Agree with this. Even different brands of the same type of beer can taste so different that one is like an angel pissing on your tongue and the other one is just plain piss

USA?

guy with mental illness having hallucinations is taken seriously

USA

So when is the rest of this gif happening?

Trabant as in the car?

slapped with pocket chance

Yeah, a real slap in the face that is…

So why isn’t this an article in regional and national newspapers, showing the rather sinister behavior of an organization that works to silence the free flow of information?

They’re planning everything from mining to the rapture

They’re also idiots that don’t understand basic physics

Its the same mental deficiency of people going on about asteroid mining. Yeah, sure, lots of minerals in those asteroids but until you find a safe, cheap, and reliable way to shift those asteroids into earth’s orbit it’s literally the same as those guys jerking off over AI porn: vapid and empty.

I’m not saying that its impossible, I know that one day we’ll get there. I also know that “one day” is at the very least 20 years in the future, still, just to get a simple base. Getting a production base that pulls out minerals, with a reliable way to move said minerals to earth is more likely some 50 years away

I know, musk says we can do all that today, bit musk hasn’t been able to speak a single truth in 2-3 decades at least. He’s full of shit and constantly makes stupid lying claims about mars bases. His starship rockets have spent billions of US tax payer money and still haven’t been able to clear the first easy 1% of the work; getting in yo a stable earth orbit. They managed to roast a banana over the Indian ocean, and to obliterate a launch pad. I suppose those are impressive feats perhaps, but not on the way to the moon, or worse, mars.

Seriously, humanity is at best 1% on the way to a mars base. There are so many known issues that we don’t have solutions for, and there are even more unknown issues that also still need solutions. Yet the moon and mars bro’s can stop talking about how next year bro, next year will be the year bro, musk promised it bro, that is as good as any truth bro…

I feel that “generative AI is by definition an an averaging machine” explains AI better than any other definition.

It kills out the extremes of creativity

The world doesn’t suck

The world is awesome

There are a few handfuls of expansionist narcissistic oligarchs, dictators and uber rich that ruin the experience for everyone else.

Seriously, we hang a few dozen very specific guys from the gallows and literally the world would be saved the next day. All of the sudden genocides are over, we can focus fully on stopping climate change, we can form a UN that can enforce peace, we can implement wealth caps where nobody gets crazy rich anymore… Can you imagine?

Seriously… That is the weirdness of the problem. We have a few people with so much power that 8 billion of us have their lives ruined by at most a few hundred

I would change John Lenno’s “imagine” to “imagine we hang the parasite class and implemented wealth caps, it isn’t hard to do”

There is also the difference that the fediverse runs on a few potato servers. You could barely fill a few racks with the servers that do the fediverse

This in contrast with AI that requires tonnes of datacenters all over the world

I fuñly agree with them that it shouldn’t be necessary

I also understand how the world is and that currently a tiny few oligarchs and dictators are willing to burn the world to rule over the ashes and unfortunately there is really only one way to stop that

:(

Break the law, pay a tiny fine

So blue balls for 6months it is, then! Not what I would have chosen, but to each their own

So the government will fight the government too?

This is great because of reason!

Eh, your reasoning is flawed

Even more reason that its great!

… Sure?

Oh sure, the guy is a lying asshole. I was just talking about how what he describes seems to be common in the USA.

Who is talking about remorse? I just don’t want people to be tortured in the name of justice. That isn’t justice, that is revenge. If you’re all about revenge then by all means, that us your opinion, but at least be honest about it

I don’t want revenge. These prisoners one day will get out and they will once again be pur neighbors. I want a person who has grown, who has improved, who has their anti social behaviors controlled and who won’t need to display criminal behavior again. I dont want a person neck deep in PTSD of all the terrors they lived in a US prison living next to me, ready to snap at an instant.

That is the pragmatic part. There is also the ethical part where these people, these humna beings, are still, you know, humans and they deserve some basic level of dignity and respect.

Then there is also the part where in the USA nobody gives a shit about why people commit crimes to begin with, even though that is the core question to answer. Fix those issues, and you lower crime. This, however, requires ending poverty, endinc racism, ending the endless focus on “I needs all the moneys!!!” and having universal (mental) healthcare and of course in case of the USA, ending the free flow of guns. Fix those issues and watch your crime rates crash.

But alas, its much easier to just act as if these people aren’t people but vermin you can step on. This way, the for profit prisons can continue to bathe in golden bathtubs while the gun industry can post record profits in times of school shootings and the medical industry too can all drive multiple luxury cars. That solution is much better, isn’t it.

Ah yeah, I was listing the abrahamic religions, then just went with abrahamic.

Either way, fuck all religions

In this case, actually true.

I can’t speak for other countries but so far in the Netherlands the rules are open, but extremely strict

Quite recently they allowed a teenager with mental issues to end her life with dignity because she was suffering for years with no view on any type of recovery. Yes, that is possible, but its also really difficult to get. No doctor would allow euthenasia on a child just because they are a bother to the parents, and IIRC, any and all of these requests have to pass panels of people who decided if it will be allowed or not.

The goal here always is to stop needless suffering