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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • We can assess his brain for abnormalities during autopsy. Until then, we should treat a world leader as though everything they do and every outcome it has it calculated and intentional: Through that lens, which is the only lens worth considering, Trump is a domestic terrorist, traitor, insurrectionist, enemy of the US of constitution, rapist / child rapist, and many, many more. He should be charged, convicted, and sentenced to the according to the absolute most severe extent of each crime he’s committed.

    This whole “oh he’s crazy” or “stupid” or “incompetent” etc all just mitigate his culpability. What he is is fucking guilty - everything else is moot.






  • It still bugs me how our vocabulary just immediately goes out the window to market this shit.

    • NOTHING is powered by AI. And unless some poor fucker’s cranking away on a standing bicycle turbine or something, it’s not powered by humans either. It’s powered by whatever’s giving their grid power - solar, wind, nuclear, dinosaur juice, that shit.

    • Humans grouped up for the purpose of taking and processing client requests isn’t a fucking ‘chat bot’, it’s a call center. This concept isn’t new or novel in any way.

    • Even “AI” itself has become synonymous with ‘computer generated’. Intelligence that’s artificial still only exists in science fiction/fantasy. We’ve been misusing this term well before shit like LLMs existed - calling shit like NPC pathing in a videogame “AI” which is also stupid… but lately we’ll slap an “AI” sticker on anything with an algorithm. We even moved the goal posts on this one with the new term “AGI” but I guarantee that one will be marketed into meaninglessness in the near future too.

    This post is powered by my phone’s battery and last night’s dinner.


  • Never underestimate a Democrat’s ability to snatch defeat right out of the jaws of victory.

    I’m not holding my breath for actual reform… we need a Democrat to win not because of what they’ll bring to the table, but to keep the Nazis off of it long enough to sift through the ashes of our nation and start piecing together the bits that still function after Trump.

    That’s more of a bandaid than anything else… what we actually need is things like ranked choice voting, term limits, and guillotines.














  • Might be more of a developmental impairment. For children, magical thinking is normal and expected. They might sincerely think they can cause something to happen by thinking about it or engaging in some kind of paranormal way. Like, if a 4 year old points at you with a finger guns gesture and yells ‘bang’, they might just be trying to be silly; but they might also be genuinely trying to kill you. You’ll know if immediately after, they look down at their finger-gun with a wtf expression cuz they’re actually surprised it didn’t work.

    Again, normal. Unnerving, but normal.

    They should grow out of that shit by about age 7 iirc.

    Lots of people never grow out of it, they just compartmentalize that kind of thinking as religion… they know they can’t kill you with finger guns, but Jesus? His finger guns are real!!.

    Those people need a fuck ton of therapy.