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[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

Obviously this statement underscores the fact that Google has too much power. Break those motherfuckers up!

[-] zaft@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

Why do we listen to these CEOs anyway?

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

Resolution: compost & remediate ~~schmidt~~ shit. Avoid smearing ~~shit~~ schmidt on everything.

Putting it in a bunker hasn't helped it return nutrients back to environment effectively.

[-] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 6 hours ago

They're meetable, it's just the death cult of oil manufacturers don't care.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 28 points 6 hours ago

Kind of like speeding toward a cliff but he doesn’t think we can stop in time. Instead, he wants to floor it in the hopes of hopping the gap and landing safely on the other side.

That is certainly one of the ideas I’ve ever heard.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

He’s just saying the quiet part out loud. Billion dollar corporations have never had any interest in doing anything to solve the climate crisis. Lots of the failure of late stage capitalism is that companies are driving off the cliff. It’s about extracting as much now so that CEOs can live large and hope their progeny gets to colonize Mars (which won’t happen.)

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

It's more like he's hoping his car sprouts wings and turbines

[-] Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Unhinged AI will solve anything human made by getting us killed. That will work very fast because there is no "human made" climate change when there is "no human".

I also hate how they went from "human made climate change does not exist so we can keep everything as it is" to "we can't meet the goals anyway so we can keep everything as it is" and how many people fall for it.

They want to keep their money and power at all cost and at this point I question more and more if we can take it from them peacfully. We have to take it to make a better world possible or even survival possible, because they will not be helpful ever.

[-] Dabundis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

"I don't have to change my behavior" is the most trivially easy thing for anyone to convince themself.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Possible translation: "Let the wealthiest among us consolidate even more wealth while we wreck shit for the rest of you. We'd like to have complete control over you rubes while shit gets worse."

ETA: This is exactly the same rhetoric that oil and gas companies (and the politicians who've effectively been bought out by them) have used to justify further expansion well after knowing the danger that this poses.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 52 points 9 hours ago

They know how to meet climate goals.

They're just not sure how to do it while keeping power centralised in the same hands that currently hold it.

[-] Ithorian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Well said Sir

[-] yildolw@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago

It's 2050. The sea levels have risen 3 metres. Hurricane season lasts 9 months of the year.

Eric Schmidt: ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite, how do we solve global warming?

ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite: I don't know, but I drew you as a minor being abused unprompted.

[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Reminds me abit of the ending of Nier Automata, just now with less hope of a better future...

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 17 points 8 hours ago

I think that if we ate the rich, we'd move closer to our goals.

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

Compost the Rich!

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 40 points 10 hours ago

Remember in the 00s and 10s when tech companies promised they could solve every single problem, then proceeded to make everything worse?

Eric can go fuck himself.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 hours ago
[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 9 points 7 hours ago

Sounds like an Onion Article.

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[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 23 points 9 hours ago

name an american billionaire thats not a pos.

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Is the Patagonia guy a billionaire? He seems like a good dude.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago

name a~~n american~~ billionaire thats not a pos.

FTFY

[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago
[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Warren Buffett maybe? At least I haven't heard him be much of an asshole.

Gabe Newell is a billionaire and as far as I know awesome.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

is a billionaire and as far as I know awesome.

Then you don't know.

No one gets to be a billionaire without being an exploitative greedy piece of shit at best. No one.

Having a favourite flavour of leather doesn't make it any less self harming and counterproductive to lick.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 30 points 11 hours ago

To be fair, they're only not meetable because Google refuses to meet them.

Everything's impossible when you don't give a shit

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Everything’s impossible when you ~~don’t give a shit~~ keep it that way for profit

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Former CEO, current inhumane grifter chud, Eric Schmidt, who has been featured in a recent series of "saying the quiet silicon valley executive thought out loud"

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Do you want skynet? Because this is how you get skynet.

[-] 4vgj0e@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

These fuckers seriously need to just shut the fuck up and disappear.

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 7 points 9 hours ago

Not with that attitude, no... asshole! Unshackle AI companies? I'd rather guillotine them.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

Unshackle their head from their shoulders.

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 11 points 10 hours ago

We made our planet uninhabitable but for a short time we created tremendous value for shareholders.

[-] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Greed and corruption beyond belief

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