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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Some atheists so believe in reincarnation I suppose, but memories are pretty universal. Whatever anyone believes, everyone remembers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The atheist afterlife is your memory and how people talk about you.

  So if you’re a good person, people remember you fondly and speak well of you.

  And if you’re Thatcher, people piss on your grave and openly wish you were in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t really go to service for gods? They do it for community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I NEED to eat this!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghosts are the first and only pepper to make me puke.

  Doesn’t stop me from eating then, just smarter about making sure my stomach has lots of stuff to dilute the heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why I asked! I didn’t want to presume, but it was hard to tell without the clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thread topic is SpaceX saying we should dump all fiber plans and go with Starlink.

  I had to clarify what you were arguing about, because otherwise I was going to yell at you about latency issues and data throttling and the risks of Kessler syndrome and about how bad it is to put critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just trying to understand why this argument is even happening.

  You seem to basically agree with them. What’s even the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have to stand up together, there’s literally nothing I can do by myself. That’s why I need to let people know, so they stand with me.

  I’m sorry if you feel like you’re being bullied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so to clarify, are you in favor of ending all new fiber installation projects in favor of Starlink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? That won’t accomplish much.

  I just want people to know we are Fucked. This stupid fucking satellite Internet race is going to destroy Earth’s orbital infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, just to clarify, are you in favor of replacing all fiber with Starlink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kessler syndrome here we come!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see government contracts making a lot of money regardless of how functional their technology actually is.

  It’s more about who you know than what you can actually do when it comes to getting money from the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they can survive if they gatekeep and make it unaffordable to most people. There’s just not enough demand or revenue that can be generated from rich people asking for chatGPT to do their homework or pretend to be their friend. They need mass adoption to survive, which is why they’re trying to keep it artificially cheap in the first place.

  Why do you think they haven’t raised prices yet? They’re trying to make everyone use it and become reliant on it.

  And it’s not happening. The technology won’t “go away” per se, but these these expensive AI companies will fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those users are not paying a sustainable price, they’re using chatbots because they’re kept artificially cheap to increase use rates.

  Force them to pay enough to make these bots profitable and I guarantee they’ll stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LYING TO CHILDREN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Next you’ll tell my coyotes can’t operate catapults or rocket shoes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  😠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of question is that? I dunno dawg that’s just how many olfactory senses turned out! To me it stinks and kind of makes me nauseated.

  Some people dislike cheese, I dislike butter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like how it smells or tastes? 🤷‍♀️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Butter is, like, the one dairy product I don’t miss. Pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  scientificamerican.com/…/china-powers-ai-boom-wit…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Misanthropy tbh

  Hate has a material basis, it’s not just something that emerges organically from human nature. The ruling class needs to maximize the reproduction of labor so it invented and promoted queer hate as a way to remove one of those obstacles. Its material basis is actually very similar to anti-abortion and anti-contraception and anti-feminist politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about contradictions that can arise between religion and politics.

  If their religion says to be charitable to the poor, but their politics say to starve the poor, they’ll starve the poor. If their religion says to love their neighbor, but their politics tells them to hate their neighbor, they’ll hate their neighbor. When there’s a contradiction between religion and politics, they’ll choose politics and then work backwards from their to justify it religiously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Abrahamic religion isn’t set in stone, it’s capable of reform and has even done so in other historical contexts. This doesn’t even require secularism, all it requires is that they read their books in a different way for different interpretations.

  But secularism isn’t impossible. As the colonizers become less secular and more religious, the historical currents begin to push against religion among the colonized. Less so among Muslims because they can deflect the contradictions onto sectarianism, but African Christians will have to reconcile the contradiction between their anti-colonialism and worshiping the god of religious colonizers.

  There are lots of ways this can play out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctrine and religion are always changing based on historical forces, so if the historical winds are blowing against “lgbt=colonialism” then this will have effects on religion and doctrine. The contradiction will need to be resolved somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the West having this new wave of anti-queer reaction will short-circuit this cycle. Hard to claim we are agents of neocolonialism and imperialism when the US is attacking trans people and is on the cusp of rolling back gay marriage rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The role of the doomer is to declare that, actually, AGI is juuust around the corner. And it’s scary! They’re doing the same hype as the boosters are, just from a different angle. It’s all the same crap, though.

  But, yeah, realistically they’re going to put a chatbot in charge of something important and it’s going to fail and the bubble will pop.

  Hopefully it’s something small and not the nuclear arsenal, but uh, these cultists really want to put chatbots in charge of the nukes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI boosters and doomers fundamentally believe the same thing.

  They collectively agree is that AI will be Great and Awesome, in the old sense of the words. In their minds they are building God and so it can bring about either utopia or dystopia, because it is so Great and Awesome that all hitherto history will cease to matter and the godmachine will recreate the world in its image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect those are a smokescreen for maybe deeper problems.

  Chatbots don’t really reduce the need for staff, but it’s a great excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re locusts. They don’t think about anything past the next fiscal quarter.