Invertedouroboros @ Invertedouroboros @lemmy.world

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I can't remember when I came to the realization, but for years now I thought that if (and I would love to hold on to the naive hope that it is an "if") WW3 breaks out then the battle lines would be drawn between the forces of autocracy and democracy. Those would be our sides.

Now, I'm not even sure democracy is gonna make it out the gate... America's elected a dictator who's aligned with Russia who is itself a major factor of this unholy autocratic alliance with China, North Korea, and Iran... Now this?

There were no "good guys" in world war 1. It was the result of squabbleing European powers not realizing the destructive potential modern military technology had and how much that changed the game. It needed to happen in the sense that countries couldn't continue to act the way they had prior to the great war, but that doesn't mean anyone was in the right.

It's hard to imagine "good guys" in world war 3 either. Increasingly, it kinda just seems like it's a choice between "what shit flavor of authoritarianism do you hate less?". Assuming that question even matters considered all the nuclear weapons that could fly in a third world war.

I dunno man, shit's just looking pretty fucking bleak.

Walking through the streets of soho in the rain.

Probably fudges his rolls when playing with AI too.

Is it the tech? Or is it media literacy?

I've messed around with AI on a lark, but would never dream of using it on anything important. I feel like it's pretty common knowledge that AI will just make shit up if it wants to, so even when I'm just playing around with it I take everything it says with a heavy grain of salt.

I think ease of use is definitely a component of it, but in reading your message I can't help but wonder if the problem instead lies in critical engagement. Can they read something and actively discern whether the source is to be trusted? Or are they simply reading what is put in front of them then turning around to you and saying "well, this is what the magic box says. I don't know what to tell you.".

...But how can I click on it? All of the hyperlinks are gone.

Honestly, in my social circle we're all kinda treating it like this... strange, self-inflicted, natural disaster. Like we can't even really joke about it, still. It's like we all know it's gonna be bad, the only question is how bad it's going to be. There's a lot I'm hoping is over-reaction, but honestly that's a pretty shitty thing to hope for and a hard hope to maintain all things considered.

You can have a little bit of CTE, as a treat.

I was simply telling a joke, but point well taken.

To be fair, considering the right wing hellscape our (US) Overton window overlooks the bias bot might actually have a point.

What a brilliant way to put it, "theft from the public domain". I'm gonna have to remember that one.

I'm not against nuclear power, but could they have concocted a worse set of motivations? Restarting Three Mile Island to power Microsoft's AI ambitions? Shit reads like something a super villan would cook up.

I wish more sovcits believed that signatures were only valid if signed in blood. At least that would add a touch of creativity to their batshit beliefs.

Feels like I'm receiving the facebook post via morse code.

"The Great Meeting", is that sovcit code for something?

Fuck it, I'd welcome an invasion at this point provided whatever country did it super pinky promised not to do half the shit Republicans do.

I've also ran into some issues simply accessing youtube through my vpn, but that's been going on for a while.

"What the hell do you have to lose" is one of those great little artifact statements from 2016. The kind that kinda could plausibly work for him back when he was a "political outsider" but I don't think it really works on anyone these days.

Even among his cult, there's an understanding and an acceptance of the fact that Trump essentially runs the republican party now. Everyone's bowed down, everyone's paid homage. Almost definitionally now, being in the republican party means you are pro-Trump. That may very well be the only metric upon which GOP politicians are judged in the modern day.

"What the hell do you have to loose" is one of those kinds of statements that worked in the context of "the establishment running the party aren't racist enough don't have your best interests at heart so why not give me a shot?" that comes with a kinda tacit admission that "I'm probably not going to be much better". But in 2024 Trump's just not the outsider anymore. He is the republican establishment.

Among the many other delusions he is clearly trapped in, I think he's also trapped in the delusion that he's some kinda evergreen outsider, despite the fact that he served four years as president and another four basically running the GOP opposition. I think that delusion is not helped by the fact that the republican base is so rabidly anti-intellectual that you kinda have to present yourself as "an outsider" in order to get anywhere, but if it's an outsider your looking for Trump just aint it.

Shit, even if it is a small inside joke or some shit, I can't imagine the conversation nor the thought process that leads to "I'm gonna pose for a camera with a make believe jar of J.D. Vance's jizz. Like, the fuck do you have to be on to think that's even a remotely good idea?

Bro took a long shower I guess.

There's also just no creativity. I'm pretty sure I saw a new "let's go Brandon" sign out and about recently. By this point that is very nearly a three year old meme. Like, I'm not really surprised that they can't do better, but it's a little telling that they come up with one thing they think is "good" and stuck with it basically though Biden's entire presidency. "Creatively bankrupt" does not even begin to describe it.