BillyClark

This maybe flew over my head. Is Orange man Epstein class?

I am guessing they’re orange to hint that they’re MAGA.

And now, then, I think this may shock you, but there is a fourth consumer class, and they’re a bigger class than you might think. They don’t think about whether a product makes them feel good. They don’t think about whether a specific product is at a low price. Even if they’re poor, they don’t think about budgets, and they tend to be heavily in credit card debt. These people’s defining characteristic is that they don’t think much about anything. They simply choose some authority figure to tell them how to live and then they do whatever they’re told to do. They may occasionally spout out a bit of propaganda out of nowhere, but importantly, they have never once deeply thought about it themselves. They lack even the basic mental tools to think about it.

When challenged, they’ll just say some other bit of propaganda, or they’ll get angry, but they’ll obstinately refuse to think even the tiniest bit for themselves. They have what is called an authoritarian personality, “characterized by a disposition to treat the voice of authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect.” If you look at the Wikipedia article, you’ll see there is a high correlation between having an authoritarian personality and being poorly educated or being religious (especially being an Evangelical Protestant).

Now, then back to the question about the comic. It is impossible to tell whether the orange man is Epstein class or whether he’s simply a mindless MAGA drone with an authoritarian personality, because they say the exact same things. One says it because they’re evil, and one says it because they refuse to question anything that the evil people say.

but you’ll still be ass-imilated

A cat will naturally like a carrier if you only use it like a cardboard box. The problem is all the other stuff you do with the carrier, and especially if that’s the only time you use the carrier.

Oh you need to be careful with those kinds of thoughts. If you fetishize cereal, then what could you eat to control your sexual urges?

One of the scenes that bothers me the most is where Anakin states that from his perspective, the Jedi are evil, and then gives zero reasons. But it would be trivial to explain himself.

The Jedi are a religious organization that wields great authoritarian political power, often unilaterally, including later as we observed, political assassinations. They’re obsessed with finding people who are chosen at birth and have a policy of rejecting anyone who is too old to be fully indoctrinated.

They’re basically fascists. If you ever eliminated the sith, the next thing you’d want to eliminate are the Jedi.

How much more interesting would it be if they actually presented the Jedi, including their inherent flaws?

What else could we possibly be talking about?

I think there are generally two kinds of cereal eaters.

First, there are those who enjoy crunchy cereal. They can’t get enough of putting that hard firm stuff into their mouths. The more extreme will even go so far as to put Grape Nuts in. The milk is almost an afterthought, and sometimes they even put it in dry, just to see what it’s like.

Second, are those who enjoy limp, flaccid cereals. These ones are after the milk more than the cereal, if you know what I mean. They make sure that everything becomes a sloppy mess, and they don’t stop until they can greedily slurp up every drop.

I know you’re not saying it to disagree with me, but I would like to clarify that I didn’t think he was factually completely right. I honestly don’t even think his argument is necessarily sound. The thing I do like is that he was arguing from good fundamentals.

My reason for making the first comment is that I have a strong belief that we should argue against things that people actually say and do, like you’re doing bringing up Elon’s actions. Yours is a great example of an honest argument.

And I dislike all of these straw men that fly around all the time.

Few will click through, so I’ll copy the part where he actually talked about child pornography below. First of all, both times the term “gatekeeping” was used in that link were specifically connected to “censoring political opponents”. He was not talking about pornography. He was talking about censorship.

Bringing up pornography is always the bludgeon of anti-free-speech people. If I say, “People should have the freedom to express themselves,” some idiot will inevitably say, “This evil person said that everybody should be allowed to make child porn!” This sort of rhetoric is the death of thinking.

Asked if he realised “what [he was] defending” - which is essentially Grok being used to generate non-consensual pornographic or sexually explicit images of women and girls and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) - Sweeney said: “I defend open platforms, free speech, and consistent application of the rule of law. The bad stuff people do with AI, I do not defend, but I staunchly oppose the wrongdoing of a few from being used as a pretense to undermine the freedoms of all”

When challenged and given examples of Grok generating “CSAM content and doxxing people’s IP address”, he replied: "1) That is bad. 2) Every significant AI has instances of this. 3) Every significant AI company makes their best efforts to stop it. 4) All are imperfect.

Looks like you can chase the white king to the wrong side of the board for fun.

Kf3 Rf1+
Ke4 f5+
Ke5 Ng6+

I have heard that feral house cats will occasionally hunt and kill prey that is much larger than themselves. IIRC, I think they were giving deer as an example. At least it was an animal similar in size to a smaller deer.

It is central to most major religions the need to control the sex lives of their followers.

The Bible doesn’t say that masturbation is a sin, but since Christianity is a religion, they cannot permit their followers to control their own sex lives.

As a result, most sexual expression is considered a sin, and they will use any excuses or lies possible to make sure it stays that way.

Pretty sure she’s going to have that ego, regardless because she’s a cat.

You know, it’s kind of refreshing to think that somebody tried to think of the most horrific sexual perversion imaginable, and could only come up with Waluigi hentai.

This is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe. The cost of the entire US Forest Service must be minuscule, especially if you compare it to cost of waging unnecessary, illegal, and unethical wars all over the planet.

Here was your description of the video:

“How could a game of tic-tac-toe reach this end state?”

I think most people would interpret to mean, “When you look at the board, you’ll initially think it’s nonsense, but this link will explain how it makes sense in a real game.” (Because nobody would wonder about reaching the end state unless they already suspected it was nonsense.)

You could have alternatively explicitly introduced the video by saying something like, “This tic-tac-toe game makes no sense. Here is a video explaining why.”

My comment was intended to give context so that others wouldn’t watch the video with the wrong idea about what was in it. It’s one thing to click on a link to a normal web page and be disappointed about its contents, but a video actually takes time to watch.

Okay, you’ve hinted that it’s a possible game, and forced me to watch a video to prove it. And all the video shows is that it’s possible to put the symbols down on the board so that they end up like that, as long as O goes first. All the while, both sides passing up winning moves. They even call it something like a “nonsense game” in the video.

I already knew that it was possible to put the symbols down like that. Everybody knew the symbols could be put down like that.

That’s pretty much what people said would happen back then.

I don’t think AI would enslave humanity. Like, there’s no point, is there? There’s nothing we’d be good at in that case.

No, the two options are tolerate and eradicate.

There was an anime this year that had a mermaid character who refused to eat fish because she is half fish.

And all of the other characters just acted like that made total sense.