6052 pts ยท February 14, 2015
Revelations was a thinly-veiled criticism of the emperor Nero, written in a way that they could plausibly deny what they were doing. It seems so familiar because they had an insane idiotic dictator supported by moneyed interests that were strip-mining their society as quickly as they could.
This one is closer to accurate (assuming every cookie is worth $70k) for a billionaire, but it would need to be several times larger for someone like Musk.
Oh come down off your incel-talking-points horse. To get more women in college, we removed systemic barriers that were keeping them out. What are the systemic barriers keeping men out of college now? The idea that all men get is "stop crying" is absolutely laughable.
Yeah! When are men finally going to get a fair shake in this world?
AOC may have said "defund the police" but I don't think she ever said "abolish the police". You've swallowed the propaganda that says those are the same thing. The only reason "defund the police" is conflated with abolition is because propaganda relentlessly lies about it. You can argue that they should use a different word than "defund", but I'd argue back that the propaganda will lie about it regardless. See: "Black lives matter" being portrayed as meaning white lives don't.
Basically zero candidates ran on "abolish the police". It wasn't a script that anyone who even sniffed actual political power ran on. Some left-leaning activists said it, meaning a very specific thing, and then you swallowed the propaganda that the right-wing media ecosystem relentlessly pushed saying that Democrats want to abolish police.
The US Government is poring through 3 years of financial records for people who participated in the ICE protests in Minnesota. Do you think that a law like HIPAA is going to keep them from getting into dissidents' AI therapy notes if those exist on a server somewhere?Having those notes stored locally won't make them entirely inaccessible from the government, but they'll certainly be harder to get than just some fascist nerd logging into an OpenAI government backdoor.
Probably true for some people, but as I've moved toward upper-middle class in my career I just see how much the system is tilted against people with less. I have investments that generate money for me, and the more money I have the more I get. I can afford higher-quality items that don't break down as quickly. I get better interest rates and lower fees. It's an insane system that is stacked against most people.
"The planet will be fine" as much as an inert ball of rock can be considered "fine". Everyone knows that "killing the planet" refers to biological life on the planet, which we are very much killing. And if we (unlikely) get into a runaway greenhouse scenario then the prospect of complex life on Earth could be over entirely.
It's fucking wild how in order to buy a product, you need to know whole corporate family trees, the owners of the companies, their policies to avoid slave labor, where they source raw materials, farming practices, how they treat their employees, diversity hiring practices, whether they have religious exemptions for their employees' healthcare plans, repairability, how they source their energy, and so on forever.I shouldn't need to do a graduate thesis for buying hand soap.
Sure. In the most clinical, literal sense you cannot prove a negative. But life would be pretty exhausting if you had to couch every single statement in that level of pedantry. A healthy model of belief allocates credence to things based on the probability of truth, which changes based on evidence. That doesn't mean that you need to pretend things could be real when they are nonsense. There are very few definitions of "God" that even pass the test of logical consistency.
If you're in the US, you're literally living through a Christian Nationalist fascist takeover of the government. I think it is fairly reasonable that folks might have gripes about religion.
This is kind of silly though. Nobody applies this same standard to unicorns or bigfoot. I can dismiss the idea of a god just as casually as I can dismiss the idea of an invisible, intangible dragon in my garage. Until there is actual, credible evidence otherwise it's an idea that deserves no more respect than that.
Every Trump and Trump crony needs to be investigated and jailed.Every company they've touched needs to be disbanded.Every dollar they've acquired since Trump gained office needs to be confiscated.Every property needs to be seized and sold.
#15 More specifically, enshittification it is the pattern that techbros have perfected. Create a service that is attractive for users using piles of money from venture capital ghouls. Attract tons of users. Make the service attractive to advertisers with your huge number of users. Attract tons of advertisers. Make the service shittier for users and advertisers in order to capture more of the revenue being generated to appease the venture capital ghouls who financed it.
This one is closer to accurate (assuming every cookie is worth $70k), but it would need to be several times larger for Elon specifically.
#10 This is why I really like that I am able to watch things and enjoy them for what they are. It's fine to analyze, compare, scrutinize, etc your media, but it can also be nice to just sit and experience something and appreciate the things about it that you like.
Some people see this worldview as nihilistic, but Carl was anything but. The universe has no inherent meaning or purpose. Meaning is something that only exists in our brains. Meaning, purpose, love, justice.. those are all things that we create in our collective minds. We owe it to ourselves and each other to care, because there is no other force that will.
The sun is significant to us for obvious reasons, but that doesn't make it significant in any kind of cosmological sense. We're not aware of life around other stars primarily because space is pretty big and that makes it hard to observe. It's pretty silly to think that we're the only ones, but it is also pretty silly to think that we'd be able to find that other life in the relatively short time we've been looking.
Screw that. Appoint a liberal Democrat that just says they are a Republican. There is absolutely no reason to "play by the rules" when the rules are rigged and being ignored by the other party.
kerms might be right that it's photoshop instead of AI. The reflections in the windows look screwy but that could just be because of the image quality. The main tell is that on handwritten signs, you never have every "a" (or pick a letter) written exactly the same. It's clearly a font.
No argument with the (poorly written) message, but this is 100% an AI generated image.
The purpose of a system is what it does. It's not a failure of the system if it is a consistently reproduced result that has no serious effort to change it.
On an individual level it's not much in percentages. But how much actual money is that transferring from people's retirement savings to Elon Musk? All because him and his cronies in the US Government and financial institutions decided they could bend or break the rules.
I at least partly agree that there were theoretical balances to power in the American system of government. Any system that hinders power is going to require vigilance. But we need a society-wide reckoning with the idea that people have power because they deserve it, or that people wielding power over others is a natural and right thing. From the workplace to the whitehouse, we need those is power to fear having and using that power, and to want to relinquish it willingly.
The direct murders of authoritarian communist regimes definitely feel worse than the systemic murders of capitalism, but dead is dead. Whatever system, we need to have HEAVY distrust of anyone who holds power over others, and mechanisms to wrest that power away from them when they first start crossing lines. The ability to control others should always be given only under strict provisions, defined timeframes, and strict oversight.
Owned media will always use passive voice to describe the actions of those in power. "Protestors injured by rubber bullets" vs "Police injure protestors by shooting them with rubber bullets". When they describe those opposing power, they'll use active voice and the labels of the oppressors. "Rioters attack XYZ building, causing $X Million in damage"Once you notice it, you'll see it EVERYWHERE.
Republicans really tell on themselves when they get upset about how teaching about slavery and racism "shames" white people. Because there were white people on the other side too. Those white people fought and died for emancipation and equal rights. Republicans are choosing to identify with the slavers and racists, and that makes them feel judged.
If "everyone on all sides lies", then why does he support the side he does?
I remember when this image was made, the person who made it estimated about $70K for one cookie. In this image, it was about $8B worth of cookies, so multiply it by 50-100 for Elon Musk's net worth. Allowing one human being to control that many cookies is fundamentally immoral and bad for society.
Revelations was a thinly-veiled criticism of the emperor Nero, written in a way that they could plausibly deny what they were doing. It seems so familiar because they had an insane idiotic dictator supported by moneyed interests that were strip-mining their society as quickly as they could.
This one is closer to accurate (assuming every cookie is worth $70k) for a billionaire, but it would need to be several times larger for someone like Musk.
Oh come down off your incel-talking-points horse. To get more women in college, we removed systemic barriers that were keeping them out. What are the systemic barriers keeping men out of college now? The idea that all men get is "stop crying" is absolutely laughable.
Yeah! When are men finally going to get a fair shake in this world?
AOC may have said "defund the police" but I don't think she ever said "abolish the police". You've swallowed the propaganda that says those are the same thing. The only reason "defund the police" is conflated with abolition is because propaganda relentlessly lies about it.
You can argue that they should use a different word than "defund", but I'd argue back that the propaganda will lie about it regardless. See: "Black lives matter" being portrayed as meaning white lives don't.
Basically zero candidates ran on "abolish the police". It wasn't a script that anyone who even sniffed actual political power ran on. Some left-leaning activists said it, meaning a very specific thing, and then you swallowed the propaganda that the right-wing media ecosystem relentlessly pushed saying that Democrats want to abolish police.
The US Government is poring through 3 years of financial records for people who participated in the ICE protests in Minnesota. Do you think that a law like HIPAA is going to keep them from getting into dissidents' AI therapy notes if those exist on a server somewhere?
Having those notes stored locally won't make them entirely inaccessible from the government, but they'll certainly be harder to get than just some fascist nerd logging into an OpenAI government backdoor.
Probably true for some people, but as I've moved toward upper-middle class in my career I just see how much the system is tilted against people with less.
I have investments that generate money for me, and the more money I have the more I get. I can afford higher-quality items that don't break down as quickly. I get better interest rates and lower fees. It's an insane system that is stacked against most people.
"The planet will be fine" as much as an inert ball of rock can be considered "fine". Everyone knows that "killing the planet" refers to biological life on the planet, which we are very much killing. And if we (unlikely) get into a runaway greenhouse scenario then the prospect of complex life on Earth could be over entirely.
It's fucking wild how in order to buy a product, you need to know whole corporate family trees, the owners of the companies, their policies to avoid slave labor, where they source raw materials, farming practices, how they treat their employees, diversity hiring practices, whether they have religious exemptions for their employees' healthcare plans, repairability, how they source their energy, and so on forever.
I shouldn't need to do a graduate thesis for buying hand soap.
Sure. In the most clinical, literal sense you cannot prove a negative. But life would be pretty exhausting if you had to couch every single statement in that level of pedantry. A healthy model of belief allocates credence to things based on the probability of truth, which changes based on evidence. That doesn't mean that you need to pretend things could be real when they are nonsense. There are very few definitions of "God" that even pass the test of logical consistency.
If you're in the US, you're literally living through a Christian Nationalist fascist takeover of the government. I think it is fairly reasonable that folks might have gripes about religion.
This is kind of silly though. Nobody applies this same standard to unicorns or bigfoot. I can dismiss the idea of a god just as casually as I can dismiss the idea of an invisible, intangible dragon in my garage. Until there is actual, credible evidence otherwise it's an idea that deserves no more respect than that.
Every Trump and Trump crony needs to be investigated and jailed.
Every company they've touched needs to be disbanded.
Every dollar they've acquired since Trump gained office needs to be confiscated.
Every property needs to be seized and sold.
#15 More specifically, enshittification it is the pattern that techbros have perfected. Create a service that is attractive for users using piles of money from venture capital ghouls. Attract tons of users. Make the service attractive to advertisers with your huge number of users. Attract tons of advertisers. Make the service shittier for users and advertisers in order to capture more of the revenue being generated to appease the venture capital ghouls who financed it.
This one is closer to accurate (assuming every cookie is worth $70k), but it would need to be several times larger for Elon specifically.
#10 This is why I really like that I am able to watch things and enjoy them for what they are. It's fine to analyze, compare, scrutinize, etc your media, but it can also be nice to just sit and experience something and appreciate the things about it that you like.
Some people see this worldview as nihilistic, but Carl was anything but. The universe has no inherent meaning or purpose. Meaning is something that only exists in our brains. Meaning, purpose, love, justice.. those are all things that we create in our collective minds. We owe it to ourselves and each other to care, because there is no other force that will.
The sun is significant to us for obvious reasons, but that doesn't make it significant in any kind of cosmological sense. We're not aware of life around other stars primarily because space is pretty big and that makes it hard to observe. It's pretty silly to think that we're the only ones, but it is also pretty silly to think that we'd be able to find that other life in the relatively short time we've been looking.
Screw that. Appoint a liberal Democrat that just says they are a Republican. There is absolutely no reason to "play by the rules" when the rules are rigged and being ignored by the other party.
kerms might be right that it's photoshop instead of AI.
The reflections in the windows look screwy but that could just be because of the image quality. The main tell is that on handwritten signs, you never have every "a" (or pick a letter) written exactly the same. It's clearly a font.
No argument with the (poorly written) message, but this is 100% an AI generated image.
The purpose of a system is what it does. It's not a failure of the system if it is a consistently reproduced result that has no serious effort to change it.
On an individual level it's not much in percentages. But how much actual money is that transferring from people's retirement savings to Elon Musk? All because him and his cronies in the US Government and financial institutions decided they could bend or break the rules.
I at least partly agree that there were theoretical balances to power in the American system of government. Any system that hinders power is going to require vigilance.
But we need a society-wide reckoning with the idea that people have power because they deserve it, or that people wielding power over others is a natural and right thing. From the workplace to the whitehouse, we need those is power to fear having and using that power, and to want to relinquish it willingly.
The direct murders of authoritarian communist regimes definitely feel worse than the systemic murders of capitalism, but dead is dead. Whatever system, we need to have HEAVY distrust of anyone who holds power over others, and mechanisms to wrest that power away from them when they first start crossing lines. The ability to control others should always be given only under strict provisions, defined timeframes, and strict oversight.
Owned media will always use passive voice to describe the actions of those in power. "Protestors injured by rubber bullets" vs "Police injure protestors by shooting them with rubber bullets".
When they describe those opposing power, they'll use active voice and the labels of the oppressors. "Rioters attack XYZ building, causing $X Million in damage"
Once you notice it, you'll see it EVERYWHERE.
Republicans really tell on themselves when they get upset about how teaching about slavery and racism "shames" white people. Because there were white people on the other side too. Those white people fought and died for emancipation and equal rights. Republicans are choosing to identify with the slavers and racists, and that makes them feel judged.
If "everyone on all sides lies", then why does he support the side he does?
I remember when this image was made, the person who made it estimated about $70K for one cookie. In this image, it was about $8B worth of cookies, so multiply it by 50-100 for Elon Musk's net worth.
Allowing one human being to control that many cookies is fundamentally immoral and bad for society.