I really enjoy Harpo’s anime-like brooding pose

homer patting Bart on the shoulder meme

The most successful method so far!

Even amidst all the other insane news, this stands out as a remarkable and even surprisingly bad leap forward. It’s not like I consented, like when people put trackers in their car for insurance discounts. I’m literally just going out into public, and that gives a company the right to record and analyze me and my car and report me to the police? I don’t even get the chance to sign up to opt-out, which even that would be fucked up? And of course the algorithms could be anything - going to gay bars, going to libraries, etc.

It really does feel like a lazy too-on-the-nose name from a sci-fi dystopia writer who REALLY wants to make sure you get the point that the company is evil. It just sounds creepy without even getting into the obvious connotations.

Also their website looks like it was inspired by the evil company from that Watchdogs game.

Idk. This particular thing is bad enough that I’m not sure it’s meant to be a distraction. Trump is up to other actually bad things besides distracting from the files. Like, at this point I feel like if Trump went on live TV and declared himself dictator for life people would be like “nice try distracting us from the Epstein files!”. At some point he ain’t distracting, he’s just getting back to his main tasks

At this risk of making pointlessly technical and obscure what is already elegantly represented by this nice rhetorical question in the post, this was interesting enough that I cannot resist. It is interesting to model sexual “orientation” as not a position along some axis but rather as a vector in a high dimensional space of many axes, none of which are mutually exclusive. This is a much more intuitively fitting model indeed

I don’t know if I like assuming that obedience is a genetically heritable trait. I’ve heard racists use this assumption to argue that racially Chinese people are more likely to be sneaky servile backstabbers because that’s what their genetics are selected for due to their political past.

Controversial statement incoming: I also don’t want to preemptively rule out the possibility of obedience, or anything else, being genetically heritable - even if it could lead to these uncomfortable conclusions. I think scientific studies should be done about such things to answer the questions of whether these personality traits are heritable, come what may of that knowledge. But to my relief, from the studies I’ve seen, personality traits heritability is on very shaky ground in most cases.

I was just yesterday talking to someone about how AI drones, specifically exactly AI drones, will be a pivotal piece of technology in a way I think even beyond nukes in some sense. With a decent AI drone swarm, it’s not hard to imagine a SINGLE person dominating an entire population. The dictator’s purest dream - none of those pesky military generals getting uppity.

Idunno, did you read the process? Also, butter is arguably a processed food anyways. They’re synthesizing real fat molecules. My understanding is that it is chemically, truly fat.

Yes, they aren’t trying to make an alternative butter substitute as I understand it. They’re trying to make real butter via a purely chemically synthetic process.

Finally I will sleep well again

“AI slop” slop

I kept not being sure if you meant this seriously, but if you do, I would love to share the good word of my Lord and Savior charcuterie with you. Otherwise I will keep my mouth shut (it’s about more than presentation though, although that is a part of it)

What do you mean by dox here? I usually think of dox as being, real name, real address, etc. But I’m having trouble seeing how even my Lemmy instance admin could figure that out about me.

I hate to beat this very dead horse, but tacky is the thing that least jumps out at me here. I mean. This literally looks like Nazi decor. The eagles, the frowning busts, the ornateness, like…

Leave it to nytimes to push such a simplifying, party-lines division dumbass narrative. No, it’s rich people fucking over poor people, as per always. But we can’t publish that!

HATE. UNBRIDLED HATE. NO FATE IS TOO BAD FOR THIS SCUM. REEE

The virgin Bao Fan vs the chad Shumai Enjoyer

(I’m sorry)

Please do not associate my beloved charcuterie with this behavior 😔🙏

You’re not alone. Nuance is just harder to convey, takes more effort to post something nuanced. And so people do it less, myself included. But I think truthfully that many people are not so stuck in one or the other circlejerks. It’s lovely to see people in this thread who are annoyed by both.