Planet Centauri is a great game (also I don’t know why the link says “Alpha Centauri” it’s literally never been called that, that’s a different game)
Worth checking out, it’s very deep, but also a distinctly different flavor than Terraria despite the superficial similarities.
Hate has to be taught. That’s the difference between children and fascists. As children they usually haven’t been taught how to hate yet, once they get taught to hate they can become fascists. Or they can learn to think instead.
Hmm I wonder what version they’re playing. Mine didn’t have fascism and transphobia and political assassinations on the disaster list but yeah they need to switch it up a bit because it’s really exhausting. I’m ready for the alien UFO and Godzilla to lighten the mood a bit.
No idea if this is the guy to take back our country and give us a government for the people again, and I’m too jaded and angry to be a trustworthy judge of character anymore. But his slogan sounds good, not that it means anything since these fuckers can use money to psychologically hack our brains to make anything sound good without any intention of ever acting on it. Still, it would be hard to be a worse choice than the current set of assholes, so I’ll wish him luck until I find somebody better to support.
Prepare for war while we still can. If we’re incredibly lucky maybe we won’t need it, but if so, it will be because we did prepare and that made us an unpleasant and dangerous looking target. Bullies always target perceived vulnerability. We need to do everything we can to fix that perception. Even showing them this anti-American sentiment helps. They need to understand we will not be pushovers, no matter how badly we might seem to be poised to lose at least some territory and/or treasure if they tried to actually use force or severe coercion to take our lunch money, as bullies do.
If we look like too much trouble, they may think twice and try to go bully central America or something instead, I have no idea how this will all work out, but I do know we’re in big fucking danger, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they know we’re going to become a big fucking problem for them if they try it.
Horrified would also be acceptable. Maybe terrified.
Stock options don’t just magically appear out of thin air though. Someone has to provide them. At the end of the day, somebody is taking the unbounded risk, no matter how they’ve packaged it, and if that person or organization reaches their risk limit and says “nope, this is too risky even for me” then you’re out of luck. Yes, realistically there will always be someone willing to take that kind of bet on Tesla, but it doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to find or that it will always be available through the usual channels.
My first thought was definitely to install Linux lol. I’ve switched my last computer over recently, no regrets. I do everything on Linux. Gaming, work, productivity, software development, and I have run into basically zero issues that I couldn’t quite quickly resolve, except for a single stubborn bluetooth controller that worked for a few weeks then stopped working ever again (could even be a hardware issue, IDK) but I just replaced it with a $10 usb from Amazon which has worked perfectly ever since.
Your username checks out. A Rare choice, one even might say.
They cause an uproar anytime they don’t get what they want. Like toddlers having a tantrum. It’s part of a very calculated strategy, and the sad part is, it seems to work.
These children specifically were responsible for the kidnappings. /s
Denying them food until they die is the only way to achieve justice for Israel. /s
This is why we can’t have nice things, at least not for more than a few years.
Pepperidge farms remembers.
Killing yourself in that scenario seems like you’ve selected the wrong target. It’s certainly not yourself’s fault.
Being unapologetically and relentlessly human is the best revenge we can get on these dehumanizing technologies, and to be human you need to first and foremost be alive.
“AI” can mean almost anything even remotely adjacent to “machine learning” right now.
And that’s why it’s become a meaningless term. If that’s what we’re being told we’re supposed to call it then that’s what we’re going to call it. Blame greedy companies marketing for that, not the journalists and people trying to make sense of the endless stream of meaningless garbage pouring out of these so-called “AI” companies.
All Billionaires Are Bad.
I don’t think their hand is really that strong, as much as they’ve been trying to convince people it is. Their media is powerful, the image they project is powerful. They have convinced us to fear of a massively powerful military-backed surveillance state, as we should, but is that really something they can achieve? Only with a lot more apathy and cowing to authority than they’re actually going to get, I think. Americans (and even the military is made up of Americans) are an unruly bunch at the best of times, and the powers that be might think they have enough money and enough security in place to protect them as their popular support dwindles and the MAGA wave they rode to power begins to realize that these authoritarians are not giving them back “muh freedumbs” like they promised but are in fact taking more of them away. As the famous quote goes, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” The regime has been ignoring and laughing at protests like 50501 and No Kings. They will have to fight eventually. Would the current regime survive more LA riots? Vietnam war protests? Another million man march? Probably. That’s obviously what they’re preparing for, as they should. But how far are they actually going to be able to go? And how far will the resistance go? I agree, we’ll see once the cards are all on the table. But I think there’s still plenty of room for hope that the actual future isn’t going to be as bleak as it may seem right now.
Interesting analogy, and a great point. I think it’s a lot like poker. They place their bets, we place our bets. They raise the stakes, we raise the stakes. Eventually one of us is either going to fold or we’re both going to end up going all in, and then we’ll finally end up seeing what our hands end up being once that happens. Are any of us prepared to fold on this? I’m not. Are they prepared to fold? I don’t know. Are they bluffing or are they holding all the right cards? I don’t know. If it comes to that, I guess we’ll find out.
See, the internet is just a series of pipes, and those pipes can get clogged, and then the water can’t get through…
The culture wars and gender wars are intentional distractions. The class war is the one that matters. The billionaires figure they can solve the housing crisis, solve economics, end war, and save the environment by simply making the rest of us extinct. And in the most cruelly utilitarian way possible, there is even some truth to that. They do not value human creativity, human rights, or human life at all. They are extracting every last scrap of value we have, then they will end us. They consider themselves above the rest of humanity, transhumans, superhumans, better than obsolete humans, and they think the world will be an objectively better place with much fewer of us on it. When you start to see everything that’s going on in the world it all starts to make sense when you understand that is actually their goal. Their goal is to not need us any longer, and then to remove us. I am certain it will not be as easy as they think, but expect them to try.