Talcosis

I spent my teens and 20s achieving financial security and now I have a house and a career and zero women in my life.

Exactly. Even in the worst case, it’s better to ship a bottle of wine from California to Canada, than try to use greenhouses to make a Canadian winery a reality.

Nah, humanity is really good at shipping. Locally sourced wine is only environmentally friendlier than shipping if you happen to live in a vintner.

To be fair all of that is still true while the refinery is running. There’s a reason that Refinery Row and the Cancer Belt overlap almost perfectly in texas.

Authoritarian psychology. Roughly 30% of any given population would much prefer to live in a society of strict hierarchies, rules, and consequences where everyone knows their place.

See: the entire career of Bob Altemeyer. Specifically I recommend “The Authoritarians” it’s a free PDF on his website.

No, we still have that. It’s just that the circus is a carefully formulated mix of emotional content being pushed to your pocket tracker and the bread is high fructose corn syrup.

Oh, don’t worry, fully autonomous AI terminators have already gotten confirmed kills in real life!

I don’t think it’s the entire goal, but I do think that it is a goal of certain people in this admin. I think Steven Miran’s section in project 2025 outlined a way to crash the value of the USD.

And it’s definitely for the purpose of creating company scrip.

Without dogging too far, it seems like the law is broadly worded enough to open the door for all sorts of SLAPP-type takedowns, a bit like how DMCA is weaponized against people that don’t have armies of lawyers.

Also, the other source (not the bill itself, mind you, so might be wrong) says “digitally generated”, not “AI generated”, which could be stretched to apply to any image manipulation, like cropping.

Then of course there’s the question of reliably differentiating between AI and non-AI. Which basically means whoever has the biggest legal cannon to fire at the other guy wins.

Woo!

Fired up Desynched again for some reason. It’s a factory game, but instead of conveyor belts you have little robots that you can program to do stuff, from something as simple as pickup->dropoff to entire decisions trees and logic that fights enemies and builds stuff.

I got ‘soft banned’.

I had stopped commenting on Reddit back in 2022 after receiving warnings on similar topics. Continued to lurk and scroll. Now reddit has an uncloseable popup on web telling me to use the app. So I don’t use reddit.

No, I am not insinuating that you are advising the genocide of Russia. I am insinuating that the original video is involved in blaming all Russians for the crimes of the state, and you’re adding to that by saying Russia is the worst of the worst.

That being said, Russia was not involved in the korean/vietnamese conflicts after the Korean/Vietnam War, nor was Russia involved in most of the middle east conflicts outside of Iran and Afghanistan. Not to mention any of the insurgencies or proxy wars in South America. Unless you mean licensing the AK, in which case…well. Yeah, sure. The Soviet Union will be the cause of pretty much all conflicts going forward indefinitely.

So, once again. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence.

edit: In English, there’s a concept called “scare quotes”, where you use quotation marks to express a certain “so-called” expression. Exampled twice.

Yeah, I see blaming Russia the political entity for invading Ukraine.

Blaming Russia (the political entity) for causing every conflict since WWII is certainly a choice and will require some extraordinary evidence.

Once you start blaming Russians the ethnic group you’ve lost me entirely, because youre starting to sound very, uh, “final solution”-y.

Exactly, that’s why these types of articles make me go “hmm…”

Don’t get me wrong, Russian leadership is completely responsible for starting a war of aggression, and Russian citizens share some responsibility for their leadership, but Russians as a whole are not “uniquely brutal and violent”, that’s just old Asiatic Horde racism. Notably, Ukrainians used to be part of the Asiatic Horde until the Russian invasion gave them honorary white European status.

This is a basic authoritarian mindset that you will find in about 30% of any given population. It’s not uniquely Russian.

This is an interesting corollary to the “anything you say can only be used against you in court” adage.

And that someone will be the US government and the “fucking with this idiot” will consist of arresting anyone they don’t like.

Simple, it’s against Eurovision rules for broadcasters and governments to advertise their acts or tell people to vote for their acts.

Hasbara, the Israeli state propaganda outlet, routinely spends around a mil a year aggressively advertising the Israeli contestant and telling people to vote for them. Interestingly, these campaigns are done in multiple languages.

I actually wonder if it’s the opposite, to some extent? Giving you a prescription that costs 300$ for three cents of pill is a great way to make money, and mental health, being on a spectrum, can be diagnosed easily.

There’s probably some class difference, too. I’d expect extreme over-diagnosis (especially for the cool diagnoses that get you Xanax) among the wealthy with under-diagnosis among the poor.