A “Ministry of Truth” only works when a force controls all the information and, if global sources of information are controlled the discussion feels moot (from a “putting checks to the government” standpoint).

And absolutely. Corporations legally being people and being “entitled” to “free speech using money” has to be obliterated. It’s farcical on its face and enables billionaires to multi-dip on stealing from the populace by siphon away their money and then using those immorally-obtained funds to have an outsized representation as the discretionary force of corporations.

You know how corporations can have a voice? By the people who work in that corporation voting like they already are able to do. That’s it.

Huh. You were right: you do fall to doomerism quickly.

I cannot be arsed to disassemble someone else’s “shit’s fucked” mentality this early in the morning, and I refuse to have unearned, foreign ennui stinking up my headspace.

What I said wasn’t for Democrat talking points in the next debates. They were things to hammer into the new laws if the government is ever reforged.

No, if you say inflammatory shit that leads to deaths then it doesn’t matter if you didn’t mean to. Politicians should be afraid to speak if their words can kill and disenfranchise.

We don’t have to fall into pits of objective truth. If you say something, be perfectly explicit about what is a factual statement and what is your opinion. If you’re making a factual statement, have a source and make sure the source is credible. Or face penalties when your bunk is debunked.

Science has already tread the path of “attempting to find truth through the consensus of doubts”. No need to try and trailblaze.

There needs to be legal and political repercussions for politicians lying or misrepresenting the truth. Doesn’t matter if they didn’t mean to, then they should’ve done better research.

I imagine things would be better if all that fillibuster time was converted into them carefully choosing what to say.

I don’t think that young but I wouldn’t put anything past anymore.

I refuse to amplify that. Sounds like Cyberpunk “gonk and choomba” nonsense.

I’ll call them “comm(s)” as Izanagi intended.

That’s a bad adage; I wouldn’t claim that as a true thing most people believe.

The internet proves again, that you will always be able to find someone who shares your (degenerate) opinion.

If Rita wanted this monster to grow, all she had to do was back that dumpy up.

Edit: for the life of me, I can’t figure out how I’d relocate the video, so take this with as much salt aa you deem necessary

I’m sorry I can’t recall but there was a pretty in-depth Youtube video I watched that went into Fetterman’s career. Posited he’s always just wanted the democratic clout but he’s a nepo-baby with conservative leanings deep-down.

I didn’t downvote but I think the “something more is going on with him” has a nefarious tone and seems unwarranted for something as innocuous as not wanting to share a bed with a new partner inside her parents’ home.

This is nostupidquestions, so I would expect somewhat serious answers. This does not seem like a serious answer.

How does this fix the government?

Edit: I realized that is a US-centric question. Allow me to modify it.

How does that fix anything?

I mean, yeah, sure. But if perfection is two steps to the left and you refuse…why?

You want to have a non-final product write the training for the next level of bot? Sure, makes sense if you’re stupid. Why did all these companies waste time stealing when they could just have one bot make data for the next bot to train on? Infinite data!

How is that weird? You can be fine with suboptimal stuff, and recognize it’s suboptimal. Some people like their relatives and wished they could talk together more readily. Letters were just the fastest (while economical) method of doing that for a while.

No, “coding” to “cooking” is accurate because an unfortunate minority of people make code that makes the “microwave meal” look appetizing. Vibe coding can look like code and not work, while I’ve seen code that neither looks nor, in fact, is “edible”.

Oh boy! He looks so tired! How wonderful

That was probably their revision. I’m certain the first draft said “(fried chicken, watermelon, Kool-aid, etc.)”

“When you’ve only seen Boss Baby, all other movies get related to Boss Baby.”

For some people, their induction to civil rights (and blatant civil rights abuses) has been the recent, overt pushback against neurodivergence or the LGBT+.