and things were very historical

not for lack of trying

Americans still get confused about how the Democrats and Republicans swapped ideologies entirely many decades ago.

1997 was peak for lots of things

don’t forget the fucking “Westboro Baptist Church”

All logical assessments aside, he’s probably got plenty in ill-gotten gains squirrelled away in Crypto holdings.

Watch him run for office, against Trump.

Religious oppression stifles education.

a) yes

b) what I find really concerning is that they may have already figured out how to change people’s behaviour: what they think is funny, what they think is appropriate to say/do, where they want to travel to (if at all), how they feel about certain celebrities they like or dislike, what is believable or not believable, how they feel about certain politicians, who to vote for. Some people are probably more easy to sway on certain topics than others are. It’s not a stretch to guess that they probably already know various paths to make individuals into something they currently are not.

Thanks bud. it’s not our first rodeo, we’re used to the smell of bullshit.
Still, you know, when it actually gets on you it stains things.

I hear you, but the writer isn’t concerned with “can”: If you replaced “can have the answer to any question in seconds from my a tiny device in my pocket” with “must” then you can see their dissatisfaction.

if I went to a restaurant and was told that I had to install and use their app to order their food, I would fucking leave. If it was the only restaurant left in town then I’d have much less choice in the matter. The insidious nature of technology is that it changes “can” with “must”.

AIs can generate false statements. It doesn’t require a set of beliefs, it merely requires a set of input.

I just assumed Notepad++ made the writer happyyyyyyy, made them feel fiiiiine

Moderators at Facebook have been arguing these points for a while now, many of which have gotten mental issues though their work and don’t get any medical support

How in the actual hell can Facebook not provide medical support to these people, after putting them through actual hell? That is actively evil of them.

most phones now don’t support memory expansion

Well of course not. If phones supported memory expansion you would just buy more memory, instead of buying an entirely new phone Don’t even get me started on how bloated these apps have become. I used Paperclip word processor on a Commodore-64; you can not convince me that your app needs to be 50+ Megs in size.

if not, there’s work to be done

I’m not so certain. I think they’re perhaps opportunistic nihilists and have seen too deep into the abyss one too many times to know how to deal with the sheer amount of nothing they saw there.

Thanks. Remember, it’s nothing against you, or even against people who were lied to in order to get their vote.

At some point, some random billionaire will become slightly less billionaire-y and freak out about tariffs wrecking their bottom line. Until then, we’ve all got to grab on to our sanity and hodl like never before.

because that person is a professional actress with more talent in her little finger than most hacks have in their entire family .

Americans have been giving these folks too much rope. When will they start using the rope?

It would be ironic

It would be Fascism.