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Our new sucker-tentacled overlords.

+1 Insightful

It seems like most big changes are set in motion by elites who benefit from them, with the teeming masses convinced a) to go along and b) that they’re driving. Historically this could be because elites have had a pulpit, either from holding office or having access to publishing and more recently broadcasting. In really recent times the masses finally got access to a broad audience via the Internet, but since they mostly use it to post boobs and complain about game companies, elites are still in the driver’s seat.

It’s possible that being led around by a privileged few is just how humans work, and it’s up to enlightened individual elites to make parts of the world better for short periods while they’re alive.

That actually sounds like a good personal motto. For a long time mine has been, “There’s always more than one way,” but you’ve got me thinking.

lol thanks, and that’s actually not surprising.

No, the salutes happen after people already let it die.

How does one figure that out? I’ve seen Harris supporters generally called centrists, and centrists compared with nazis.

America is a big place, and how people will react to you depends entirely on where you go. Racial incidents increased after Trump took office in 2016 and they probably will again now, but in general you’re totally safe.

“All your ideas are ours and you owe us money for thinking them” is actually a good summary of anti-AI sentiment.

Oh good point, tbh I didn’t even remember it was also MLK day - but I thought that a National holiday? Maybe only in “woke” blue states IDK.

Nice projection - those of us who voted for Harris even though she wasn’t ideal aren’t mature adults who tried to prevent the situation we’re in now, we’re just centrist nazis with our heads in the sand! Keep telling yourselves that when the SWAT team assaults your Moral Purity pedestal. The truth is that we actually tried and you didn’t.

But a living human artist also learned to draw dancing cows and roombas on the moon that way. It just didn’t take thousands.

My question is why this logic doesn’t apply to anybody who learns anything and goes on to use that knowledge in their work without explicit permission. For example, authors generally learn to be good authors by reading the work of other good authors. Do they morally owe all past authors a share of whatever money they make?

Honest opinion: IDGAF where people login. Market share is for corporations to worry about.

IMO we’re here because of the 10 million Democrats who voted for Biden in 2000 and refused to show up in 2024. Bonespurs only won by a little over 2 million. Harris should have kicked his ass, but oh now, she “supports genocide”. Last week the long, difficult Gaza ceasefire negotiation process finally paid off. Funny how nobody’s talking much about it.

They can indoctrinate for a while, but education (as opposed to vocational training) inherently encourages critical thinking skills that make people progressively more resistant to the indoctrination.

Investing in education is the mark of a rising nation. Imposing lifelong debt for it is the mark of a falling one.

By “new aristocracy” I think you mean “entrenched aristocracy getting worse”.

If you ask a question and you say, “but don’t say the answer,” you’re just asking for an echo chamber.

Somehow the myth that you can’t file a missing persons report until 24 hours is still going strong.