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“annex” in the sense of “🥺️👉️👈️”

what people get from foreign invasions is a change of government, so they often even support this. but i doubt canada would be up for it, considering how much stress it could bring to them.

actual example from real life might be how the soviet russia defeated the nazi germans when the germans invaded.

they didn’t kill the german soldiers directly, instead they stalled them, cut off their food supply and then basically waited 3 weeks for the german soldiers to either freeze to death or starve to death.

the thing is that according to their view, what’s currently happening isn’t a “tyrannical government” but something they needed or something.

just like animals need to keep circulating blood to stay alive, so does the economy need to continue circulating consumer goods and products. without it, it’s dead and becomes worthless rather rapidly.

basically, the economy has a stark interest in keeping consumerism running. that’s in fact such a large interest that it even justifies taxing the rich and redistributing money sothat it can flow in circles (from bottom to top, from top to bottom).

The research shows that - while engineers think AI makes them more about 20% more productive - it actually causes an approximate 20% slow-down.

AI cannot use logic or reason. Everything it outputs is a hallucination, even if it’s sometimes accurate. You cannot trust anything it outputs.

Research shows that - while people think having more people in the household gets the housework done faster - babies actually cause an approximate 100% increase in time spent on housework.

Children cannot use logic or reason. Everything they output is brabbling, even if it sometimes resembles actual works. You cannot trust anything they say. Parents are stupid for having them. (/s)

Developers see AI as a “child” that might need many years to grow up, but it’s still worth all the trouble they go through. It’s an emotional choice, not a rational one.

You’re absolutely right!

I completely messed up the picture. It should be the other way around. Do you want me to correct my mistake and generate a new picture?

/s

Make no mistake, a civil war is coming, trump is building his own private army (ICE) and now he’s getting his intelligence services ramped up. this can’t be good.

while i understand your approach, your ideas might not be enforceable.

what if the offender is located in some other country where there are no sexual offense laws? i’m not so sure on the details but such a location certainly exists. then you can’t really get them out of the way. but on the other hand, the internet has no real borders so they can still connect to the rest of the world.

essentially, some kind of content-warning system needs to be established for certain platforms that are not guaranteed clean. this might affect gaming platforms, such as roblox. either they implement better quality controls or they don’t get a “clean”-label.

parents can then set a checkbox that allows their children’s computer to only show “clean” content.

why not sue Intel for making a processor that allowed the game to be played and discord to be used?

actually, lots of people are taking this approach

actually, restricting what operating system you can run on your smartphone is exactly that. you can only run stock android/iOS (if you don’t want a whole lot of other stresses) and those in turn restrict what apps you can run on them …

it’s not a good way, let me tell you, i just wrote an article about why this is so bad yesterday (it’s not finished yet or i’d post it here)

to sum it up: we need generic computing devices (“general purpose computing device”) that you can run any software on. (this includes installing any operating system you want trouble-free). there’s philosophical background to that idea, including “the software must act in the interest of the user, and since the hardware can’t know the user’s interest, it must be open to any software”.

right now, android/apple phones are not that. they’re targeted at one specific operating system. we need a label “general purpose computing device” that is applied as an attestation of good quality to phones that can run any operating system (trouble-free). this especially includes unlocking and re-locking the bootloader.

possibly this isn’t for everyone, but it should at least be a possibility. :D

democratically elected truth ™

It’s not so much the import tariffs (I’m all for import tariffs, but the money the government raises through them should be re-distributed to the people.)

It’s the fact that the government and the rich keep siphoning wealth off the consumer class, through taxes (import tariffs) and as company profits. Obviously, the consumer class has less money that way, so consumerism stalls. And that’s what damages the economy.

In other words, the government needs to redistribute the tax money to the consumers. Consumers should get handouts so the economy can keep running.

[The USA has always had] a perennial problem with violent crime. […] And the reason it cannot be stopped is that the people, both the population at large and those who are supposed to be in charge, do not want it to stop whatever they may claim.

If they sincerely wanted to put an end to it, they could do so in a moment of reasonable consensus. […]

100% exactly. This is all an expression of the people’s will, at least of those people who are even active at all. I’ve written a comment recently that a large part of the US see themselves as warriors who would rather die on the battlefield than rot away in Hel, the place of eternal boredom where nothing ever happens.

The same is happening in the US today. People lose a sense of vision for the future, and without that vision, people are left to rot in their own non-meaningful life. We need to find a new vision for the future, and fast.

All power comes from the people. All constructs of law and money are effectively paperwork, just inventions by humans because they were considered useful at the time of implementation.

Just like paper has no real power and depends only on the one who interprets it, the same is true for the law and even for money. It’s all based on our collective will to recognize and acknowledge these concepts.

Any way, the paperwork we’ve done (including the books we’ve written) is the actual American dream. The american dream isn’t to buy a house or sth, but to do so in a certain state of mind. I.e. you want to adhere to a great system that makes sense somehow, and be a part of it. That’s why we need to develop new systems, new paperwork, that inspires the people, like a dream, they want to be part of it. That is the key to making a system last.

I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them

Killing them won’t do any good, if you kill one, another one takes their place. You gotta tax them, because that affects them all equally, so it’s not just “pop one, another appears” game.

The UK is a dumpster fire. The UK is literally mini-US, it’s all neoliberals hard-working “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” guys. (And by “guys” i don’t just mean biological men, this is not a gender issue.)

if you really think friends are bloatware, you gotta install the newest update to your operating system.

is NE north east?

goat, pig, whatever, as long as it has meat and you can eat it 😋