BironyPoisoned [none/use name]

Humans are animals and they have about the same control over their emotions and desires as the average dog.

There’s nothing to learn because there’s nothing deeper than base unconscious desire. The self is merely the mental organ that justifies those desires and actions to the outside in order to form a cohesive personal narrative.

I disagree. This is learned behavior. It’s part of the cycle of violence that we all live with and all perpetuate.

Bulling has existed in every culture regardless of boundary, economic system, religion, and race. It is a fundamental human behavior. It is not tied to capitalism or even civilization. Compliance and conformity within group dynamics is as instinctual as eye contact and facial expressions.

We are a collective species. The only reason you and are are sitting at a fucking computer sharing ideas instantaneously through the internet is because humanity collectively worked together for the shared interests of everyone.

We are a tribal species. The collectivist merely extends the tribe beyond family, country, race, and religion. Even the most collectivist person subconsciously rates the ugly and neurodiverse lower than the beautiful and charismatic. The idea of human that most neurotypicals have excludes me by default. It’s analogous to public buildings that still don’t have actual infrastructure to support disabled folk. You can say “It’s for the community collectively” but in reality it was made with a certain person in mind.

We are not evil and selfish. It is a learned behavior. It is a behavior we can un-learn. It is not inherent to our species.

Humans aren’t evil or selfish, I never said that. They are tribal animals with no greater control over their behavior than any other animal. People like to think that their thoughts and feelings are their own so we must be in control of ourselves. Meanwhile, pretty much every facet of the self is determined by subconscious urges and desires filtered through the brain to justify itself to an imagined outside group.

I feel the same way but for a different reason.

The more I’ve grown, the more I’ve come to distance myself from the cause of humanity. I used to think that capitalism was the problem, but my disagreement with people is something far deeper. In 10,000 years, when a there isn’t a single living memory of war, hunger, scarcity, and racism, children will still bully the fuck out of the ugly and neurodiverse. There is something instinctual in humanity that seeks to exclude others. People make outcasts of those they deem unfit for their tribe. You can extend the definition of tribe, you can even attempt to smother the behavior, but you’ll never be able to change that essential reflex.

“For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”

As long as it cycles correctly, it’ll be fine. You got the shitty meme gun so it looks a little shit.

But also a handgun is worse than useless unless you practice shooting it. I’d trust someone to just pick up a rifle and use it in self-defense. I wouldn’t do the same for a handgun. Unless you can hit a man size target from draw regularly, I wouldn’t use it even in an emergency. A fucked up trigger pull or flinching will literally prevent you from hitting the broad side of a barn.

Copious amounts of chemical filters in order to avoid processing reality.

Or just disconnect from the false internal narrative that things were ever going to be okay. History is one big story of shitty things happening to good people. If you get rid of the just-world fallacy and accept that this part of humanity just crops up sometimes, you’ll probably be happier.

Yeah the world is collapsing, it does that every 50 years or so.

I made this shit up while high on kratom lol. It is a funny idea though.

As someone who does back end, If I was in a locked room with two bullets, one web dev, one Scrum Master, one HR scum, and an 80 year old boomer client who doesn’t understand how the internet works…

I’d shoot the web dev twice.

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Nah, I meant exactly that actually.

I’m a sub for a local Middle school and the kids are so fucked.

Some history teacher taught about the Maine ship explosion and how it was used as a pretense for the Spanish-American War and immediately a group of kids started espousing anti-Spanish views. I thought it was a joke at first but then a kid from Spain got jumped at lunch today and was called an Spanish slur I never even heard of before today.

Sure, here’s a couple from Tech:

• “Web Developer” -> I’m a bad person.
• “Java Developer” -> I drank the OOP cool-aid and gave my first-born to Moloch to not have to deal with garbage collection.
• “Site Reliability Engineer” -> I would murder every single one of my employees for a .2% increase in yearly profits.

Never trust bourgeois weather outlets. Use Marxists books and shamanic trance to divine the answer or else you’re a liberal.

Just hit this and make shit fam.

Barbecue is absolutely a class issue and I have unironically ghosted people over it before.

There’s a very large distinction between an AI capable of emulating human intelligence and an AI capable of making decisions.

ChatGPT can give you an answer but it’s incapable of acting on that answer. Even if it was a perfect intelligence beyond humanity, it would still be stuck in the same old box. The most these types of AI could do is replace code/text or use software to perform some per-determined actions. The “solution” to this problem given by lots of AI-brains is that once it reaches a certain level it will somehow gain the capability. But technology isn’t a linear advancement to infinity. Eventually Moore’s law will fail because there are limits.

We’re probably centuries away from AGI. By then, any critique we have today would ultimately be outdated.

This is why I don’t brush my teeth.

If I’m gonna lose my teeth anyway, I don’t want to spend days of my life worshiping big toothbrush. I’d also prefer my third eye to be free of fluoride for when I kill the demiurge.

That’s the plan, but it won’t stop the masses from using it. Same with the internet, mobiles phones, and now LLM.

I still had a flip phone until my work required me to install a mobile app. They’ll get you too when your only source of income requires it.

Yeah, but my good personal friend Nick Mullen of the Adam Friedland Show advertised it to me so now I have to like it.

It sucks but American trains are just worse as a form of travel than almost every other alternative. On average, takes longer, costs more, and more inconvenient than taking a car or bus. The only place it kinda works is the subway but that’s only because above ground is a hellscape for cars.

The answer is you wouldn’t have one. You’d have a mobile device with AR capabilities that projects a screen monitor into your office. This is why Meta is pushing shit like the MetaQuest despite it being a glorified toy. The ultimate goal is a mobile device that acts only as a gateway to cloud computing platforms.