AP should not be printing the regime’s lies - the US does not believe the ICC has become politicized.

The republican regime wants to continue committing and supporting crimes against humanity and they don’t want to be treated like the criminals they are.

My partner has been in some child free communities and i saw a lot of people hating on kids. Most of the stories she’d relay were about kids being annoying with minimal mention of their parents.

My old boss was super into those groups and would post just vile, hateful stuff about kids.

I do think that child free groups are mostly about hating kids, in practice.

Her lawyers have said she suffers from bipolar disorder

I was waiting for it, and there it is, very last line of the article.

This is clearly the behaviour of someone havinga mental health crisis

Digging stick

All new things are just existing things put together or modified very slightly.

People talk about iphones being this moment of ingenuous creation, but we already had phones, mobile phones, webcams, texting, predictive text, applications, touch screens, mobile web browsers, mobile games, video calling, etc. Even the concept was fairly well-trod in fiction. There was literally new about the first smartphone.

A hafted spear is an incredible innovation, but we already had fully wooden spears, sharp rocks, string and adhesive resins before we put them together. Like a smart phone, that tool opens up new options and lifeways that weren’t viable before, though not a single input is new.

because it literally can’t innovate.

I was with you 100% until this. “Innovation” is super easy. It will always be easy to extrapolate new things from existing things. People just over-romanticize “innovation” as some kind of magic.

I think chances are good that human produced newness will be on average more useful, complete and safe.

Belief that heirarchies are natural and desirable because some people are better than others is the worldview required to be vulnerable to the lie of fascism, it’s the precursor to all supremacist thinking.

If you look at opinion polling across countries, die-hard support for supremacist candidates hovers around 25-40%. Die hard as in will support those candidates no matter how poorly they’re doing. Support levels wax and wane as anxiety goes up and down, or as supremacist candidates tend to be winning or losing, but the core support base for authoritarian ideals routinely comes out around 25-40% across most western countries.

hierarchy and order

I don’t believe these two go together, heirarchies tend to be characterised by tension and discord.

highly authoritarian individual will be the first to volunteer when someone needs to run into a burning building to save someone … to volunteer … to organize

It’s actually the exact opposite! The phenomenon of Elite Panic is well established and included in disaster planning.

During an emergency, most people exhibit “spontaneous self organisation” - bucket lines, food distribution, search parties, etc. Whereas people with authority are much more likely to freak out, to fail to understand that the situation is different, to enforce detrimental rules, to feel threatened, to generally act badly.

For sure it’s more effective with entreched heirarchies, bit i think it’s possible to use that organisational structure without it metastisizing into a perminant heirarchy. Anarchist federations do this, sortition is useful, turn-taking etc.

societies that did not have hierarchy

I don’t believe such a thing ever existed. Other mammals display heirarchies so it was probably present in a distant ancestor, predating humans and our societies.

It’s the nature, duration and intensity of heirarchy that has changed so remarkably in the last 15k odd years.

I don’t think it’s ingrained and then rejected, i think it’s present in some % of humans because heirarchic organisation is useful in limited, temporary contexts.

Pirate ships were feircely egalitarian until a target was sighted, then the captain is a dictator until the loot was secure. Some hunter-gatherers had a season of authoritarianism (say, hunting season) in between seasons of different social organisation.

So like how sickle cell anemia is debilitating but grants near immunity to malaria, heirarchophilia has just enough limited benefits that it remains as a variant within the population.

Or that’s how i think about it.

These heirarchies caused or exaserbated just about every major tragedy in history - war, genocide, slavery, rape, empire, colonialism, capitalism, etc.

But depending on how you look at it, 25-40% of humans just like heirarchies and want them, despite the misery they cause for both the empowered and disempowered.

That’s a huge problem - fascism will likely always have a base of supporters to come back from no matter how many times we defeat it, and you just can’t imprison/disenfranchise/exile that high a % of people for a wide variety of obvious reasons.

I fear this is a “this is who we are as an organism” problem that will follow our species wherever we go.

Check out the british version of HIGNFY! I’ve enjoyed the US one a lot, but the british one is even better.

I often find myself thinking that, but i suspect the truth is more complicated. I’d guess the situation at cnn is more nuanced and piecemeal than just being straight up complicit.

controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads

Even after being banned from the press pool, cnn insists on calling something that is openly illegal ‘controversial’.

Exactly. Previously it would be some rich right wing lunatic trying to get the president to fire the nukes, now-a-days the rich right wing lunatic builds a machine to do it.

Exactly. Anthropic are notorious for pretending to be terrified of claude to hype up how powerful their product is. This unsourced rumor smells like marketing.

Producing a correct answer doesn’t imply comprehension, using the word “solve” doesn’t imply comprehension. Computers have been “solving” math problems for decades.

There is no attribution of comprehension implied in that phrase.

Ugh this BS marketing ploy is unfortunately clever.

Matt berry’s a perfect choice, you summon him with the shout: Eye Kee Ah, there’s an alan wrench sword and a meatball helm. The ikea/sweden/viking/nord connection is there, and so is the encumberance/home clutter connection.

Is there anything more american the embarassingly losing an unneccesary war with a much smaller opponent?

How the hell is that supposed to work?

It’s not. Even he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

He’s just a senile old man giving voice to passing thoughts.