It is life, but it’s not a multicellular life. Aka, it’s no more advanced than a single bacteria

Sums up a surprising amount of our biology

Yeah, our bodies sometimes have weird random issues, who would have guessed a flesh robot built by trial and error is fucky wucky

English scares me

…but would you use a soldering iron on it?

They’ve not acted in good faith the entire time

I hate that rule, it has caused so much harm, and is at least part of the reason why were in this mess right now. People simply didn’t take the threat seriously

Besides, does it even matter? Whether someone does harm by stupidity or malice, you get them the hell out of a position or power by any means possible, clearly it’s not good for them to be there

Good to know even powerful disgusting people abuse ticketing priority systems

Ah, who am I kidding, they’re probably the ones most likely to do so

And this has always been the obvious logical conclusion for a for profit dating app

And also similarly applies to other for profit software. It’s the whole idea behind enshittification

Which is why FOSS is king and should be supported as much as possible in as many areas as possible

Another example, see: ads

There’s a reason the advertising industry is maaaaaassive. And no, you aren’t “immune to ads” or willingly make yourself “less likely to buy the product”. You think you are, but you’re not.

You’re not immune to propaganda

You joke but I’m being dead serious when I say that I’d enjoy it if someone sent something like that to me

…I’d probably feel slightly lesser due to me struggling with coming up with something as creative as that

I love this

as automation really, really starts taking flight for these kinds of jobs (why we started applying AI to things like white collar jobs first I have no idea)

They are, though? And it has massively changed the dynamics in agriculture. They just don’t make headlines because they’re technical behind-the-scenes stuff

It’s something that annoys me a bit when everyone started talking about AI, but only really a small part of it, and then thinking that’s the be-all-end-all of the field. It never was, and still isn’t. People just don’t know about the rest, and don’t read up on it either

Side note: farming is an area where the “Internet of Things” is used extensively as well, but when people think of IoT, they similarly only think about smart homes. Same problem as well

It’s weird when “political” has become such a dirty word that even one of the most political things, such as setting a national budget, is implied shouldn’t be political

So obviously I can’t speak for all European countries, but I find it hard to see in what way the Dems would not be at least center-right here

It’s yet another step in the fascist playbook

Lite Brite was the original pixel art

Your link doesn’t say that Warren called it a genocide, but that “she thinks it will legally be defined as a genocide”. That’s not calling it a genocide, that’s thinking it will be called that. There is a difference there

But you need to think of it from a political lens moreso than one politician saying it meaning it will immediately have legal consequences

Calling it a “genocide” instead of “ethnic cleansing” matter though. Why do you think everyone is always so hesitant to call things genocides? It’s because it’s a word that has legal implications. It’s an international crime that demands action.

So basically politicians loophole things by calling them ethnic cleansing instead.

Don’t forget the arrows after the quote, though

It’s a reference to Helldivers 2, and a sufficiently brainrotted individual might very well just put internet references on there. Which he did. And it’s not like right wingers haven’t been misusing political terms for ages. Remember the term “feminazi”?

The shooter seems to have been involved in some deep internet culture and communities. You can’t just treat it like standard opinions, but under that internet lens, which is far less straightforward and filled with codewords. From an outside perspective a lot of that might seem straight up nonsensical when put together. My point is is simply that it’s inconclusive

Not that it matters much anyhow, as republicans will pin it on the left and trans people no matter what. They’re gearing up for a genocide and will use any excuse available

A big problem is that a lot of these internet communities are so insular and irony-steeped that when you look at it from the outside it’s completely incomprehensible, and then a challenge to get people to even understand what stuff actually means

Because yeah, it might be bullshit… or it may not. And then how do you figure out what the things actually mean?

I will only accept an airgapped locally run and true FOSS sexbot in my home!!