Oh look, the problem continues to be capitalism doing what capitalism does.
I am shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.
Oh look, the problem continues to be capitalism doing what capitalism does.
I am shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.
Literally the most hilarious thing I've read all week. Honestly I wonder if anyone who was involved in this article actually believes that.
It just reads like more placation of the angry masses. "no need to burn things down, we promise he will be gone soon, no protesting necessary either"
The day an automated system reduces my pay for socializing all of 3 seconds to myself is the day I begin welding steel plates to a bulldozer and go for a drive through upper mansgemt offices.
Armed minorities are harder to oppress.
Organized armed minorities make governments afraid.
Make no mistake, this is yet another message, "we do not care about you or your struggles". Listen when they tell you they won't protect you.
I love when people say they feel dumb because they didn't know something, because then I get to share xkcd with them, too.
A balrog? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Located entirely within the confines of the walkway leading from the crack of doom?
It kind of reads like the thought process of someone who just woke up, too.
For OTHERS, yes. But many want the cutting edge for themselves, at no cost to themselves.
I always see people commenting on stories like this with things like "how does anyone actually believe that/think anyone will believe that?"
Well, that's exactly the point. It's not about the death being convincingly accidental. It's very much about sending a message to others.
You don't eliminate the competition and agitators with the exact same method of execution for 30+ years (with a few false-flag apartment bombings thrown in for good measure) and expect to keep things covert.
The only way they could make it more obvious is the "he hogtied himself, ate a cyanide capsule, jumped out the window and shot himself twice in the back of the head on the way down" trope.
If
Data = current AI
Then
Modern lifeforms = aerobic bacterium,
Modern flip Smartphones = Motorola Microtac,
SR-71 = Wright Model B,
Rimac Never = Ford Model A.
Comparing Data to modern ai is just an insult to Data.
Ew gross.
This guy doesn't have a shirt on!
Be pantsless like a normal person.
Clearly you've never met someone like my wife.