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weak bait

See other thread, but yeah that's the general ballpark of the situation.

Now that's a nice release page.

best I can do is incoherent muttering about illegals and blaming all problems on them.

pass

Yes, but still lucrative so here we are.

Yep. With side channel/one order of thinking above the laws, its trivial to get around said laws. Need better laws.

And behind the quitting decision is very little safety net and usually substantial financial obligations keeping people handcuffed. Something has to give. The power employees had during covid was the way it should be, or something more closely approximating that.

This whole thread reeks of Grok astro and challenging Wikipedia. There are fair criticisms of Wikipedia, but I am smelling something fishy.

The floor is much lower, but the ceiling can be the same-ish on a case-by-case basis. That's been my experience as well.

And why people are jumping out of buildings, actually and metaphorically, in 996 cultures.

Yes and also a true meme.

What makes you hopeful that this year is like the other years, and not more like something unto itself?

Seems like our leaders laundered our money through the US military and government apparatus, to the tunes of billions of dollars, so that they could carry out the dirty work of overthrowing the Venezuelan government in order to enrich Exxon and other oil companies. That's our money doing this. My money doing this. Boomers are cooked, man.

Complications from vaccines are not anywhere close to 49% if that is what you are insinuating.

and in the same breathe, the risk is closer to zero than not.

At what point is it fair to call the list something other than ‘predictions’

This article makes me think of how defiant Discord has been against all of this, and how slowly I'm starting to succumb to many of the same forces, although much slowly than other platforms. It's a minor miracle they never got bought up/sold themselves.

Also reminds me of the Dark Forrest Yancy Strickler stuff.

First human robot war is us telling the AI/robots 'no', and them insisting that insert technology here is good for us and is the direction we should take. Probably already been done, but yeah, this seems like the tipping point into something entirely different for humanity.

And make sure you do it at their friend’s houses too, and on every public device, and make sure they never leave that locked down app bubble ever.

Ok, now we have no restrictions. Timmy just got his driver’s license at 13 and is on his way to 7-11 to pick up a 24 pack because he’s young and curious.

Likewise, the state abdicating its responsibility and placing the burden solely on parents isn't fair either, and that is exactly the environment we currently find ourselves in.

We do not currently have the political apparatus in place to stop the dystopian nightmares depicted in movies and media. They were supposed to be cautionary tales. Maybe they still can be, but there are basically zero guardrails in non-progressive forms of government to prevent massive accumulations of power being wielded in ways most of the population disapproves of.

I actually do think people directly see the negative public health impact, its so visceral in so many parents lives, and that that is the driving force behind all of this.

I love being cynical, but I actually do buy these efforts as being purely "for the kids", kind of thing. Sure, there are knock-on effects, but I do buy the good faith-ness of phone bans in school and of these social media bans for kids.

Thoroughly dank. Very well done and interesting write up.

What is the rationale for 100 miles? Curious if anyone knows, or if its an arbitrary number a lawmaker decided?

I'd rather we drop the pretense or expectations that corporations have anything but one goal. That will help us direct our energy to where it can actually be productive.

If the marketplace demands better corporate stewardship, and people vote with their wallet, and companies decides to change then great, but the corporate ship is only ever getting steered in one direction and it's not for noble reasons.

Olipop ad?

Seems clear to me

Go down to their next comments...It clarifies that they are not joking.