TubularTittyFrog
@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 10 hours ago:
it creates perceived shareholder value.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 13 hours ago:
Have you met many people?
Most people’s entire lives are a form of autocomplete.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 13 hours ago:
classes in philosophy, literature, politics, and digital media. typically.
humanities.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 day ago:
It’s an ego thing when you think the world should care about your feelings.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 day ago:
People being stupid isn’t a problem or bad necessary.
The problem is when stupid being engage in collective delusion and damage/destroy the principles and needs that build society. For example, the belief that taxes are theft, rather than the cost of social infrastructure that makes their private businesses and lives even possible.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 day ago:
There are clear measurements of various abilities, but there is no measure of general intelligence in the sense of being able to process new information and draw novel conclusions about it, or think outside of existing socially dominant schemas.
Even the most ‘smart’ people I know, very few exercise this ability, even if they have it. To think well you often have to be trained to do so, and even then a lot of people will fail in that training willfully. Mostly because they are aware taht exhibiting thoughtful individuality will get them socially and career shitcanned, because so much of society is and career success is built on being a yes man.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 day ago:
and egotistical enough to think your feelings matter.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 day ago:
Those things are actively being done by the ‘smart’ people who want to horde all the benefits of those things for themselves. The concept of lifting up the unwashed mashes via education is considered niave now. What people are doing is isolating themselves into geographic bubbles of extreme wealth and making rules to keep everyone else out who doesn’t have a few million in the bank to afford the ticket.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 day ago:
anyone who has any money whatsoever is terrified of poor people. including other poor people.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 day ago:
Everyone now thinks they have exceptional intelligence.
That’s the root of the problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
or frozen ones that turned into mush once you cooked them. that was my mom’s speciality
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
people’s perception of cost is highly relative.
people love to romanticize stuff without doing any true cost comparisons.
like how bad the environment was in the 1980s compared to today. or how expensive electronics were, and how unsafe cars were. and how bad nutrition and healthcare was.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
you realize the quality of the food back then was much worse, right?
that’s also why it was so cheap.
- Comment on For the First Time Ever, the Colossal Squid Might Have Shown Its Secret Face 6 days ago:
cool that they captured this, but Antartic tourism is a environmental travesty.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 6 days ago:
Then if you point out the implicist ableism in that… well you’re a woke nazi…
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 6 days ago:
Totally disagree. Knowledge has never depressed me, ignorance does.
But I’m not a normie, true.
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 6 days ago:
pretty easy to pull that up these days with a IP
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 week ago:
my nephews are all about the limited edition skins
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 1 week ago:
Amen. Any political post I make, even like citing basic facts of government and law… often results in multiple screams of nazi and maybe one reply that is legit.
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 1 week ago:
infinity.
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 1 week ago:
like what, that you only run 5K in 40m?
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 1 week ago:
wouldn’t you question the sanity of someone who did that to you?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
and normies think you’re an asshole if you try to explain the technology to them, and cling to their ignorance of it basuc it’s more ‘fun’ to believe in magic
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
Personally I think people want fascism, especially the extreme left and right. Even if they say they don’t, they tacit cheer it on because they feel like it will give them the morally black and white world they so desperately crave.
I don’t see anyone really promoting the old democratic values of the free world much anymore, and often if they do they get labeled a conservative.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
you could just block me. but what do i know, i’m clearly very dumb and u very very smart.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
Yep. They just weren’t as visible.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
That isn’t how the law works man. If he can change the law, yeah he can do that. As it stands he can’t. Maybe it will change, maybe it won’t.
Focus more on facts, less on fear.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
I mean yeah that first point is fine. and totally true, they have and more power to them.
your second however… do you realize that like the vermont national guard could take over your country? The canadian military is decades out of date in terms of equipment and training. I agree with you though that your government desperately needs to upgrade and increase it’s military spending, especially as it’s likely Russian will try to steal your arctic claims in the next 20-30 years.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
so why are you upset than Trump is in power doing what he was elected to do? since it’s not affecting you in your little patch, apparently.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
your grandmother has a sense of humor.