They’re also trying to argue against an economic system based on something that a guy who has been dead for seventy tears did almost a century ago, when our critique of their farcical imitation of an economy is very much grounded in this week’s politics.

We’re all going to feel silly when we find out that haarp was secretly a 3 mile long f-350 that’s been rolling coal since the 70s. : (

Oh I didn’t get that, I didn’t understand why they were talking about coffee.

But mah westphalian sacred nation state national borders sovereignty! You can’t just go around doing sttategy like the lines on the map aren’t sacred and holy!

Note that the Finnish government was prepared to accept the land swap with the ussr until some old White generals barged in and shut it all down. But, again, my sovereignty! Won’t anyone think of my sovereignty!

Similar amnesia about Putin trying to normalize relations with the west and join nato years ago.

Yeah, all the articles i could dig up befor ei figured i’d ask here used “police station” and, like, what, is the Beijing metro police over here writing parking tickets or something?

There are some fucking takes in there.

Also, scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds is a summation of liberal ideology and it’s role within capitalism; liberal rulers will turn to fascism when capitalism begins to fail. They don’t seem to know that’s what it means, and just think it’s a pithy personal insult or something.

Also lol at the guy complaining that commies redefined racism to exclude the yts.

So, you need to beat them on the level they’re operating on. A funny quip both instantly reveals their “moral superiority” for the self-important moral narcissism it actually is, and also makes you look strong and them look weak in the audience’s eyes.

Of course it’s about moral superiority. It’s not a plain statement of geopolitical reality. We’re just virtue signalling.

Yeah, I think it was last year, but my friend keeps bringing it up and I can’t find anything about what the alleged “secret police stations” did except maybe tell people who had criminal charges pending in China that they had criminal charges pending in China.

My gripe is specifically with people who can’t imagine AI being anything but evil and hostile because that’s how they view all relations between people with power disparities. I’m fine with Skynet; It was used in a creative way to tell a good story. Thematically, Skynet was always a weapon, a cold war era strategic warfare AI designed to kill humanity that just went a little off the rails. It represents us turning on ourselves, rather than AI in abstract.

Likewise, I’m okay with HAL, at least in the novels, because HAL has an understandable and even sympathetic reason for turning on the crew; He was given contradictory orders and, being a computer must carry out the instructions he is given. Unable to reconcile the contradiction HAL goes a little nuts. It’s not HALs fault, it was the callousness and carelessness of his handlers. He didn’t want to hurt anyone, but he was put in an impossible position.

But Mass Effect? The Reapers have to kill all humans becauase humans and robots can’t be friends becaues? I hate that!

Sun Tzu very specifically says to never fight an even battle unless you have absolutely no other chooice. oooooo

I remember a short story where a robot meets the last human. When the human complains about some problem or other the robot, very innocently, turns them off and then can’t understand why the human doesn’t reboot.

Rossum’s Universal Robots.

Yeah, the difference between Conan, the extremely smart, well read, polyglot, world traveler archetypal barbarian and the “D&D Barbarians are illiterate by default” thing is pretty weird.

Oh yeah damn, I hadn’t even thought about that. ick. : p

It’s the year umpty million, your character is a cybermagic war god, and you have neither a flashlight nor night vision

Yeah I really don’t like that. I do appreciate that in the end part of why Luke and Anakin are able to overcome their hatred and fear is seeing that they share the same disability from the same origin of violent conflict. You could explain that in a positive light, with Luke realizing that Vader is just a man. An old man with disabilities that mirror his own. And Vader in turn realizing that he maimed his son the same way he was maimed long ago, and relfecting on the futility and misery that came from pursuing vengeance.

I like that one too, but for different reasons.

It occurs to me that malicious bad actor types could throw a brick through a window then send a drone through the window to look around inside a building.

There are a couple of drone sims on steam, including i think one for vr that simulates fpv operation.

Socialism is also effectively an ai and is not wildly hostile. Beep boop! Checkmate meatsack! Boop beep!

One of the reasons i liked Enders Game as a weird outsider kid was that Ender, the weird outsider kid, just straight up killed his bullies and then they never bullied him again and I thought that was a very sensible way to handle matters compared to the saccharine bullshit in the other kids books i was reading.