Even the stupidest novelties sometimes have the seeds of brilliance.

What starts with in-vehicle toilet may very well lead to the hottest high profit margin and must have accessory: Take a fresh in-car shit, then launch it at the driver who just wronged you.

"Keep your road rage off the streets and in the seats! "

The engineers dubbed it “Project Battleshits” but most of doubt that will pass through marketing.

I sympathise, but the cliché is not strictly true. Nature is all about diversity. Just like humans have a certain ratio of “bad apples” born where someone is hard wired wrong, so do dogs, and likely all animals.

Psychopathology is real. It would be a mistake to deny Nature it’s agency. There are people who belong in an institution. Dogs perhaps moreso.

To your point, yes most problems are attributable to bad trainers, but even here there is something missing. Bad breeders - natural reproduction would select for fitness, and truly bad dogs would be limited to a small fraction of background instances. We have lots of people actively breeding killers with outsized agression and fear and ferocity, with hair triggers, on purpose. I’m not talking about guard dogs where fierce protective instincts are balanced with loyalty and bonding and intelligence. I mean literal psychokillers.

I’m circling around Pit-Bulls and the like, but I need to be clear. The breed is fine. Some of my best friends are pit bulls. Diversity naturally makes most of them good dogs, just more context dependant and trainer demanding. I’m not talking about those. I’m only referring to a small subset that were overbred and the natural background level of freakshow.

If you’ve only known pets from reputable breeders, accidental litters or the shelter rescues, understand that these select for the good dogs. If that’s all you know, you would have reason to doubt that bad dogs are possible.

Fine. Winning lottery numbers then. I can ponder the depths of the other ineffable questions from a beach with a tasty beverage somewhere nice.

How does one get grants for this type of research? Asking for a friend.

Not all. There are some bad boys out there.

Winning lottery numbers for next draw. When will humanity go extinct? Where are the nearest 1 billion species with near human level intelligence or greater. How do we safely and conveniently travel faster than light.

So many to choose.

You sure you want that?

When the drugs wear off.

Well, there’s your problem. Don’t get high for the job you have. Get high for the job you want.

The… the… the PoPresident?

Don’t start nothin’. Won’t be nothin’.

Is there a best of Lemmy open for submissions? I nominate this.

Cruelty was the point.

Put aside a global network of armchair rebels egging others on from the comforts of their distant homes. Forget the real fear in your post that taking a stand has consequences. Forget that everything on the internet is manufactured for purpose and that includes foreign and domestic bot operations, all driving their own agendas. Calm your mind and think of this inspired piece of fiction from Hollywood - Andor’s Rebel Manifesto.

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

Just because it’s fiction, doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Attacking, then losing to the US in WWII was thus seen, in 20/20 hindsight, as a bad move.

AI replacement of CEOs is brilliant. Replace your most expensive employees. CEOs hallucinate so much on their own no one will even notice it’s an LLM. Let the bodies hit the floor!

+1 for gigglesnort.

This is exactly the S-Tier business move I’ve been calling for all along. The most impactful places for AI automation are the c-suite. Think about it! The most expensive employees. Mostly useless and performative. They “hallucinate” at least as much as LLMs. It’s the perfect place.

It also has proven business parallels. Remember when EVs started. Car companies struggled to break into markets with low end, eco & cost conscious models. EVs kicked into high gear with the high margin performance models like Tesla S. The high margins justified the production costs and only as they gradually refined the technology and scaled up did the costs go down to fit successively lower markets.

Zuckerberg gunning for the Global C-Suite is exactly what McKinsey&Co would advise complete with entirely predictable distrous consequences for anyone even remotely involved. We’re entering a new era - This bad-boy right here is kicking off what historians will refer to as The Second Corporate Wars. I approve. Let the bodies hit the floor.

What if “burning cash” wasn’t a metaphor? The grift collects cash. Then there is a pit surrounded by stones and a significant pyre?

Let me put this into my trusty Hyper-Normalization translator:

Wrrr…bizzt…click…click…blu-blu…ding!

“The circus is refining their act to adjust to an audience who is bored of business as usual. The clowns are being replaced with a freak show comprised of shit-eaters, geeks who bite the heads of chickens and a bearded lady whose beard is ZZ Top grade but the beard in on their ballsack. The lion show have reversed the roles and now one lion tames a group of ravenous trainers and makes them do tricks. The mime has been supplemented with pickpockets in the audience.”

As long as my right to destroy is intact, it’s deplorable, but manageable.