Oh sure. You can crime anything with thoughts.

Every people has some black stains on their past…but it really seems like white people are the last ones to realize it.

We (white people) are the bad guys.

There’s been lots of bad guys, but for the past millenia or so, white people have been and continue to be the worst.

We’re #1?

I guess what we have to accept is that if we’re not the bad guys, then someone else is and then we are the oppressed. So we can’t just forfeit being the world’s assholes, because somebody else will do it to us!

Piracy is speech.

Would have to be pirate radio. You think this fcc is gonna be handing out licenses to left-wing secular media?

Must go deeper.

Model fly brain out of Redstone. Play minecraft on that.

I’m confused, are you still talking about the dead Congo teenagers?

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Oh man I can use my lightbulbs to generate electricity? Dude this is going to make a killing!

Fuck the years of the three laws of thermodynamics! Now is the time of the three laws of robotics!

This is how you know that the proletariat are doomed.

It’s widely known that Musk and Zuck are horrible people, and that there platforms are doing horrible things, yet how many people, IRL, have given up Facebook, Instagram, or twitter?

They don’t even feign ignorance of it. They are and knowingly bending over for the enemy, then let their kids bend over for them too.

It’s sickening. It’s literally the billionaires and the propaganda machine in their pockets. They can’t even give that up.

Same too for reddit. Fucking Spez wants so badly to be in the inner circle, it’s secondhand embarrassing.

Fuck how many people are still TikToking? God damn formula releases more dopamine than fucking crack cocaine, and they put their kids in front of it.

No, they hope to pioneer and corner the market for Neurons as-a-Service.

I wish them the best of luck. Self-hosting your own neurons is getting to be incredibly taxing.

15 tabs? Those are rookie numbers. Unless you mean “before 8:07 Monday morning”.

God that 5% is just such flagrant bait, too.

Yeah, that seems achievable…on the surface.

Except almost every presidential election of my lifetime was less than a 5% margin to begin with. With the exception of Reagan, every single one has been <10%.

That 5% is legit the most important part of the fucking election. And it’s a carrot to draw out “enlightened centrists” who can’t see past their own eyebrows.

If the greens get it, it’s essentially a “thanks for the assist!” from the Republicans, no matter what…because that margin is enough to enable them to win.

And the way this government is going, do you think they’d even see the money 4 years later?

I can’t tell you the next time I’ll need a 50ft null modem cable…but I can tell you it’ll be within a month of throwing mine out.

I think you misunderstand the spoiler effect. It’s working as designed.

The problem is how we vote, not who is on the ballot. As long as the winner is going to be the one with the most votes, then more contenders will mean the winner will have a smaller overall share.

The margin in Florida for the 2000 election was so small that if half of the Nader voters voted for Gore, Gore would’ve been the clear winner of the state and thus the country. Both left-leaning, environmentalist candidates.

But, like you, they let good be the enemy of perfect, and incidently got us Bush, who was (checks notes) much worse for the environment.

Third parties, in this system, only serve as tools of the opposing major political party. They are absolutely worthless for any progress at the federal level. Do you think a green president could actually get anything done without a green coalition in congress, or among Governors?

There are only three paths for third parties to ascend:

• We change the voting system, get rid of FPTP, or
• Third party builds momentum in lower offices, or
• One of the established parties completely implodes upon itself. See also Whigs, Democratic-Republicans, Federalists.

Wdym? Republicans love the Greens, just like Democrats love the Liberterians.

Republicans can thank Nader just as much for Bush as Democrats can thank Perot for Clinton.

Layoffs aren’t the problem here…the problem is that society requires people generate their own worth through work, and suddenly a good chunk of that work is now significantly less valuable.

Requiring less work is a good thing. Humans should be striving to minimize work. That’s what humanity is good at.

The problem comes in that while the “input” of AI is, essentially, the collection of all human knowledge…while the output is money for a small handful of people…people who themselves contributed next to nothing to that pile of human knowledge (and in fact are probably running a deficit to it).

That ain’t right. We are all shareholders in the collection of all human knowledge. We should all be getting dividends from its work.

AI is not evil. It doesn’t have a consciousness. It doesn’t make decisions.

What is evil, are billionaire capitalists having full control over the technology.

What is evil, is the concept of closed-source.

What is evil, is stealing all creative works without attribution or compensation.

What is evil, is seizing essentially all the silicon to build these datacenters, then soak up all the electricity out of the grid and all the water out of the ground.

The problem isn’t the AI, itself. It’s the means that’s the problem…not the ends.

Would it be better if a Democrat billionaire bought out Dominion?

Well…probably. But the crux of the problem is that voting machine companies are a thing that a billionaire can own.

You know who wins out in a gold rush?

The person selling picks.

I thought “alpha” just meant full of bugs and not fit for production.

So…why hasn’t ICE scooped these guys yet?