimization function that rewards specific behaviors regardless of who wields it or what guardrails are placed around it. It rewards the accumulation of capital. It rewards externalizing costs onto workers, communities, and ecosystems because those costs don’t appear on a balance sheet. It rewards buying political influence because the return on investment is demonstrably higher than almost any other capital deployment. That’s the system executing its own logic correctly.

You’re describing a government that “interferes where needed” to correct those outcomes. I’m asking who controls that government and why we should expect it to maintain that independence indefinitely against an opponent that compounds its political influence the same way it compounds its capital. Europe is the test case and the results are coming in. The interference is losing ground. European governments haven’t stopped wanting to intervene but because the structural pressure never stops and the political will to resist it has to be continuously regenerated while capital only has to keep pushing, it is a system you’ll never win against.

You said it yourself: the correct implementation doesn’t exist. Only one that minimizes harm. I’d push that further: a system whose internal logic actively works against minimizing harm isn’t a tool, but instead a system doing what it was designed to do. The harm is the output of the optimization function running correctly.

At some point “we need better regulation” becomes “we need to replace the thing that keeps eating the regulation.” That’s where I am. With as much abundance as we have within the world, why must we restrict ourselves to a single system of economics that has been proven to fail, that is both anti-democratic and anti-life?

As is often said, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, eh?

I’m sorry, but I have to vehemently disagree.

Europe is a useful example but not in the way you think.

The Nordic and Western European mixed economies you’re pointing to weren’t built by capitalism behaving itself. They were built by strong labor movements, socialist parties, and the credible threat of communist revolution making concessions politically necessary for capital to survive. The welfare state wasn’t capitalism working as intended but was capitalism being forced to share under duress. The moment that pressure lifted, the erosion started.

And it is eroding. Housing crises in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin. Healthcare privatization creeping into NHS and other systems. Austerity gutting social programs across Southern Europe. The same private equity firms extracting the same rents from the same essential services. The guardrails aren’t holding because capital accumulates political influence the same way it accumulates capital. Continuously, patiently, and structurally. It doesn’t need to win every fight but instead keeps the pressure on, just aa it has in the US.

The US didn’t fail to regulate capitalism in that Americans are uniquely stupid or uniquely corrupt (they are plenty of both though, I’m American, I know). It failed because capital had enough runway to capture the regulatory apparatus before the guardrails were fully built. Europe had a head start on the welfare state and is watching it get dismantled anyway. The difference is timeline rather than trajectory.

So yes, regulated capitalism produces better outcomes than what we have. Which is authoritarianism, greatest wealth disparity, lowest health outcomes, etc etc. The question is whether those outcomes are stable without continuously fighting the same structural forces that produced American oligarchy in the first place. History suggests they aren’t. Which means the guardrails aren’t a solution. They’re a holding action that requires winning the same political fight indefinitely against an opponent that compounds its advantages over time.

At some point you have to address the root, not just keep patching the symptoms. And that root, friend, is capitalism. A system designed to extract profit. The foundation is to amass profit, and the only way to do that is through exploitation. Capitalism rewards the most narcissistic, the most unempathetic, the most willing to exploit. And whenever capital amasses, it just becomes a simple math problem where buying influence results in deregulation which results in greater profits.

We’ve a planet full of life, nature, food, wonder, and instead we created debt, war, and capiralism. How can such a flawed system ever be implemented “correctly?” Instead, the American way is the intended implementation of capitalism. It always was.

Democracy poses political risk to authoritarians so…yeah, Palantir and “age verificatiom” is a great idea

Nothing becomes affordable in the US. We run on capitalism. How would oligarchs make more money if they lowered prices?

But capturing consumers, establishing monopolies, and stifling innovation? Hell yeah, let’s burn this place down! (Literally, like, sea levels are rising, water is becoming scarce, species and ecosystems are going extinct, etc)

Because their fundamentalist religion is based on oppression and conversion. Crusades and all that.

Exactly what I said would happen.

Me smrt billionaire, me track token quantity. Dat look good. Use most tokens iz gud. Wat does kwalitee mean?

And when we convict this motherfucker and his family and his administration of pedophile billionaires, it damn well better be THEIR money paying to rebuild and not the taxpayers. Hold the scum accountable.

Yet why aren’t we recording all of their pedophilia, fraud, etc?

All billionaires are pedophiles and fraudsters unless proven innocent in my opinion.

You’re doing the same thing that the asshat in the video does. “Oh, what are you, some kid? That’s not how the law works.”

It’s called an ad hominem fallacy. Regardless of someone’s appearance or stature, whether they look like a cartoon character who investigates mysteries (very fitting), that has nothing to do with their intelligence or the substance of their argument.

You then use a whataboutism fallacy claiming “well, what if x y or z happens.” Again, this distracts from the substance of the points being made and the evidence collected. We cannot control “what ifs.” What if a nearby supermassive black hole emits a quasar that atomizes our entire solar system? That might make it harder for them to win the case.

People have to protect people, as the videos show, corporations will fuck you and weaponize the justice system against you with overwhelming capital and former slave catchers will cover it up.

I don’t think there are many bots on here so I can only assume you’re a capitalist propagandist or just severely and painfully ignorant.

Conservatism.

Just…all of it lol.

Being hesitant to change and wanting to temper out things and make sure things are imolemented effectively is one thing. And ensuring we respect tradition and culture is another (though progressives are more in line with that lol.)

Today’s conservatism is just hate and bigotry. And they don’t even recognize it as such.

Does anyone expect an unplanned rapid disassembly?

You pay people more and keep them working at their best by providing them with robuat benefits, time off, and job/financial security so they can account for, plan, and mitigate shit like this.

But noooo, layoffs, and “don’t tax me more, 40% of fed tax is payed by 1% of earners, which I’m not cause my income is 80K suckers! Work fast, break things, die faster slaves.”

Ive just used them by logging in on my pc on a privacy focused browser. Haven’t even tried on the phone.

GrapheneOS is doing fairly well right now for my needs. And I’ve been getting and supporting as many open source, privacy respecting apps as possible.

Honestly, it’s been kind of fun and heartening to learn about all of these projects that people are building because they’re passionate, driven, and want to help people. All without a stupid profit motive.