artificialfish

@artificialfish@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When you get all 350 million people to riot I’ll be on your side. But laying low is a more likely to succeed option. This country has never been fair or politically good. I prepared for this, because I could see it coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have money and I’m not comfortable in prison. That’s why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who gave us that goal? You? Nations don’t have that goal. Their goal is “do better than my neighbor” “look out for my interests”. Most peoples goals are that way. People divide into companies, families, and nations specifically because they see themselves as different from the other. Our printer is different, our identity is different, etc, let’s cooperate. But cooperation IMPLIES someone you are competing with. If not, that competition will arise to “get there’s”. That’s the will to power.

  You are talking about some kind of enlightened person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We are literally by definition the same species as cavemen.

  Most people are selfish imbeciles. Never attribute to malice what you could otherwise attribute to stupidity, but you have to ascend both to get to your standard of people. Thats a heavy ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So many of the ways we manipulate people are illegal. As such we have actually said “don’t do it” in the strongest way possible. But usually people don’t advocate prison time for the ways the saying means when it says manipulate. Like I can manipulate you to buy me a better present than you usually do by saying “if you don’t do this for me then you don’t really love me”. Is your response in that situation “straight to jail”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you like to think it, or do you believe it to be true?