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This is the grossest thing he’s done yet. I literally feel nauseous.

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*goes and peaks at r/conservative for the schadenfreude .

Too complex to explain to anyone who’s not a politically / culturally curious intellectual (or who even just lacks a lot of the sci-fi / gaming and science nerd inspired philosophical context).

A lot of these breakdowns of the weird and out of touch thought coming out of upper class technocrats and their acolytes are missing this kind of bridge: a simple way to explain this to anyone who wouldn’t read more than the first paragraph of this article. No one like that is going to try to parse an acronym like TESCREAL.

My main thought about this is that “Right” and “Left” aren’t even the right terms and using them gives people the wrong impression of what’s happening. It’s better to say that techno-authoritarians with their heads in the sci-fi clouds are attracting followers from the intellectual and better educated side of the “disaffected young men” pool and are aligning themselves with more traditionally conservative authoritarians for the sake of political convenience. They don’t want the government or left wing populism getting in the way of their profits and science experiments, so their support lines up with the party that wants to sabotage the government.

This reminds me of a book I used to read to my son and nephew where there are some Pie-Rats who board a boat, tie up the captain and eat the pie his wife baked for him.

(This is it: https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Scarrys-Rats-Ahoy-Step-Into-Reading/dp/067984760X, if anyone has kids in that age group, it’s lovely and so are the other books by him)

I’m making fun of it. I am also a libertarian socialist or something.

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I don’t care what the science says! I don’t care about the suffering of others! This offends my capitalist sensibilities that I have never questioned and I’m not about to start thinking too hard about it now just because some hippy libs want to sneak communism in the back door!

I have zero respect for this world view and hope we are able to simply bulldoze it with unstoppable momentum.

WTF red states?

I can only assume they WANT this to get challenged so it goes to the Supreme Court because our insane SCOTUS might uphold it.

Well, time for four more years of Trump, I guess.

When I look around the Democratic party, I see old people unwilling to change, from Biden and the DNC all the way down to my parent’s friends in their little rich white suburban neighborhood with a median age of 57 and a median net worth of $3,000,000. People who are firmly entrenched in the liberalism of the 80s and 90s and who are terrified of Trump and terrified of progressives and think it’s all insanity that also doesn’t really affect them.

This is the Democrats’ race to lose. All they have to do to lose it is stick their fingers in their ears and fight like hell for “Business as usual.” Which is exactly what they’re doing.

People are including AI generated code in their projects without fully reading it or understanding how it works.

“Rule of Acquisition Number 211: Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don’t hesitate to step on them.” -Elon Musk

The most recent On The Media podcast has a section about this (Trump reporting and why people don’t get it that he’s stupid, crazy AND evil) that I feel like didn’t go far enough. They have a guest talking who literally says “The journalists aren’t doing their job, to inform the public.” I wanted to respond “NO, they ARE doing their job. Their job isn’t to inform the public, it’s to make $$$ by creating content that maximizes consumer engagement, while pushing narratives that appeal to their CEOs and shareholders. They’re doing EXACTLY their job. THAT’S the problem.”

Ghosts won’t go to a cop party. They end up arrested for possession.

Panda Security:

This community:

But if you say “It robs massive companies of their income” it just doesn’t sound compelling.

Not saying I do this but… try a video downloader over a Tor connection? I wouldn’t actually stream anything off those scammy ass sites… I learned my lesson when I my son was about 7 or 8 (so 5 years ago) and we were trying to watch an episode of some cartoon (I don’t even remember) and suddenly there was anime pussy all over the screen and my son said “What’s that?” I’ll never forget how mortified I was.

All of my personal machines are Autobots.

At work we use space probes (Voyager, Pioneer, New Horizons, etc). We’re a small satellite communications company.