Yeah, pretty much literally.

They wouldn’t let me join because if I did they’d become the 2% That’s less sexy.

Communicating in text is sometimes difficult. I expect you weren’t saying I’m not gonna go to Valhalla. Putting quotes around the phrase would make it clear.

I’m more of German descent than Scandinavian and I understand that their mythologies were fairly similar. For example, today’s Santa Claus is actually Teutonic Wotan. It blew my mind when I learned that. I’m just very fascinated by Norse mythology. I blame the old Thor comics that I read when I was a kid that were actually versions of stories of Thor in Valhalla.

Amazingly they were kind of sort of based on the actual legends. The death of Baldr by Loki’s treachery, the birth of Sleipnir by Loki when he was in horse form. The half-giant Thor, famous for felling giants.

Interesting, I’ll check it out. I don’t think the AI we have now is inherently evil, but it’s good to not necessarily be forced to use it.

Sheep will always be sheep.

Citizen enforces his own right to the Fourth Amendment and is prosecuted by the government for not letting them try to find incriminating evidence on him. For something. Maybe. Because he looks suspicious.

I hope that lawyer gets it thrown out. I’m not holding my breath. We’ve gone so far into fascism I’m not sure it’ll take anything less than violence to end it.

Another article in which we find that the people who are making things in this country are building the things that science fiction authors wrote about to stop people from doing such things. Yup, they saw the horrors and they just smiled and thought “Cool!”

Colossus the Forbin Project, I Robot (the literature and the movie), Running Man ,The Matrix, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Rollerball, And of course Minority Report.

These are all good works of fiction, either literature or movies, that apparently our business elite has decided is what we need to make Real.

From DuckDuckGo AI:

No—restrictions weren’t only in one party’s states, but Republican-led states did pass several of the hardest measures, including bills in places like Texas and Oklahoma. The report also says both Democrat- and GOP-controlled states passed some more permissive siting policies, so restriction was not limited to just one party.

The referenced resource: https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/mapping-the-state-level-battles-over-blocking-renewable-energy/

I’m pretty sure this is yet another example of the wealthy vs everybody else situation, so some of the Democrats succumb to bribery, campaign donations from corporate “constituents”. I like to think there are more Democrats with a sense of civic duty than there are Republicans. This is why paying attention to the actual candidate’s pitch and history is important. Don’t vote “party line”.

More permissive siting policies can legitimately be hard choices for the greater benefit of the community. Seek nuance when evaluating such policies.

Yes. Trump wants his own “brown shirts” who will then become the SS division.

(tangentially I am ticked off they kept stealing Tutonic and Norse symbols (and one very prominent Indian one) and turned them into “symbols of hate”. The SS uses Suwilo ( it looks like an angular “s” or “stylized lightning bolt”.)

Well, he’s on the unemployment line soon.

wisper is the name of the ai/tech that drives the translation. there are implementations for other platforms. i got one on Linux, but haven’t really used it yet. it does work when there are other noises in the room.

This is an example of me using it in a noisy bar. The first paragraph was typed because I wasn’t sure it would work. But it works fine.

One easy way to tell the difference is that one makes their accusations based on documented facts and actions. The other makes their accusations based on the nature of the human being in question.

Additionally, that perceived nature is usually a caricature of the actual nature in the first place.

Nazis traditionally labeled people on the opposite end of their political spectrum the enemy and it’s not long before they are disappeared on a consistent basis.

I wonder if the people who are in the place to act are going to be able to stop the next Kristallnacht before it happens.

They already got the concentration camps in place.

Wow the Timex Sinclair. Chicklet keyboard and all. That thing was a lot harder to work with than the C64 I’m sure.

Looks like we have similar takes on what’s going on because I totally agree with what you just said.

Thanks for that. I’m not sure where I got the idea. It was from the early 70s.

Believe it or not, there are actually people who only think in pictures and cannot actually form words in their minds.

When I learned about that it blew my mind.

That conclusion requires a combination of empathy and compassion, characteristics people who become CEOs who rarely have.

The ones that do often get outmaneuvered by their peers and get kicked out.

If you want, it’s no skin off my back. This whisper voice to text that I have on my Android is working pretty well, but there will be similar errors in the future.

So far it’s the best one I’ve found. I don’t have to specify punctuation or anything. Basically what you’re reading is exactly what it came out with. It beats the keyboard, which for some reason keeps putting C’s and V’s where I put spaces, and I have to go back and modify everything.

Voice to text strikes again!

Yes. I remember the data center the NSA built. I took notice.