Nah, he’s always sucked. I first heard about him in 2007, shilling Hyperloop, and I was like “wow this is such an obvious grift!” The tech was totally fake and experimental compared to just buying off the shelf HSR tech. Hyperloop was so obviously bad, on its face, that ever since then I’ve been judging everyone who gets into him.

It’s unfortunately definitely a counterproductive thing if it makes you believe stuff like “capitalism is when people use money.” People still used money in the USSR. Capitalism is about transnational social control, accomplished through use of surplus value accumulation & compound interest to acquire controlling ownership of international corporations (which can then use their international nature to dodge legal accountability from the countries they operate in, typically in a highly colonialist way).

Capitalism is not a bunch of farmers at a farmer’s market. It is an act of strategic class violence.

Pickpocketing is not a thing in America. Too subtle. We are a mugging people. However, I will say that your chances of encountering gang violence as a tourist/traveler are quite low. The main danger when visiting here is the government/police.

Yes. Thank you.

The treaty was certainly fucked up, and also, the Nazis used that as propaganda to enflame their base with the “stab-in-the-back” myth.

Also, we can keep playing this nationalists game. One could also argue that France had “legitimate reasons” for being so punitive in the treaty, like, for instance, how they didn’t start WWI.

Actually Hitler and Eva Braun got married in the bunker right before they killed themselves. Why do I know this?! Fuck

Just use grok to summarize

Whatever they build, it needs a plaque that says “I built this monument before Elon killed himself”

Fuck it, I’d vote for him once he turns 35.

I’ve just been saying “go woke or go broke” for a little while now.

Raw-doggin’ reality

When Trump first ran for office in the 2016 election I thought he was a joke too. Because I remembered people laughing at him as a joke candidate when he ran in 2000.

What happened in between 2000 and 2016 that made him not a joke anymore? The Apprentice. He became a reality TV star and that made him a serious political contender because this is a fucking joke of a country 😂

I think we’ve “been there” since at least the 1930’s in terms of “the majority of people’s lives suck for preventable reasons,” but there’s a lot of propaganda convincing people that their lives are actually awesome.

I will never get over in early Covid when the governments and militaries of the world were sitting around with their thumbs in their asses, unsure what to do.

Meanwhile, ICP straight up canceled the Gathering of the Juggalos. They lost a bunch of money in the process, and said, “We refuse to risk even one Juggalo life.” I don’t really care for their music, but it gave me a huge amount of respect for them.

Like seriously. Why were the guys who rap about murdering people providing better pandemic leadership than the entire government?

Fucking rainbows after it rains…

If you hang up an image in a public space people can and will take pictures of it. You can’t stop this.

Never been to an event/gallery that didn’t allow photography, huh?

For the AI bubble to not pop, an AI company needs to make money off of AI first. Not raising investments. They need to actually make at least $1 off of using/selling AI services.

This hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t think it ever will. The AI machines simply cost more to run than they produce, so when the investment money runs out, they’ll be shut down.

In 2007: “How could the housing bubble pop? After all, the real estate industry is backed by billionaire CEOs, military, and government influence.”

In 1999: “How could the dot com bubble pop? After all, the internet is backed by billionaire CEOs, military, and government influence.”

In 1929: “How could the Stock Market crash? After all, international capitalism is backed by millionaire CEOs, military, and government influence.”

This rocks and you’re 100% correct. Bless you.

I like the part where nobody mentioned the USA until you did 😂

As an American, it seems to me that you appear to have the economic beliefs of a middle class conservative American (“these people’s lives suck because they are lazy! How dare they complain?”). Maybe it’s time to self-reflect.

EDIT: Doubled down in the replies lmao. Yes, pity is a common conservative emotion.

Your hopes of a good life in your lifetime end with revolution.

I strongly disagree. My life is already pretty fucked up and doesn’t seem like it’ll be getting better without some massive political changes.

Yes, and also, LLM’s aren’t as reliable at transcription as Dragon Dictation was back in 2010.

It’s shocking how crappy AI is, we’re actually moving backwards in real time.