Never going to have her, but this is a great advertisement for Intex…

It’s like watching inevitability play out. This is how it has happened before. It’ll happen this way again. Because despite the slogan, people do forget.

We have a bunch of old motherfuckers in office whose parents and grandparents lived through WW2 and they are already letting those sacrifices be in vain. If it was some Gen Z kid saying “Nazis never did anything to me, imma see how this plays out,” I’d think they were morons, but I’d sort of get that Nazis seem almost cartoonish. They are! Fucking Pepe memes and a meme-president. This will all look like a joke in 100 years, too.

But I digress, these old fucks (I say this as I’m nearing my old fuck era) are failing the one God dammed task they ought to be best suited for as they grew up in the shadow of the war.

Buy on the dip!

“Think of the most average person you know, and then realize that half of all people are dumber than that every one of these morons has the collective IQ of a carrot.”

Last week, I showed up to an online interview in a t-shirt. I normally try to at least throw a polo over it when I’m interviewing for a job but I was working and didn’t think about it.

That self-aware AI’s name? Albert Ketamine.

From translate so idk how accurate it is but it sounds about right.

Vince Coglianese then asks whether Donald Trump thinks Greenlanders are “eager” to become American citizens. The president replies:

“I don’t know. I don’t think they’re ‘uneager,’ but I think we have to do it, and we have to convince them, and we have to have that land, because it’s not really possible to properly defend a large part of this world without it. So we need to have it, and I think we’ll get it.”

We’ve been “defending” a large part of the world for 70 years without owning Greenland.

Also, JDV:

It’s an island that—from a defensive perspective, and even an offensive one—is something we need, especially with the world as it is.

What the fuck? Literally agitating for war, claiming we need to grab Greenland so we can potentially attack someone else?

He’s rapidly becoming famous for epic levels of cognitive dissonance.

Two questions:

1. What part of what I said leads you to that conclusion? There are always ways in which a situation can be made worse if punishment is the goal.
2. Why is punishment so important to you?

It’s not so unlike my job. Things go wrong and situations get fucked up, but retribution doesn’t fix anything. You have to identify how to resolve any ongoing situation and then prevent it from happening again. If the guy isn’t in a situation where he can attack anyone else, what more needs to be done to keep people safe?

There is no fixing the damage the guy has done, with or without retribution. That is only to assuage our own emotional wants.

Look at Luigi. He (allegedly) killed one person. No aggravating factors. The laws say he can’t be executed for that, so now he’s charged with terrorism. Same with people who vandalize fucking Teslas. I doubt they are going to face execution, but nothing actually prevents that.

If the state wants to murder someone, it will find a way to make it legal to do so if there is any avenue at all. Let’s just take it off the board.

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Joe is human. He doesn’t have more rights than his wife, her right to life was cruelly taken from her in a criminal act. That isn’t fixed by taking more life. It just makes the government an even bigger criminal.

Edit: due to the scale of them taking far more lives.

Whatsapp is that fucking plague-ridden that you need all that bio-gear just to use it on your own phone?

That’s exactly what I’m saying. It’s not about justice for one person.

It’s not that he doesn’t deserve it or lack of evidence. It’s because the state shouldn’t have that authority. At all. Ever. Look at the fuckery going on in the Whitehouse. Ten years ago 90% of people would’ve said this isn’t even possible. Close that door, lock it, throw away the key. It’s not about justice for in one case, it’s more important to prevent greater injustice.

It’s because he’s from North Dakota, right? RIGHT???

(No, it’s because he fucks kids.)

You want to know what happens to people who fight back? Look at Vindman and Snowden and Manning (not saying the latter two did everything right, of course, but they put themselves on the line). Democrats did nothing for them. If no one fights for the people who fight back, why would they just throw everything away? No one wants to be a martyr. No one wants to be left out to dry.

We haven’t fought for the people who fight for democracy. How surprising is the consequence, really?

Not that I necessarily agree with each and every one of these complaints but I’ll also add the one with the girl wearing a white corset at a concert which was then edited to fully topless and posted again without comment. I don’t know what that’s about but it seems pretty fucky to me.

That said no complaints about the mods. They do pretty good overall.

Edit: was going to go look for it to link it but it’s already gone as far as I can tell. They are doing good pretty much I think.

It’s not sentient and has no agenda. It’s fair to say suggest that advertise themselves as “AI companions” appeal to / prey on lonely people.

It’s not a scam unless it purports to be a real person.

Still sitting on a GTX 1660. I want to update but it’s fine and hasn’t been a priority. I want to update more for local AI than graphics performance.

Note that these studies aren’t suggesting that heavy ChatGPT usage directly causes loneliness. Rather, it suggests that lonely people are more likely to seek emotional bonds with bots

The important question here is: do lonely people seek out interaction with AI or does AI create lonely people? The article clearly acknowledges this and then treats the latter like the likely conclusion. It definitely merits greater study.