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- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 4 days ago:
I have found myself saying this phrase to people recently:
“Summarize what you just said in a single sentence.”
And so far, everybody has done it.
- Comment on Absolutely hecking bamboozled 4 days ago:
Oh gosh do you remember that sloth from the first one that spoke really slow that they showed in hundreds of trailers? Hah, cracked me up man.
- Comment on Absolutely hecking bamboozled 4 days ago:
I remember this original thread on 4chan. Shit I didn’t mean to out myself or anything. I was there strictly as an expeditionary force.
- Comment on Absolutely hecking bamboozled 4 days ago:
That’s one sassy 16 year old goth girl on the left!
- Comment on Alas! 4 days ago:
The first sentence is Internet in 1995.
The second sentence is having a job after 1995.
- Comment on Announcing Linkwarden for iOS & Android 4 days ago:
Well hello there.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 4 days ago:
Dude is missing the fucking point anyway. So what if there actually is a generous philanthropist billionaire? Does that prove that the system is working, because it enables private citizens to accumulate enough power to change the world any way they see fit? Because then we have a system where we are at the mercy as a society of the personal idiosyncrasies of the ultra wealthy, instead of elected officials.
If money is supposed to be a metric of success, then morality is nothing but the accumulation of money, and he who gets the most gets to tell everyone else how the world is to be run.
Societies cannot successfully and equitably and fairly be run by private individuals with extreme wealth. It is, in fact, the polar opposite of what we have tried to achieve with democratic societies. That’s the whole point of paying taxes, of having laws and regulations that diminish the influence of money, because let run wild, we get countries and populations run by modern warlords and chieftains bent on getting ever more for themselves and less for everyone else.
Capitalism is a fucking CANCER on humanity.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 4 days ago:
But on the flip side, you have folks like Bill Gates who has more or less devoted his life to saving as many lives as possible.
Can you fucking imagine thinking that Bill Gates foundation is anything but a massive tax evasion scam set to funnel funds through intermediaries to enrich his family even more? Remember when Zuckerberg said he was going to “donate” like 90% of his wealth? Well, seems that was a fraud too.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT.
We have societies and governments so that we all have equal say in how resources should be distributed, so that we can all be free and all live fair. If we have a society where we accept that someone has the capacity to end world hunger but it’s up to them personally to make that choice, then we are back to some feudal bullshit.
People should not have that much money, because money is power, and if they have a trillion dollars and vote with their wallets (like you do), then suddenly they have a trillion votes and you have one. That’s the end of democracy, period. No system can survive that.
As a counterpoint, imagine if Bill Gates instead chose, personally, to spend his wealth on propping up an armed resistance force and a private army and into destabilizing governments so that he can seize control like some global warlord, would that also be an example of how capitalism works precisely as expected? I’d say so.
The whole point is that we cannot give private citizens the power to control societies. That’s how you get barbarism and dynastic rule and slavery and human misery. Democracy is the only light in the world, and capitalism is a direct challenger to rule of democracy and law. If money is power, then capitalism is a form of government, and a fucking horrific one that will push us way back into the dark ages if we allow it.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 4 days ago:
They’re gamblers. Capitalism is gambling. I’ve seen people die from it, I lost a good friend to gambling. These are gambling addicts, they will never get enough, it will never be enough. They will keep going and drag everyone else down with them in the process, at any and all cost, and with absolute certainty.
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 4 days ago:
How about when someone says women’s place is in the kitchen? Do you also get Big Mad?
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 4 days ago:
Whenever I disagree with someone online I also call them pedophiles, it makes me feel better about myself even though I am thoroughly incapable of any form of self-reflection of rational thought.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 4 days ago:
I mean if you’re digging a hole most of the time it’s gonna go downward.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 4 days ago:
I am also a dog on the internet.
- Comment on new career hack 4 days ago:
“Download AI now”
- Comment on new career hack 4 days ago:
It’s blockchain and the cloud all over again!!
- Comment on IT'S HAPPENING! 6 days ago:
I ASKED FOR SHOSPLE COLUPIS, not whatever this is!
- Comment on My Religion 6 days ago:
Thanks a lot!
- Comment on IT'S HAPPENING! 1 week ago:
I told them this would happen.
- Comment on Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box 1 week ago:
They behave like big dogs. Big dogs, really big.
- Comment on Pacquiao teaching his son how he wants him to hit 1 week ago:
Wow. Punch punch punch! I always did punch, miss, lose breath.
- Comment on wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize 1 week ago:
HE DESERVES THAT AWARD! PRESIDENT OF PEACE BETWEEN FIFA AND THE USA! 18 WARS STOPPED!
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
I always turn off the sound, I can’t stand that dumb voice.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
How about calling it “America can suck my hairy grampa balls signed DONALD J… TRUMP”
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
Doesn’t even register on my radar. What about the Epstein files? They still redacted, or what? Wasn’t there gonna be a big release or something? Two weeks, was it?
- Comment on My Religion 1 week ago:
Whufs this from?
- Comment on My Religion 1 week ago:
I don’t care.
- Comment on IT'S HAPPENING! 1 week ago:
This is the news I have been waiting for!!
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 week ago:
This is interesting because you propose that eugenics is inherently bad because it requires a lot of sacrifice, is that right? Because it doesn’t have to. This line from Gattaca always stuck with me:
[Vincent’s parents are planning a second child, and are shown four candidate embryos]
Geneticist: We want to give your child the best possible start. Believe me, we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn’t need any more additional burdens. Keep in mind, this child is still you. Simply, the best, of you. You could conceive naturally a thousand times and never get such a result.I could argue, could, that not doing eugenics on this level would be immoral. If we can use science to make people less prone to disease, to make them stronger and smarter, why wouldn’t we? I’m not a fucking nazi here, I’m looking for a serious debate. We are already doing this in a different categorical scope with modern medicine. If we claim that all births must be “natural”, then perhaps disease and death are also “natural” and we shouldn’t intervene, and do without medical science and just have nature run its natural course.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 week ago:
People often confuse being contrarian for being deep. If you don’t want to live forever, you don’t want to live right now.
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 1 week ago:
Send it back into nature! I love it!