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uriel238 , 29 days ago

Godless Groomers

Um, we totally have way more gods than they do, from My orgies are purely chaste Artemis, to Anything that moves, NO EXCEPTIONS Zeus.

uriel238 , 29 days ago

This is why the One Ring needs to go to Gondor, so it will be safe in the hands of good people who mean well and will never be corrupted or succeeded by lesser heirs!

ONE RING TO GONDOR!

uriel238 , 29 days ago

Depending on your state, law enforcement can hire a dude with a drone and a sweet camera array, and do this without a warrant.

You may think this qualifies as unreasonable search as per the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, but some state supreme courts have said nah.

And the US Supreme Court says that if an illegal, warrantless search by law enforcement reveals a crime severe enough, that evidence is admissible anyway, because it would be bad if a severe crime went unpunished.

The severity of that crime: possession for personal use.

This is the United States in the 2020s, not some dystopian fiction.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

The bucket of confetti is a warning to the breach team that they are expected. They do not have the element of surprise and the trap-setter has prepared.

If they proceed, further traps may be more lethal, and the breach team will have only themselves to blame.

This is why we should reintroduce knock-and-talk, so that law enforcement can re-establish their relationship with the public as a mutualist one.

That, or abolish the police for other approaches.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Yeah, I figured before reading this would fly like the nitrogen gas executions that some state penal systems are trying. (As revealed on _Last Week Tonight.) Sure enough it's awful.

Right now, my household is drastically reducing meat as we can (which is made easier by the rising prices of meat). Whether we have good tasty fake meat made out of vegetable matter or cultured meat that was never a full animal, I'll be glad for when it's affordable.

uriel238 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It used to be every American on average committed three felonies a day since breaking webservice TOS was a violation of the CFAA (a maximum of 25 years, so like murder in some states).

But a nice judge recognized in the late 2010s that no one reads those things and there are a lot of odious clauses in tech TOS. So they aren't criminally binding anymore.

That isn't to say we don't routinely commit felonies. We do, and they are generally not prosecuted until the state wants to make someone disappear (say a land developer wants your homstead and your hot spouse) or if someone has already companies angry and needs to pad out their rap sheet.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

I just realized they could totally sell us chocolate statues in gold foil of MLK on MLK day, and commandeer the holiday with more than a weekend sale. And we'd buy them and call that celebrating.

Though the real gay space laser just fancies up the terrain and turns everyone gay in its wake.

That's the conservative nightmare.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

In common leftist theory is known the enemy of the left is the moderate liberal, who wouldn't mind if equality were to happen quietly by magic but is not willing to suffer inconvenience or breaches of the status quo in the process of making change for the better for the whole public.

And yes, a lot of the democratic voter lumpenproletariat fall into this range, where they're willing to buy a rainbow Frappuccino but not suffer from commute slowdown due to a protest.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Fortunately we're making fast advancements in cultured meat. You'll be able to eat chicken raw since cultured chicken doesn't require salmonella to live.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

J. P. Morgan, the man, was so cruelly ruthless and wicked, it really raises the question how people do business with a financial institution named after him.

It's like having a Stalin company or a Kim Il Sung financial company, or a Putin financial company.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Is there content in which Trump has his way with The United States of America?

Trump / GOP would also be on brand and topical.

I often find examples of Rule 34 that should_ exist that don't.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

This is the power of fascist movements. Everyone outside the movement is enemy and deserves no regard. It's about loyalty in accordance to dominance hierarchy. That is to say, the lower ranks are loyal to the upper ranks, though not vice versa.

Eventually everyone in the lower ranks ends up on the undesirables list and packed onto the cattle trains by enforcers from the next tier. The enemy from within narrative helps keep the lower ranks from questioning the cause.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Lobbyists weren't legal until Reagan.

And that's when the United States' train ride to corporate authoritarianism went into high gear.

uriel238 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

This actually may be a good part of a cyberpunk dystopia story:

A desperate loner programmer laces their PDF résumé with the usual batch of AI exploits to get them upsorted. But this time, it includes the parabolic curve batch a fence friend just won in friday night poker when betting got wild.

When the company's bleeding edge HR AI reads the PCB prompt, our coder is put on the top of the must-hire list. Less one.

As per policy in the company. Short-listers are then run through the unofficial openings list (enforcers, launderers, evidence cleaning, culinary accounting, peer diplomacy, etc.) and our coder ends up on top of the list, less one, for every single position.

So, meanwhile, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy while trying to make offerings to certain hedge funds for pushing potential merger. If the merger fails, the company will go bankrupted and get Toys-R-Us'd, and a particular investor who likes to go all Putin on failed minions will choose some of the executive management to make into cautionary examples.

And then there's a couple of high-risk lawsuits which are keeping all the loyalist staff crunching to bury evidence and silencing witnesses the activites of which are keeping them away from their official duties, meaning the executives are going without their handlers keeping them from doing stupid shit.

The HR lady doesn't usually do interviews for special hires. Normally these are supposed to be closely vetted by high-ranking actual human being officers, but all upper management are either overworked or beyond being asked. The nature of the job in question is on a need to know basis, and neither interviewer nor interviewee need to know (allegedly).

Our lowly coder completly wows her with their tired, no-nonsense, street-level candor in contrast to years of corporate-culture double-speak. They get the job. But it is not the job for which they applied in the first place. Though the salary(!) is high and the benefits(!!) are conspicuously swanky.

It's probably better to not ask too many questions yet.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Corporate espionage is so brutal that state operatives run and hide when they learn who it is. Even law enforcement avoids them.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

One places the Pacific Ocean in Saturn, not vice versa.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Guilty as charged.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Huh. The NSA Haiku Generator is now defunct.

It used to be a source of NSA words and phrases of interest.

The point was to end all your correspondence with an NSA Haiku to give them more POI false positives since the NSA shouldn't be in the business of spying, but of making spying impossible through robust internet security.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

I'll add that in the aughts and 2010s if you were sheet white like me, and not an investigative journalist and otherwise had a really boring life it was right and proper to poke at FBI and CIA for profiling people (e.g. Arab American + Muslim = terrorist) by doing behaviors of interest when they shouldn't be surveilling you at all (e.g. in your back yard with their camera drone)

In the International War On Terror are so few true positives (Islamist Terrorists — they didn't care about domestic white power terrorists until 2016) FBI has had to make up terrorists by finding low-intelligence victims that fit their profile and then gaslighting them until they did something terroristy enough to secure a conviction, such as buying some nails for an FBI plant pretending to be a bomb-maker.

So a lot of innocent people are in prison for international terrorism so that FBI could claim to have caught a few.

That said, the watch list and the no-fly list are both bullshit and a miscarriage of justice, since an agent, official or bureaucrat could get you on the lists, restricting your rights for no reason, no due process and there is no reasonable way to get your name off the list.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

What freaked me out were the IV drug dispensers that dialed into wifi for app control (and yes, they're less secure than your roomba).

It'd make a great fictional assassination story if one was commandeered to kill a VIP by morphene or insulin overdose. No such incident has occured yet IRL. But I'm sure it's worth like 20 cyberpunk dystopia points when it does.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

ACAB

I'm remined of the Freikorps militia groups of Weimar Germany that would become the meat-and-potatoes recruits for the Sturmabteilung and early Schutzstaffel of the SS. On their own, The Freikorps served as law enforcement and peacekeepers, typically by disposing of town undesirables and locals in disfavor with the business class. In exchange, they got room and board and pretty much anything else they wanted (including the local womenfolk) since it was a really bad idea to deny them something they wanted.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Could be murderclown.

Could be enslaved Chinese acrobats. Not sure.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

owo face is a symptom of transmissibility.

uriel238 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

This was a Donald Duck comic when I was a kid in the 1970s. The smart inventor (Ludwig Von Drake) was trying to mine gold from the ocean, but the energy cost was too great and so it was done at a loss.

We try this once in a while, and it's still too expensive.

uriel238 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, I see our veterans and fallen as victims rather than heroes, at least since Vietnam, when it was no longer clear we weren't the baddies.

By the time of the Gulf war and the Iraq war, it was clear we were poking our guns into places they didn't belong at costs the US couldn't afford, and we did anyway. And PMCs and torture made it super clear the US was the baddies.

I got closely acquainted with vets with TBIs (being a civilian TBI victim, myself) and the DVI did fuck-all for them, which was a disappointment since solders were coming home IED victims often with TBIs by the tens of thousands (but they survived, which means they weren't counted among our dead). The hope was the military was going to lead the way when it came to treatment and we civvies would ride on the coat-tails. Nope.

And that's how counter-recruitment writes itself.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Sexuality has multiple axes.

1. Intensity
2. Orientation (towards Men, Women, Frogs)
3. Time (people have been known to have straight periods, gay periods, horny periods, ace periods, etc.)

There are probably others that we relate to kink and paraphilia.

So the very gayest person would have to be specifically defined. Which is gayer: the horniest bisexual or the average-libido gay who has absolute-zero-Kelvin interest in the other sex? Or the gay man who is totally in love with (and exclusively devoted to) his hubby and has been this way for fifty years?

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Still annoyed that we still only have a frog face emoji and not a frog animal emoji.

Maybe in 2025?

uriel238 , 1 month ago

I'd argue each of has a gay expression, Gayness can absolutely change in accordance with time.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

So far nothing in the universe has shown to be infinite, hence any material representation of Gabriel's Horn can be painted since paint has a thickness.

The Plank length is the shortest possible distance between two material points. Though at that scale even vacuum is tempestuous.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

This raises the question why AI isn't using the Google index.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Your feelings are valid.

It's not you. It's a society that is falling apart and a government that was not organized in good faith.

It sucks, but we were born into a crappy age, and there's no One Ring we can simply walk into Mordor.

uriel238 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

A vote for Log is a vote against Heron.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Homicide comes from Hominid

Homocidal looks more derived from Homophobia so may be about wanting to kill gays, an extreme form of gay panic

But yeah, it makes me suspect this sample of AI think was fabricated.

uriel238 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I believe they're free to view on the Jack Chick website. Some are removed or edited as they didn't age well with the times.

Lisa is infamous and was turned into a metal song. I am struggling to find the song, though.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Also observe how ghost attacks, vampire snacks and demonic possession go unrepresented in this list. (Bear attacks has its own list. Lightning strikes are a low statistic)

Also curiously absent, death by meteorite — meteorites have punched holes in engine blocks but so far have missed humans — and murder / assassination by hacked IoT device. Intravenous drug dispensors that are connected to the internet are often hooked up with dangerous medications like insulin or morphene, but to date, no one has exploited their poor security to kill someone.

You can be the first!

uriel238 , 1 month ago

It is! The source is dated 2022 and is currently the only credible incident of death by meteor known. I had this coversation last before then.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

I assume cockroaches are named for roosters. Otherwise they'd be codroaches.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Wild fruit (e.g. fruit that hasn't been cultivated though centuries of botany) is trees tricking you to eat its seeds and poop them out in fertilizer. But those seeds tend to be big and wreak havoc with your digestive system.

True Facts gets into all this.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Although any sociologist or veteran of the internet will tell you humans will engage in any exploit that yields a funny result. The Diet Coke + Mentos rule.

And that means we'll actively search for hilarious Google AI responses.

Google is so f double-plus filthy rich, it is obligated to run its projects by experts or be relentlessly mocked. So it should have known this was the outcome.

Unless this is 5D chess and Google is willfilly using itself as a cautionary tale to discourage future webservice sites from arbitrarily inserting AI into its features.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

What came to mind was the New Coke reformation of 1985, which seems like a brilliant idea (in retrospect) only if you imagine it a 5D chess move to get people to panic because the Coke Classic was about to be discontinued. In fact, the marketers of Coca-Cola since admitted they thought they were getting killed by Pepsi and were sincere in their new release, but the company was able to not only recover thanks to responding to public feedback, so they sold Coke Classic, and New Coke and to this day it's a popular soft drink. (The company still does shit things like employing death squads to keep their offshore workers scared of unionizing, so it's still a typical large publicly traded multi-national corporation)

Coca-cola marketing didn't have that kind of foresight, but there's a tiny chance that some folks at Google have that kind of hindsight, knowing Google could absolutely afford a ploy like willfully goofing up and then recovering with aplomb by listening to the public. It's also a way to sneak such a ploy past the shareholders by insisting they were sincere in their implementation of AI at the time.

Unlikely, of course. Most of the time the upper management of big companies are glad to just half-ass everything. But it would make a cool movie at least.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Rock and Stone?

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Is this an example of zoomer humor or alpha humor?

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Most people download things because they want it for free

Which is the original point of IP such as copyright in the first place, to create a robust public domain. We have Mr. Disney to thank for repurposing our IP laws to lock up content so that we plebs can never enjoy anything without paying for it.

Most artists are more interested in their work getting experienced than getting paid each time, but its the industrialists and the ownership class who profits the most (by far) by locking things down, and even they are glad to circumvent licensing for convenience. It appears we all know it's a top-side racket.

Download that bear!

uriel238 , 1 month ago

I was going to say he looks like the evil propaganda version of an enemy leader, but that would be Mother Night.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Rufus, The Demon Core, killed two scientists due to mishandling during criticality experiments. Japan was so afraid of Rufus, Emperor Hirohito surrendered before they could fit Rufus into a third bomb.

I'd argue we don't have any evidence Rufus is not a demon.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

For me it's Deep Rock Galactic and Satisfactory presently, but yeah.

uriel238 , 1 month ago

We fight for Rock and Stone!

uriel238 , 1 month ago

Are they posing? I can't help but wonder if this is like The Secret Life Of Cows, where they get hyper-clinical when a camera is aimed at them, but once the coast is clear they go super-freaky.