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That's consistent with everything the Right fundamentally believes: Evil and death exist, and yes it's sad, but our goal is only to assign blame for it and never actually stop it.
Psionic Erudite (@psionicerudite.bsky.social) reply parent
That's consistent with everything the Right fundamentally believes: Evil and death exist, and yes it's sad, but our goal is only to assign blame for it and never actually stop it.
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Even if there were, notice how many "acting" or "temporary" positions the Trump administration uses to avoid confirmation hearings.
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Imagine how many people could have been helped with $218M. How many fed, or clothed, or housed! How many educated, or given healthcare, or rescued from violence! But the Party of Death wanted their tithe in blood.
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Trump is reckless, dangerous, and beneath the office. So that tracks.
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Death, not freedom. The GOP is the party of Death. Death of minorities, immigrants, women, poor. Death of the climate. Death of peace. Death of science. Death of truth. Death of law. Death of democracy. Death even of their vaulted religion, except what parts of it can be used to promote more death.
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Dems are catastrophically bad at messaging.
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Wish I had bought NV stock a decade ago. I would be retiring now.
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A swarm of wasps doesn't need to be intelligent to ruin your day, and Trump leads an army of tens of millions of redcap wasps without anything better to do than vent their rage on anyone available as a target.
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Critics raise concerns over Jeffrey Dahmer's unconventional approach to cuisine.
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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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Given that Donnie Diapers is their messiah, yes I believe they would agree that toilet paper is woke.
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Does every app, even extremely simple tools for singular tasks, need AI? Will Calc be next?
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The Fat Controller will make the trains very sad.
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The Fat Controller will make the trains very sad.
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"Your outrage rings insincere." -Sam Morril www.youtube.com/watch?v=duzA...
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What amazes me is how BAD he is at EVERYTHING! He's worth infinite dollars and is the most powerful man in the world. And he hides a bruise with a paint sample. No blending at all. No attempt to match skin tone. No one to help him apply it. It would be LESS obvious to just to nothing at all!
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How long before Musk is asked to setup monorails instead?
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Did they HAVE to use a scowling "Big Brother" picture for Trump?
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Be Best -> Grok Is Best
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The 74-acre property, known as Little Lake Lodge, sits just a mile from downtown Aspen and includes multiple residences, 18 bedrooms, 20 full bathrooms, a private lake, pool and 30-foot ceilings in the 18,500-square-foot main house.
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Date: So tell me about your father. Me: No no no... that's a load bearing neurosis.
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"Ah, but it's not with an auto-pen!" -Redcaps
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"Now shut up or there might be another mistake."
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Every "person" will get their own slave robot. But poors aren't "people" to the techbro oligarchs. Poors are the robots. AI is filled with mechanical turks and robot slaves will just be the regular kind of slaves.
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At least it can't go higher than 10 because he ran out of fingers. He can't solve any more wars unless he takes off his shoes.
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Same as how he treated his own net worth. He brags that he would just call up Forbes and tell them his net worth was a bigger number whenever he felt like it. Numbers don't actually mean anything to someone as innumerate as Trump.
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It's not just that the GOP / MAGA / Trumpistan is lawless. They go out of their way to find new and interesting ways to be lawless like it's a competition.
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Who would invest years and millions of dollars into building a factory, buying custom machinery, setting up vendors and clients, hiring and training staff, and all the legal and logistical troubles for a business that could be killed next week with a tweet?
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The claim: Crime is up in DC. The reality: Crime has been decreasing for years. The policy: Unleash criminal thugs upon DC.
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Of course they did. Because Trump is the Anti-Christ and that is who American Evangelicals worship. benjaminlcorey.com.dream.website/could-americ...
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Because, in normal times with functional democracy, liberals could worry about cultural issues and inclusive language and polite discourse. This has become so ingrained that now the only way to be lib is to virtue signal and purity test one another. But today's politics is Calvinball! Wake up!
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Ah yes. Threatening refugees with violence. Just what Jesus wants.
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Never paid for WinRAR because I hate it. I used 7zip the second it became available and never looked back. But WinAmp? That really whips the llama's ass. I still have WinAmp installed on my Win 11 PC and yes, I paid for it.
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Wait, MAGA officials / Trump appointees might be under-qualified or even counterproductive to the roles they've been given? I need to sit down. This is shocking and unexpected news! It's not like this is literally the plan to destroy every function of government or oversight! (murmurs) Oh, it is.
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Look, stealing money from the bank is cheating in Monopoly. But if your opponent is stealing money every turn, either you do too, or you accept that you're not playing the game and you're just there for the entertainment of your cheating opposite.
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Among other things, yes. It's also just noted that at least since Covid, liberals (who believed the pandemic was real) started voting even more by mail, while conservatives (who demonstrated loyalty to The Party by in-person voting without masks) did not.
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The officer was rushed off to the Mayo clinic.
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That's easy. Violence in favor of the dictator: An invite to the dictator's private army. Inconvenience opposed to the dictator: Death penalty or as close as can be managed.
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If only any of those now-unhappy voters had functional eyes or ears any of the last 9 years and KNEW THIS WAS WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN and voted accordingly in November...
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How long before Newspeak is required in schools?
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But they identify as funny.
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Hoo boy are there stories to tell!
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Mom? Dad did not upload his consciousness to machine. It's just that all right-wing LLMs do is repeat Fox News talking points and that's all Dad did for the last ten years of his life.
Psionic Erudite (@psionicerudite.bsky.social)
As people get into false romance with LLMs, I am left thinking that a parasocial relationship with a chatbot is emotional masturbation. "If you [emotionally] masturbate, you will go blind [to reality]." -moms in the future
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In a near future where we need to check whether humans are bots: Woman on a date: "Say something negative about techbro oligarchs." Man: "I think Elon is probably going to save humanity. He's a real life Tony Stark, you know?" Woman, pulling out a gun: "Maybe you're not a skinjob. Either way..."
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Can't be MAGA without being constantly terrified about nonsense.
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Mind worms confirmed. Come to think of it, that might explain Earth politics.
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Local Governance! (Unless this makes a Republican even 1¢ poorer or 1% less powerful. In that case, we should federalize everything, dismantle courts, centralize business, and revoke voting rights. Clearly.)
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Sounds like the hen-house is unguarded. Anyone wanna guess what the fox will be doing?
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Your wife is HALLE BERRY and you don't want to stay with her because she won't be your trad-wife stay at home mom and maid?!
Psionic Erudite (@psionicerudite.bsky.social) reply parent
Watch out! If we hypothetically elect this guy, he might possibly be as bad as the current mayor already is! There might even be a shooting like the one that happened under the current admin!
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So Putin invades, takes Crimea, gets to keep it. Then Putin invades, takes Dunbas, gets to keep it. Later Putin will invade, and there is no consequence. But Ukraine, ohhhh, they need to stop defending themselves! For shame! Don't they even want peace?!
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Not kowtowing to the Child King. That's illegal now.
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But those listed groups: Republicans, the FBI, the Court justices? Those ARE the Epstein clients!
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So I'm already staring at her ass, then she sends me to see videos of Velma? How turned on does she want me to get?!
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I find that doubtful. Trump can take notes? Are we sure he wasn't just doodling naughty pictures?
Psionic Erudite (@psionicerudite.bsky.social) reply parent
In addition to the horror if impersonal, lazy, automated death reporting... why is the chatbot set to smile while it announces his death?
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So history will record that the 3/5ths compromise was actually LESS racist than Trump's new census.
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I'm confident Schumer will write a strongly worded letter and then delete it without sending so he doesn't appear too partisan.
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You talk to your dishwasher and clothes washer? Weird. I don't talk to equipment. I'm a MAN! Now excuse me, I have a date with ChatGPT.
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They are removing part of the Constitution from the Congressional website. Article I sections 8 (partial) and 9-10 (entire) have been removed. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
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And because it's a place filled with children.
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Don't expect the ship's Boson to help you!
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Ah yes, who can forget the "Holgaust Crvern Ricetants" of 1907, which of course was after 1965.
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So she does deserve to be in the Bad Place.
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Similarly: If oligarchs have such strong wealth and political influence, then why do they wanna steal more? (Hint: They're the same people with the same insatiable greed.)
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If only it were so easy. Efforts to block gerrymandering have resulted in independent commissions in states like CA where we could have picked up seats. apnews.com/article/redi...
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They want a shrinking brown population. They want to start mass breeding white babies. If that doesn't happen, hey we can drop the age of consent and get child breeders, whoops I mean brides, sold off to middle aged men that want sows not women.
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After how we treated the Kurds while pulling out of Afghanistan and now how we're treating more interpreters that even did make it to the U.S., I wonder who will want to risk themselves and their families to help the U.S. military again in the future. Way to kill off our influence.
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Edit? You mean retreat in my moment of triumph?!
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But good news! If LLMs keep expanding and take over the busywork for young lawyers, soon there won't be any old lawyers and the whole law profession can collapse! (Is that good? I can't even tell anymore.)
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He cannot comprehend beauty. Not art, not nature, not music, not poetry, not humor. He has no inner world and no soul. He only understands power, grievance, and the all consuming need to own more. This was someone else's rose garden. Now it's his patio. So that's a net gain for Trump.
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"competent and qualified"? Name literally one Trump appointee that fits either of those words.
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Has Fox / NewsMax / OAN spent enough time instructing the redcaps that pedophilia is good yet?
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There need to be travel advisories about states that are openly hostile to human life.
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Be careful. It's laced with something.
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Makes me think of that.... I don't know what it is. Warhammer? 🤷♂️ The thing where Orcs have "technology" that works because they *believe* it will work. This is a hype-based economy: It doesn't produce anything, and in fact destroys things, but it generates revenue because they believe it will.
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I cannot imagine Disney being willing to let their IP get used to generate new shows/movies by AI. They are some of the biggest pressure for the near-century copyright laws we have already and they're extremely litigious. And their live-actions may as well be AI generated quality already.
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Sounds like a new take on the old myth of the man that falls in love with his reflection in a mirror.
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Ok, but Eric Adams is Mayor today. Did he or his policies prevent the shooting? Under his mayorship, did the Police prevent it? No? Then don't tell me that Mamdani might not do any better than Adams is doing now.
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Compare that to Ladyballers, in which men pretend to be women to win at sports. Then one character, who spent the whole film acting how the movie says women should act, wants to stay a woman at the end, gets laughed at, and sadly transitions back. Roll credits.
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"Let" the world burn? No. This isn't passive. It's actively destroying the planet. "Burn the world so a few hyper rich oligarchs can increase their score on the rich person leader board."
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At least he had some presence first. Icheb was just killed for shock value.
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He was kinda the ONLY Vulcan. Spock is half-human and emotional. T'Pol used drugs to become more emotional. Soval is short tempered and emotional. But Tuvok remained committed to logical stoicism.
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I think the idea was the Feds are integrated, with multiple races working as mixed crews and each person free to pursue their interests, but the Dom races are specialized. No mixing. Single purpose. You are a cog in a machine. So the Vorta lead, the Jem'hadar fight, the Karemma make weapons, etc.
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That was what killed Discovery for me. I was limping through the series up to that point, but that ending broke me. It remains the only Trek series I haven't finished.
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But god she was sexier in the Feddy uniform. Just like Troi looked her best in a uniform. Every officer should have a uniform.
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Voyager was criminally afraid of any changes to status quo. No lasting ship damage. No crew changes. No promotion for Harry. Just mash that reset button every episode. It would have been great to give Cmdr. Akoocheemoya a sendoff and have it affect the remaining Maquis officers.
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I liked the idea that the viewscreen is a small holodeck, projecting 3D view of the exterior. And with later ships having more holo projectors, it shouldn't be hard for a wraparound view while still moving the bridge to a more secure position than the top of the saucer.
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Nog was a Trek Kid at first too, but quickly grew out of it and became a main character in his own right. Jake never really grew into anything other than Sisko's son.
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So when there are no more 1st-to-3rd year associates writing motions, then in five years, there won't be any 8th-to-10th year partners running the firms, will there? Funny how little thought goes into what happens when you eliminate the junior positions.
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Joining the nerd train. One like = One Trek Opinion