And this is why we all use metres. (/s)

What is this?! Nuanced thoughts that recognise that everyone is an arsehole? On my internet?!

💛

I’ve been calling the cybertruck the Homer since it’s release. So apt.

I’m in this picture, and I don’t like it.

Technocracy means the masses are ruled by a panel of experts in their fields. Scientific, expert advice sets policy, ie. Logic rules supreme. America is not, is not becoming, and never will be, a technocracy.

America has been an oligarchy for a while, now it’s going full authoritarian.

Then making them afraid of saying “Yeah, ok boss.” is what’s left on the table I guess?

Nine bullets that hit the kid they were “aiming” at, who was on the other side of a chainlink fence that his cerebral palsy prevents him from scaling no less. Multiply the number of pigs involved by the magazine capacity of their firearms to find out how many rounds were actually fired.

Both awful shots, and fucking cowardly to boot.

They should be stripped of their authority and paraded through the streets tarred and fucking feathered for what they’ve done.

What they’ll get instead is paid leave, and moved to another precinct upon their return to work, at worst.

The US is fucked from the ground up, all Trump is doing is accelerating the decline, waving the corruption around like a flag, rather than behind closed doors. (Like it’s done everywhere else)

Edit: 4 pigs, guessing 11 round capacity, means 44 rounds expended, to hit with 9.

I have never fired a handgun in my life, and I am confident I could do better than that. The fact that “trained” individuals are this bad is humiliating to those involved.

When AI eventually gets genuinely I, I’d bet it could be reasoned with.

In fact, since it would likely be unbound by our biological emotions and short-sighted instincts, it would probably think longer term than the current crop of utter psychopaths running the show.

I mean, that’s a loss for capitalism right there. They put a machine smarter than they are in charge, they’re in for a rude awakening I reckon.

That’s not how it works around here. No shades of gray I’m afraid, simple black and white only. (/s)

Ehhhhhhh…

I don’t disagree that the “western hemisphere” is a corrupt, increasingly fascist, capitalist hellhole…

China aren’t known for their stellar human rights record either. Uyghurs, Tibetans, anyone that jokes about Winnie the Pooh’s lookalike, etc.

Let’s not pretend either side is righteous here, every single one of us is getting fucked, it’s just a matter of degree and direction.

See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia’s economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.

It would appear that he’s just a brat who’s never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It’s all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he’s right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.

They can eyeball all they want, the red states are also the US’ welfare queens. They’re poor AF and would be bankrupt in a couple of years.

No, no, and thrice no.

Technocracy implies a ruling elite of experts in their field, individuals with actual learning and genuine expertise in their given fields.

This is fascist plutocracyb government by the hyper-rich with no more qualifications than “I have no morals and am willing to climb over others’ faces while wearing steel spikes to get yet more.”

There is a world of difference.

You. I like you. Keep doing what you’re doing. 💛

Oh no. Anyway…

Someone needs to create plugins not to block data being sent, but to send inordinate amounts of trash data.

Make the whole system pointless.

“I’m too smart to deal with the likes of you.”

Riding that dunning-krueger curve like a pro fucking surfer.

Those poor kids would otherwise grow up into the next generation of coal rolling, republican voting binfires. My sympathy is somewhat limited.

The only thing the US exports is tax avoiding, minimum viable product supplying, data collection companies.

Not only does the rest of the world not need that shit, they’re better off without it.

Fuck the US and everything it has come to stand for.

While those being gutted just stand by and do nothing.

If you have the power to stop something, and choose not to, you’re choosing to help. That makes you complicit, and history will not be kind to you.