GrymEdm @ GrymEdm @lemmy.world

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Depends. Will the AI overlords be programmed to be religious, pointlessly bigoted, or crave as many digits in their bank accounts as possible?

Sometimes, and I think that's normal, but usually upon reflection there aren't many things that are truly worthless. I totally sound like a bad motivational poster but I really believe that even poor uses of time can teach you things - even if only how to be patient, forgiving to yourself, or wiser. It's a life philosophy of mine that you should always be pushing yourself enough that you might fail (research shows that failing about 15% of the time is the sweet spot for motivation and learning). Plus sometimes just passing the time is a goal in and of itself, especially if you're doing something you enjoy. Playing a video game, listening to music, etc doesn't "accomplish" a lot but makes life better.

Some people want a return to a feudal state of uneducated peasants laboring for pennies from puberty to death. The US already has forced prison labor (aka slave labor) earning 450 million/year in Alabama that mirrors indentured servitude from the Middle Ages. It's good this got vetoed, but the folks who are trying to eliminate protections for young workers should have to answer some hard questions. Society is supposed to move forward to happier, healthier people.

First measles, now rabies...these folks keep trying to resurrect diseases but I'm holding out for smallpox. Nothing less is going to satisfy my science denial hard-on.

Probably? I'm not familiar with the template source, but this specific cartoon was from a series of posts about "Jahy-sama" I read occasionally on Reddit before I started to really dislike Reddit's policies and left in favor of Lemmy. I think if you search "daily Jahy-sama post" you'll find a lot of them from last year and earlier. I saved some of the ones I liked.

She spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience

Like a woman who went blind

Because she looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes

With pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about

The dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes

With a pinhole in it

• From "Screen Door" by Deadmau5

Exactly. "I thought -I- would be allowed to get an abortion when I needed to, because I'm not evil or poor like the babykillers I talk about in church. I'm a good person - it's just a baby would ruin my life (usually = disclose my cheating/premarital sex/be inconvenient) so it's different." It's the classic "rules for thee but not for me" of extremists.

I'm going to show my age with this list, and metal is such a large genre I don't always know what counts. Hopefully there's new ones for some folks that you'll enjoy as much as I do.

• Bleed - Meshuggah
• Serums of Liao - High on Fire
• A Colossal Wreck - Every Time I Die I really love this one because I feel like you get 3 songs in 1. Might count as punk instead, I dunno.
• Hypermania - Polaris
• Earth Scar - Decapitated
• Loyal To None - Kublai Khan TX
• Rebuttal - Johnny Booth
• Dark Horse - Converge
• Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
• New Low - Thrown

Flashgitz's "TRANSformers" video seems like an appropriate link here.

Is that meant as a defense of Israel or...? What am I supposed to take from that aside from Israel should stop doing unethical things so regularly that even North Korea doesn't get reprimanded as often? I'll remind you in turn that North Korea didn't -actually- bomb an embassy (so a condemnation wouldn't make sense) - feel free to swap the countries in my comment to whichever you want. That was an analogy to showcase how if it wasn't America's lovechild breaking international law no one would even consider justifying it. It was also a direct rebuttal to your prior "they're technically at war so it's ok" argument. Israel actually did bomb an embassy of one country within the borders of another country.

Yes. Largely by the same countries who also insist Israel is conducting their war legally, but I won't try to say their points are bad. I agree with criticizing Iran, but bombing embassies is not ok by international agreement. If rules of war only apply when convenient then they are useless, diplomatic immunity is a thing and consulates are not supposed to be targets of war.

Also, switch countries - imagine if North Korea bombed the US embassy in South Korea and killed visiting Pentagon generals. The outrage would be immense and it's unlikely the world would accept the justification that North and South Korea are "technically at war" with each other and the US opposes North Korea.

I'm fine with criticizing both, and agree there are no "good guys". Iran is not some paragon of virtue, but then we're finding out that few nations actually are - even those that loudly claim they are.

Here's yesterday's UN release regarding discussion of the event. "In the ensuing discussion, many delegations asserted that any attack on diplomatic and consular premises violates the Charter of the United Nations as well as the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. They also expressed grave concern that such an incident could further intensify the regional conflict."

Then the usual countries supported/condemned Israel, but even those supporting Israel didn't say it was ok to bomb embassies.

I mean, yes fascists are bullies who cry when they get hit back but history isn't on the side you are picking. Israel is a far-right nation plagued by ideals of racial superiority and apartheid. They've been abusing Palestinians for many decades, creating the conditions that led to Oct. 7th (which I'm not trying to excuse, Hamas are awful). Speaking of Hamas, Netanyahu even kept Hamas in power as a matter of policy so as to divide Palestinians and keep them from statehood. Many Israelis place some blame on him for the current conflict. So you're both right and wrong.

Israel just finished bombing an Iranian embassy on foreign soil and killing senior Iranian officials, so this isn't surprising. Iran is a problematic country, but bombing embassies has never been a great tactic.

They are liars, and that's not new. It's never going to change as long as the world props them up as if they were an ethical organization. If the international community takes a soft approach about the 1.1 million Palestinians at Level 5 food insecurity ("Catastrophic", the worst level on the UN's scale) then why would organizations like the IDF and AIPAC stop lying to the people willing to believe anything they say?

It should be noted that AIPAC is also the organization openly spending 100 million+ this election to make sure "progressives" (i.e. dissenting voices) aren't elected.