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The cons whine about things like gender fluidity, but they've always been quite morally fluid, let's say....

Since AI is being created within private tyrannies we call "corporations", which also have more rights than we do, it's only natural.

Maybe some POC bullied him and that was formative. Who knows, could be he fell into online forums and so on. Some of the worst aspects of online culture certainly were in existence by that time...hell, you could find some truly awful shit in the USENET and BBS days...

Something tells me - going from videos we have of him at the time - that Stephen Miller was completely insufferable as a kid. I wonder if he had his lunch money stolen or was given a swirly and he's been on the edgelord warpath ever since.

I'm surprised any woman would get with him for any amount of money. Everything about him seems to scream incel for life...

Taco's approval rating is now 31%, so that is hopeful.

sTaTeS rIgHts *

*does not apply to Democrats or people trying to protect human rights within a state if it conflicts with right wing authoritarians' vision for how everyone else should live.

Why do they even have quotas? We are talking about humans here.

I don't know how one can even avoid it? Especially if you work as white collar worker - it's injected in just about every application on the job. This is why I think the bubble is almost guaranteed - it's practically at the level of a spelling checker in that it's a commodity that certainly has its uses, but you still cannot rely on it, and there is seemingly little to distinguish the various options. Also, there seems to be a limit to the amount of data they can feed these models.

I think there is a business model to be had, but right now I'm getting very much the same kind of vibes we had just before the dot-com meltdown...just who is going to be paying out the kind of money that is implied by the current valuations of these companies? If the various players think they are going to be able to gouge the shit out of companies they got hooked on this slop, I would think most companies might flee to much cheaper, or even just host their own open source models instead. It doesn't take much.

Rollbacks? But why tho? I thought tariffs were going to make us the bigliest, strongliest country we've ever been? If things are going badly, and tariffs are so great and magical, why wouldn't you double or triple down?

Then Pedonald would have even MOAR money to bribe rubes he inflicted harm on, so he can buy votes for Republicans? Am I doing 'conomy as well as the biggest, most importantest bidness man evar? I'm told bidnessmen do 'conomy better than everyone else, and the country should be run like a business, because reasons. Even though the country is supposed to be a representative democracy, which is entirely unlike the way a business is run.

That would be fantastic. Well, the very best thing would be sight restoration to full normalcy or even better than normal.

I'd like to see people start captioning this deep conversation by the way, LOL.

Interesting how Clinton was included in these, almost as if they wanted to blunt the impact for Taco.

Guess what? Don't give a FUCK. Go after Clinton if it warrants it, I don't have a dog in that hunt. But he's not holding office right now. Pedonald IS. Make him the priority.

And so on for others named in these headlines and stories. I don't give a fuck about Gates, either....not the priority here, but I also don't give a fuck if he's eventually investigated, too.

Remember, that's even with all the death threats the Republicans are getting from their crazy base that is being goaded on by the Annoying Orange...

the Republican Party acts like an organized crime outfit - they threaten the non-compliant and their families if they don't go along with the marching orders come from their leader.

Preserves it?

Prior to becoming vegetarian, I remember reading a book meant to be paired with Bowflex, but it could be really applied to any general weight training program. He apparently was a body builder while going to school and thought he had to take lots of protein powder. One of his professors challenged him to measure the protein in his urine, IIRC. He was surprised that he was basically pissing lots of money away. The author obviously had a pragmatic counter to all the protein hysteria that was prevalent even back then.

Also, as you point out - the kidney stone risk.

Oh, and the Atkins thing, LOL. I remember that, too. I've often wondered if the manner of his death resulted in not hearing much about it for a while, and then, what seemed like an Atkins remix - the Paleo diet started to become the next fad.

I cannot tell you how many people I knew on the "paleo" diet were gobbling bacon like no one's business, telling me it was way "healthier" than eating "rabbit food". Never mind that even according to the supposed diet, bacon is not on the list, LOL. I saw the same thing on Atkins, though I think bacon was on the list of things that were okay to eat. Honestly, I just think some people want a permission structure to eat food that is so very obviously horrible for you. I mean, bacon? Healthy? It doesn't even pass the laugh test.

I guess the thing about these fad diets is this, and of course it's anecdotal, but I cannot name one single person that has been on one of these things for decades. Paleo, keto, Atkins, carnivore (lol), etc...I don't know anyone that did it for more than 6 months to maybe a year. There are peopleI know personally that have been vegans or vegetarians for decades. Large studies can be done on groups like Seventh Day Adventists, large populations in India, etc...I don't know of any such thing for these fads...

[Schedule 1] is the same category as LSD, ecstasy and peyote.

That's not only wildly stupid for cannabis, it's very stupid for these three as well.

LSD and MDMA (ecstasy) were both used for therapeutic reasons prior to the hysterical drug warriors and their wild delusions swept in...thus demonstrating the truth behind Leary's quote: "LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it." This applies to other things like peyote and MDMA, too...

Wow, that's a wild grift. People are so gullible. I have no idea when and how the protein thing started, but it seems to somehow be getting even stupider.

This is not aimed at you and those you know personally. It's about the broader picture and how I keep hearing copium from some on the left about how once older people die off, everything will be miraculous because the younger people have figured shit out in a way that no one older than them has.

It feels like I've heard this one before.

Hell, I can watch old media that has the boomers saying this. People my age (Gen X) said this same kind of stupid shit when I was a kid and an adolescent. I thought it was stupid then and I think it's stupid now (I still hear Gen X grumbling about how boomers took all the air out of the culture. Yes, they did and still do. Yes, Gen X is the forgotten step child of generations. As my generation was fond of saying, cry me a river, build a bridge and get the fuck over it.). Boomers and the Silent Generation could all disappear tomorrow and we'd still have the same problems. This intergenerational bullshit has been more weaponized now than it has in the past - before it was just movies/TV telling an age bracket that tends towards deep narcissism that they are the special anointed ones, now instead of broadcast, that is narrowcasted with algorithms to match.

The fact is, the conservative project of dismantling public education and making it even worse and generally trying to make people even more idiotic (but compliant) has been decades in the making. So, it's not quite clear to me what is going to cause a sudden illumination of millions of minds that are drowning in a sea of nonsense.

Like I said, I would love be wrong about not believing that any generation (Z, alpha, beta) have it all figured out. I'd love to live in a world where humans all got increasingly more intelligent and more capable of wrestling with big problems and having more empathy, human decency, etc. Maybe transhumanist breakthroughs will make something like that actually happen, I don't know. Something like that might be the real game changer.

But while Republicans are actively breaking education and completely taking over all media platforms, I don't see how some great awakening is going to happen. People don't tend to suddenly gain critical thinking skills on their own.

Wait, this guy was some kinda sooper-dooper narcoterrorist from a cartel, but they released him?

What happened?

I am so ashamed of this country right now.