It’s not an idol, it’s just a gold-looking representation of something a large group of people fervently honor and pray to, and according to their own chit-chat, hold in higher respect than jesus or god. And nothing more.

Remember people, in today’s USA, it’s better to be a sex offender than literally anything else. It’s even better if you meddle with kids; that could secure you a position in the government. But girls liking girls? Big no-no.

But I thought super capitalism would allow markets to self regulate, motivate competition, and weed out low performer. Isn’t that a good thing anymore?

Also, I’m laughing at “unless things change, we will not survive”. That might be the change happening, buddy.

I generally agree that prohibition doesn’t work, and is bad, but having an absolutist position like this is usually problematic.

Hence the immediate follow-up sentence: “I can see the point for some of these restrictions, to provide a safe basis for other people around”. Basically, the old saying “one person’s freedom ends where another’s begins”.

Laws should be around to protect other people from external nuisance/danger, not for the express purpose of prohibition.

The parts about not being a nuisance for other/imposing onto them is nice. It will take forever to become a new society standard, though. In France, it’s been forbidden to smoke in public places like subway stations and bars for decades, but there’s still a lot of people doing it. But we’re slowly moving there.

However, forbidding people to smoke, period, will not prevent them from smoking, it just makes it illegal. That’s the part I’m not strongly agreeing with. There was the nuance.

And to be clear, my personal opinion on this topic is that smoking is batshit crazy and why would anyone do this to themselves, but I’d rather we go the education route and work toward a better environment for people to live in than going the “NO” route. Unfortunately, that’s not the way we’re going.

I have no idea how that would change thing. I just base myself on previous (and current) attempts at banning things. It never goes well.

Prohibition is never good, removing individual freedom is never good. I can see the point for some of these restrictions, to provide a safe basis for other people around (because we can’t ask people to simply be nice), but more than that… meh.

I will not be up in arms to defend smoking rights, but that’s probably not the way to do it.

Fucking onion.

And we miss.

sigh

zip

There was this chapter in an XKCD book talking about where does tire particles goes. From memory, it said “there are many answers to that question and none of them are good”.

I’ve seen a few passages of this, the required qualifications definitely not include “ability to read”.

Sam, you little piece of shit, the thing is, most humans are cared for because that’s what we strive to, not because we want to replace them for fuck’s sake.

I made a joke a while ago about “kid being a necessary evil”. This dude really is comparing keeping humanity afloat and burning humanity’s resource for a computer. I’m pretty sure even his little AI garbage yesman would “disagree”.

It’s already trickling down : from public government money to private business owners.

At this point, it’s a suicide really.

/J

I applaud billionaire willing to die to show us what’s right and wrong. Submarine excursions when you have no clue what you’re doing, ruining the lives of millions with price hikes, penis enlargement surgery with unlicensed surgeons… keep at it billionaires. Let’s step: going to Mars without a backup plan, because thinking things ahead is for pussy. You can do it!

I can’t wait for a moment where he slip, jumping from the last thing to the next, and use the epstein files as a distraction for something else out of sheer stupidity.

This could be good, except that one move is shooting its own country in the everything.

It would probably be the same content-wise. The bots are put there by people that wants to push an agenda. If we somehow reach a point where such a network with only live, confirmed humans exists, they’ll still push their points I guess. After all, we already see prominent account posting batshit crazy thing under their real name, so that would not change much.

And, yeah. It’s not really being an anarchist to think smaller, closer spaces are a good idea. Worldwide, almost universal social connection all the time, even without the constant barrage of garbage, is bound to completely overload our brain. Focusing on smaller communities, hand in these for a limited/controlled duration, things that actual matters, sounds really nice. It’s more of a “technical minimalism”, if we keep things digital.

requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots

Can’t wait until the next next big thing: “F”, for “Fuck you”.

I’m pretty sure most countries have an idea of peace that does not openly include “start frivolous wars”. We’ll be ok without that.