- Old man yells at clouds
Seems like you could get this shit struck down by challenging it in court based on the ADA
My theory on why he’s doing that is since he sees it as inevitable he’d rather have it happen on his terms/under his control.
Thiel has 2 real fears and he’s been pretty consistently worrying about them.
A proletariat uprising would be apocalyptic in his view AND he would undoubtedly get the Mao special if one happened.
There’s 0 chance of one because Americans are way too divided but this killing is the biggest source of existential dread for him and he’s probably been waking up with nightmares about it.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
Or what the NSA collects about Americans… like where you go when, who you meet, what you buy, what you talk about, who you’re friends with, if you are pregnant or not, etc.
I mean he specifically said prison labor for the “wellness” farms - like prisons don’t have inmates do hard labor on farms (I’m looking at you Louisiana with your fucking slave plantation prisons).
The idea of a place where you have to work the fields and aren’t allowed access to the outside world is a reeducation camp. He’s saying “you go there voluntarily”… Instead of a standard prison, which Republicans have done everything they can to make as harrowing a place as possible.
Go to reeducation gulag or go rot in a hole isn’t much of a choice, even if we smear it with the fecal veneer of “wellness culture”
Agreed.
But the entire point I’m making is there’s nothing wrong with the diamonds, the problem is with the method and the people profiting from it.
You were saying the diamonds were not fine by dint of origin. I’m saying let’s right the wrong and then use the diamonds.
The fuck you think “using their ill gotten gains for good” means?
I mean yeah: if we went and killed every person who benefits from conflict diamonds and closed all blood diamond mines why wouldn’t you be cool with using the resources? Their evil origin has little to do with their practical utility and if the original sin is expiated there’s no reason not to?
Like yeah conflict diamonds have basically no purpose because we can make diamonds cheaper and better in labs but in a situation where there are more practical uses (cobalt, LLMs) once we cleanse the land of the sinners why wouldn’t we use their ill gotten gains for good?
Skill issue
“algorithmic domestication”
What they don’t grasp is that we’d send our guy to jail: because they won’t.
That’s the difference.
When a corrupt democrat is exposed they’re expelled (bye bye Cuomo)
When a corrupt republican is exposed they’re re-elected.
I pay for services (including lemmy - support your instance leeches) and use an ad blocker for everything else.
???
There’s a lower cost ad plan for YouTube music is that what you mean?
I thought everyone wanted YouTube premium without the music. That’s the ad plan: it shows ads on music because you’re not paying for ad free music.
Oh my God an image macro posted to the political memes board doesn’t have 60 pages of nuanced footnotes explaining how if you’re in Nebraska then your voting system works differently I’m going to literally shit my own pants out of rage
Cause and effect reversed there buddy
New devs: “wow a new sdk version”
Old devs: “Ah fuck I’ve gotta change how we request permissions again”
You might not notice it but us Android devs do.
(it’s not his personal device - it’s a work owned device)
… No but Bimpson is… https://www.houseofnames.com/bimpson-family-crest
You’ve got a financial incentive to have someone watch 30 seconds of video - so ofc you use all the skeeziest shit straight out of the chum bucket days of the early internet.
It’s not about attention span: it’s about manipulation and money.
Not only that but this meme is not about TikTok - they don’t have votes, especially not a downvote. This is almost certainly about Reddit: the only major social media site that has downvoting.