I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • Just so that I get this out while it’s fresh on my mind, what’s wrong with the internet right now is cyberfeudalism.

    The internet is essentially an infinite world, so no matter how much the large companies gobble up, we’ll always be able to go somewhere else.

    That being said, it gets really fucking exhausting to move over and over again to different apps and different locations just so to talk to people without some greedy, megalithic corporation there, snooping on everything you say and ingesting your words to feed some abomination intelligence simulation or to figure out the best way to sell you a new pair of fucking socks.

    All of that being said, I’m just saying it fucking sucks to continuously be a refugee, and what sucks about apps and companies and programs that end up selling out for a dollar is that if you don’t emmigrate to a new platform, you become nothing.



  • There is an etymology word joke that says something along the lines of, “if “pro” is the opposite of “con”, then is the opposite of “congress” “progress”?”

    And if you don’t know etymology, then that seems to make sense.

    When you break down the word Congress, you get the prefix con and the root word gress, con means with, and gress means step, so it means to step with or to walk with.

    The opposite of walking with someone is to walk apart from someone, so, the actual opposite of congress would be digress, and the opposite of progress would be regress.

    Etymology is great at ruining jokes, but it’s also great at helping you understand what words mean and why they mean them.



  • That would be something like an AI technocracy where the AI owns itself and is considered as a living human being for all intents and purposes.

    If the AI’s continued existence was predicated on them ruling fairly and maximizing happiness without causing any kind of like asimovian technocratic exterminations, then you might have a chance at something working like that.

    The problem is the people who think they are smart enough to pull off such a specific combination of events to make something like that possible are not smart enough to pull it off and will kill us all if given the opportunity.








  • Yeah, isn’t that what everyone wants?

    A website where you talk to people and a robot with no oversight shows up and changes what you say, or silences you, or prevents you from talking to certain people.

    At the same time though, I don’t care if billionaires play rock and sock em robots with companies. It just kind of sucks for the people that work at those companies, being tools of a game for rich people to play.