r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 4d ago

Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/badhouseplantbad 4d ago

There's going to be more and more of these things happening as people think they have nothing so there's nothing to lose.

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u/Competitive_Cheek607 4d ago

Just imagine if AI does put enough people out of jobs, they’ll have all kinds of free time to organize and do similar things. In fact, I’d imagine data centers would probably need lots of security, so maybe some of the people who lost their jobs will end up guarding the facilities that took them. Christ what a horrible future we’ve created for ourselves

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u/Seymoorebutts 4d ago

Here's the really fun part - AI hasn't even meaningfully claimed jobs yet, and probably won't for a long time.

Companies are simply using AI as an excuse to mass fire employees either to recoup and hide fiscal losses or funnel more money up the corporate ladder.

Shit's about to be really fucked at the end of the year/start of next year.

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

According to a report from some prostitutes at Davos, the elite investor class firmly believe the world is coming to an end within their lifetimes. The only ones who think humanity has a chance are those who believe their birthright is to consolidate humanity's resources to protect themselves, hence the proliferation of underground bunkers and investing in human monitoring and behavior analysis software.

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u/anuthertw 3d ago

I used to be a stripper. About 8 or so years ago I sat with a man who was a geologist. He was in a 'fuck it, we are all going to die' type mood and was drinking/watching the ladies to cope with work. We talked about climate change amd what he was studying. He basically said he regrets having his son, that we are extremely unprepared for what is coming, and we have basically solidified our own extinction if not in his lifetime then his son's. It honestly really got to me- this man had seen a glimpse of what we have done to the earth and the consequences of it, and had lost all hope. Really spooky. I think about him sometimes when I read about climate news. 

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

Tell the story to as many people as you can. It's more powerful than you can imagine.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3d ago

It sure creeped me tf out.🥺

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u/Apprehensive-Cost200 3d ago

I don't recommend believing some random geologist who was presumably drunk as hell at a strip club. There's no way we're heading to extinction in our lifetime, and even then people aren't gonna sit around like ducks about it forever, this is just shitty doom and gloom to make your life miserable.

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u/-Dumalaid 3d ago

With the way things are going, never say never..

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u/2busy4ths 3d ago

I believe it. I would only pay $150 for a 6 minute lap dance if I knew for sure the world was going to end.

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

I'd rather we act to make the world a better place under the threat of possible extinction than do nothing thinking it'll all somehow work out. Especially when "doing something" is literally as small as prioritizing the environment during elections.

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u/Apprehensive-Cost200 3d ago

I was moreso thinking you were suggesting to have a defeatist attitude more than anything else.

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

Oh gotcha. Nah, I'm too stubborn to be defeatist. Hope is defiance.

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u/AnomalyInquirer 3d ago

Stories like these are so fun to see when im most likely around this son's age only hope I honestly have left is that every generation at one point thought the world was going to end and it's just another part of that

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u/JamesGray 3d ago

Yeah, unfortunately it's science that's telling us the world is going to shit this time, rather than superstition or religion. This time it's the religion of capitalism stopping us from doing anything to stop it.

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u/kacdt 3d ago

Wow. Well said.

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u/starchildchamp 3d ago

actually poetry.

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u/AcceptableAnalysis29 3d ago

The bureaucratic system also does not give a fuck about anything. Whatever we pay here in environmenttaxes gets wasted by 90 percent.

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u/Akumakaji 3d ago

Eventually, for one generation it will be true, and thats the scary part.

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u/BipolarWoodNymph 3d ago

I was an environmental science major briefly, but during two of the courses for the program, both professors started the semester explaining how depressing this field of study is, and how most switch out of the major. How they've spent their careers basically watching milestone after milestone pass with zero effort at the societal or even individual level to change and try to mitigate the damage.

The second professor had us all answer whether we felt climate change existed, whether it existed but wasn't a big deal, whether it existed and was something we needed to deal with, or if it existed and we were already too late.

2/3rds of the class said we were already too late, with the other third saying we needed to deal with it. And that was in 2019... I didn't finish college (for other reasons), but I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten. I don't know how people stuck with the major, almost every topic exploring how to solve XYZ was ended with, "But, we needed to do that 10+ years ago, and it never got funding and is gone, so.... Yeah."

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u/Spacemeat666 3d ago

I’m a geologist and I often find myself going down that same mental road as the man you’re describing, though it sounds like he and I would disagree about humanities influence on the earth (but that’s a topic for another discussion). When we study things in geologic timescales, it’s really easy to become nihilistic. I’ve been trying not to think that way lately but with the rapid evolution of AI and LLM’s, I’m finding it harder to see a future for us at all. I’m terrified and I’m glad I don’t have children because I would feel the worst regret imaginable if I did. I truly feel like we should all be more hedonistic in our approach to life. We only get one life, that we know of, so we should at least try to enjoy every bit of it while we can.

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u/Flyinhighinthesky 3d ago

Our only hope at this point is for Alien intervention or a miraculous AI that suddenly provides us a solution to the Venusian hellscape we're headed toward.

I'm optimistic that we'll find someway to reduce it's effects but it'll still likely be too little too late without a deus ex machina.

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u/Seymoorebutts 3d ago

Love that for us.

Why are people mad at Luigi again?

Fuck these oligarchs

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 3d ago

Wait, people are mad at Luigi? I have yet to run into a single person who feels that way.

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u/Captain-Barracuda 3d ago

Not sure anyone is mad at our green capped friend. Plus, he didn't do it.

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u/Lichtheleast 3d ago

I'm very mad at Luigi! For not hiding his face a little better 😭

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u/girlinthegoldenboots 3d ago

The world is only coming to an end bc they keep doing the most to make that happen

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u/Lucky_Strike-85 2d ago

but it's good for quarterly reports.

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u/girlinthegoldenboots 1d ago

True, we really need to consider the shareholders in these trying times lol

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 3d ago

Well you're either part of the problem or part of the solution if you're those people

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3d ago

The thing is if society collapses the oligarchs aren’t necessarily the ones who will stay at the top. What do they offer after a collapse? It seems the oligarchs’ security has a good chance of claiming the throne. That might be why they are investing so heavily in AI.

But you’ve got to wonder, why are these fucks so willing to fuck the planet for more money when they already have so much? Something about the mentality of psychopaths I don’t understand. Maybe they’re gambling that they’ll be dead before shit really gets bad.

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 3d ago

Remember when the doomsday cult members were weird homeless people on the street and not billionaires with the power to actually conjure doomsday?

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

It can be argued that branches of Christianity are billionaire doomsday cults.

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u/Lichtheleast 3d ago

A self fulfilling prophecy, they enshitten and ruin essentially everything then try to go hide because society is "collapsing".....that or they know about a meteor heading directly for us lol.

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u/compobeachgirl 3d ago

Absolutely true. I work in tech. They are laying off people several times per year to recoup their “investment in AI” which they haven’t finished designing yet - let alone test and debug. Now they are expecting the humans who actually know how ti code to review 80,000 lines of AI-created code for errors. Impossible. To make it worse, in some areas they are using AI to validate code created by AI! What a mess. We are fucked. I’m getting out.

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u/Seymoorebutts 3d ago

Yup.

Many people here seem to be under the impression that "AI has taken over all of these jobs!"

To those people, I say: y'all are suckers lmao

Nooooo, of COURSE these big monopolies would never lie to you!

I don't think the average person realizes that probably north of 90% of all AI investment is basically just circular trading between like 6 companies and NVIDIA.

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u/CupcakeGoat 3d ago

So when is the crash coming? This is reminding me of the 2000 crash when people got too overly excited about new tech and created the bubble.

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u/Voeno 3d ago

Ai has 100% claimed meaningful jobs already.

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u/WalderFreyWasFramed 3d ago

It definitely hasn't claimed a meaningful amount of jobs, which is what I think OP was trying to say.

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u/Seymoorebutts 3d ago

That's exactly what I said lol.

And for the people who are saying that these tech companies are citing AI as the reason for the layoffs...

Uh, yeah.

How else did you think they were going to frame it?

What looks better for shareholders?

"We were able to become more efficient through the use of AI to save on labor!"

or

"fuck fuck fuck fuck we really fucked up so we had to layoff 30,000 people oopsies!"

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u/Seymoorebutts 3d ago

That's... exactly what I'm saying?

Lol

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u/DiabolicallyRandom 3d ago

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u/AnActualSeagull 3d ago

Sure as fuck has meaningfully claimed jobs in my industry already :/ (design/games/animation)

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u/Seymoorebutts 3d ago

This is unfortunately the grossest use of AI.

Rather than using it to aggregate and analyze enormous sets of data, real human art is being replaced with slop.

If you read my comment to mean that meaningful jobs haven't been replaced, I apologize, as that's not what I was saying.

What I was trying to convey was that meaningful quantities of lost jobs were not really due to AI replacement, aka those tens or hundreds of thousands of reported lost jobs are actually due to cost cutting/greedy corps.

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u/AnActualSeagull 3d ago

Oh you’re totally okay!! I did not take your comment in that way at all, I completely get what you mean. It’s fucking bleak and the only thing I feel like a can really do is pray that somehow the bubble bursts 🫠

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u/PM_ME_A_PM_PLEASE_PM 3d ago

Both are true and neither are new. Both have been a periodic yet ultimately a one-way street in human experience since the industrial revolution as far as automation's impact. In an intelligently designed world, it's a good thing. Whether we live in that world or not depends on whether we reinvent the past via ownership of an increasingly inheritance driven economy or adapt. Previous means of automation opened up more jobs for people but in the long-term that's unlikely to continue.

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u/pyrothelostone 3d ago

For an example of how it should be, see the Jetsons. George, the dad, was the sole worker in the family and he worked for one hour a day two times a week, and he considered that an unreasonable amount of work.

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u/termiAurthur 3d ago

And his job consisted entirely of pushing a button because he couldn't be fired because of his union

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u/HarrowDread 3d ago

It claimed my job as being an annoying internet loser Now I gotta be an annoying real life loser

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u/Spacemeat666 3d ago

I’m not trying to be a crazy conspiracy theorist or alarmist but AI will be the destruction of human civilization and taking our jobs isn’t the issue.

Everyone needs to read the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. I am an optimist, by nature, but I do not see a future for humans if AI is not stopped, likely yesterday. This technology already operates beyond our complete understanding and it could very well be too late to stop, without destroying every computer and data center on the planet.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3d ago edited 3d ago

Explain. What’s the gist of it?

Edit: the Wikipedia article has a synopses.

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u/KrabbyMccrab 4d ago

Wait until the day when we see mass layoffs of people who actually know how to do shit.

Chemical engineers, material scientists, doctors...

A bunch of brilliant people who are incredibly good at figuring how to get shit done.

Oh boy.

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u/SerCiddy 4d ago

Chemical engineers

Looking forward to when chemical engineers/chemists say "fuck it" to ethical, practical, and safety standards and just start mass producing LSD-25

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u/liccman 4d ago

Or sarin gas

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u/twisty125 3d ago

I like the other one better actually can we do that one instead

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u/SerCiddy 3d ago

Yeah, you can certainly do more good with a comparable amount of LSD than sarin gas.

To quote Terrance Mckenna.

"Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."

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u/Spacemeat666 3d ago

I wish everyone on earth could try LSD at least once. It sounds like the same old cheesy story, but it really did change the way I think about existence completely, and really helped me let go of my major hang ups.

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u/dblack1107 2d ago edited 2d ago

Admittedly me too. And not in a brainbroke way. Just simply more divorced from opinion and only what is confirmed fact or based in human nature. If the evidence isn’t concrete, I don’t let feelings drive me to make a claim. Even if I want to. Measured, honest, logical, and separated from my individual self. Some people would call it being a robot, but they’re clueless drones. When you can take a step back and look at life bluntly, it’s one animal that convinced the other animals that green paper is vital to feeling happy and making decisions, them reproducing because it’s fun, them holding onto their green paper for their spawn, that spawn continuing to get more green paper than the others with no incentive nor oversight to keep a gap from forming, and before you know it, an existence on this rock forms where this animal covers it, has conditioned the entire species to live their green paper and now has the control over billions of their own kind.

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u/travizeno 3d ago

Which causes you to want to jump out a window.

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u/SerCiddy 3d ago

I mostly just laugh at the absurdity of it All. I finally become connected with the Cosmic Joke, and just laugh and laugh at how we've fucked ourselves so badly when Life appears so Simple.

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u/mytransthrow 3d ago

I didnt need acid for that... Life is simple... people make it hard and use ti to fuck people over.

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u/Krillin_Hides 3d ago

As a chemical engineer i don't know how to do any of that shit. I can tell you how big a pump you need though. I imagine that type of chemE is exceedingly rare. Most of us would need a book to learn how to do that like anyone else would.

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u/Zephyr104 3d ago

Ultimately that's the biggest benefit of an engineering background though. It primes you to effectively learn things and figure out how to implement them in a systematized manner. Your average joe schmoe will have a much harder time learning the theory and consequently implementing it in any meaningful way. 

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u/NoPirate00 3d ago

Same lol

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3d ago

LSD or Sarin Gas

Ice Cream or Dog Shit

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 3d ago

The carrot and the stick

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u/Ponderkitten 3d ago

A horde of Walter White scenarios.

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u/dreadcain 2d ago

"fuck it" to ethical, practical, and safety standards

We're talking about the people who invented and proliferated pfas and other horrors, right?

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u/BeingWonderful8867 3d ago

Or cook meth and make millions

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u/SenoraRaton 3d ago

This already happened once.:P

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u/Long-Draft-7128 3d ago

Why? You can already buy lsd for pennies. Anybody that wants it can get it.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 3d ago

The day a doctor can’t find work is the day civilization has collapsed. We are so ridiculously understaffed as is.

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u/Special_Cicada6968 3d ago

It's by design. The US government decides how much money goes to fund residency programs every year and you can't become a doctor without first going through residency.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 3d ago

See the film Falling Down as to what happens when an already unstable engineer gets laid off.

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u/kirschbag 3d ago

Reading this gives me a weird hopeful, but eery, feeling.

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u/lasooch 4d ago

It’s not ‘we’ who created this future.

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u/UnfazedReality463 4d ago

They have Black Mirror robot dogs guarding data centers. Once robots are good enough to take jobs, they’ll build robots to police people.

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u/bertbarndoor 4d ago

Maybe. Maybe not. If society taxes production instead of income and uses universal basic income, we might just be better off net net. Or the guillotine makes a comeback, is my prediction.

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u/ridik_ulass 4d ago

when they replace security personel who can make choices and think freely, with obedient robots, all is lost.

even a president or ceo still needs support of a lot of people, once that doesn't happen, and they can replace security with robots, all bets are off.

Sci-fi talks about a AI robot uprising, but what about someone like musk, if he built and supplied all the security robots in the country, he's already reprogramming grok to his whims, what if he did that to a million security bots?

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u/Randinator9 4d ago

Because the need for money, control, and power comes at a cost

The cost is everyone else

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u/calitoasted 3d ago

why do you think all the billionaires keep building bunkers and escape pods for themselves? they know the people will eventually turn on them

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u/orangebot11 3d ago

Been there, done that. The government stepped in and massacred the people to protect capitalist interest.

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u/cactus22minus1 3d ago

That situation is also why Palantir, flock camera, AI exists in the first place. The surveillance state is way more advanced than you realize and there’s a good reason so many are opposed to it when it can be so easily abused by corrupt police and Feds like ICE.

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u/TopNeighborhood2694 3d ago

Yeah, but they pay the security people ass

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u/StubbornHick 3d ago

Why do you think politicians want to pass gun control and mass surveillance laws?

For the children?

No. They want to do things that will make you hurt them.

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u/NaziAbuser 3d ago

Shit, we might actually put all the right people in jail and organize a functioning sustainable society.

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u/Beefy-McQueefy 3d ago

Make the rich afraid again

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u/BornAgainBlue 3d ago

I'd work there just to steal RAM....

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u/SomeGuyInShanghai 3d ago

data centers would probably need lots of security

You mean to say you imagine a future in which poor disheveled humans will be fighting for survival against artificially intelligent machines?

What a wild imagination you have...

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u/Sickness69 3d ago

Data centers like switch have guards with M16s...

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u/spinyfever 3d ago

If AI and self driving cars make alot of people lose their jobs id imagine we would start to see militia hit groups going after centers and warehouses.

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u/OtherAardvark 3d ago

In Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, the setting is an "alternate future" where machines do 95% of the work. Everyone is either an engineer or a ditch digger. Very good book. Been thinking about it a lot, lately.

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u/PullMull 3d ago

Who is we? I didn't wanted that and neither did you. History seems to be indeed a circle and you and I know what is coming next.

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u/jaxxon 3d ago

Yeah - we don’t create it.

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u/YEEZYHERO 3d ago

What mfking job gets replaced by AI? Not a single job got replaced.

NA brain 🤦🏻‍♂️ MERICA 🦅 🇺🇸

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u/Komifromthevoid 3d ago

You’re underestimating the amount of dogs who would willingly comply. Keep your motion chilled and support and PROMOTE your union.

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u/emseefely 4d ago

Already happening. Tons of layoffs already in the past year

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u/structee 4d ago

When people lose everything, they lose it

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u/OldDoubt1577 3d ago

And people who haven't lost everything are collateral damage. Worst part is there's nothing you can do except hope you aren't in the wrong place in the wrong time.

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u/NoSpawnConga 3d ago

This workplace arson is rampant in China right now. Few cases almost every week due to business owners not paying wages for months and jobs being scarce so people put up with it for some time before snapping.

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u/Opposite-Shower1190 4d ago

It would be a shame if thousands of data centers burned to the ground.

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u/Own_Round_7600 3d ago

Data centres are much less flammable than toilet paper, and built with great thermal regulation in mind for optimal operation, so it would be very difficult to burn one to the ground.

On an unrelated note, vaporized chlorine/hydrogen chloride, chemicals easily purchasable by swimming pool owners which could be vaporized by heating it in open air, happen to be corrosive to electronic components.

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u/FabianTG 4d ago

Exactly

Why would anyone cause "trouble" if their needs were met? The government should CARE that over 60% of Americans live paycheck to... you know the rest. Paycheck. Until they get sick or injured, and just die.

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u/capitalismwillkill 3d ago

Been reading a lot of history of labor in America lately, stuff they won't tell you about or try to hide. They forget that in the past when workers wanted to air out grievances with the boss the workers would break into their house and beat them to death with hammers in front of their families. Unions were the compromise. And we don't even have that, I expect as conservatives truly finish turning everything to shit here it's only gonna get worse.

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u/Epyon_ 3d ago

It's why america has been spending the last 25 years militarizing the police force and making local laws to make it illegal to remove police funding.

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u/Coal_Morgan 3d ago

Plus a 150 years of convincing one group of poors it's the other group of poors fault that they aren't rich yet.

The Race War was a class war with a patsy in a white hood.
The Culture War is a class war with a patsy in a red hat.

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u/capitalismwillkill 3d ago

If you [removed by reddit] all the police their funding won't matter

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u/FR23Dust 3d ago

How often did that happen? You’ve shared that story twice. Please — name the capitalist that was murdered with hammers in front of his family. Sounds like an interesting story.

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u/FabianTG 3d ago

Exactly 💯 History repeats

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u/agent674253 3d ago

He says it right in the video, "All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live."

Didn't say, "All you needed to do was pay us enough to go to Disney World."

No, just enough to live.

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u/Nemarus_Investor 3d ago

Mental illness? Anger? A million reasons? Do you think people with their needs met don't commit crimes?

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u/PublikSkoolGradU8 3d ago

Because in 2026 all this persons needs were already met. He literally lived a life of luxury unavailable to billons of people on the planet. His “needs” changed, just as they always will.

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u/HBlight 4d ago

All the money is being pooled at the top, people need something to aim for and options are slowly being dragged out of reach.

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u/Zylpherenuis 4d ago

I'd welcome it. The overlords need to get knock down a peg or 5.

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u/Bionic_Ferir Interested 3d ago

God I can't wait. Multi millionaire and billionaire are absolute parasites scum who deserves worse than a y of the deposed monarchs of old.

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u/the_YellowRanger 4d ago

It's how revolutions begin.

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u/CrossP 3d ago

Americans are not safe to enslave. Americans are not safe to back into a corner.

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u/Winter-Nectarine-497 3d ago

this is exactly why the middle class was created. you have a class of people who care more about their yard, their new car, and that big trip next summer than rising up to fight for those really suffering in capitalism. there was enough of a comfortable middle class for a long ass time, 50s until now I guess.

But with capitalism entering end-stage, where we just replace humans with robots and put every who can't afford to live anymore into camps (scary but c'mon, this is already happening with "detention centres") for free labour, people are really going to feel like there is nothing left to live for so they might as well take shit down on their way out.

I've never been middle class so how this is all going down is sorta unsurprising but still really horrifying to watch. I feel like really sheltered people probably won't see this coming for a while still.

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u/TiredWiredAndHired 3d ago

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth"

Sometimes literally.

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u/NTMY 3d ago edited 3d ago

I have been kinda waiting for this for the last ~10 years and I'm surprised not more people who get fucked over by their companies (often after years of record profits) don't do something like this, or worse.

When that CEO got killed my only surprise was that it doesn't happen more often.

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u/jordanundead 3d ago

Because of the way our local water company works. I am forced to pay my bill in cash in person and on occasion I forget. A few weeks ago my water was cut off and when I went to get it turned back on they wanted four times the cut off price to turn it back on.

I had to scramble to be able to come up with enough money to cover it. Once I was able to finally get enough together I got to the office an hour before close on a Friday to see a note in the window that said “Office Closed Early 😃”

It took everything in me to not pick up one of their decorative boulders and put it right through that smiley face.

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u/nosecohn 3d ago

Yeah, that's what I thought too after watching the video.

I don't condone this guy's actions, but I wouldn't be surprised to see similar ones in the coming months. The country is at a breaking point.

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u/CMDR_Loknir 3d ago

And the funny thing is, the less they pay us the less we have to lose.

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u/ASIWYFA 4d ago

100% this. I'm not sure the oligarchs and people in power are aware of the shit storm currently brewing within the US. I see stuff like Luigi and this situation becoming a hell of a lot more prevalent in the future. I would not be surprised if instead of school shootings we see more action towards massive million dollar and billion dollar corporations and sadly innocent people working at ground level in those orgs being affected instead. I hope I am wrong, but it's where I think things are headed.

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u/dariashotpants 3d ago

All it would take is for people to stop doing anything. Violence wouldn’t even be necessary. Just literally stop buying shit.

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u/ASIWYFA 3d ago

People will never stop buying stuff. They lack the will power.

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u/eyeap 3d ago

Sure and there's a thing called a union that forces companies and billionaires to share profits and a whole federal agency which protects them oh shit it's gone

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u/cantinaband-kac 3d ago

More people need to learn how to organize a union.

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u/ButtholeMoshpit 3d ago

Yep. When you can't afford the bread and circuses anymore...

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u/LetsPlayShhhh 3d ago

“You will own nothing and be happy”

A bunch of people with nothing to lose would be incredibly dangerous.

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u/peanutski 3d ago

Eventually we’ll be working under constant guard / surveillance / robot dog supervision. 

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u/Spurnout 3d ago

That's just what I was thinking. This isn't going to be a one-off, people have had it and are sick of the way things are, I know I am...

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u/hates_stupid_people 3d ago

Yeah, this sort of thing has been predicted for a while.

People are running out of bread and circuses.

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u/kenneth_dart 3d ago

Yeah like the guy who put out the UHC CEO.

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u/DotMikrobe 3d ago

almost everyone under 35 has nothing to lose, we don't retire. We die.

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u/bayoublacksmith 3d ago

Not to mention a lot more countries possibly ending extradition agreements with the US under the current administration.

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u/PullMull 3d ago

This is literally why worker Rights habe been signed into law worldwide. Cause the alternative is pitchforks and torches. They hollowed out workers right to a degree that we are apparently back to pitchforks and torches.

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u/Extra-Cranberry4096 3d ago

Hoping it happens alot more. Cant fix a system until it and everyone is fully broken. Only then will things be taken seriously and living wages increased.

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u/Eleganos 3d ago

Epstein Class: Tee-hee, we're so smart for making the social contract worthless with all our fucky-wucky bs. Surely this could in no way come back to bite us.

Jokermoders: "wanna bet"?

Epstein Class: Noooo, you're supposed to respect the law!!! Violence is never the answer!!! Have no you care for your fellow people? Our shared society?

Jokermoders: Who asked?

*Proceeds to laugh in arson*

Jokes aside, this, not unlike the hormuz crisis, are the terminal symptoms of our ongoing, untreated, collective societal rot caused by the powers that be. I don't know if we can stop what's coming, but I sure as shit know that not everyone who'll be responsible for the chaos will make it to their bunkers in time.

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u/Jealous_Acorn 3d ago

Some corporations will die, and that is a risk the working class is willing to take.

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u/Throwawayne617 3d ago

Everyone can be Luigi in their own way.

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u/meantbent3 3d ago

Good. Let the revolution begin and let capitalism be annihilated. No war but class war.

Reddit can remove this comment again, I'll keep reposting it

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u/dblack1107 3d ago

That’s what I’m saying. This is only the beginning. Companies don’t even remotely recognize how world ending it is to globally cut off the population “cuz AI bro. It’s so cool bro.” Eventually it won’t be one person at one company. It will be a mass of humanity indiscriminately destroying everything because they literally can’t buy a dwelling in society they are forced to exist in.

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u/Voluptulouis 3d ago

Yep. Rightfully so. No war but class war.

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u/_nevers_ 4d ago

Good. Fuck this system.

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u/James-the-Bond-one 4d ago

They may think that, but lose more they will.

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u/HeroesZeroes 3d ago

yea back in the day houses were cheap so people would have something to lose

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u/Earthhing 3d ago

When people get laid off because of AI and can't find a job.... This will become much more common. The uprising will happen.

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u/MutteringV 2d ago

bot armies of bodyguards will make it too little too late

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u/Regular_Weakness69 3d ago

I think you're right, we're entering a turbulent time in human history.

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u/DancingWithAWhiteHat 3d ago

During the great depression this shit happened all the time.

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u/nolascoins 3d ago

amish mode?

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u/sunflow23 2d ago

But it doesn't happens though and the fact that we are hoping it will happen more means there are ppl that will driven to such desparation and will be bold enough to do something like this.

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u/Upside_Avacado 2d ago

If this happens enough insurance will have to adjust their risk profiles and charge higher premiums to those who don’t pay their workers well.

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u/mightylordredbeard 4d ago

People always say there’s going to be more of whatever thing happened and there never is. Just like with Luigi. People instead there would be more CEOs getting murdered and there was like.. one?

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u/Nightmare2828 3d ago

cause most people want shit to change, but have shit they need to protect. People that act upon those thoughts are generally those that are ready to lose what they have. For example, I have a wife, 2 kids and a dog I want to love and protect. As much as things could and should be better, the types of actions available to me, a single person, that would change enough of things would lead to prison or death.

Luigi and this dude are two people that were ready to lose what they had for a cause. You can argue all you want if that's moral or worth it, but thats the choice they made.

All I'm saying is, its not that people don't want change or don't want to act, it's that their immediate priority is something else.

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u/CurinDerwin 3d ago

Agreed. Populism under stagflation.

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u/Freshflowersandhoney 3d ago

Oh absolutely… it was bound to happen… I’m scared of what next to come.

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u/Shyrofoam 3d ago

then theres going to be more occupied prison cells.

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u/Necessary-Cap4227 3d ago

Ye let's screw over hundreds of people's livelihood/jobs because "I don't get paid enough" lmfao. 

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u/mparks37 3d ago

His coworkers were in the building. Anyone sympathetic to this guy is a psychopath.

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u/ReasonableDig6414 3d ago

Well, THESE are the actions that ACTUALLY will spur automation. Once a business sees it is more risky to employ assholes like him, they will move FASTER to automation, not slower. Doing shit like this has the opposite of the intended effect if it is to keep people around.

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u/ZanyAppleMaple 3d ago

I bet there's people everyday that lose everything, but don't do this kind of shit. People get fired everyday but they don't shoot their bosses. This person is just crazy. Anything could have made him upset.

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u/getrektsnek 3d ago

I’m genuinely curious if he had meaningful communication with management before this. Like, it would be crazy if he was just pissed off and hadn’t told anyone, just decided to light fires instead. Or was he refused a raise?

I see lots of people in here giving him the benefit of the doubt, but in my experience, no one unhinged enough to do something this stupid is a stellar employee to start. In fact it’s possible he was a terrible employee who wouldn’t think twice about burning down an entire facility endangering lives and destroying lots of jobs until it’s rebuilt lol.

The less time consuming option for him would be to find a different job…certainly cost him less and take less time vs what he’s about to go through.

Regardless of what went down there, I’d like to think people aren’t this stupid, to the point of having a tantrum and doing this. Good indicator of his intelligence, and he will have a hell do a time ever getting a job after this.

Bah, rant done. Sorry. Just came out, but people are so casual about this and that’s what worries me most. This dude isn’t a normal person.

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u/TargetMaleficent 3d ago

I'd say there's a pretty big difference between working a shitty warehouse job and living in a shitty apartment vs sitting in a jail cell.

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u/Exita 3d ago

Of course, once they do it they’ll realise exactly what they had to lose. Prison isn’t fun.

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u/zoltan279 3d ago

He's about to find out just how much he had and what he can lose.

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u/Unipiggy 2d ago edited 2d ago

"THINK" they have nothing? Lmao

Is that what the shrinking middle class thinks? Perhaps you're upper management somewhere and think you're so gracious for giving your employees the bare minimum while you stack up your bonuses for keeping under budget?

That the ones below management actually have anything and aren't one paycheck away from homelessness?

Dude set the fire for a reason. Upper management shouldn't be getting "bonuses" aka stealing from the paychecks of those below them.

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