BremboTheFourth

While the letters are adjacent, I don’t think that was a typo. “Finna” is pretty common slang, just a variant of “gonna”

I think the problem isn’t echo chambers as a concept, but as a constant. Having a space where you feel welcomed is so important, and the magic of the Internet has always been that if you can’t find that space IRL, you can probably still find it online. But corporations have realized that a feedback loop of things people want to hear is the best way to keep people on and looking at ads, so that’s what they push. It’s gotten to a point where the sites that most people spend the vast majority of their time on will automatically, algorithmically create those echo chambers with no option to turn them off. Many of them will refuse to serve any content at all if you try to log out or view things through a VPN. And it’s that enforcement of echo chambers that is really so dangerous.

they do not have nearly enough people to demand obedience

Depends on who’s in charge of the bombs and drone swarms. I honestly think the only reason society still exists as we know it is that none of the conservatives are yet fully confident that they have complete, unquestioning control of the arsenal. We’re living in an era where it really only takes a few hundred people, maybe a few thousand, to kill millions. Hundreds of millions. Billions if they start using nukes. What do they care if they take out the people who kept the weapons working? These psychos would only have to use them once and then they’d have power feudal lords and kings could only dream of.

As horrible and inhumane as the US was during wars like Iraq and especially Vietnam, we were still constrained on some level. No matter how indiscriminately our troops were allowed to murder civilians, ultimately, indiscriminate killing wasn’t the main order coming down from very top. When Vietnam finally got so unpopular that even manufactured consent wasn’t cutting it for public support, we pulled out, instead of glassing the country and leaving as few survivors as possible. Again, not that Vietnam was in any way a moral war; I don’t want to minimize how many firebombs we dropped on innocent people, but there was some limit. Hell, even Russia has so far limited itself in how far it’ll go in trying to conquer Ukraine.

But… I’m not sure that’ll be the case for much longer if these fascists are allowed to continue to control the levers of power.

Luckily they’re all backed by billionaire investors so they can afford to see the frivolous suits through. The self-censorship is something they do by design, not a response to any actual threat.

Honestly, those aren’t that much crazier than thinking smoking and drinking are somehow good for you. If this goes on, it’s only a matter of time.

Definitely document. You interrupt, they’ll just remove you or make a new group chat and move on. Document and disseminate.

My city’s been changing so much as of late that I often get this feeling just going places that I haven’t seen for over 5 years. All people talk about is how much construction is happening over in the bougie part of town (most of which was farmland like 30 years ago), but damn if the rest of the city isn’t seeing redevelopment too. We’re not like a super popular or populous city either so I have no idea where all this cash is coming from

That’d be… nice… but no. When it come to homophobia, people hate what they don’t understand and then come up with reasons to justify it, not the other way around.

holy fuck i love fortnite I love fortnite I lo

Or perhaps all lasagnas are ssndwiches

Flour, water, salt, yeast, all checks out to me

Depends on topping orientation. Top pizza needs to be upside down to be a sandwich/calzone; if it’s right side up it’s a lasagna

Even then I’d say “whitewashed” more than actually being white. Many Romans would have had skin dark enough that they wouldn’t be considered white by today’s standards

i think it has more to do with what color skin people think they had and not how advanced they actually were…

Pickled longburger

Judging by the way they spelled “teeny,” I can’t help but wonder if they might also be familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet

The amount of energy being spent on any basic social media services is completely dwarfed by what it takes to run generative algorithms.

why on earth am i being downvoted? you really think the energy expenditure required to save and serve text comes anywhere near what it takes to run an LLM?

leave it to tarantino to understand that [spider man needs to start saying the n word] (https://youtu.be/64SoFWJHSd8?t=350)

Ehh being annoyed at someone else for being an asshole isn’t equivalent to being annoyed that someone else exists. You don’t seem hypocritical to me

how did my parents miss my neurodivergence i have no idea

90% of the time it’s willful ignorance. That or (assuming you’re in the US) not having the means to pay for treatment, so it’s easier to not get a diagnosis in the first place.