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- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 7 hours ago:
No, I don’t see a path out. History doesn’t show any path out as far as I can tell. The power of change for the masses is in mass actions. It isn’t coincidence that we are distracted all the time, that we lack strong community, that our attention is grabbed at every moment, that life is too expensive for free time. It’s to prevent mass actions. If not by manufactured distraction then by criminalization or propaganda.
I watched the masses pay companies to put cameras in their homes, microphones in their pockets and tracker their devices. I watched them put all the details of their lives and their social connections on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter to be surveilled. I watched them click yes on every TOS without reading, agree to give up anonymity and privacy not just for themselves, but for everyone. Now we are watching people tell LLMs their thoughts, feelings, fears and inner most identities. All that information get collated, catalogued and analyzed. A dossier on every citizen. A prediction algorithm for every cohort. The greatest surveillance, social mapping, propaganda and behavior prediction system ever devised by human beings, all in the hands of genuine psychopaths who run the companies and run for office.
The only times things have gotten better for the masses is when circumstances, technology or calamity, destabilize the existing power structures and allow the oppressed to reclaim the space. That only lasts long enough for the ambitious to reconcentrate power again into the hands of the few. Whatever path you see is one built of faith alone, not evidence of how humans organize ourselves when the destabilizing force dissipates and life returns to a static state. We are living through that reconsolidation of power, watching our communities turned into fascism.
All because the masses can be bought with toys.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 18 hours ago:
The people have never been roused to action simply because of a good idea, or a wise course of action. They are incapable of even identifying a good idea. Any individual that gains traction changing power structures is targetted and sometimes killed for it. We are all in a cage built by the wealthy and anything that’s effective is demonized through propaganda or made illegal and dealt with violence. We are also now on precipice of the greatest surveillance and propaganda system humanity has ever endured and people still don’t notice and stop supporting it. We are at the precipice of autonomous drone technology capable of killing that will be used for violence against the prisoners. All because the general population refuse to see the cage or the technologies that have built it, instead helping build their own system of subjugation. The average person is a threat and a traitor to their own interests.
- Comment on hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥 18 hours ago:
So brave.
- Comment on hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥 18 hours ago:
We can talk when you calm down.
- Comment on hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥 21 hours ago:
Any excuse to show their bodies.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 21 hours ago:
We aren’t the ones deciding to go to war and cause a generation of men to have their psychological well-being put through a wood chipper. We don’t produce the propaganda that make men willing. We don’t make poverty rampant so men get desperate enough to enlist.
It doesn’t matter if we learn, plenty of us already know and it doesn’t change anything. People like Trump, like Putin, like Netanyahoo, don’t care about us or whoever ends up a victim of their ambitions. Putin and Netanyahoo know what their troops do and don’t give a fuck, they might even use it to their advantage.
The problem isn’t learning from the past, it’s that psychopaths are good at gaining power. They know and simply don’t care. If voters weren’t such ignorant imbeciles, maybe they wouldn’t vote for ppl like Trump, but they are, so here we are. If customers weren’t such ignorant, weak willed cowards incapable of not buying the new toys, we wouldn’t fund the people stealing all the property and making us poorer every generation. We are all victims of the decision-making prowess of the average voter, the average consumer.
- Comment on Elon Musk to Owe Billions After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before Takeover 3 days ago:
That’s a power thing. Avoiding accountability to the rule of law.
- Comment on Iran does not seek nuclear weapons, president says 3 days ago:
Oh, well. Okay then. Why didn’t you just say that? Pack it up boys!
- Comment on If creatures existed that were simultaneously as trainable and as powerful as pokemon, of course they'd be used to resolve every conflict. 3 days ago:
They’d be used to provoke conflict.
- Comment on Elon Musk to Owe Billions After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before Takeover 3 days ago:
He’s made billions more after and because of it so he doesn’t give a shit about a meaningless, billion dollar fine.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 4 days ago:
It has the threshold its victims allow by maintaining a relationship with he greedy.
- Comment on Trump's $65B Iran War Could Have Ended Homelessness and Rebuilt Gaza 4 days ago:
The extra money they gave the Pentagon that the Pentagon said it didn’t need could also have gone to social programs or education or health care but nooooo, we can’t help each other. We can only spend on murder.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 5 days ago:
This is a lot of what’s happening. LLM companies have convinced the eagerly selfish that LLMs can empower them to do things they currently rely on others for, faster and better, and the early adopters are making very risky decisions that are blowing up in their faces. The current US admin is one of these groups of eagerly selfish, believing LLMs will empower them to be capable of things they simply aren’t, like seizing power and ruling America forever.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 5 days ago:
I would love these for when I’m dealing with companies and sales people.
- Comment on Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds 6 days ago:
That’s all of business through.
- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 1 week ago:
This is some manipulative bullshit. Of course dad don’t ask, he doesn’t want to hear that you love him less all the time. How fucking brutal that must have been for him. Meanwhile your mother is still subtly coercing you to choose her and worsen your relationship with your dad. Men may be violent but women are vicious.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 1 week ago:
And the church used those confessions to control things.
- Comment on Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong 1 week ago:
Still gonna use it to enslave and possibly enable a culling of the world population.
- Comment on Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check 1 week ago:
They are becoming one, united against us.
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 1 week ago:
Does this include ever mob in an RPG that drops random loot? Like all of World of Warcraft?
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
Good thing YouTube itself is skippable.
- Comment on funny number 1 week ago:
Are they distinguishable?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Because they form their worldview around their own interests, without realizing it. The label of progressive does a lot to assume moral right and inclusiveness which hides biases of self interest. Many of the beleifs people hold were not formed from the effort or reasoning by them but adopted form the authority of progressive ideology. Religion works in much the same way. It takes concerted effort and emotional regulation to build a rational and consistent worldview which is something most people, even progressives, rarely attempt.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Men have so much less reason to fear compared to women.
I do not agree this can be assumed.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Just because one person doesn’t experience something doesn’t invalid that others do, even when a majority do.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
What’s so insane about it?
I agree that women have and will likely continue to be, physically vulnerable to larger people, most often from those whom are men, because they more often bigger. Women suffer from this vulnerability in a variety of ways, including sexual assault. That risk, and the severity of the consequences, deserves community effort to mitigate.
Where’s the insane part?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
You can’t explain how empathy works and think understanding it is vapid so your beleifs about it what is and isn’t possible, how and when, are not very trustworthy.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
I’ve been sexually assaulted multiple times over my life, all by women. I did not conceive of the actions as assault until I heard women’s claims, of the same actions, be accepted as a form of sexual assault. Men absolutely under report their sexual assault, especially as the definition continues to be expanded, including more behaviors that men have already dismissed.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Yes. Higher risk of one thing over another does not mean high.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Few of them ever are…