American politics were pretty fundamentally broken by no one understanding that 1950s manufacturing prosperity was “the only industrial power that wasn’t just bombed to oblivion” prosperity, which cannot return
holy shit, just when i thought duolingo couldn’t get any worse, they’re having people multiply temperatures by scalars
what temperature is “double” 0 degrees celsius?
the problem is that we don't "randomly cut everything by 10-35%." when it comes to austerity, the first things on the chopping block are always education, healthcare, and aid to the poor. why don't we first try "randomly" chopping corporate welfare and "see what happens?"
“average empire lasts 250 years” factoid actualy just statistical error. average empire lasts much longer. Empires Glubb, who lives in England & manipulates over 10,000 data sets each day, is an idiot adn should not have been published
Leftists need to stop acting like they're hot shit, the country is moving to the right, we couldn't defend our incumbents, dsa isn't growing and had to layoff staff because of budget cuts, Trump is back
But ya now is the perfect time to focus on putting pressure on AOC
Reading a book by an FBI negotiator about how you can tire out your opponents by just saying "How do you suppose I do that?" to all their demands
Great advice, yet horrifying to realize it's the learned helplessness strategy used by depressed victim mentality people
Incandescent take: Anti-AI art people are largely motivated by the same reactionary, knee jerk impulses as fascists. Look at how they en mass have become the greatest pro-copyright crusaders. People with 'leftist' in bio allying with Disney out of fear of losing class status.
It's actually a point in favor of atheism that the worst thing you can say about it in most of the world is that it's cringe. In contrast, in most of the world, religion at its worst is actively oppressing and murdering large numbers of people.
There are 1000 games where you play an American soldier killing Arabs but one game about killing actual invaders and colonizers can't be allowed.
Show this to people that think liberal democracies have no censorship.
Seeing more and more people reply to the topic of piracy with "Yeah it's okay *as long as you don't pirate from the indies*" or say "pirate X game" in protest and it makes me realise people think piracy works like this greentext but unironically
I really can’t respect people who blindly hate AI. Copyright law is massively tyrannical. A system that violates it en masse could only be good for humanity. If you think copyright is good for you then you have been lied to. Copyright exists to separate artists from their art.
@RadishHarmers takes a real sicko to support artificial scarcity of something that can be duplicated infinitely for free. doing harrison bergeron shit to human culture
@RadishHarmers Being millennial means the digital world was built up around you as you got older, so you got to see this whole new morality be born out of thin air. The idea that you can “steal” something by making a perfect copy for free would be laughable around 20 years ago.