Yeah, I don’t get how JD internalizes the Pope. For a Catholic, the Pope is supposed to be a/The voice of God. Looks like JD got no reverence for what God is trying to communicate.
Really funny to see a man dedicate his life to these values just to see him say, “God, can you not give me guidance right now? I’m doing war stuff.”
John 13:34, homie. Sorry Jan—your homeboy said it, not me.
https://youtu.be/ElxXXTpw8Cg 3 yr old, not sure if still true
Operation Cyclone again? I thought we already did this episode…
I have good friends that are Kurdish immigrants who fled Saddam, but this won’t work. It’ll be the same shit, arming another group, spreading wars, and creating ripple effects we can’t perceive.
Jeopardy: what is “a concentration camp”?
“Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go” - Bu Burnham, 2021
Rhetorically speaking, can we please not give them marketing campaigns? They would run this.
It feels like this is a rage bait engagement ploy. Frontload the video with bullshit (again, projecting, because these same claims are levied against the last election in favor of 47), then put some rage bait shit at the end that the press runs too. The outrage bounces off of Teflon while his audience & the people pissed signal boost / raise engagement.
Why is “don’t” censored a bunch in the Epstein file? I wonder… 🤔
See Trump 1, week 1, “alternative facts.”
Doublespeak, as someone said.
“Drug Cartels”
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Agreed here. Why bring in gender at all?
Fuck yeah, math homie. Thank you.
Billionaire math
Average USA billionaire has about $7b in wealth.
2026 * 365 = 739,490
$7,000,000,000 / 739,490 = $9,465.98
You would need to make $9k per day, for 2026 years, to catch up to the average billionaire wealth right now.
It’s estimated in 2026 that it would cost $37b to end world hunger until 2030.
Also note that Musk, Bezos, and other extreme billionaires are up to 100x of the average here ($700b for Musk). Who is making $900k per day?
This is not natural, it’s not rational, and it’s completely bullshit. You can come up with whatever distraction you want (“wealth & income aren’t the same”), but we should be taxing every dollar above $1b at 99% or higher.
30 years * 365 day = 10,950
$1,000,000,000 / 10,950 = $91,324.20
I could easily live off of $91k per DAY for 30 YEARS.
If you put these numbers against a human time scale we can understand, I don’t see the argument for this level of wealth, especially not as people go hungry, without clothes or food, and children die.
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They can only do this with a credible claim legally. However, we know how much that word does not matter to this current regime…
A lot of people are saying there isn’t a rights argument, which I think is true.
Considering this through the lens of a video game, is it morally bad if I pay a hooker in GTA, use their services, and then kill them? I don’t think there is harm. I don’t think there are rights. It wouldn’t matter if everyone was cruel to GTA NPCs.
Having said that, from a behavioral position, I don’t think it’s morally good. Put another way, this sort of behavior isn’t a good thing to emulate. I don’t think it’s a good idea to cultivate a habit of emulating cruelty.
As others have said, there’s still the risk of AGI in the future as well.
With where we are right now, I don’t think it’s a big deal, but I’m not interested in entertaining new slurs, fictional or real.
Maybe the largest difference for me is how the federated nature changes the social dynamics. For instance, people from Instance X don’t like those from Instance Y, or may even ban them.
This was prevalent on Reddit, buuuut banning can be instance or node based compared to subreddit.
I likely have some opinions or takes I wouldn’t post on lemmy.ml because lemmy.ml has a particular bent. I agree with a lot of it, but I wouldn’t want to offend with what doesn’t align or would get me banned. The ban cascades further out, and how servers interact as wholes with one another in terms of federation is similar.
The social platform mechanics are also different. Upvote has a different impact compared to Reddit (I don’t fully remember the specifics). I think saving has its own relevancy or something?
It’s mostly the same though.
This quote is insane after this last week…
It feels like someone is giving him terrible advice, like trying to actively sabotage his base. The Daily Show had a bit about him looking tired and not trying to lie anymore. It sort of feels like that too. Maybe he just really doesn’t care.
Bonkers week on this front.