We’re all just organisms responding to factors outside of our control.

The available responses we have are determined by our environment and thus outside our control and which response our brain determines to use is based on the sum total of things that have happened to us - also beyond our control.

We watch our determinstic universe unfold before our eyes, the only possible way it could have, and then start blaming or applauding ourselves. As if a falling seed deserves scorn for where the wind took it.

Yeah as concerning as the present historical moment is to live through, i’m really excited about the light it can shine on the past - what imperial transitions look like.

What are the chances that someone got it to mine bitcoin, probe internal networks and make a reverse ssh tunnel, then lied about or covered up their shady instructions?

I presume we can rule that out if it got to livescience?

Pointing out what a shitbag someone is seems entirely appropriate for the comments of a shitposting community though.

I spent like 6 months in 雲南 and 18 in 台灣 but yeah i’m not familiar with 台山.

But for years afterwards people who i talked to would ask me about thailand, even a close friend took like 6 months to understand no, not thailand, somewhere else. I think most places you could speak cantonese and say you’re from cambodia and no one would bat an eyelid 😆

Or I could pretend to be from Taiwan… most people probably can’t tell anyways, its just the same Mandarin to them

If you say you’re from taiwan, i think many people will say, “oh i love thai food!” 😆

When i worked in a mall there were no staff bathrooms.

I came to refer to the sound of nearby-diarrhea as “ringng the taco bells”.

Right after he won best supporting actor as well.

Revelations is not a prophecy about today and cannot describe anything contemporary to us. It was a political allegory about what was going on at the time of it’s writing.

March/April, looks-like when the Middle-East goes kablooey … 2 mutually-exclusive "humankind"s occupying the same planet, & the global-deathmatch begins

When none of this happens i hope you will abandon these ideas and not trying to modify them.

Personally i’m hoping for good news from the hungarian election and the end of orban.

And of course like every being capable of moral reasoning, i can’t wait to see steven miller in a prison he built, locked in a 10 person cell with 1 toilet and 100 other nazis. Happy days! 😊

The Justice Department called the violence an attack plotted by antifa operatives but attorneys for the accused denied that characterization, saying there were no antifa associations and that it was merely a demonstration with fireworks before gunshots broke out.

The regime lied about what happened, lied about the protesters having any links to antifa groups and grossly misapplied terrorism charges.

But even if it had been exactly what the regime falsely claims it was, it’s undeniable that attacking the guards at a concentration camp deserves a medal of valor.

Zapp took advantage of Leela’s moment of weakness, since a moment is all it takes with the zapper.

Whereas hegseth paid a woman 50k to shut up about the time he raped her.

So that’s a difference.

One of the gems of the latter simpsons episodes is grandpa mocking the complaints of an iraq war vet “It was too hot, the USO show was rob schneider, US objectives were and remain incomprehensible.”

The same will apply here, except the uso show will be kid rock.

Also israel’s foreign policy objectives.

I got in trouble at work because I answered the official osha self-walkthrough report question “Was any horseplay observed?” by writing “Only light shinenangans that did not rise to the level of horseplay”

A lot of what ai is good at is very useful for automating massive state surveillance programs. AI could monitor live audio and video communication for problem phrases, for example.

Making authoritarian rule easier and cheaper is a very valuable capability to elites, though detrimantal to the world.

I think the main effect of ai will be continuing this deadly trend of power consolidation that we’ve seen since maybe the mesolithic. The power of information will be conslidated in fewer and fewer ai-oligarchs, allowing ever more intrusive states to control more people more precisely.

Maduro has no connections to cartels and the trump regime has released prominent cartel figures so ‘cartel threats’ is a lie.

If this is anything more than a publicity stunt, the only real threat is maga voters upset at her covering for pedophiles. Whether the victims are the innocent or maga, the perpatrators are always maga.

It’s going to make snr devs get fired, surely?

They either refuse to sign off when boss wants them to and get fired or sign off and get fired when ai code they signed off on causes issues.

The rich benefit in some way from almost everything that happens, that’s how being an elite works.

But that doesn’t mean that the regime intented to massively spike oil prices. They’ll have so much more voter suppression to do now.

Yes, they’re evil, but they’re also frequently stupid. They fuck up a lot.

I think the headline is designed to be misleading - the dramatic tone implies a worse situation than the actual words describe.

It’s not how headlines are written now, but it would be more honest to say: Dubai to rely less on fresh food Perishable food in limited supply Fresh fruit and vegetables affected by war in iran