Those who stand not for belief or principle, but instead only for tribal affiliation, are untrustworthy, dangerous, and can NEVER be more than temporary allies of convenience.
Only those who act consistently out of principle can ever be trusted, for they believe in values greater than themselves.
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
'Current AI investments will crash and burn' and 'AI is here to stay' could both be true. Look at the Channel Tunnel (between the UK and France); the initial investors lost most of their investment, but the tunnel is still there and doing a useful job. With Ai's 'issues', a crash might do it good.
But now that the people YOU elected are hurting your household, this isn't what you voted for.
If you swallow enough hate, it grows like a cancer and eats the host.
You voted for your own demise, and you will have to sit with it until the end.
"Felt genocidal today. Might delete later."
Every company website now has a CONTACT page with absolutely no way to contact a human presented on it, instead they all just funnel you into a labrynthian rat's nest of AI interactions you must somehow figure out how to trick into connecting you with a real one. It's pure garbage.
How about for invading another country with aims and for reasons that you're not terribly clear about? Asking for an, um, not-friend...
Who knew this song would be so fitting after so many years 😒
Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.
The cluelessness is strong in this one. Exhibit 1: Alexander. The one that was actually called 'the Great'. And was taught by some philosopher guy. I'm sure y'all've heard of him.
100% agreed, but that's not generally a thing that happens. 'Neo'-nazis persist after WW2, and that was a pretty huge defeat. In a wider sense, I think the general 'ideal' of 'WE should naturally have privilege over THEM' seems to be an eternal anchor hung around humanity's neck.
i have had a lot of frustrating conversations with friends of mine because they will not read and i will not listen to three-hour podcasts featuring sweaty guys who will believe literally anything unless there's a scrap of evidence for it
I think the main failing of most Western leaders (very much including here in the UK) has been and still is seeing 'foreign policy' as something distinct from and subsidiary to 'domestic policy'. We need to realise that the Internet knits them together to an ever increasing degree.
Surely *someone* asked him about Bannon, Trump, Brexit & the Epstein files?
Bueller?
There’s an RPG theory called “RPG essentialism” which states that there’s one platonic ideal of RPG that all RPGs are striving to reach and this is such an incredibly silly theory.
It’s akin to imagining there’s one way to describe a tree that all poets who describe trees are striving for.
incredible. a rule zero excerpt written by an actual adult
Closest anyone will ever get to an apology from The Orange ManBoy - now he should say something similar to the other 31 countries whose military he insulted
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”.
Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists.
Name them, record them, and make it public.
“They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard... No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.” ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
As Pratchett said:
Surely more like 'sums up what is wrong with the ignorant tossers who brought us Brexshit'?
On the upside, he had a starring role in a good show.
The 'rule' (at least as it came to the project management world from the back of an automobile workshop in Virginia) is generally 'two out of three' - which you achieve (cheap and good). Those who want the third as well are doomed to disappointment throughout life, and it's their own fault.
Even more the popularity/prevalence of the bayonet charge by the later 18th century.
Just saw someone say the Bondi Beach massacre wasn't antisemitic because the killer was motivated by "the Zionist policies of Israel as a state".
If your response to the policies of the Israeli state is to go and massacre some random Jews who are not Israeli, then *yes you're fucking antisemitic*
I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Beware anyone who loudly labels themselves a "truth-teller."
Except that won't work. The problem isn't 'the foreigners', it's that regulation is happening at the wrong scale - national instead of international. The scope of government needs to shift again for it all to work - fighting against technology is a losing proposition.
