Yup, that’s how you get cops who can’t even fathom what “de-escalation” means

EAT THE RICH

I think or something along those lines

Ah the old krunning dugers

That makes sense, and my comment isn’t to tell people not to protest, it’s just to defend people being smart. This is game theory. Know what the opponent is doing. We hope for universal altruism and rational empathy but instead we have this, so people can be smart about protecting themselves while also protesting. Protesting is the altruism, but I would argue that “Can’t deport or kill everyone.” could be worded as “I will kill or deport everyone who disagrees” and that is certainly not the first time in history someone has thought that and only through massive amounts of death and suffering has that been stopped during those moments, so hopefully we can get smarter about stopping it with less of that.

I’ve got nipples, Greg.

Do you think because they are nonviolent protests you are not going into a Palantir database that is categorizing you based on Peter Thiel wanting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment and therefore trying to tee up global collapse so he can be a technofuedalist king who will not hesitate to just blacklist someone because they showed up for an event against the fascism he wants for himself? And at that point there are no laws to what “blacklist” means, even worse than “Deny, Deport, Disappear”?

Yeah one of my favorite little stories / poems is something I read on Tumblr years ago. It’s currently attributed to Swan Jolras:

we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us— we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more! , maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

The astronauts of today from various nations literally live and work together in shared space stations, less concerned with who’s tribe is better and more concerned with, you know, space, which is vast and doesn’t give a shit about our petty differences

Yeah lol they also have a literal self destruct that will destroy the fab process in case of Chinese (or other) invasion corporate or national

https://www.businessinsider.com/asml-tsmc-semiconductor-chip-equipment-kill-switch-china-invade-taiwan-2024-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Yup

Not to mention generally enterprise devs aren’t beholden to public launch dates set externally by publishers and therefore end up burning out really fast trying to make a deliverable happen. Not saying that doesn’t happen elsewhere in software, but it’s really common in the games industry

watercolors?

Even more ironic “betting industry consultant.” Literally works in an obsessive “get rich quick” industry and is mad someone wants to get paid

Yup, their latent wealth grows faster than what they borrow to use as actual spending, they literally don’t spend money, they accumulate it

I forget where I read it, but cats are likely to eat you way faster. The dog, if it has a good bond, still will for survival, but feel bad about it and wait until it is starving. The cat is like “well, you’re meat now, don’t want to waste that”

Yeah pretty sure the real point they’re saying this now is so that ICE can black bag people with a real ID not carrying their passport. Only a matter of time until that can’t be verified too.

we are CAPTAIN PLANNED-IT

Yes, but only some PMs will get what that means. Metaphors are easier to explain than “go read this book”

Conquerors putting on technology colored lipstick

He’s just building his little kingdom to set up for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Like all the billionaire tech bros want

Oh I did not get that reference, thanks for sharing and fuck him