The government doesn’t want you to know this but if you take raw milk and heat it gently for a brief period of time, it becomes safe to drink.

I was on a submarine for 8 years and I fucking love sitting at a desk that stays level.

It’s called Egypt.

The guy who thought that verse from Pulp Fiction was real said that? As if he has any credibility after that.

It goes quite well in a drink called “The Last Word”. It’s 1 part gin, 1 part green Chartreuse, and 1 part maraschino liqueur.

Rain happens without thunder all the time tho

More like “life is a Piss-on” amirite

I program for ships (the water kind) and buddy, you ain’t seen nothin’. I’m talking server infrastructure from 1991. Spaghetti code from the 80’s. I had a program that had to run on a dos box, and we had to replace the whole thing because the original developer fucking DIED and no one could read his shit.

Payday loans already do this.

Came here to say this. It holds up really well and remains relevant.

I guess we all “teleport” to Waffle House from time to time.

AI does not have motivation, sentient thought, or any awareness of what it’s doing. It is a program using a computational principle to predict text in response to an input. It’s no more capable of thought than a program like GTA V.

Any apparent motivation attributed to AI is actually the motivation of the people invoking it. When individuals claim that AI is compelling them toward a certain action, they are, in reality, using AI as a vehicle to launder their own selfish desires and making those desires appear more objective, rational, or socially acceptable than they truly are. In other words, AI is propaganda. It provides a convenient mask for human agendas, as you say.

The second thing is actually pretty easy to answer. The same people from the first part of your answer have also been using their outsized power and influence to erode the power and influence of unions over time. Many actions taken by European unions would be considered illegal in America and met with violent state oppression. While Europe has maintained many of their labor rights from the turn of the 20th century, America’s labor rights have been rolled back to almost before the new deal. Most unions barely have the right to strike, and even when they can that power is exceptionally limited. Basically any effective labor action in the US would require people to accept that they are breaking the law, and will likely die, sustain life altering injury, or go to jail for it. Since most Americans that would benefit from strong unions are living in oppressive poverty to begin with they either see the risks of illegal labor action as too large, or have been propagandized against it.

Well if you wanted them you shouldn’t have given them away!

This solution always made sense to me:

Another solution is to place tolerance in the context of social contract theory: to wit, tolerance should not be considered a virtue or moral principle, but rather an unspoken agreement within society to tolerate one another’s differences as long as no harm to others arises from same. In this formulation, one being intolerant is violating the contract, and therefore is no longer protected by it against the rest of society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance?wprov=sfla1