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It's about FREEDOM, buddy! My definition of FREEDOM is PAYING MONEY to RICH PEOPLE every time I go ANYWHERE!

It's autor/autora apparently. Author is also autor.

Idk I bet there are lots of beavers sluttier than me

Yeah fair enough. Seems like dumb bait tho

The humanoid robots thing that various companies (and I guess the CCP now?) are trying to push is so weird to me.

Like if they are doing it so that people feel more comfortable interacting with them, I guarantee they will not feel warm and fuzzy about a humanoid border cop robot. If they are doing it because a humanoid robot is more effective than other forms, there's no way that's true given how difficult they are to balance/stabilize/move/etc.

So like... why? Just the cool factor? Seems dumb.

Just goes to show how much of longevity is genetic

No amount of alcohol is healthy and grapes are highly toxic to cats and dogs

There was no autism when I was in school, now get out of my house I need to obsessively organize my stamp collection for the next 8 hours.

You could say abhorrent to someone. Like

"It is abhorrent to me that conservatives are such rubes and, realizing this, they say 'hurr durr not who I voted for' when it literally is."

That is gramatically correct and means "I find it abhorrent". You could say "... abhorrent to [anyone]" as long as the person you're referrencing has the capacity to find that thing abhorrent.

You couldn't say "this woman's brain is abhorrent to her skull", though, as one's skull can't have opinions - even if hers metaphorically seems to be rejecting her brain.

gundam when

The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. Documentaries about the personal and psychological effects of the massacre of ~1M suspected communists (really just working people in unions, landless farmers, and some intellectuals) in Indonesia in the 60s and 70s following the military coup in 1965. This was directly aided and abetted by the US and other Western nations. The US intelligence aparatus provided lists of suspected communists to the coup government which then interned them in concentration camps and murdered them. The Indonesian perpetrators of the mass murders still directly control the government, military, and police.

The Act of Killing is a strangely surreal exploration of the banality of evil and a character study of members of Indonesian death squads as they make a movie (a very strange movie) about their actions during the massacres and are confronted with the effects of their actions - both their own psychological trauma as well as the pain and suffering they inflicted upon others.

The Look of Silence is a deeply personal documentary that follows Adi, an optometrist, and his family as he travels rural Indonesia interviewing people involved in the brutal murder of his brother under the pretense of fitting them for glasses (he presumably actually makes glasses for them).

A bit dark for the holidays, but they are amazing films. Deeply disturbing, sad, moving, and often funny films about a period of history that doesn't get talked about much in the West.

We have the benefit of hindsight. It is possible Chomsky didn't know about that. Possible. Epstein knew lots of people - only some of them went to the island and not all of those went to assault kids.

It's correct to be suspicious. Even very suspicious. It is not correct to draw definite conclusions without more information. The information that we have does not implicate him in illegal stuff, so far.

What is a gun if not a tube that you can choose to put explosives into to fire a projectile from the tube? I see no reason you couldn't load a clarinet like a tiny blunderbuss and fire it once. Turns out AI is pretty smart afterall

That is a bit of a misnomer since figuring things out requires at least a double-digit IQ and I don't have one of those.

--TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePress

True - I totally agree.

I will read it. Regardless, though, he is associated with the left and him going down for this would be bad PR for the left broadly, which sucks - that's my only point other than we don't know he's done anything untoward here.

If you look at his emails with Epstein, it's literally Epstein asking him about his academic work, Epstein toying with various little theories and asking Chomsky about them, etc. All above board so far. Him being on the plane is not great, but it doesn't necessarily mean he's a pedo. It opens up that possibility, but there is not proof of him doing anything wrong. Yet. I really hope he didn't do anything wrong, but it's obviously a possibility.

No matter what you think about Chomsky, he's an extremely important intellectual figure and is associated with the left. Him going down would be bad for all of us - so I hope he's not a bastard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzbuch_Kapitalismus

https://mltheory.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf

Damn I saw that guy on like 19 pages of the epstein dump!

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They aren't promoting an environmentalist message here though, but an anti-animal-cruelty message. You can agree or disagree that it's a good message, but it has nothing to do with their shitty AI ad.