Robots have no place in the workforce until all of humanity is reasonably taken care of and don’t need to work. Until then all they’re doing is taking livelihoods away from people.

this is the only thing I agree with you on.

However this is just like being mad at service workers, sure current llms aren’t sentient, maybe language models can’t be idk i’m not a philosopher or psychologist, but the robot didn’t steal your job, they didn’t even ask for it, they were built and given it, maybe direct the anger to the person who actually did you wrong instead…

The whole story only makes sense through the propaganda lens, brave freedom fighters against an oppressive government taxing them for no reason.

Then you read the actual context and it’s a bunch of new aristocracy high on slave money mad that the empire refuses to let them expand past the boarders established in a war that benefited them and they are now having to pay taxes for.

…so they just disappeared into the system and we have no idea if they’re alive or dead? You know that’s only marginally better right?

Goliath holding open auditions for the role of David

The first thing the AI Bros want, and the absolute last thing I want, is for my country and social security to get entangled in a pyramid scheme.

i’ve got bad news for you then… 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

You don’t have to be Nostrodamus to predict that the 80 year old man who really looks their age and has near monthly “routine” health checks and brags about passing the kinds of cognitive tests they only give when they think you have dementia is going to die soon…

Deborah Birx takes 67 points psychic damage

I’m honestly neutral with the change, it makes setting up a new phone a little more annoying, it will just be another step in the process and doesn’t stop me from doing anything. However the small barrier will stop scammers pressuring people into installing things. It doesn’t make it impossible, but will get rid of a lot of the low hanging fruit.

That allows us to have career politicians

I don’t think politician should be a career… There’s an old saying i’ve never much agreed with “those who can’t do teach.” I think that a more accurate saying would be “those who can’t do go into politics.”

Yes it is!

I didn’t use that word because no one ever knows wtf it means lol

I kinda like the term randomocracy

That movie was criticized because it was on the nose, but if there’s one thing the last 20 years has thought me its that there may have been a time for subtle implications, subtext, and understatement, but it’s long over.

If you aren’t screaming it, they won’t hear you and even if they hear you they won’t do anything…

“we’re all looking for the guy who did this”

Some of us are greedy fucks, we let them make the decisions for some reason.

I’ve always advocated for a system where people who are qualified but don’t want to should lead…

I assume so, possibly because that’s how old I am, but it seems right.

I’m so used to ignoring who tweets are from that I didn’t notice till you mentioned it and scrolled back up, lol

As someone with a problematic relationship with alcohol, from a family of the same, i get addiction, but I don’t get gambling. The way it’s become normalized by society is so weird to me.

There wasn’t a light to see really, I thought he was an entertainer who was a bad in real life business man and found that entertaining. I had no interest in him as a political entity.

I don’t admit this much, but before trump ran for president I kind of liked him. He was a “bumbling, blowhard, failed business hack” that seemed to be a little in on the joke, The Apprentice, his appearances in WWE, he seemed like he was playing a character and playing up to how people perceived him… Unfortunately, he is just that and has no self awareness or shame, worse for some reason that’s still really appealing to a basket of deplorable people…

That’s how I felt about half way through the pilot, I said to my partner “I don’t think I can handle a grimdark trek,” but then they started introducing the actual premise of the show, how starfleet had a dark time, but was now rebuilding and reaffirming it’s ideals.

I personally liked the vibe, it felt hopeful. Dark times don’t last forever and things do get better, but still leave an impact.

There is still a utopia though, it has just been tested and they failed some of the tests and now they’re trying to rebuild.

It’s back to basics hopeful, a society trying to live up to it’s ideals again.

when the aliens arrive, and kill our leaders, I will write them a letter that says “what about their kids?”