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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • I have bad news. The democrats have been controlled opposition the whole time. They’re just there to be like “oh noooo you gotta vote for US or the big bad THEM is gonna get you” but you do remember how absolutely spineless they’ve been since Trump right? “Oh we gotta work across the isle, guys, we gotta follow the norms guyssss the parliamentarian, guyssss”

    They will leave in place everything Trump has done and let it normalize. They are the cooling of the lava before the next eruption, but the coastline is forever pushed right, the land forever charred, and there is no time for Pele to restore the life force before the next eruption. The cycle has become too accelerated.








  • I don’t have the article but basically when the rich aren’t taxed proportionally, their wealth and therefore power grows, while the lower classes get squeezed harder as they must give up a greater portion of their wealth in order to fund the obligations toward said infrastructure that keeps the whole machine running.

    When used inappropriately, they are one piece of the larger system that funnels all the wealth upwards at the expense of everyone and everything else.





  • Well hopefully it will be the start of actions, but I don’t have high hopes.

    Going immediately to counter-assault gives ammo to the freaks who think their actions are justified and they will escalate. Same with the IDF after Oct 6th, same with the US government after gestures broadly literally everything since WWII.

    Real responsibility means making a statement first. Real courage means following through if you get a response you don’t like.

    The first action they took was the correct one. I have little faith they’ll find the courage to take the second one (but I’d love to be proven wrong)


  • In addition to what everyone else has said, they’re doing all this not-useful work replacing humans with unrealistic hype, but to do it they’re using up SO MUCH natural resources it’s astonishing.

    They have caused chip shortages. They are extracting all the natural water from aquifers in an area for cooling and then dumping it because it’s no longer potable. Microsoft and Google are talking about building nuclear power plants dedicated JUST to the LLMs.

    They are doing this all for snake oil as others have pointed out. It’s destroying the world socially, economically, and physically. And not in a “oh cars disrupted buggy whips” kind of way; in a “the atmosphere is no longer breathable” kind of way.