Television and movies have conditioned people to believe that things have a way of just working out. I'm not kidding, I'm serious. This is a huge problem. People believe that nothing truly terrible can happen to them, and that when danger presents some force, god, America, luck, whatever, is going to swoop in and save them.
I truly believe the American people believe this. Imo step 1 in saving America is convincing Americans that nobody is coming to save us, WE have to do the work and save ourselves. Until they put to rest the childish idea of an outside savior, they're trapped.
I think about this all the time when it comes to Trump's social media posts (which seem to be the majority of his communication).
Trump ain't writing those. Those are carefully crafted to sound like stupid and ignorant Trump, but they're obviously not him as his social media posts are clearer and more nefarious.
Like I think Trump is an evil bastard and terrible in countless ways, but I genuinely don't think he knows what is going on and is himself just a Stooge of something bigger. I really don't think he's behind almost any of his social media posts these days.
Exactly. That's how I vet my assistants; if they don't come back with that really specific niche underground fetish shit I'm into then I know their attention to detail won't be up to snuff in other avenues either.
This but unironically. Why shouldn't you be able to use an AI assistant for that? I mean it's kinda dumb, shouldn't adults be allowed to make dumb choices?
I actually tear it apart sheet by sheet and stack the sheet for a toilet tower, the most reasonable choice in this debate that definitely matters and should definitely be used as a personality indicator.
Nobody has ever actually given a shit about pineapple on pizza. This is just a dumb pop culture thing like pretending to be bothered by the word "moist" (nobody on earth is actually bothered by it until told to be).
We don't have to play along with the machinations of pop culture; we can reject manufactured responses.
Ah yes, either you're all-in on this fucking trojan horse to the MRA movement bullshit or you're an ignorant goon-brained coomer, no in-between allowed
This is what I mean. It's this shit. Calling circumcision "genital mutilation" may be technically correct, but to any reasonable person who is aware of the reality of actual genital mutilation, it makes you guys sound fucking insane.
I didn't say penis obsession, I said this penis obsession.
If you want to celebrate penises, I am all for that.
If you want to talk about how beautiful penises are and how the idea that they should be shameful or inherently indecent is fucking stupid, I am all for that.
If you want to talk about how fun it is to grab the head of your flaccid cock and pull it taught to strum it like a rubber band guitar, I am all for that and request you post video.
Penises are fucking wonderful.
I'm talking about this stupid circumcision obsession by a bunch of tiny dicked losers convinced somebody stole their precious inches at birth. It's literally the least significant injustice on the planet and yet so constantly front of mind for so many butthurt people for no reason. It's fucking embarrassing. Not penises, circumcision obsession. But yes, I should have clarified.
I'm fine with earning some kind of influence based on community participation that could be then used for things like rewards, since that tied to genuine community good standing...
But even then I'm also very fine with not having any of that, so I guess then what's the point?
Legitimately the stupidest comment I've read all week.
You understand you're saying that the doomsday scenario here isn't any actual doomsday, but people talking about a possible doomsday? Come on, fuck right off.
Truly this might be the single most pearl-clutcher comment on Lemmy.
That's exactly what the US government did under Teddy Roosevelt when it forced by law these large entities to divest and break up into smaller ones not subsidiarized to each other. And yes, they should also do this to Amazon and Microsoft.
edit: I guess I should say I understand they can't force them to break up in this instance, but they can simply state they won't do business with the entities at present and recommend it. If that doesn't happen, I am confident other savvy investors will be happy to fill any hole left by these giants. The world will keep turning, I promise.
Television and movies have conditioned people to believe that things have a way of just working out. I'm not kidding, I'm serious. This is a huge problem. People believe that nothing truly terrible can happen to them, and that when danger presents some force, god, America, luck, whatever, is going to swoop in and save them.
I truly believe the American people believe this. Imo step 1 in saving America is convincing Americans that nobody is coming to save us, WE have to do the work and save ourselves. Until they put to rest the childish idea of an outside savior, they're trapped.