Thanks all the same.

Even the person who sent me the meme wished it was a narwhal.

Florida is a circus fit for such a clown.

If it’s to kill terrorists

Where have I heard this one before?

My only friends in grade school for a significant time were different race than me.

Riiiight, you’re going to build a thing that presumably goes mach 10 which can shoot other things moving at mach 10

Biden is slowly just morphing into Reagan

Call it Star Wars Joe!

If it’s laser-based (and it may have to be if it’s going to intercept anything going that fast) it is the Star Wars thing all over again!

Could

They will likely come up with some no-bid sweetheart deal between numerous military-industrial complex grifters and make silly shit that can’t operate in the rain or that requires a new paint job every time it’s turned on.

With sufficient techbro takes about how humans are just meat computers and that consciousness is just an illusion, replacing dead people with portable chatbots seems less disturbing.

They don’t condone what they’re oinking to. As hogs, they’re just informed and educated about the misery porn they get off to.

But then that leads to me the question of, who’s watching these things, and why? The article says they got quite a lot of views. Is it just for shock value? I don’t quite understand.

Once again the entertainment can claim to be “educational” or “informative” and piously claim it doesn’t “condone” what it’s presenting (for entertainment purposes) but “true crime” hogs will gobble it up and oink all the while anyway.

This feels so much like a cyberpunk story. It’s so dehumanizing and has such disregard for humanity that it feels like a perfect match for the genre.

We’re ruled by billionaires that read (or more likely just watch) cyberpunk dystopia stories and say “based, I want to make that real.”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus

If pencils and paper were actively causing a spike of worker precarity, a sudden increase in fraud and identity theft and misuse of people’s personas against their will and without their consent, I wouldn’t blame people for being upset at those fancy new pencils or paper instead of smugly telling them how actually the technology in a vacuum with no one using it is actually harmless.

It’s not condoning child murders (or I assume that’s the claim being made) but hogs will oink and get off to their True Crime™ misery porn anyway.

I was tired of this shit a while ago and I’m starting to outright hate it now.

If society as we know it putters along for a few more centuries there’s a significant chance that actually becomes the focus of a new religion.

I’m polarizing, both in a good and a bad way, and I always have been.

No matter where I’ve been or what I’ve been doing, people tend to remember me. I’ve ran into teachers decades after I was in their classrooms and they instantly called me by name and remembered something I said or did in class. Same thing with old jobs. When I started teaching, some of the office staff instantly said “welcome back!”

Even casual acquaintances seem to pick me out quickly. Last week a random person I admittedly didn’t remember myself said “I remember you at Borders” (back when that bookstore chain existed) and remembered an argument I made and how heated it got about what was (at the time) my controversial opinion that refinancing mortgages was a very bad idea and the fact they were so aggressively pushed on TV was a sign that the entire thing was going to go tits-up. That person remembered my opinion because they were mad at me for saying they were making a mistake… and they wound up being between one house they couldn’t sell when the recession started and another house they could no longer afford to pay for that they were trying to move in to.

I didn’t hold that over their head; actually I was glad they crawled out of that mess and were doing better. It’s harder to be mad at people in person.

But as part of my revenge against The Mouse.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Discovery too. It’s an empire built off the spectacle of sociopathic greedy assholes (both on the shows and in the boardroom).

The DeSant!s supporters I know think it’s, quote, based that he wants war with Mexico.

It shows how terrifyingly bloodthirsty @[email protected] liberals are when they want DeSant!s over