A better term is usury. Or simply exploitative loans. And the ideal is that NO ONE should be exploiting the resources of other countries. Not the US. Not China.

Why aren’t you doing more? Why aren’t you more successful? Why aren’t you stronger? Why aren’t you tougher?

They have already had three chances to vote for him. Anyone who voted for him in 2016 is a forgivable idiot. Anyone who voted for him in 2020 approves of everything he did in his first term. Anyone who voted for him in 2024 approves of everything he did in his first term AND approves of what happened on January 6th. Voting for him or supporting him after that is not forgivable.

Take the evidence to court. Otherwise, rumors and feelings of elections being rigged only help amplify the asshole’s Big Lie that it’s rigged.

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Obligatory mention that the yellow ink in particular is for printing the printer tracking dots.

The quote comes from long before this age of LLMs. We need robots (which do not spy on us) to wash our dishes and fold our laundry, freeing us to think and create.

Machines should work. Humans should think.

Nice. I once asked for a picture of Godzilla giving a speech at the UN.

Everybody now! “If the service is free to you, then you are the product!”

Good ole Expert Sex Change. I haven’t thought about that site in years.

Rule #1 “Remember the human.” These days, that presumes a lot.

Don’t use the Nazi bar. Don’t link to the Nazi bar. https://xcancel.com/cobratate/status/2081358339343110566

Why did you think anyone wanted to see copy-pasted AI slop? Why did you think that was an appropriate thing to post?

My point is that people like Trump will never have a change of mindset. If his problems truly are pathological then he can never have a change of mindset.

I’m seriously asking. What would be done with him in an ideal society? Others here are saying that the goal is to make a society where power cannot be concentrated. Great, but someone like Trump will try to do so, and he will never ever stop until he is involuntarily stopped. What does stopping him look like?

The goal is also to change the mindset and values of people.

Suppose we have a hypothetical individual named “Tonald Drump”. This individual has pathological conditions which force him to not only crave power and domination over others, but to be willing to do absolutely anything to those ends. He will say anything, do anything, and promise anything to get as much for himself as possible and to get as many people as possible to continually praise him. What shall be done about Mr. Drump?

A core moment of my life was when, late at night, doing homework for assembly class, I finally GOT that “The instruction is the data is the number”. I would be surprised if students today have an opportunity to get to that realization.

We left Reddit behind. We can leave the poop knife behind. The waffle stomp? We can leave that behind too.

Yes. Shortly after birth.