Are they just trying to stay relevant?

Everybody is so busy talking about the shit they’ve caused to spin out of control, and nobody is really talking about them individually? So now they just sit in their little isolated military housing they stole from soldiers trying to come up with innovative ways to own the libs?

100%

It’s like sitting in the middle of a crowded ER bleeding out and begging for help while 2 doctors argue with each other about the proper protocol they should proceed with before they even begin to stop the bleeding.

A patient could escape from the psych ward, walk by and just point out how fucked up the situation is, and you would probably be grateful somebody is at least willing to acknowledge reality and trust him more than either doctor.

I always did love laser tag

I don’t see how it possibly couldn’t. Like everything else in the U.S. right now, it’s being propped up on lies and illusions that are held together with super glue. Idk if you saw the news about Flock, but even their license plate scanning “AI,” turned out to just be relying on a sweatshop in the Philippines.

So even the fucking license plate scanning/matching never worked, yet, somebody in government still decided to help flock install surveillance cameras all over the country, and give an unknown startup a huge government contract for tech that didn’t even exist. Then multiple cities just assumed, well if they have a contract with the federal government, they must be legit, we better give them a contract too.

What are the chances somebody like Peter Thiel, who has been pushing for the government to embrace AI and issue these huge public-private contracts since 2016, actually believed his own lie? I really don’t think any of this is actually coming as a surprise to him.

I’m not sure about the others (like Zuckerberg or Bezos), but I get the feeling Musk might have actually believed he was working towards achieving AGI, but, only because Thiel made him believe that in order to get him (and sooo many others who followed) to build these giant data centers that will rely on nuclear power (and coincidentally Thiel’s uranium mine that he recently purchased).

I’m not sure what actually happens to all of these data centers once people realize it was all a scam, but I’m not sure it’s safe to assume they’re all going to end up just sitting empty.

Not that they will be used for “AI,” but I worry that once the bubble actually bursts, shits going to somehow get even weirder in a very bad Blade Runner meets Grapes of Wrath way, and people like Thiel will be left holding all the resources and controlling all the surveillance we already installed all over the country because rich people were dumb enough to let some billionaire hype technology that didn’t actually exist, and now the economy is FUBAR because they thought they were being so smart and getting in early on the next .com boom

In exchange, as critics would point out, the company would get the mother of all tax breaks. No property taxes and no taxes on equipment purchased to build the data centers, like servers and networking gear.

“This is a generational opportunity,” Mr. Napier said as he was wrapping up. “It is here today.” Which was to say, it would be gone tomorrow. BorderPlex would find a more accommodating place for its largess. In case anyone missed the point, he explained it: “A vote to delay is a vote ‘no.’”

“You know, forget I even said anything. Sorry to bother you folks. You probably wouldn’t be interested anyway. It’s more of a Shelbyville idea…” 😏

Reddit post with a gift link to article: https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1phhbug/a_mysterious_company_came_to_town_with_a_165/

“laughable,” arguing that you can’t declare the majority of Americans impoverished because the suburbs they choose to live in are expensive, which is what Green did when he used the middle class suburb of Caldwell, New Jersey, as his median.

“My plastic surgeon said smiling is a waste of Botox, but I can’t help but let out a boisterous ha cha fucking cha at the absurdity. If poor people don’t want to spend so much money on cost of living they should just go live in the places nobody lives because there are no jobs or resources.”

“Poor people are just so bad at managing money. That’s why they have to blindly trust everything we say. We know how to spend money wisely, and we know what’s best for the economy and them.”

“Get out of the way Plebs! We’re betting it all on AI!”

“Oh my! Well, that was unfortunate but also completely unforeseeable. I guess the only thing left to do is brush ourselves off, pat ourselves on the back for being such altruistic utilitarians, ignore the screams from the plebs and go again.”

“So where’s our bailout? Time is money.”

Yeah, so again, I just can’t imagine why anybody wouldn’t immediately comply when these very trustworthy men who keep their faces covered, abduct them off the street, and whisk them away in unmarked cars.

He looks angry he was summoned from Geppetto’s workshop half way through his reverse transition into a wooden boy to sign this unethical business deal.

Good on him. Sounds like he knows how to run a business better than most CEOs.

If you want people to willingly give you their business, model yourself after this young man. Sell a product they want to buy and do things that show you give a shit about them.

If you want people to boycott your business, prove how smart you are by modeling yourself after the guy at Campbell’s soup. Get recorded talking shit about the poor people who buy the slop you sell.

If you want people to be forced to begrudgingly buy or use your shit product, at least until somebody creates a black market or open source version, model yourself after the oligarchs who run the private monopolies contracted and protected by the state. Prove how much you love small gubamint and private businesses by abusing your power even further, and create laws that make it illegal to participate in a freed market.

Did you opt out when you clicked on the link?

If the assistant manager of a brother’s chicken in Kenner can stand up for the rule of law, the lawyers that are also New Orleans city council members really have no excuse.

How can you be “interfering” with immigration orders by telling the people carrying out those orders we all have to follow the rule of law, unless those are unlawful immigration orders you’re “interfering” with?

If they are unlawful, then maybe you should be asking if it’s really wise for you to follow illegal orders just because some dickheads told you to.

Posting signs on city owned property that simply reminds these people they need a warrant to come in and “do their jobs” seems like a pretty bare minimum ask. Why shouldn’t they have to follow the law like everybody else?

“You want some chicken? You ain’t gettin it here bro!” 🐔

Yeah I think you’re missing the point sweetheart.

If you don’t bow down and kiss the ring they’re coming for you. It’s going to take people collectively standing up for their rights to end this. You can keep running and hiding but the more you don’t push back, the more they’re just going to keep figuring out new ways to break the law and take away more rights until we’re literally going toe to toe with North Korea on who’s the “greatest” country.

If that’s where you want to live, just go to North Korea. It’s not what I want, so I’m going to stand up for my rights because I know my fucking rights. It doesn’t mean that the people breaking the law will respect my rights. It means that I know I’m not breaking the law by having rights, and if these dumb cocksuckers want to “come and get me,” they know where to find me.

Well tbf, I did read the tweet and immediately upvote in solidarity with her

It’s really sad but also kinda fascinating that there are definitely people who could read this and believe it’s evidence of the downfall of modern society caused by equal rights, instead of realizing that this bitch was just understandably tired and making a humor joke in an attempt to lighten the burden of having to face another day trying to roll the boulder back up the bullshit mountain created by the people who want to take away her (and everyone else’s) rights, dismantle society, and cause it to collapse.

And the most reasonable power you have is to “file a complaint.”

It happens way more often than most people realize, even in the U.S. and long before Trump. Most people don’t even realize it until it’s your loved one you’re left seeking justice for.

The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized the idea of “parasites abusing the legal system” or claims about “frivolous lawsuits” are usually just conservative talking points.

Wealthy conservatives will always file the most frivolous lawsuits to intimidate and protect themselves, and they will also try to bribe or intimidate judges into ruling in their favor in criminal court, leaving family and friends of their victims the options of:

A. Seeking justice via vengeance or taking the law into their own hands, often winding up dead or in jail and continuing the cycle of injustice by ruining their own lives and the lives of their loved ones they leave behind.

B. Suing in civil court and taking on legal fees and countless hours devoting your life to seeking justice against people who have the gall to claim victimhood because they’re such self obsessed narcissists, they consider the innocent lives they destroy collateral damage (and you should say thank you /s).

C. Devoting the remainder of your life to speaking out against the people who murdered your loved one. This is where conservatives are the quickest to prove who the parasites filing frivolous lawsuits really are.

D. Just give up and do nothing/let the bastards grind you down. This is the option they would prefer you default to, so definitely don’t do that.

I would recommend in order option B. followed by option C. if necessary.

I don’t condone option A., and I truly believe option C. is the more rational and noble way to spend the remainder of your life if you can’t obtain justice via option B., but I would say morally speaking, even A. is preferable to D.

They weren’t on the Mayflower, but they were some of the OG immigrants that the people who emigrated on the Mayflower first said that phrase to.

The people on the Mayflower believed that my family’s culture would ruin “their” country. “Their” country, which had been totally uninhabited before they nearly starved to death until the natives took pity on them, and taught them how to survive made America great. /s

Not to humble brag too much or anything, but both sides of my family settled in Bumfuck TN a long time ago and never even went further north than Indiana. Then eventually came back to Bumfuck TN and MS. Not like they stuck around there because they had a lot of success and flourished, but I guess they just kind of dropped their shit and said this is an ok place to spread generational fatalism.

But I get what you mean, and aside from targeting immigration, I believe people like this are always capable of finding some way to use their power and corruption to hurt people who don’t bow down or cower before them. The value of a human life, and all the other lives it touches is absolutely meaningless if it gets in the way of their plans. But, the reality is, they’ll keep finding ways to break the law and abuse their power and authority to hurt people until they’re stopped. And they’re not going to be stopped until people push back as a collective.

It’s not going to be any one individual that stops it, but it will take people recognizing and acknowledging they have unfair privileges and advantages that make it easier to push back and say this is illegal and it’s fucked up, it’s always been illegal and fucked up, and it needs to be stopped. The longer that we only look out for ourselves, and turn a blind eye to what’s happing, the more they will continue to take. The more they take, the more emboldened and stronger they become, and the less power and opportunity we have to actually stop them.

Well I know what’s going on my Christmas list