My son graduated with a perfect 4.0 in a 5 year accelerated masters degree program in computer science. He got out just in time for the AI bullshit and has gotten exactly one interview and no offers in two years of applying everywhere. I’m so proud of the work he put in and so pissed that he got royally fucked over. If the job market even comes back I’m afraid he won’t be able to compete with fresh graduates with nothing but a big gap in his resume.
To be fair, that’s exactly the kind of picture that would pop into my head given that prompt. Try to imagine that your nose doesn’t itch.
Because clearly I meant that literally. /s
Cutting USAID funding is projected to kill over 10 million people, most of them kids. Compared to that, an elementary school is almost insignificant.
The story of the Epstein files is the story of how we got where we are. No matter where it falls on the death and destruction scale, it is critical to understanding that pedophile sociopaths rule the world.
I do know our history, and in October 1962 the odds of nuclear war were less than the odds of a climate apocalypse today, because they weren’t 100%.
As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet?
Yet? No. But he is on course. The estimated number of deaths from his illegal USAID cuts is actually 14 million by 2030. That’s one policy. I expect that number will be dwarfed by the long term impacts of his environmental policy. Then we have the pending excitement in Iran to worry about. A nation of 93 million people can throw at least a few million more lives on the pyre before all is done.
Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen. Climate change is an apocalypse that is happening.
Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.
Must be federated weirdness.
Absolutely fair, but I did delete my comment about 30 seconds after making it after noticing the mistake.
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Today the mob has merged with the financial elites. Crime pays better when it’s legal.
It’s almost like the gang thing was all bullshit.
Pretti literally had a handgun in his wasteland. Lots of people on the left have guns. Also, based on polling and recent special elections, lots of right wingers are getting fed up with ICE too.
It’s absolutely astounding to me that nobody has started using these freaks for target practice. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, but it’s damn odd. Of course that doesn’t keep them from playing the victim.
I think it’s some form of Stockholm syndrome that people bound up in that ecosystem just love being pounded in the ass by Microsoft.
The existence of cameras and the linking of those cameras to a central monitoring system are two very different things. Ring cameras are part of that system. Most business and even traffic cameras are not.
As I said, I’m pretty confident I can get anywhere in my small city without being identified, except through tracking of my path that would only be possible because of ring cameras.
I choose to carry my phone in my pocket, and I can choose not to carry it. I can even choose to have someone else carry it north while I go south.
I can go anywhere in my city on foot or a bike and be entirely untracked by anything, except those damn doorbell cameras. At most I might be picked up by a traffic camera or two, but I can do any number of things to not be recognized, but not if they can follow my movements back to my house. Those cameras fill the last gaps of untracked freedom of movement.
You don’t get it. It’s not about just one camera. They have the whole network and can run facial recognition and licence plate readers (that go well beyond just reading plates) across all of it. They don’t just know that you left your house, they can track everywhere you go. Some courts have made that illegal for cops to do, so they just outsourced it.
Your camera is just a small piece, but it’s a piece you control. Nobody should be throwing that shit up to the cloud. It’s incredibly damaging to any kind of civil resistance movement. Stalin could only have dreamed of the kind of mass surveillance that Americans are just freely providing to our oligarchy. It’s fucking dumb.
That ring camera is still absolutely a privacy threat, if not to you, than to your neighbors. Ring is partnering with flock on mass surveillance with facial recognition. That camera belongs to ICE just as much as it belongs to you, if not more since they can have AI “watch” it 24x7.
Anybody who calls themselves a libertarian without specifying “left” or “socialist” is a right winger. There are no exceptions.
Have you considered starting a revolution? That’s where my mind is these days.