@avidseries I couldn’t tell you what UFC stands for, but one of the highlights of my life was having my toes stepped on by a wrestler who bounced off the ropes into my front row seat. Roosevelt would get it, I certainly get it, and many of your readers relish the idea of a WH free-for-all.
Pratt displays an unusual mix of grit, spunk and spirit.
An ad campaign for WiredX344 would set him up for life.
Buckle up for an IMAX full-throttle vid.
@avidseries Costco shoppers usually need enough cash flow for bulk purchases, storage space, and car/SUV to transport purchases (generally, your middle/upper middle-class). Membership fees also tend to weed out lower/lower middle-class. Why is your town different?
For those suffering from amnesia: just four months ago, the Islamic regime in Iran slaughtered over 40,000 people in only two days, for the sole ‘crime’ of protesting for freedom.
@Osint613 Did they choose not to pursue drone and autonomous swarms? Bioweapons? Hypersonic and advanced missiles? Cyber weapons? Anti-satellite capability? Nefarious AI? This looks like more kicking the (repackaged) can down the road.
@avidseries I engage with AI all day long. That engagement has caused my productivity to soar. I am busier today than I was running an agency in my youth. No subject is out of bounds, and my AI has been trained to call me out on my shit as needed. Cognitive augmentation is awesome!
Evil rarely announces itself.
Hannah Arendt didn’t warn us that the greatest danger would come from monsters.
She warned us it would come from ordinary people who stop asking questions. People who trade conscience for slogans, curiosity for certainty, and morality for obedience.
The lesson of the Holocaust was never just about one man. It was about what happens when a society decides that thinking is optional.
Every generation believes it would have stood against evil.
History keeps asking the same question:
Would you have?
Or would you have simply gone along because everyone else did?
That’s why Arendt still matters. And that’s why this conversation matters. Because the opposite of evil isn’t outrage.
It’s the courage to think for yourself.
@AynReagan Small (large?) legal point: police chiefs don’t file hate crime charges. Police investigate, gather evidence, make arrests, and may recommend enhancements. Prosecutors decide what criminal charges or hate crime allegations are filed.
Shopping bags are not clean. Consider the chain of contact. The bottom of that bag has usually touched a grocery cart. That cart has held thousands of things: toddlers’ shoes, leaking food packages, raw meat packages, produce with soil, handbags that sat on floors, reusable bags that have never been washed, and people’s unwashed hands. Carts are never cleaned.
No shopping bag ever comes in contact with my counter.
@NPCollapse Once you acknowledge pattern (myth) distribution, you start noticing that civilization itself is less like a collection of objects and more like a collection of synchronized mental states. The buildings and bodies are merely the hardware. The real game is running in the network.