mrpxilo

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[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Well yeah. "Economy" with an asterisk. Where everything is made up and the points don't matter (except when the results feel right). Feels like this line of reasoning requires a whole lot of "obviously it's this, this time, you can just tell" spackle to fill up the gaps.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't get it personally. I don't see how they conspiracy-hole this and that, and pretend the most outrageous things, but then supposedly diesel or whatever is the last straw. Decades of being financially fucked into the ground by conservative policy, a decade of But Joe Biden!, and now diesel does it??? Ok I guess.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not their money. These people have 5 aces in their hand. They cheat and then instead of golden rocket cars, they buy the media, our politicians, and secret compounds where they brainstorm how to dismantle democracy and start cults.

It's just that the cheaters that top the leaderboard also know how to play the game, so they overlap legitimate investors and business owners. Musk and friends don't need to cheat every hand because the deck is already stacked in their favor.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

They lay the malefactor upon his belly, with his hands tied behind his back, then they slit up his fundament with a razor, and throw into it a handful of paste that they have in readiness, which immediately stops the blood. After that, they thrust up into his body a very long stake as big as a man's arm, sharp at the point and tapered, which they grease a little before; when they have driven it in with a mallet, till it come out at his breast, or at his head or shoulders, they lift him up, and plant this stake very straight in the ground, upon which they leave him so exposed for a day.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

They should force $100 to education for humans for every $1 subsidizing AI. All these billions spent on artificial intelligence while teachers get less, classes get bigger.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

The Gulf of (Central) America

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Has anyone actually tried a genuine rollout of data centers? Eg no lying about bringing in jobs, no cheating the energy grid, no building loud data centers near homes, don't paint people as idiot luddites for opposing AI.

I wonder how different sentiments about data centers would be if the people building them weren't pathological. Probably not good, but having a punkass showman leading the way seems like self-sabotauge.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You like rock music.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago

We're a culture that has influential athletes advertise gambling apps to kids on social media. I 100% guarantee these policies aren't about the sanctity of sports nor protecting the children. It's definitely other values that are driving people to fight this hard to legislate trans people.

[–] mrpxilo@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago

They sorta just came out and said it. They think we're "unhumans" that need to be killed. We're not real humans so the law can't protect us. JD Vance waved around a manifesto saying conservatives need to load up their muskets and ignore the rules. A lot of us believe them when they say they want us to die.