Olhonestjim @ Olhonestjim @lemmy.world

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They want to become immortal god-kings again. Exactly as the wealthy and powerful have longed for since we built pyramids for their gilded carcasses.

Read the Singularity stuff from the past 20 years. They were talking back then how the first people to merge their minds with machine would likely ascend exponentially to live forever beyond us rabble.

Replace the masters!? Then who will drive the slaves?

There are rumors that the deaf are able to make good use of text based technologies.

Oh spare me your judgement. My plate is full, and none of it is wasted. I described a thing I would like to do if I had the resources that some rich Lambo owning prick has. I get a bunch of suggestions which are not that thing, none of which I requested, and some of which leave me dubious. I do not trust charities not to enable rich pricks to hoard Lambos. I'm weaning myself off the internet, not seeking new ways to engage with it. I wasn't soliciting for piddly little ways I could sit on my ass to be a better liberal. I was lamenting the sociopathy of those who have such resources, despite zero hard work, yet waste them.

I'm already doing all I can for the environment. What I normally go do is break my body daily in the field in one of the few trades where fighting climate change is central. That's where most of my time and energy go right now. That's why I chose this career. Considering the way this world is going, I don't expect to live long enough to make the difference I intended.

Look, I know you mean well. Thanks for suggesting an eco-friendly search engine. Hopefully they take data security and anonymity with the seriousness we all need these days. Hopefully it's not just another slush fund for some billionaire's spoiled brat. But regardless, your suggestion probably doesn't fit my wants and needs.

I don't care. You can have that last word you so desperately crave.

It's not good enough to get me interested discussing it further with you. You just keep repeating the same dumb, boring question. You think it's a gotcha, but you haven't thought about it even slightly.

Not good enough. You haven't even wondered why.

The only problem is other rich people will drag them out of that hole, given the chance.

I would love to have a private plane full of rich people crash directly on my vehicle.

If you had ever done a modest amount of the hard, actual, honest work of examining positions other than the standard one issued by your government, you would already be asking better, more interesting questions. You think that's the only one you need to ask, don't you?

I know you haven't put the work in, because I have. I don't owe you a debate. I doubt you have ever even changed your mind. So why should I give you the fruits of my labor? They wrote books, after all. Have you got the guts to read them?

Every single time, you claimed. Cite your sources. Do the work or fuck off, lazy-ass.

Somebody needs to learn not to blindly believe a century of capitalist propaganda. At least Wikipedia cites sources.

You made the claim. You said every single time. Citation required.

Are they gonna give the land back to the native people? When can I find the time?

Somebody needs to learn to use Wikipedia.

Communism is exactly the opposite of that. You're thinking of late stage capitalism.

Or I could do the work myself. Donating to charity is just throwing money at the rich.

It's cheaper if I do the work myself, which is the only kind of work worthy of respect.

If I had that kind of money, I'd buy ruined, exploited land just to restore it; regrow a clearcut forest for instance. Then just give it back to the native tribe who lived there centuries ago. I have always wished I could do that.

Just feed birds next to the showrooms.

I can wrestle a modestly sized gator on land. I know I can catch certain nonvenomous snakes. Catching turtles and tortoises is pretty trivial, aside from snapping types.

Size really does count for a lot. So does a creature's inability to bend enough to bite you if you grab it a certain way. Finally, how willing are you to deal with some pain? Because you're probably gonna bleed.

Yep. My dad believes you can cure a venomous snake bite, ANY species, by giving yourself an electric shock, preferably from a spark plug. Works equally effectively (it doesn't work, don't bother) for literally any insect bite. He also believes witches are eating babies in the forest nearby. Needless to say, he doesn't understand evolution either. He falls for scams left and right, always has.

Really sweet guy though.