I’m going to assume, charitably, that you’re not lost in the conspiracy sauce.

If you’ve seen the way flat earthers argue, you should understand why I’m grilling Soup over this. It’s not helpful, and there’s nothing but fan fiction in their head to even substantiate it.

You could expect that, yeah.

…okay, and?

Are you suggesting that if the bullet was real, Trump wouldn’t pose for the cameras?

You know, to reassure his base that he is a very big, very strong man, the only thing they like him for?

I’m not shocked, I just think they’re morons.

It’s like watching a fifth grader struggle with their homework. Except I don’t expect the fifth grader to know anything yet. XKCD’s lucky ten thousand is not helping these people this time.

Yeah, but we only know that with empirical evidence.

What empirical evidence is there here? The video is too grainy? “I’ve seen too many hollywood movies—this is something the joker would do”?

Moon landing is fake.
Earth is flat.
9/11 was CGI.
My wife cheating on me was gen AI.
The blood on Trump’s ear was an Instagram filter.
Nothing’s real anymore.

God, you’re so smart. You’re just the smartest person, you know that? Everyone likes you for how smart you are. I’d like to start an applause for this hero, if everyone doesn’t mind.

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Oh, right, you people think the revolution is starting. Fuck me.

Only if you believe in spherical cow, newtonian views on events happening in the world.

Trump is now a genuine victim of terrorism and that can only help his campaign in the public eye. Why the fuck would I support that.

I think it’s funny you talk about revenge porn like it’s just so tiresome and tedious to think about.

“Oh, a hurricane struck Florida again.”
“Oh, there’s revenge porn of my neighbor’s daughter again.”
“What a terrible saturday.”
“Anyway, I think my toast is done.”

Imaginary grenades.

Having porn made of you is imaginary?

At some point the “it’s just a game” also stops holding water…

The video game doesn’t produce anything.

AI is not the cause for generating deep fakes,

DUIs can be reduced with public transportation. What do you propose reduces… porn fakes?

Ain’t it interesting how coming up with a consistent framework, makes it applicable to different areas of life?

Fucking lol.

My problem with machine learning porn is that it’s artless generic template spam clogging up my feed of shit I actually want to see. But you know, to each their own.

Billy Jean is not my mother~
She’s just a girl - who claims that I am her son~
But the girl is not my mum

Doctors do shit for money.

Yeah, it’s all fucked, man.

Doctors do stuff like appendectomies—literally cutting out a part of you.

Doctors made my grandpa go through chemo. That was before he co-in-ci-dentally lost all his hair.

Doctors will literally take out all of your blood and give you someone else’s blood. For why? They’re not keeping it. It’s not like they’re vampires. Literally, for what reason?

I know the reason.

It’s MONEY.

You don’t gotta do all that shit. I drink my own urine and I’ve never been healthier.

None of those things replace that content, though.

Look, I dunno if this is legally a copyrights issue, but as a society, I think a lot of people have decided they’re willing to yield to social media and search engine indexers, but not to AI training, you know? The same way I might consent to eating a mango but not a banana.

I’m proud of this guy! I’m trying to click follow, but it’s not working.

Exactly! I’m always complaining about the illiterate. I like to write them letters because I know it makes them sad.

I think the point, though, is there should be a redundant system to handle failures, like a mechanical-only door handle.

Another example: your dashboard touchscreen fails, there should still be a button to turn on the AC. Or off. Whatever makes this analogous to the safety concern about doors.

I will let myself bleed out in a Safeway parking lot before installing McDonald’s stupid fucking app to get a 1.99 boiling hot coffee to cauterize the wound with.

How do you feel about negotiating the price of a new car down?

Personally, I think it’s really cool that people without social skills are charged more. It’s like “take that! ya fuckin loser.”

I read the first bullet point and immediately had a prophetic, future-sight vision of the comments before even scrolling down. I’m so sorry, man, haha.

Oh, for sure. I don’t imagine bears have the same cultural understanding of sex, however complex that may be, that people do.

bear in the woods isn’t thinking “Since I am a heterosexual bear, I am not going to rub my penis on that other bears ass because I see it’s a boy bear and that would be gay. […]”

I do think this might be overly simplistic, though. The tendency for a bear to “be gay” by our standards might manifest differently, but it would still be an observable behavior, no?