If anyone needs to be monitored, it’s all of these fucking techno-feudalist freaks.

If you know what feudalism is, and want it back so bad that you’re willing to bankroll it to the tune of billions of dollars, then you need to be monitored. At the very least. A real, functioning democracy would take those types of threats to its existence seriously.

Instead we (e.g. any alleged form of government safe guard meant to protect us from devolving back into such barbaric forms of society like feudalism) just sit back and say “huh, I wonder if they’ll be able to completely destroy our government this time. Oh well, guess we’ll find out”. Or even worse, now that these psychopaths control the levers of government in the US, they are actually aiding it. They think they want feudalism back because they’re just temporarily embarrassed feudal lords.

Edit:

These people literally want to make us back into serfs. And we’ll answer to a fucking LLM. That will be the only interface between us and the Lords. You know that Amazon chatbot? That’s your boss now… Err no that’s not right. The word “boss,” is not sufficient to describe the relationship. That chat bot owns you now. Well, the person who owns the server it’s running on owns you, but why would they ever choose to interact with dirty serfs when AI can do it? If it’s important, they’ll relay it to them. They won’t even be aware of your medical complaints, let alone need to hear them, let alone need to address the working conditions that created them.

This shit is not a joke and it is very much not funny. It’s genuinely insane that we are allowing this to happen.

Because $$

I hope that one day you have the clarity of mind (and capacity for critical thought) to look back at comments like this and cringe.

It’s literally where the word comes from for fuck sake. It’s not boilerplate if you’re having your indeterministic black box spit it out.

so perfect

Really? “Perfect?”

Honest question: why does everyone seem so impressed with this?

Wow, that’ll really show them!

I’ll never understand the blind worship these dudes get.

Millions of people come out to protests and it’s “not enough”, and everyone has a criticism. “Why bother if you’re just going to schedule it for a few hours of a Saturday and then go home?”, “you Americans never actually do anything beyond performance.” Etc.

Meanwhile, two multimillionaire Libertarian douchebags make the lamest most toothless fucking “statement”, and everyone here trips over themselves to jerk them off and give them some kind of credit.

Like Jesus Christ people, they haven’t actually done a single fucking thing.

It’s not even good satire. Like let’s break it down for a moment (I know, that’s how you ruin jokes, but I don’t think we need to worry much with this one): how does changing their name to add “America” to it do anything to mock, berate, etc. Trump?

I’m sorry but, “hahaha look, we can add the word ‘America’ to the title like you! Isn’t that funny?” just doesn’t cut it for me satire-wise. To a narcissist like Trump, this is basically a compliment.

And it’s kind of crazy to see so many otherwise intelligent -seeming people line up to suck them off over this.

Go read A Modest Proposal and lament at how far our satire skills have fallen.

These are two men with obscene amounts of money, and we’re praising them for this?

Talk about low standards.

Dating someone with BPD is an absolute nightmare.

God help you if you fall in love with them.

You and Kate Beckinsale can giggle about it together after you guys fuck.

Oh wait no… That was him not you.

Yeah absolutely… We’ve gone so long without having to worry about sooooo much water-borne shit, that people don’t even realize.

Can’t wait for the mainstream return of dysentery and cholera

Why are you taking all of this so personal?

While I was already reading through what I found to be an interesting study Pew did 1 year after 9/11 about the internet,

(Quite literally the exact topic that OP was asking about)

I took 30 sec to screenshot a relevant chart.

I dunno man, doesn’t seem unhealthy to me. Found an interesting article about the thing we were discussing here and thought that I’d share. That took me literally 30 sec to screenshot the chart from the article I was already reading.

The problem here seems to lie with you.

Found this interesting Pew study about the internet from 1 year after 9/11:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/09/05/one-year-later-september-11-and-the-internet-2/

Take it with a grain of salt, I think it comes off as a little overly optimistic, especially given some of the dire things it talks about (massive support for giving away our freedoms, etc).

I did just see at the bottom that there’s literally 8 pages, and I was basing all that on just the first page so maybe I’ll read more or at least skim through the rest.

Edit: holy shit (from pg 2):

I didn’t realize I was up any notches. Maybe it is you who needs to take your defensiveness down a notch.

Also, hate speech went way up online after 9/11. Just because you didn’t see it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

Edit:

I posted a top level comment with a pretty interesting Pew research article, this chart is on page 6.

Over half of the sites in the study had a tenor of “anger, fear and hate.” More than the “nonviolent response” cohort. I also wonder what % of the “religious expression” ones were Islamophobic

Source:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/09/05/part-6-personal-expression-on-the-post-september-11-web/

Edit: to be clear, these comments are about as dispassionate as I can get, I’m honestly not sure why anyone would interpret it otherwise.

Does anyone else have experience with liquid metal instead of thermal paste?

I’ve got a Framework which apparently uses a liquid metal pad instead so you don’t need to re-up the paste.

Does anyone know of any other maintenance that might be needed instead?

Look, I’m not going to defend this bullshit decision, but humans survived millennia without regulated, clean, drinking water. Yes, some of the lucky ones had life, liberty, and maybe even some property.

They were drinking low % beer because it was safer. For literally thousands of years.

It was an absolute nightmare, and anyone with a working understanding of history knows exactly why we need regulated, clean, drinking water.

But unfortunately, here we are. A legislature that has abdicated it’s responsibility in prostrate to a mad king. With a Supreme Court with at least four justices, off the top of my head, that will have no issue poisoning our drinking water. And two more who could go either way.

This isn’t true, there were racist fucks immediately targeting Sikhs.

People were literally killed in retaliatory attacks (that often targeted the wrong fucking religion).

Life, liberty, or property. No pursuit of happiness to be found.

Not sure why I have to be the person in this thread to explain basic civics to everyone, but “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is from the Declaration of Independence, it is not in the US Constitution.

The Declaration is not law, it was just a declaration. You can’t cite it like this, that’s not how it works.

Just wait until climate change has us fighting literal wars over it in a decade or two.

Yeah this is total bullshit and all, but The Declaration of Independence is not a legally binding document. It’s irrelevant to the situation, unfortunately. You can’t walk into a court and cite the Declaration of Independence as law or precedent.

I mean, I guess you could, but no judge would take you seriously because that’s not how jurisprudence works in the US.

Good. Let’s start that phase as soon as possible