With almost no exceptions, all of the economic (and much of the social) misery the middle and lower class suffer today can be traced back to the Reagan years.
And the rich have so much of the money and the power now, it will be virtually impossible to reverse.
The rich will convince the middle class that the poor don’t “deserve” the help.
Now you know as well as I do that originally, this meme did not say “foreigner”.
Red Dead Redemption 2 actor Roger Clark has revealed that Arthur Morgan's gnarly coughing fits were actually recorded when he was sick in real life. https://bit.ly/4r3FcbW
ai killing lots of people is indeed a valid concern, but imo it’s less to do with ai’s abilities and more to do with its inabilities.
that is, ai wont kill as a hyper-intelligent murder machine but rather as an incompetent “decision assistant” in fields like health or military target assessment
1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe.
Bryan Johnson, a wealthy tech entrepreneur whose slogan is “Don’t Die,” has called himself “the healthiest person on the planet.” He consumes little meat, but a lot of collagen peptides and supplements in order to defeat mortality. Why is his goal to make it possible to live forever? nyti.ms/4im4Nuj
I finished Deltarune chapter 5 the other day and was watching some lore videos to refresh my memory of the previous chapters and y'all are on a totally different level than me
I'm enjoying these games on a very surface level and I guess the rest of the internet is all Homestuck about it?
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
I did spend like 90 minutes across two sessions to beat the Grand Master Challenge, and only peeked at the DLC challenges before deciding that was enough Astro Bot for a while
I mostly play games on easy mode because spending time being frustrated feels like a waste of my one precious life, but tonight I platinumed Astro Bot and it does feel nice to know I can still conquer frustrating things in games and have a good time
For a while there was a worry that you couldn’t adapt Neuromancer because the concepts behind it are anachronistic but the counter to that is that science fiction is fake as hell and nobody cares if it looks sick.
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People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins.
It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_ lose.
[Picture of a bicycle with a propane tank on it]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k6kg5ccozcphfcmp4zyx3s64/bafkreib4uz5twkhwzeupjyu4d5e7a5cassv6p3djwc3em2j7z4nngysvee "post by @cldellow
People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins.
It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_ lose.
[Picture of a bicycle with a propane tank on it]")
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