Idk man, my neighborhood (in SoCal) had no shortage of Trump flags. Every single one is down since the Epstein saga. I dont think the phone is the thing that did it, and without a doubt, some cultists will be trying to dig Trump’s corpse up after he’s 6 feet under so they can shove their head up his ass and see enlightenment. But I think MAGA is dead unless they can shift the cult of personality onto a different personality, which is unlikely imo.

That implies our elected officials represent the will of their electorate. They do not. They represent the will of their corporate owners, “campaign donors”. It is a plutocracy.

It didn’t go over my head. You’re just wrong.

Viewing things for their net impact is not “irrational” just because you don’t like the conclusions reached.

Black and white, no, but things can be evaluated on their net impact. And in that evaluation, AI is shit.

It destroys the environment inherently by virtue of its operation (in the context of our current energy infrastructure). I do not care how “useful” it is to you or any corporation if it takes even a single living organism off of this earth.

I dismiss it as shit and I don’t need your approval to do so. Medical and scientific applications are acceptable. Nothing else, no exceptions.

Every commercial use of AI negatively impacts the environment in order to further the interests of capital and is therefore inherently immoral.

If we were in a nuclear fusion or otherwise all-renewable-energy-with-plenty-of-excess world, then I’d be more aligned with your mindset and agree that only uses which bastardize art / etc are immoral.

People don’t want to hear it anywhere because you’re lauding the benefits of a parasitic technology which is inherently hostile towards workers.

And if you’re getting paid for it, it makes you a parasite too, or at least more complicit than the average person.

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Nice try FBI handler

He’s criminally protected from any official acts while in office, remember?

(A Supreme Court decision made during Biden’s term, it should be noted - he was also criminally protected from any consequences of his official acts as president, and they specifically gave the example of a president using Seal Team Six to assassinate their political rivals. Biden didn’t even try using that power against Trump in any way. Assassination was probably off the table lmao but he could’ve done extrajudicial surveillance or such. He didn’t, because they’re all owned by the same oligarchs and Zionazis.)

And a civil lawsuit would be paid by… the taxpayers.

You don’t get to win when the other side makes the rules. You have to stop playing the game, or get as close as you can.

Yeaaah that’s

kind of how I feel about hundreds of people rushing the beagle experimentation facilities but doing fucking dance routines and yoga at ICE detention centers

Yep I saw that it had AI slop and immediately closed the window.

Frankly idgaf what an AI user has to say.

Price increases on streaming services you mean?

If so, a magical alternative exists on the high seas, or so I’ve heard

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…Yeah man I’m American, don’t worry, you’ll never catch me arguing that America isn’t a racist country lol. This place fucking sucks, and that’s one of the big reasons why.

Like I said I truly do not care about Pewdiepie. I don’t want anything bad to happen to him, I wouldn’t go out of my way to make anything good happen for him, he’s just irrelevant to me and that’s fine for both of us I imagine.

Though I will say that if you elect to “not give a damn” about other people being exposed to racial slurs which make them feel dehumanized though, you’re an asshole and a privileged one at that. Just because it may not be particularly relevant in your culture (though, back on 420chan [I’m old], I remember Swedish people whining nonstop about the Somali immigrants in their country, so I’m not sure I’m entirely convinced that it isn’t a Swedish issue too) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about how it can hurt other people. Especially when said by someone with a global audience, especially when that global audience is largely children or teenagers.

But also, to reiterate my reiteration: I do not care about Pewdiepie and am not suggesting he be exiled from humanity, only that he probably shouldn’t do that again. Which it sounds like he hasn’t, so… good?

Yeah fair points on the cigarettes / cigars, I guess that was so long ago that I just take it for granted. Maybe social media will be the same… as for Pornhub, I think that is more about Christofascism than any actual concern for protecting children, and if social media is banned, it will be because TikTok especially (but social media in general) shattered the pro-Israel narrative promoted by the US government. They need to control the narrative, and the internet makes that hard. Free speech may make it too hard to take that away from adults, but they have an excuse if they make it about the safety of children.

Even with those good points on your end though, I’d still be surprised if anything actually happens to meaningfully restrict social media companies.

lmao I’m on PC and that gif takes up the entire screen in my notifications. Beautiful.

As much as I love the elegance of guillotines though, I do believe that we should use something a little more emblematic of the American working class… and which permits a feet-first approach:

You know what they aren’t beyond?

not pay money better than pay money

I don’t really do it as a “protest”, I do it because I do not respect the law and because being a criminal is cool, but corporations are “leadership of [my] country” and anything that deprives them of any money at all is an effective protest.

Let’s take the absolutely-totally-hypothetical example of pirating Star Trek: Strange New Worlds instead of getting a subscription for Paramount Plus. Paramount is owned by the Ellisons, and Larry Ellison is closer to “leadership of [my] country” than anyone sitting in the White House.

so he cant get my $8 per month or whatever, that’ll show him