Colonel Panic

Aha, but that assumes light is real and materials are real and the universe is real!

This is what arguing with people about politics feels like.

That theory assumes that color is real. Color is just some photons smacking into your retina and then the brain deciding what that even means.

Well, we have an incoming president that, per the constitution!!!, is now illegal to hold office, and has committed countless hundreds of crimes that we know of and has yet to face actual consequences under our law, who’s win was also bought by a billionaire, which was quasi-legal at best, and the current president pardoned his son. And we have an entire legal system from SCOTUS on down that takes bribes and favors and will overturn any law that doesn’t suit their overlords and oligarchs. And speaking of, most of our oligarchs, have never faced prosecution or consequences for all their innumerable illegal and deplorable actions over decades and decades. And to top it all off, we have an entire police and “justice” system that murders people on the streets or in their homes every day and at worst gets paid leave vacation for a few weeks for them to sweep it under the rug or maybe they have to transfer to another department. But never any actual consequences except in the few rare cases where we notice and raise enough noise that they have to appease us, but then go right back to ignoring and hiding them when we don’t see.

So, no. The laws do not apply to them, never have. The laws are to keep us peasants in line. We live in an oligarchy that is pretending to be a democracy.

I think it’s long past time to overturn it.

As soon as politics keeps it’s damn hands off our bodies and lives we will.

I’ve left Firefox twice now and come back. It’s still far less shitty than the other main options.

That really does. But humans aren’t particularly great at naming things sometimes.

I still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?

2025

Capitalism is just a complex pyramid scheme. Change my mind.

I really hate that we are calling this wave of technology “AI”, because it isn’t. It is “Machine Learning” sure, but it is just brute force pattern recognition v2.0.

The desired outcomes you define and then the data you train it on both have a LOT of built-in biases.

It’s a cool technology I guess, but it’s being misused across the board. It is being overused and misused by every company with FOMO. Hoping to get some profit edge on the competition. How about we have AI replace the bullshit CEO and VP positions instead of trying to replace fast food drive through workers and Internet content.

I guess that’s nothing new for humans… One human invents the spear for fishing and the rest use them to hit each other over the head.

Preach

Seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before.

I think you can just say “No Homo” and do whatever. Sources needed.

I’m thinking soap.

4 more YEARS from now??? Feels too little too late.

Have they found America yet? Send out another scout!