blooalien

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by blooalien 2mo ago
> The US needs the binface party as a credible 3rd choice. Infinitely more credible than either of our current parties at this point.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> ...or abandoning all hope. "Abandoning" all hope implies a choice. I never chose to have every last shred of hope and optimism I had forcibly ripped from me and stomped into the dirt by these scumbags we call "leade
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> Fred Rogers often told this story about ... If he were still alive, I'd vote Fred Rogers for Emperor of Earth all day long. One of the rare few humans who I'd truly label a genuinely good person. Not a hateful or greedy b
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> What's a "good person" exactly? I was taught that a "good person" tries to actually care about their fellow humans and other lifeforms on this planet enough to try to live a life that contributes toward a pos
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> What can I do to help? Nothing you can do to help me specifically. I'm a lost cause at this point. I see no way back from where I'm at. I literally see zero hope for the future of humanity or this truly amazing plane
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> ... and I'm glad that you're a good person. I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not a good person anymore. Not really. I'm the broken wreckage of what used to be a good person. I want to be a good person, but I
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> Civil society only exists when there is a collective general trust that most people are trying to do the right thing. I was taught as a child that most people deep down genuinely want to be "good people". If only I had k
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> ... Russia, seemingly the most powerful and least capable nation at the same time. Trump and his cult are working very hard to wrest this title from Russia as quickly as possible.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> A couple of years ago I made the observation that the West would start to copy what China is doing. Ofcourse its only wrong when China does it... There's no point in seeing anything coming or being right about anything, because th
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> Mental health exam for C-suite once company hits billion dollar valuation, no sociopaths allowed. Can we extend that to include all politicians beyond a certain point as well (say, anything beyond local politics maybe; Wanna move up in
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> As it should be, because they are. Well, not dumb, but both are complicit and essentially operate as a uniparty for capital interests. One party is statistically much "dumber" than the other overall, but yeah... Most all o
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by blooalien 2mo ago
In "old-school" Internet "netiquette" it used to be considered digital SHOUTING. Nowadays it still is in some circles, but it may just be considered emphasis by some of the younger crowd?
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> I'd love to live in a society where people and corporations do good things for PR. Maybe so, but I'm not sure I'd like to live in China of all places. (Don't get me wrong. Lotta places I'd like to visit if
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> A significant portion probably support it. The truly terrifying thing is that entirely too many actually do cheer this madness on (and far worse). It's almost as if we've learned absolutely nothing from the mistakes of
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> ... water has probably caught more press because it's more tangible. It's also "caught more press" because for some insane reason these clowns keep wanting to build them in deeply drought-stricken desert regions whe
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by blooalien 2mo ago
Now, build an "AI chip" that can never stop "thinking"; even when it's in "sleep mode" it "dreams". Always active. Run it with a monstrous amount of RAM and GPU arrays for active "thinking
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by blooalien 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army ?
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> The dream society would be where we all just work less hours. Everyone can get a job but doesn't have to burn every workable hour of their life. That's not the world our Overlords want for us. They want us to literally w
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by blooalien 2mo ago
They also have a nice API where you can pull the raw weather data and fancy it up any way you like graphically. Great for building your own entirely custom weather widget for your desktop, webpage, app, or whatever. :)
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> The pure quackery doesn't get them as far because most of their customers are too poor to regularly spend on woowoo crap. Yeah, but them very same type of folks (like where I grew up in "rancher territory") who can'
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> ... and this American people have gotten what they voted for. Probably one of the biggest flaws of a Democratic system is that a voting majority can mandate a situation that harms literally everyone against the will of everyone el
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> What's an example of an ethnic minority that's better off in Canada vs US Considering our current "leadership" here in the USA, probably any minority with any shade of "brown" to their skin-tone?
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> If you were gullible before, you will keep on being gullible. AI (supposedly) being a "10x multiplier"-type tool, if you were gullible before, then with AI assistance, you're at least 10x more gullible. ;)
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> Very few managers are good leaders. I saw (a black & white hand-drawn version of) this image [0] a while back and found it a really effective visual to easily explain the difference between a boss and a leader. (Here's an ar
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by blooalien 2mo ago
Thanks for this. I read the written version while listening to Nimoy's reading in the background. :)
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> Nature will be better off once it happens. As long as "it" happens before we poison or otherwise harm our planet beyond some "tipping point" after which Earth becomes "inhospitable" to most/all &quo
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> Allies don't exist apparently. Aren't our only "allies" Russia and North Korea now?
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> A screen with an ad on it is objectionable enough, even if the ad is untargeted. Especially these days when pretty nearly the entire advertising industry has a whole library of "dark patterns" and psychological trickery they&
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> When consumers have clear utility, however, most give away privacy quite willingly. Exhibits 1, 2, and 3; "Smart" phones, "Smart" watches, and pretty much 90% or so of "apps" people install on either fro
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> Where do you see there that 25% of the U.S. population cheered for nuclear annihilation? Anecdotally; Growing up in the NorthWest USA, I knew entirely too many (crazy to my mind yet considered perfectly "normal" by most &qu

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