That one’s on you. They’re saying that your brain can basically override you and, to some degree, reality. It’s the reason you don’t see your nose, or clocks take a lot longer to run down a second the first time you glance over. Pain isn’t actually related to damage, and you can change your whole mood by shooting some straight lemon juice. Our bodies, behind the scenes, are doing crazy shit that our conscious mind has no business knowing about.

Wow, is that seriously the best counter-argument you can come up with? Throwing a sulky adult temper-tantrum?

You can’t even do the bare-fucking-minimum and look at you cry and insult when you’re called out. Embarrassing.

Oh shut the absolute fuck up. At least conservatives go all-in on their stupidity, fucking centrists are just a bunch of cowards who spend more time making trash like this than anything useful. You’re not clever, you’re just a little bitch.

People voted for Mamdani pretty easily, and it’s been going great. People voted “center” here in Canada and it’s gone…predictably fucking awful.

You can’t be serious, right?

Bro, if you think France is going to get an emperor again you’re gunna wanna take a breather before making comments. They are protesting a government that needs to be reminded to serve its people, but until they start murdering politicians and replacing them with their own people we’re just not going to see their democracy completely wiped out.

History rhymes, absolutely, and I would be a fool to ignore possible parallels, but this just is not the same thing.

I love when people act like the alternative to capitalism is zero private business and full communism. It’s like, no, the thing before the -ism is simply the thing it centers. Capitalism, as you say, centers capital but after that it can take several forms, all of which suck major ass as they reward nearly any behaviour which makes more money. Even objectively awful shit can just be paid off, it’s insane.

I’d rather the protesting, though, fires and all. You also don’t always see the benefits just walking around. It’s also nice to know that if shit goes sideways for any reason, you can actually count on people to help you.

Here in Canada we just kinda roll over and take it up the ass. It’s not gotten us fucking anywhere.

And let’s be honest, most of these people are not taking actual risks. Generational wealth and what they’re willing to do to other people make it a lot easier than they want to let on.

They’ll argue that it’s because of risk and because of their “ideas” but it takes about thirty seconds to see that there’s never a real risk and that there ideas are verifiably awful.

The problem is that, despite people swearing they never had any other choice, there has always been many instances of good options that go unchosen while the population fights over voting for turbo-evil vs naturally-aspirated-evil.

Here in Canada we have three main parties and people will do ANYTHING to justify why they cannot vote progressive and must vote for the centrist/conservative party because otherwise the conservative-conservatives might get power. Now we have a banker steam-rolling our people and our environment for free.

Even not asking the stupid to understand the addiction/illness connection, he separated criminals into their own category himself and came out with only 10%. So he acknowledged that 90% of the people in the jail weren’t criminals.

An overt cesspool of evil and dishonour. They were barely hiding it before, but at least there was an attempt, however weak.

What’s a residential school(and associated mass grave) or ten between friends?

“Fun” fact: Walmart has/had an entire business strategy that boils down to:

• Enter new market,
• Undercut new market, using established stores to support the new one,
• Pay employees poorly so that they can’t afford established businesses even if they wanted to,
• Drive out local businesses/any competition at all,
• Jack up prices so store can be successful.

Buying cheap from Walmart is not a good idea.

I got fired from my last job because I didn’t tell the seniors they were special boys. I very politely told an engineer he had to update his building code and when I eventually had to tell him that I couldn’t work on his project if he wasn’t going to follow the current legal standards it was me who got spoken to about “insubordination”.

The only reason you “can’t” say no is because everyone together believes they can’t and actively, or even simply passively, discourages others from doing it. The only true power that these people have is what is given to them, they aren’t wizards.

I said the bar was very low. When it comes to Ai use I am very clear with everyone where I stand. I’m not out here throwing molotov cocktails at data centres but I’m also not expecting it of anyone else, either. Saying “no” to forced Ai use is not “charging the bastille” and if you’re equating it to that then you can maybe see what I’m talking about.

Yes? You essentially called me easily bribable and reduced my point down to cheap personal pride.

There’s something broken inside you, I hope it gets fixed but I can’t be the one to do it.

I don’t talk to people to “win” against them, so no, and fuck you for thinking that lying to me would make me happy.

It really is, though. Ai is not just “a piece of software”, and it’s not even helpful. People can’t stand up against fucking anything these days.

Just don’t use it, and say that you’re doing your job just fine without it. Get your coworkers involved. We have weekends because people fought and died for them and now we can’t even say “no” to vague commands to use Ai? C’mon, there’s gotta be a spine in there somewhere, right?