Adjusted for purchasing power,

The yuan doesn’t buy $8 worth of commodity or labor on the global market. Crazy that anyone would believe this.

The anti-natalist folks and the pro-natalist folks are clearly in some kind of competition to produce the shittiest ideology imaginable.

Congrats for putting points on your side of the board.

They say AI can’t replace us, but that’s exactly what I’d tell my boss

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On the other hand, I’m not sure most of what we call intelligence in human behavior is any more intelligent than what LLMs do.

Human intelligence is analog and predicated on a complex, constantly changing, highly circumstantial manifestation of consciousness rooted in brain chemistry.

Artificial Intelligence (a la LLMs) is digital and predicated on a single massive pre-compiled graph that seeks to approximate existing media from descriptive inputs.

The difference is comparable to the gulf between a body builder’s quad muscle and a piston.

Real Genius runs on cigarettes, coffee, and cheating on your cousin-wife.

How can we know if the AI is intelligence unless we can prove it is horny?

Asking my TikTok nephew for a loan to cover rent this month and I have to listen to him rap at me for ten minutes before handing over the cash in crypto.

When George Bush Jr was meeting with Vladimir Putin to coordinate the War on Terror across Central Asia, “people” did.

Taking your cold-as-ice schizophrenic friend to the gun range, then treating him like shit.

What could go wrong?

It applies to the entire Western block. You can toss in everyone from the French to the Philippines.

The US just happens to be the folks operating on a global scale. You’ll find American military goons engaged in this kind of wreckless, pointless bloodshed from the coast of Venezuela to the highlands of Yemen.

The only thing that seems to curb their baser impulses is the haunting memory of the horror they committed.

It’s not the soldier with PTSD who should scare you. It’s the sociopath who came back seemingly normal.

Without the imperial dogs, who will protect us from all the scary foreigners who threaten our livelihoods every waking hour?

The Red Dawn! The Yellow Peril! The Antifa Supersoldiers! Save me from them, fascist daddy!

that’s what Russia is doing right now

Russia has been part of the West since Yeltsin shelled the Moscow Parliament into submission.

The Cold War ended 30 years ago. Capitalism won. What we’re experiencing today is post-Soviet imperial powers in a turf war.

NAFO types really hate it when you mention how much JSOC or the Canadian Mounties or Royal Marines have made sexual assault a cornerstone of their organizations.

Don’t ask anyone in Okinawa why the island’s rate of unprosecuted teenage sexual assault is through the roof

The US has given itself permission to invade the Hague before allowing that to happen.

As if no other country does this kind of bullshit.

Most countries can’t conceive of operating at the scale of the US. And a great deal of that military surplus is derived from wealth and labor looted overseas.

You’re stacking up Jeffrey Dalmar against the Enola Gay.

People who have a higher level of Education and have to think for a living are less prone to fall for pure lies + strong displays of emotion

That’s simply not true. Education does not negate emotion. Nor does it negate the consequences of old age or the erosive effect of decades of propaganda. Hell, “education” in the abstract isn’t even well-defined. You get a degree from Liberty University and you’re not going to come out more Woke than some kid with a GED busting ass in the dockworker’s union or organizing Starbucks and Walmart workers.

I believe that has caused something else to emerge from it at a systemic level than what there was before since these people care even less about the possible destruction that their actions might cause since they themselves will never suffer from it.

Definitely not good to see people farther and farther removed from the ramifications of their actions. That said, this is right in line with the 19th century quackery and fly-by-night scams that plagued the laisse-faire economy of the era.

I wouldn’t say its creating a new ideology so much as resurrecting an old one.

It’s targetting mainly the MAGAs because they’re the less intellectually capable population

I’ve seen a flood of “I’m a Palestinian who is struggling to survive, please send me money” posts and PMs on BlueSky and Instagram and other liberal-leaning social media. Folks love to believe their team is the “smarties” and the opposition is the “dummies”. Nobody likes to believe they’d be ripe for exploitation.

Consequently, your refusal to believe in your own gullibility and bias opens you up to scammers.

I bet this whole phenomenon is mainly a “emergent property” of the rewards and access structures in place in Social Media and that the top-down organised ops from state actors are but a tiny fraction of this shit show.

Like everything else capitalist, it starts out as an independent venture and congeals into national industry as the rate of return grows. The modern era of internet scamming is just the latest in a long history of affinity scams and MLM schemes. People are drawn in out of fear, confusion, and desperation. And because the better scammers know to tip their political overclass, these scam factories tend to be insulated from any kind of regulation or public prosecution.

“People fall for it”

checks the accounts of people responding positively to the post

they’re all bots

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Was waiting in line to contest a ticket for dismal at one of the tiny micro-cities inside Houston. Kid you not, it was just a bunch of white folks walking out no-contest and another line of AAs getting filed up to actually try their cases.

I’m sure this was a coincidence. Also, the sheriff looking interchangeable with the Sheriff Rosco from Dukes of Hazzard, a pure coincidence.