RE: https://climatejustice.social/@populistensohn/117555395744788325
So far it looks like patriotic Americans are voting overwhelmingly for transgender for everyone.
After all, Trump keeps saying a vote for the crazy Dumbocrats is a vote for transgenderism. And that's a solid gold Dumbocrat with a B.
Let's take him at his word. Cis people, please report to the reassignment centers in the morning.
Show me a smart device and I'll show you a vulnerable device.
The Amish were right all along.
The Billionaire sat at a table on the terrace of his marble villa looking out at the manicured lawns that sloped gently down to the azure bay of his private island. His superyacht, Fiduciary Duty, dominated the gentle waves, rising like a titanic confection of helipads and balconies out of the subdued water.
The Billionaire's eyes slid wanly from the rows of delicate fountains, the gold inlay on the balustrades, that magnificent ship, and the white coral beach.
It was all dust. The slag of failed ambitions. Worthless, stupid shit, embarrassing in its naïve pretence.
He looked at the colossal ship once more, and thought bitterly: "I am the same as the whores I hire for company: dressed in haute couture, but just needy trash on the inside."
At his feet was a discarded newspaper. The headline read: "Wall Street Celebrates the First Trillionaire".
Every time you log in to Mastodon, a baby billionaire cries.
The Mastodon link is:
I had to download some docs from the Dutch government, and I saw the website had a Mastodon link!
Well done, but drop the X. At least, it shouldn't be at the top of the list.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/117542016676067778
Basically, people are inefficient. it is not not just their wasteful use of RAM but their overall concept. People are spread out all over the place, they have heterogenous and unstable market preferences. They are disloyal and subversive.
They should be replaced with virtual consumers that exist in the cloud (once we have enough RAM of course). Their purchases can simply be delivered direct to landfill.
OK, so I got drunk, took the car keys out of your handbag, and drove your car into a tree. It's wrecked.
If you want, I could say sorry, but don't expect me to do anything about it. No you can't borrow my spare car, don't even bother asking.
RE: https://autistics.life/@SecondUniverse/117536422076068334
Labour Party members, are you still feeling Burnham's "lefty vibes"?
Time to realize your party died decades ago
I will consider requests to do something that costs me nothing, changes nothing, means nothing* and is hundreds of years overdue.
But you have to ask nicely.
If I agree to say sorry, you have to be grateful and shut up about it finally.
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* A sincere apology would mean something. But an apology you have to ask for is not an apology. Also a sincere apology would lead to meaningful restitution.
AI will bring superabundance and enough for all.
But first we have to flatten forests, suck the rivers dry, incinerate millions of tons of fossil fuels, and kill our employees.
After that, heaven.
"How can we build an embassy that reflects the core values of democracy—transparency, openness, and equality—and is welcoming, secure, and highly sustainable?"
Statement by the architects.
Totally changes how I look at Borg battle fleets.
A building that says the quiet part out loud.
I did not know that the US Embassy in London is an actual Borg Cube.
Can anyone claim it is remotely normal that non-Palestinian parties in Israel would not work with Palestinian parties? Just another democracy doing democracy?
I climbed a mountain once. It included a lot of walking uphill, on roads, fields and dirt tracks. One field was so steep we both had to crawl up it.
Once we were at the top, I felt my triumph drain away. The summit was grassy, and my personal definition of mountains is different. If is it grassy on top, it's a hill. The number of meters doesn't matter!
The debate about whether Pluto is a planet has always amused me because we don't really agree what a continent is, or what a mountain is, or when a stream is a river, or when a field is a meadow.
Don't get me started on "man" or "woman".
And adding "biological" before them does NOT clear things up!
I am asked for a spelling several times each day. I watch myself recite the required letters with a slight disbelief. I have a terrible memory, but these sequences just come out of me. I try to analyse how the word is coming to my mind, but I can't. It is something I know, but I can't say how I know it.
I am aware that as I recite the spelling, I have to disengage some part of my mind so that I can do it.
It is not because I learned the spelling rules - I know very well they are not rules. Each word is just another telephone number - and I know tens of thousands of them.
This spelling thing is not a task hundreds of millions of years were preparing my brain for. Some useful part of my mind has been hijacked to store a huge amount of noninformation.
It really is a very strange skill, being able to spell "c-h-o-i-r".
