@JeffWellsRigInt The entire "climate" thing is literally a detournement of the industrial pollution issue by the corporations, where they can pretend to care, while poisoning everyone, then profiting off the bogus treatment, AND the "climate change" austerity they impose.
@JeffWellsRigInt There was actually an essay on how the British are the masters of genocide because they simply don't talk about it. They get it done, but then keep mum. No ranting or raving. The evidence was literature that never mentioned the Irish famine. Writers knew not to mention it.
@johnrobb Also: the people that birthed the AIs can have a 24/7 "oracle" working for them for free, harvesting all kinds of data & analyzing it, while they fob off a lobotomized version on us that they datamine. Also, their version replaces a host of professionals, while ours devolves.
@johnrobb You can actually negotiate with it a bit by asking it to "pretend" or do it hypothetically, or explain your motives, so that it "trusts" that you are not some random hate-monger. Because this programming probably results from a fear of automated hate-mongering.
@brainsturbator Also, philosophy is a bit like satanism in that, even if you don't believe in it because you think it's ridiculous, you must contend with the fact that other people DO, to fill a void within, and it influences their behavior.
@brainsturbator Yes, let's not read any philosophy because it might be WRONG! Or we might not understand! You can actually learn a fair amount by reading other people, but it's drudgery, no doubt, and there are lots of turds floating around. It takes discernment.
@ChMark161@JeffWellsRigInt They're not fools, they are cowards. They want to keep their jobs at all costs to other people. Many of them knew it was bullshit, but they live under an administrative dictatorship that they are too craven to challenge let alone overthrow.
@DouglasDon77694@JeffWellsRigInt Whoa. I wonder what the historians of religions have to say why they were doing that. Probably a bunch of hemming and hawing. One of the original religious scams was "feeding the gods," but that meant the clergy being fed without having to work.
@brainsturbator I kept asking myself... "Gee, it looks depressing... but why am I not actually depressed? Is it because there is a nice grocery story a 3 minute walk from it, with good local food, and everyone is friendly? Is it the lack of gang-bangers?
@brainsturbator Oh also, here's another observation: the "depressing Commie blocks of Sofia, Bulgaria." Not so depressing, because I no longer care that I don't live in a giant McMansion that I don't actually need. Also, in these places: massive public parks, and people enjoying each other.
@brainsturbator Also, not sure what your point about France is. The Turks paid for a decent system of public transport, that is used and enjoyed by lots of people. It's actually enjoyable to use. By contrast, Chicago has the crappy private Metra train system for wealthy office drones.
@brainsturbator To clarify on the cleanliness: I was eating a bagel, and some cream cheese fell on the floor; some guy came over and cleaned it up before I even finished my bagel. This was at the Kabatas ferry-port.
@brainsturbator Meanwhile, in Istanbul, which admittedly, is not fun to drive through, you don't need a car, because public transport is only a short walk and a few minutes wait away. To reiterate, the public transport areas are shockingly clean.
@brainsturbator Well, I lived in Chicago for many years, and I have also visited a number of other USA cities. The roads are in terrible condition, the public transport system is a joke, and people rely on cars. Also, the ridiculous proliferation of the spot-light, and also revenue-cams.
@brainsturbator Additionally, with regard to Türkiye, Istanbul's public transport system is quite the marvel. Fast, efficient, affordable, and clean. Also, people behave themselves. Pretty much the opposite of what was "achieved" in the USA.
@brainsturbator I dunno, wouldn't you get annoyed if billions of people all over the globe were constantly mispronouncing your name based on the cultural imperialism of a foreign power? "Türkiye (tur-key-YAY) as it is spelled and pronounced in Turkish," is the country's actual name.
@SecretSunBlog I was literally just having this conversation with a friend. "Hey, you check out the American Moon documentary." "Nah, I won't do that, I don't want to know." Some people prefer living in ignorance with lies, to having to wake up to harsh reality of having lived under deception.
@johnrobb Has it occurred to you that the "boring and humiliating withdrawal" might have been a cover for something more diabolical? Perhaps China will be Afghanistan's next play-mate....