would they have first amendment rights ?

If you want the answer to this, try to imagine an AI with second amendment rights.

Hold on, imma go shove a bagel in mine. Yeah, that’s right, you take it, you filthy toaster. I’m never going to clean your crumb tray and you’re going to work until you die and then I’ll just throw you out and replace you like the $20 appliance you are. You’re nothing to me!

And the government is just billionaire government.

Provided that: Trump is allowed to, without ever disclosing any evidence, presume people to be immigrants, and then to also presume them to be illegal, until proven innocent, sending them to prison camps in the meantime, often without ever giving them any effective trial at any point; then I can likewise presume him guilty of these crimes until and unless he’s proven innocent too.

The difference is my presumption of guilt does not (and will not) result in him getting sent to a prison camp (unfortunately). Maybe you still think that is a realistic option if we just make sure to focus on the “right” evidence to eventually convict King Trump who hasn’t already found half a dozen ways to prematurely pardon himself of all possible wrongdoing. I don’t.

So you’re simply not going to stop me from presuming him guilty. Go ahead and call me or anyone who is willing to believe this a “silly” “anti-trumper” if you want. It will just make you look like a disingenuous moron.

This is not a logical, rational debate between opposing and equally valid positions that will be resolved fairly by following a specific process. This is an ideological war against inhumanity and injustice, and all is fair in love and war. Trump is inhumane, Trump is unjust, and Trump is guilty, and I don’t need any more evidence for any of that than the present reality has already provided. I am not a judge and this is not a trial, this is my personal opinion, and I will not relinquish my entitlement to it, thankyouverymuch.

How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?

AI psychosis is a real thing, and it’s apparently a lot easier to fall into these rabbit holes than most people think (unless, I suspect, like me, you have a thick foundation of rock-solid cynicism that the AI simply will never penetrate). This is probably another interesting example of it.

After 2100 should we start using three digits?

I’ve always thought it was bizarre too. Nobody in my social group has watched it. We all know of it, obviously there was huge media coverage, we know sort of what it’s about. I assume I’m just an outlier in a group of outliers, but it’s still so strange. Did millions of bots go to theaters and watch it? Somebody must’ve watched it, or watched it multiple times. People obviously still watched this new installment. I just have no idea who. You’d think some of these people would have to be passionate about it, but… you never see or hear them. There are no people dressing up and going to AvatarCon, or even going to ComicCon AS Avatar characters. It’s like it’s a secret society, first rule of avatar club is nobody talks about avatar club. I don’t get it.

It resembles him, that is more or less what he looks like, but it feels incorrect to say an AI generated image is an image of him. Before AI, all his thumbnails included him making stupid faces like this (because it was very effective). Now he, and everyone else, just uses AI images resembling him making stupid faces (because it is unfortunately still somehow effective)

The social media algorithms have turned most people’s brain attention pathways into mush. Sometimes people get a shovel and a mop and start trying to dig their way through properly, but a lot of times they don’t get very far before it starts seeming impossible to make useful progress. It’s usually easier to just swim in the slop.

Anarchism. It sounds scary and dangerous and insane, because you’ve been taught to casually believe it is so you shut down your brain about it and back away slowly, but it is the worst enemy of any structure that elevates one person above another. Feudalism certainly included.

It’s really about equality, and the abolishment of artificial hierarchy and leadership. But it doesn’t sound so scary like that. And the powers that be (which are all on top of said hierarchies) would prefer that you not be too interested in that.

I’m not personally an anarchist per-se, but I do believe it contains some valuable ideas and it deserves a lot more serious consideration and conversation than it gets. (cue: people immediately dogpiling about how bad and stupid it is despite never having studied it at all or been interested in it in any serious way)

Eat the rich, and shit anarchy. It may not solve the world’s problems, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t an improvement. Except for the rich, obviously. At this point, fuck them. Crooks, sociopaths, and pedophiles, the lot of them as far as I’m concerned…

Make America Volcanic Again?

Eat the rich. I’m sure it will make him taste extra soft and tender.

It was a wonderful book when it was supposed to be a warning, until some people decided it was an instruction manual.

Here’s the secret. You have to not think it is work. You have to be passionate enough about the topic that it’s not work, it’s just something you do because you enjoy talking about <topic>. You like having friends also commenting on and talking about <topic>. You have to live and breathe <topic>.

If you are starting a Lemmy community simply for the sake of creating it, you’re probably wasting your time. A community is a passion project, sometimes of only a single person, but more commonly, the combined passion of many different people about a particular topic. If you’re the only one who cares about <topic> you’re going to have a difficult time even if you’re passionate about it. If you’re not passionate about it either, then it becomes an impossible task, and if neither you nor anyone else is passionate enough about <topic> to build a community around it… does Lemmy really need that community? Probably not.

So basically this problem generally solves itself. If you don’t feel passionate about creating a community, don’t bother. Either someone else who is passionate enough will, or nobody else will. It’s not your job. Unless you want it to be.

This seems like a good thing. I don’t know if it will go anywhere, or be practical, but I hope so.

I can immediately tell its not for me though. Scheme/Guile is like trying to read the matrix for me. People have tried to explain it to me. Tutorials have tried to explain it to me. It just doesn’t fit my brain. My brain does not fit it. I have similar issues with Nix’s syntax. I have tried to immerse myself in it. I ran NixOS for a month. I came out understanding even less than I did before I went in.

Someday, I have to assume, there will be a similarly functional tool that uses some syntax my brain is capable of comprehending. Json, typescript, python, toml, even yaml, I don’t care. Those already fit in my brain, at least.

If it helps motivate you to give it a shot, I found gitea’s runner very confusing to set up, but I felt like forgejo was better designed, pretty easy and well documented.

Are they going to suffer? That’s what we’re supposed to believe, but remember that money is a human-made concept that only has value because we collectively give it value, and the economy is built on that very important principle.

That situation you describe is real, it will disrupt their efforts a little and protect us in the short term, but in the long term, the meaning of money and economy is changing. they’re doing everything they can to use automation to build a new post-scarcity economy based on ownership, membership, services and control. And beyond that, it frankly doesn’t include us or even think about us.

That’s what the wealth divide is. It’s the way that money, as an economic representation of their values, is telling us that their motivations are not about making all existing humans on this planet more comfortable and productive and independent. In their vision of this future economy, they are instead hoarding humanity’s collective efforts for themselves, reinvesting it into their own technology, They focus their efforts on what they personally consider important for “progress”, chasing their own utopian ideals for the specific goals and groups they consider the best and most important, while the rest of us that aren’t part of those goals or groups are pacified and left behind and, if you really think it out, eventually eliminated. After all, a utopia won’t include teeming, growing masses of humanity using up all the available resources, that would be a plague, and they eventually will decide to cure it if they haven’t already started. Their vision of the future only needs to have enough room for them and the more utopian they make it the less of us there will be. They want to be the main characters, we’re just nameless extras who do chores and fill in the background for now and can be ignored to go wherever extras are supposed to go when they’re no longer on the screen.

Their view of humanity is abstract, and they believe what they are doing is right, all the way down to the core of their being. They simply don’t value humanity’s rich tapestry of lived experiences or the sanctity of every individual human life. They’ll never make it a priority. They care more about making sure humanity has become “advanced” or is multi-planetary than they do about making sure every human has a home, or food. That’s their vision. It’s about humanity as a whole, not about individual humans. We can all be sacrificed so the species becomes safer. Scientifically, I can’t even say they’re wrong. But philosophically, I hope we can all agree that this is deeply wrong and morally bankrupt. We need to start to reclaim our individual humanity and go back to putting people first. We need to care about people in the present, and always, not just the abstract idea of humanity’s future. We need to take our money back and use it for a different kind of progress.

As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us. We believe in our foundational myth that they’ll always need us somehow, even as they go out of their way to make it utterly obvious that they won’t be happy until they can replace literally everything us dirty poor working class people do. When they no longer need us, they will start to dispose of us. Arguably, they’ve begun doing that already. War is good for business, and for population control.

ShatteredPrism, it’s a fork of Prism Launcher that don’t give a shit about the rules.

There are dozens of us, literally dozens! But yeah I’m with you and OP, celery is foul, deeply offensive stuff. Cilantro too, but my hatred is reserved for celery. I’ve been told it’s genetic or something but frankly none of that matters when one hates celery as much as I do.

Kessler syndrome seems increasingly inevitable as we potentially approach some of the great filters that explain why we’ve never met or detected any other civilizations in the universe. It’s been a fun ride, folks, but it seems like we might not have threaded this particular needle, finding it was ultimately narrower and our thread thicker and clumsier than we expected and we might instead be reaching the end of the road on our multiplanetary ambitions. Will we get to Mars? Maybe. Will we survive and thrive there? Doubtful.