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feels good to be postin again man // I only dogsit the dog in my pic, his name is Banjo and he has tremendous inertia
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This is the real way that AI is like NFTs and crypto: all of them are taking money that could be used to do something in the real world, and putting it towards the wealthy getting wealthier while providing nothing of value.
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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7 years ago I made a DJ set that's just Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters song over 100 other different bits of music (some well-known, some less so) and it goes on for nearly 50 minutes and working on it gave me lasting brain damage
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The exemplar of this was that 15 minutes Musk was blithering about an “America Party” that would represent “80% of the people”. Massive polarization all across society but the billionaire’s whims party will definitely poll like ice cream and orgasms.
In retrospect, we’ll see the key trend of the era was an elite revolt by the very rich, politicians and media employees against the idea there should be *any limits at all* on their behaviour, up to and including strangers publicly criticising them. All presented as The Wisdom Of The Average Punter.
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“If you think about it AI data centres are actually the Jews because people lie about both” breathtaking stuff
The direct historical analogue is actually when they used to pogrom the local jews because the king blamed them for everything so yes I think guillotining monarchs was a substantial improvement
Society that had centuries of civil war and old mad kings doin ultimogeniture to try to get the longest time between successions possible. Also makes it real easy for viziers/eunuchs to influence the young kings, surely an unintended side effect.
Free tip to various fantasy authors: it's not actually the case that all pre-modern monarchies had a rigid law of succession of full male primogeniture inheritance. This kind of thing being locked in is generally later and not a definitive rule in all or even most cases
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