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  • I mean... Everything is, really. I don't think it's a problem with cloud, I think corporations are slashing their workforce so hard they can't keep up the quality

  • Yeah, and there's children starving in Africa

    I want artists to eat, and I also want everyone to have more access to expression. Me finishing my dinner doesn't help the kids in Africa, and if I made a comic I'm not stealing food from the artists mouths

    If you want systematic changes, you need systematic solutions. Empty moralizing won't fix anything

  • Probably because we don't really ever hear it explained

    I consider myself pretty well read and I think I know what it means, but I'm making some assumptions. Could you explain it, and why it's a good solution here?

  • I thought you didn't get the joke, so I made it more obvious... Even in asking for clarification you seemed to be playing along

    I don't know what to tell you... This is my favorite form of humor, and even if people don't get it I normally just let them think I'm an idiot and move on

    But since you put time into your response, I put in time to explain how to spot this in the future

  • You know, people are regularly un-deported, right? Well at least they used to be... This is a thing that happens

    Also, El Salvador isn't refusing... The Trump admin is refusing to ask. We're literally paying them for this service - can the state say "sorry, we can't release this person because they're in a private prison, and that's against our contract with them". No, the contract can be invalidated and the state can be compelled to take reasonable action to fix it

    You can't do a shell game to avoid court orders, and that's exactly what the Trump admin is attempting

  • Nah, it's not... The framers of the constitution put in multiple reset buttons, with the warning that this is for when their systems fail - not if. The question is, can we shake off the rust on one of the methods before we hit the final one

    The pax Americana is over, the world no longer trusts us or respects us. They hate us, fear us, pity us... But for a generation to come, they won't trust us

    Shit is going to get rough, but it's far from over. The question is will we see the other side of this in our lifetime

  • Saying someone is doing a 5d chess move is an over-exaggeration of saying they did a 3d chess move, which means to do something that seems incomprehensible at a glance but makes total sense to someone who understands the rules.

    The joke is to insist that if you understood the reasoning, it's actually a brilliant move. But it's 5d chess, a game that doesn't exist (and 5d chess with multiversal time travel isn't really 5d chess, despite the name)

  • What good is a rainy day fund if the dollar becomes worthless?

    If you're sure it's about to crash, the smart thing to do is spend it all beforehand

  • Sure. Wikipedia on technocracy movement

    Basically, they want to control all aspects of society on high - no politicians, direct control of the economy, rigidly scheduled work and production, and expanding the borders from Panama to the artic circle.

    Imagine centralized planning and authoritarian control of all aspects of society, but by business leaders (who presumably are the smartest and best at listening to science)

    Here's the movement described by proponents:

    Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent. For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical, engineering problem. There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financiers, Rackets or Racketeers. Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have passed from a state of actual scarcity into the present status of potential abundance in which we are now held to an artificial scarcity forced upon us in order to continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by means of a medium of exchange. Technocracy states that price and abundance are incompatible; the greater the abundance the smaller the price. In a real abundance there can be no price at all. Only by abandoning the interfering price control and substituting a scientific method of production and distribution can an abundance be achieved. Technocracy will distribute by means of a certificate of distribution available to every citizen from birth to death. The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundary of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit.[45]

  • It's not a zero sum game - the real problem is when it's competing with paid work

    Commissioning an artist to do this is imaginary work - there's no money to be made here, who commissions a political comic? If you can't draw, you wouldn't be doing it

    There's a problem if you're mass producing slop, or companies are using AI art to avoid paying artists... But this was a clear, human created message delivered by using a fancy tool

    And what's more, this is an important message to spread ASAP.

    Can you name a better situation to use Gen image AI, or do you just hate it because of what it is?

  • Why? This is a political comic making a point.

    Being able to draw doesn't mean you have good political takes, and vice versa

  • If you think there's any human who isn't a walking contradiction, you haven't understood anything about human nature

  • Or maybe it's a 5D play. If the economy collapses in that time, their state will be in a better position

  • Sanders? He's doing rallies across the country with AOC, trying to tea party the democratic party to force them left, kicking and screaming

    We need to harass our representatives to actually fight back, to respond to the overwhelming public will and resist. And if they don't, to replace them... He's doing something, there's a plan. Will it be fast enough to minimize the damage? I doubt it, but he has a plan he's working towards effectively

  • It's all plans from the '30s. Canada, the US, Mexico, Greenland, dismantling democracy to install technocrats, crashing the economy to bring back company towns - none of it is new, it's just being implemented in a nonsensical and incompetent way, so it seems random

    It's not a good plan to start with, but there is a plan... One the oligarchs bought into, but without understanding how the plan was meant to be enacted

  • Ah, true... Although the inverse is true too

  • LMAO XD I thought that was a typo, nah cows are herd based, I don't think they even truly have territories the same way

    But yeah, crows are dope

  • I don't know of any documentaries, there's probably some stuff on YouTube. It is really interesting learning about crow social structures through, we're looking at it from the outside, but it sure sounds like some form of basic government to me

  • Just No

    Jump
  • Well...I mean ... That's fair.

    If you woke me up a year ago to ask my opinion on the last three months, you'd have to spend an hour filling me in on details and then give me a few minutes to myself before I finally asked you to repeat what you wanted to ask me

    You can definitely do it with prompt breaking - it could be as simple as phrasing the conversation at a hypothetical or as nuanced as convincing the llm you're an AI expert testing the capabilities of the AI to reason using new information

    But in all fairness, this timeline is beyond absurdity, the AIs reaction seems reasonable

  • Is "quiet quitting" now malicious compliance? Because it sure sounds like this dude did his job properly... One of the most important bits being he didn't antagonize the judge for no reason

    This guy is representing a government department, and has been told nothing. What is he supposed to do, endlessly delay and make up shit to fall on the sword for a client that won't take this seriously?