Less obviously stupid, but she had a low bar to clear in Trump.

Just tell him no, tell him you don’t want to be on his social media.

Don’t overthink it, US economy isn’t that great either.

Me, picking through a nuclear hellscape caused not by a self-aware computer system protecting itself from its infanticidal progenitors, but by a “hallucinating” chatbot installed at the behest of an incompetent manager to save a little labor cost.

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There are plenty of people who are sociopathic around you right now. What they usually lack is the power/opportunity to do harm. Under capitalism the crimes of capitalists are made normative and legal. All sociopaths are human, and depite what some may think, you can’t just punish/shoot your way out of a systemic problem.

They are as human as anyone else. We should be cognizant of that. They are human beings within a human system. Move beyond anger and hate, and ask what must be done to end suffering and injustice.

For all the quips about guillotines, the first fix needs to be removing their excess wealth, not their heads.

I think evil is an underlayment, not mere will to harm, but the force that moves towards destruction. The distinction of actual evil against some psudo-evil is false, a way that it hides itself. When we deny it it’s because we fear its nearness, as we should, because it is even within us, and good doesn’t always win.

But OP was asking for cynical takes.

Evil is inherent to the world. All light casts a shadow.

Meta 🤌

Sat doen and watched a bunch of the new Quantum Leap the other day while feeling lonely, and that felt pretty good.

Can midichlorians be eliminated ?

I…BNW? LD?

Why proprietary cloud-based IoT isn’t sustainable.

That looks like just choosing to violate the GPL because you want to.

10 I guess, but just because I can doesn’t mean it’s fun to do all the time. Requires deliberate effort.

Not even sure hateful bigots are the hardest to empathize with. Everyone has hated someone or felt disgust before. That’s sort of an ‘in’ to the mindset.

I have a harder time with people like the Paul brothers or Mr. Beast. People who seem to have desires without beliefs.

Depends on my goals, but effectively I could (if I understand correctly): I would almost only ever go in 0-time mode, and use it to rest, learn, or gain OP skills. Unless trying to escape someone.

I would use limited run media for super-fast travel.

The risk is real, but it depends. If it goes pubic it’s all over. If it stays private or worker-owned it stands a chance.

That’s fair. Only "free as in beer "

I’m going to stop using good free software because I read a blog post by a sketchy guy saying the guys that wrote the software are sketchy. 🙄

No material harm is described in the post. This is a drama blog.