Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
My youtube algorithm, on the other hand, has no chill www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqU...
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
My youtube algorithm, on the other hand, has no chill www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqU...
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
It worked historically. True believers than couldn't STFU when necessary, with any sort of actual power, are very rare. Being gay is not the only "sin" that exists. And all of the others also get conveniently ignored if inconvenient to acknowledge.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Is there a point to do it? He wasn't important enough to get an episode of his own. He is only as famous as he is because of the tiny face and TPUSA memes.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Or even saying generic bare minimum. Or spinning the narrative to your advantage. They are politicians, FFS.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Thiel is too rich. It's only a problem if you are both gay and relatively poor. History has plenty of people who were rich and gay. And some of them absolute bastards. Including to other gay people.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh... It's not very good on the subject either.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
It's ok when government/police/military does it.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
He is yet another young white dude with brain poisoned by the internet. It's the current trend.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
We're suggesting conspiracy theories?
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Boring. His covid vaccinated blood has left his body. There was no shooter.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh. I'd never say "anyone", but Kirk was far too minor of a character to wish death upon. Like not really worth the effort
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
People are numb to right wing violence. It's far too regular.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean it would be very funny if someone said all of the usual empty platitudes accompanied by the "best of" compilations. A lot of people would be too stupid to get it, but I would laugh a lot.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not a matter of his beliefs but his actions.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
There will never be good popular social media. Moderation is too costly. It needs to match near infinite effort of external interests, be it ads or propaganda spam. Moderation "shortcuts" like "mass reporting" are always going to be abused. The rules become uncomfortably rigid over time.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Not my point.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, Disney adaptation MLK that exists in public discourse is a "myth". Far more radical than that.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah... you're one of those people... ew.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Because Kirk was paid propagandist, so the list of people for who this even has touched a nerve is not surprising.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless it's like a very specific subculture bar, people online enough to know enough to have an opinion on Kirk do not congregate in bars.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh nah. It's just generic platitude with no meaning. Putting part of responsibility on Trump for stocking the violence was not.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
There is nothing sacred about "debate". Kirk was a paid propagandist. Nothing more.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah. The actually scary layer of current administration is perfectly fine with the clown layer dealing with Epstein crap. Epstein files are the distraction.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
In fact I will continue to shit on his work. And his and yours donors goals.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
You know nothing about me or people I respect and look to for opinions. But Chucky Cheese over here was a propagandist that helped elect one of the most prominent Epstein buds into the white house after years of being funded by elites. And had to backpedal from the whole Epstein thing.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I will not mourn a pedo apologist.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
There was nothing "honest" about Kirk, may he burn in about as bad of a hell as he could imagine.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, very much so. The current shitshow is still nothing. And the absolutely limp response from the opposition underscores it.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
On a practical level, he is not worth the shitshow it's going to bring about.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Kirk is not worth the cost.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Because he isn't worth it, honestly.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think Kirk is worth it, honestly. There are far bigger, far worse bastards around.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Disagree to some extent, however Kirk was not the right caliber... of a bastard for this kind of outcome.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
This one is less dying and more instantly ceasing to exist.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll always read it as allusion to Kobe.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
No they were not. Do not confuse LLMs with broader machine learning field that has been chugging along for years before LLMs got the spotlight.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Not exclusive to men. This is the whole "culture-approved tastes" thing. Easiest to spot in music, but is too common of a thing in any culture.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Worse still, they love presenting stuff like this as a "hard to swallow pill"
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
This is good for silkposting. Previously only fans who were marinading in hopium were participating. Now there is going to be an influx of normies.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Worse. It also falls under "nobody asked" category.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's hope it's transmissible.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I know she is trash. But her being trash is not why she is in prison. Her actual crimes she got acquitted of. That's like if someone's primary issue with Hitler being the suicide. It sends the message that as long as you don't step on your investors' toes, fraud all you want.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Considering who some of the people who invested in Theranos, defrauding them is a good thing. And considering that defrauding investors is the only thing she got convicted for, #FreeElizabethHolmes
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Good thing private property and money aren't real, and intellectual property even less so.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
There is a variety of them and they get switched out for maintenance once the lubricant wears away.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Problem is, about half, conservatively, of the dems in the house do not agree with this.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Guns are a substantial part of the reason why cops are militarized.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
He might bait Trump&co into making him a martyr.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
It's too broad of a term. A lot of stuff under that umbrella has been around long before generative stuff hit the market.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
The Business Plot: When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America How The Rich Ate Christianity Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars How Conservatism Won There might be more...
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, let's go over some sources. A lot of stuff should be findable on wikipedia. But my sources that unintentionally(?) shown me the timeline was Behind the Bastards podcast. Episodes: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
8/8 Abortion... all of the culture wars. Reagan, dem pivot under Clinton, Bush, Obama with backlash and disappointment... The current events have been in motion since at least 1950s and the birth of modern American "freedom" and religious movement. It's surprisingly young.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
7/? The "think tank" system used by the government to get educated opinions from specialists in fields got co-opted by financial interests. NRA got taken over and a new interpretation of 2A got lobbied through. And then there were all of the civil rights movements... Vietnam... all of the backlash
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
6/? "E pluribus unum (Out of many, one)" was deemed too commie and got replaced with "In god we trust" in 1956. "Under god" thing got added to pledge of allegiance. Churches, where socialist thought was not uncommon for obvious reasons, got funded towards prosperity gospel.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
5/? Then came WW2 and weakening of labor under war conditions. And then came Cold War where communism/socialism became the enemy. And also steady undoing of FDR legacy. And this is where we actually come to "small government". Modern 4th of July has been invented promoting freedom from government.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
4/? Robber barons did not like that and planned a fascist coup known as Business Plot. Smedley Butler, general they have approached instantly reported them to the government. Nobody got prosecuted. We could've gotten rid of Bush clan back then. Business elite class learned to become more subtle.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
3/? "Found out" phase after fucking around of capital holding elite. Worldwide ripples, contributing to countries turning socialist or fascist. US got FDR, who, while not socialist, threw labor some big bones and started cleaning up the mess created by robber barons and introducing more regulation.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
2/? The labor fought literal battles against owners and private police forces like Pinkertons(now Securitas). Guns, cannons, aerial bombardment etc. The pressure was working somewhat and socialist parties were slowly but steadily growing in power. Then came Great Depression and FDR.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok so, this slightly conspiracy flavored. Settle down for a long post. 1/? It goes back to industrial revolution and changes to the labor it brought about, and thus the birth of the labor movement. "May day", commie/true labor day, is in honor of US general strike from 1886.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Steam Deck is a console which is moderately locked down, IIRC. As in the core OS is will reset itself on every boot. It might get more locked down if Valve ever bothers seriously working on a proper anticheat measures.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
What? Already? But they haven't even reached half the level of the likes of Richard Sackler, Zuckerberg, tobacco and oil boards/execs, as well as companies like Union Carbide.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Pick an asteroid on course to collide with Uranus.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Theranos was funnier because she ripped off the likes of Kissinger. And that's the only thing she got convicted of, not the medical fraud... So #FreeElizabethHolmes I guess...
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a desert, not a main course. Waste of energy, because all of the allegations haven't worked for 10 years now and they barely work now. Kinda similar to the "Musk salute", which was media flashbang drowning out everything else that was happening at the time.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
IMO, the Epstein thing is a distraction. This is not the first cover up of a network of this kind. Not the first island even. There have been worse. Nothing more actionable is going be revealed, more than already has been. Trump&co weaponized it and it backfired somewhat.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
That's part of the reason why I think that "clankers" is being pushed by pro-"AI" crowd. It's too "warm" and humanizing. Also it being framed as a "slur" in the first place. I'd go with something along the lines of "slop machine".
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Some overpaid PR goon somewhere said "we need to get ahead of this", and so they try to push it before the internet comes up with something organically. It's such a soulless corporate "slur". Very clean, non-descriptive and inoffensive. It came from someone who's into AI.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Least fictional AITA post I've seen in years
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
The Cracker is in the Barrel.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
They moved the Cracker into the Barrel.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
His food is his food. Amy's food is extra. And spiced with crime.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
And some stuff just isn't suited for an endless stream of "content".
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember Tropic Thunder threads on reddit. Horrid. Same exact comments. Same exact quotes. Ever couple of days. Over and over again.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
The ever-refreshing feed nature of the internet has done a lot of harm. Unless something is constantly getting reposted, it gets "forgotten". And if something gets constantly reposted it overstays it's welcome.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Video is such a subpar format for certain kinds of data. Like coding tutorial. Way too linear. Poor data density. Difficult to edit after the fact... This is entirely pointless.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
They like it? For hipster reasons? So use it for cooking. Doesn't matter. Let them. The less you make it a thing, the less it's going to be a thing and going blow over faster.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Let them shit. The whole fad is going to be over in months. Most people used to homogenized pasteurized milk are going to quit for purely aesthetic reasons, finding raw milk yucky. Don't waste your energy, this is the least dangerous part of RFK jr.'s agenda.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
It should be boiled anyway unless fresh fresh. It has some perks for cooking and some downsides, unless you like pulp(fat chunks) in your milk. Can people stop turning everything into fucking culture wars? If you have a good dairy farm within an hour, go nuts. Again, you may have occasional shits.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this about milk again?(Not you specifically, just in general) It's so tiring. No, it's not fit for mass consumption. It spoils fast and breeding ground for bacteria. No, it's not poison and very unlikely to kill you. You may get shits. Don't feed it to young kids.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably purged long ago. Normie feds didn't have access to anything actionable. Ask Mossad, they probably have the files.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't hold your breath. He is immune, being a walking, talking... somewhat... Kennedy curse.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Time for Deepseek to pop out and kneecap OpenAI's pricing strategy again.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
That's not that scary. Could be very good. The problem with Chrome is that Google controls a significant chunk of popular internet platforms and they work much better on Chrome. If that connection is severed, Chrome loses a ton of value for consumers and opens up a lot of space for competition.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think it's going to be in top 5, just for Starmer government.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Unlikely. If there was anything legitimately juicy there, it would've been used already. Most likely anything actionable has already been purged or has never been in reach of normie feds. At worst it may make some people look bad, and is similar to what already has been released, inconclusive.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
It failed because voice/video calling is secondary feature, which needs a robust messaging platform underneath. Like iphone, or discord, or telegram, etc. It was a cool feature in 00 and early 10s, then everybody added those features in good enough states. Zoom was easy without skype baggage.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
The bigger problem is that "economy" in the west has shifted from something real, tangible and more beneficial for an average person, to virtual crap, like finance, speculation and other "services", which makes it quite hollow and not particularly stable.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
And transporting natural gas via LNG makes it comparable to coal in terms of emissions and a lot more expensive.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Not all. Some haven't quite embraced full on neoliberalism. Not perfect by any means, but not close to UK Labour or US Dems either.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
And often neither do the locals from where the dishes are.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Dumb elitism. People obsess over aUtHeNtIc cuisine. If I can't be bothered, and have ketchup and little else, I'll put ketchup on anything I want. It's simple, straightforward and reliable. There is also a variety of ketchup flavors. I don't give a shit about your authentic ham, cheese or sauce.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Think of this as an opportunity for people to do a lot of REALLY hilarious things. Typically illegal, but very funny.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
"Clanker" doesn't even come up to the level of Elmo. It feels like a very sanitized and corporate "slur". Even "cogsucker" isn't quite there yet. Also, I personally like "Smelon".
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
US is not the only country in the world. The tech not being in the dirty US hands is good.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
2 was to cover up the election cheating.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
You don't abandon, but fighting it head on is not productive under the most circumstances. Also, dems are perfectly fine with culture wars. Saves on policy positions. DNC strategists popped the champaign when Roe v Wade got overturned. Easiest shit to campaign on.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
People continuously falling for most obvious bait is exhausting to watch. And I get that there is building annoyance at overexposure of Sweeney, but come on. Roll your eyes, put it on The List, and move on. This is not important enough.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
The world must be freed from American hegemony.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
Not a new philosophy in Zionism either.
Robin Lud (@fleshoversand.bsky.social) reply parent
It comes in waves.