MAGA does not worship Reagan. He may have been a product of and furthered the effectiveness of the Southern Strategy, but MAGA sees him as just another liberal compared to them.

It’s an interesting argument to debate, and has been since the beginning. What’s really telling is how much Trump is mentioned in that wiki vs. the past Presidents. Almost as if he’s seeing how far he can push the envelope.

Good match for Davros, the creator of the Daleks. Good match with the lore too.

You’re right in that resources in general not shared equally has always been a problem. That just changes the actual limit. There is a maximum we can hit, even in a perfect world.

Fertilizer is huge. Without it we would have hit peak population long ago, and the ripple effects of that would make it a different world.

That’s the Empire. We’re getting there. Just have to defund OSHA more.

So we’ll keep bombing them until they get a nuke. That’s 5D chess there. Pretty sure our relations with Iran were doing better thanks to Obama, and then, well… this guy showed up.

Well, that’s not a circle at all. I’m beginning to think Pi Day is something made up to sell protractors in stores to unknowing kids.

03:14 15/09/2026

So broken.

Just like Millennial is still being used for some young person disagreed with, even though the first Millennials are entering their mid life period.

Actually… enough concrete falling at once creates an enormous amount of heat, maybe enough to weaken steel and lower its max capacity.

It’s all beige. The whole universe.

But yes, it’s a collection of things, and art pulls from different parts of it, or on this topic, from different aspects of the directions we’re heading. Our future (present?) isn’t Brave New World or 1984 or Solyent Green, it’s a mix of all of those messages. Because we didn’t listen, or didn’t take it seriously enough. Maybe because it’s “just” scifi and that never happens. Until it does.

That makes it even more funny, because boomers would complain about how hard it was for them, yet it was their parents that changed things for the better. Then when their kids talked about improving more, they told them to shut up.

In theory upvoting and commenting, as well as the boost on mbin do this to some extent.

If I could do it from a safe spot in space - the Theia impact that formed the Moon.

The heating element in the dishwasher at best maintains the water at a warm temperature. It will not instantly heat the water up for the very short first cycle of prewashing, just like if you suddenly put cold water into a water heater it wouldn’t be suddenly hot. It takes a lot of energy/time to warm water up.

A dystopia doesn’t have to be science fiction. There are plenty of warnings and social commentary in stories that don’t have to actually come true as told in the text to be relevant enough to pay attention and apply it to reality. Are you suggesting that none of any past scifi has ever had anything important to the real world in either technology, application of it, or social dangers?

The only difference is that AI is a black box and a lot of what’s going on inside isn’t fully understood. They’re learning as they go, and accepting they don’t know some of the whys as they go to the next step. Unlike the bridge analogy. Which actually makes the problem even more serious, because they don’t fully know why it ends up doing some of the things, and now the newest models are having the processes partially hidden from view. Where only a version back we were being assured they could watch the chain of thoughts and intercept what could be problematic, claiming they’re practicing AI safety in development, now there’s pieces that are not viewable. And they went with it anyway and released it to paying customers. Again with the bridge analogy, some of the parts that might have failed go missing and we don’t know how they broke, what they were made of, etc.

Humans are building AI, but in a sense they are also growing them, while not knowing what seeds they’re throwing together. There’s science and theory behind it, they understand a lot, but they’re getting results back that would prevent a bridge being approved to be built if it had the same uncertainty. So I stand behind holding the people accountable, but more for the recklessness of following profit over scientific research and ethics, as well as using the excuse that if they don’t get there first, someone else will. They aren’t wrong about that, only wrong about it needing to be that type of race.

I see your point. If he was arguing for a law or program. Saying everyone get a check without anything more isn’t the same. For one, it isn’t going to happen because it would need legislation, which means a bill and a plan to fund it. And it’s Trump, so it’s not going to happen because he just says things.

Now if he said he’s going to propose and make Congress pass a law that gives every adult $1000 each month that is funded through tax increases on higher brackets… suddenly he’s pushing for UBI, and that’s a great idea. (or the start of one, I think it needs to be more complex than that for cost of living variations)