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As it turns out, replacing all the experienced and dedicated people in the federal government with sycophantic wackos and then dismantling it by yanking funding and closing departments doesn’t really allow it to operate all that well.

This is one of the many reasons that fascism doesn’t really work well as a long term type of government.

I’m sorry, I just don’t have the empathy to mourn Charlie Kirk. It would sully his memory.

I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.

Can’t play your new $80 game due to performance and crashing issues? Hey, if you’re a real fan you’ll find a way to make it happen.

Reminds me the Jackass 3D finale

Imagine being so utterly racist that go to Gaza to oppress people.

It is, this is the latest version, Dance Dance Revolution 4: G.SKILL edition.

This reminds me of ELIZA, a natural language processing program from the 60’s that induced what they coined as the ELIZA effect, a tendency to anthropomorphize the computer. Joseph Wizenbaum, the computer scientist who created ELIZA, wrote Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation in which he contends that while artificial intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions, as they will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.

Most people STILL have no concept of how digital mass surveillance functions, what it can do, and how it can be used to manipulate them right now, today. Now, it’s common practice to pour your heart out to and have intimate extended relationships with AI systems controlled by the very same corporate surveillance complex.

The danger is not that AI will become self aware and turn against humanity, it is that people will not realize that it has already been turned against us by its masters.

I’ve met seemingly normal people who think Tucker Carlson is a real political commentator with good ideas.

Usually, the penis must first be removed for the asshole to gape.

Well put. Marshner is essentially a televangelist - by “preaching the gospel”, she secures her endowment of wealth and immunity from religious prosecution. This system typifies the Trump regime, expanded to other things that people prone to magical thinking worry about - conspiracy theories, vaccines, folk medicine, etc.

It’s effective directly because it gives believers every chance to carry and spread a believable and reassuring lie, and to disregard or attack outsiders who try to inject rationality. Essentially, a cult.

The religious are obsessed with this because enforcement of “the nuclear family” offers them a wedge of control into the private lives of others. Marriage and children are under influenceable legislation by the state, which is why these people FREAK out when you mess with those legal institutions with things like marriage equality and abortion.

The ones at the top need the power to stay relevant and wealthy, and the flock eats up the flowery nonsense language about “faith” and “God’s plan.”

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Yea, we could like, have a system where everyone gets to cast a vote for who they want to lead them, and only the people with the most votes gets to make the decisions! Too bad our society is just run by whoever has the most money.

Jordan Petersen is definitely a philosopher and the kind of philosophy he engages in is professional sophistry.

The MBAs have taken over the world and are enshitifying entire safety critical industries. They’ve been testing how high they can get the stock price/deaths ratio before someone makes them stop. This is why some industries just shouldn’t be driven by profit, and very near the top of that list is aviation safety.

With the FAA overrun with industry goons and Trump appointees, and aircraft design flaws now acceptable as a cost of doing business, we can expect more regulatory cuts and bits of passenger strewn about the landscape.

If you know Flock, most of their cheap cameras go down all by themselves. Even when they’re operating as intended, their capture rates are under 70%, which is why you usually find them in pairs monitoring the same direction of traffic. That dinky solar panel can barely power them through the night so most of their cameras are dead in the early morning hours.

The only way Flock stays in business is by literally giving their cameras away by illegally installing them in municipalities and waiting for them to be ordered removed. You’d probably be doing most cities a favor by taking them down.

This crow fits my birdwave aesthetic. Total Corvus-core vibes.

I’m in my intelligent avian arc. I’m such a feather-pilled birdcel.

If a C- is enough to pass Analysis of Algorithms, then a Computer Science degree can make me a Computer Scientist. :P

Worse, religious fundamentalists.