It was oblique.

The robot deciding to save the protagonist vs the girl based on algorithms/statistics, compared with self-driving cars deciding how to react at traffic lights (and save you or not) because they learnt from your decisions in captchas.

Good thing self-driving cars were trained on your data!

(Flashback to that Will Smith movie…)

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I’m not defending anything. You seem too defensive for this conversation, if that’s what you think. (Judging by you downvoting my comments before you even reply, that’s becoming obvious.)

Can you actually define the words you’re using, even to yourself? Or are you lashing out at me based on what you feel they mean?

I’m willing to talk to you, but only if we can agree upon what words like ‘socialism’ mean. If not, we’ll only talk past each other, and I think you’ll agree that will waste both of our time.

Of course. Many nations have been 2 of the three. But nobody has ever been all 3, because 2 are antithetical to one another.

e: obv the USSR was communist and authoritarian. Who said they weren’t?

I’m not defending anything like that, but:

1. Authoritarian != communism. Authoritarianism applies equally to communism and fascism. The latter two describe ideology, where ‘authoritarian’ describes scale. Your sentence is like if I said I I use reds, not apples, in my pies. It sort of makes sense, but not really.

2. You said: ‘I don’t seem to understand why democratic social ownership is considered a worse alternative’ yes, exactly! That’s socialism, which is an economic – not a political – system. You can combine that with democracy or communism or fascism.

I really recommend you learn what all these terms mean, because it’s not only super fascinating, but we can each understand and communicate better when we can build upon common concepts.

Yes. And communist, fascist, and dictator mean 3 very different things. I used to think they were synonymous, too, but they’re not.

Communist and fascist are polar opposites. Authoritarian is the extremes of both sides. A dictator can exist at any point in the spectrum, and isn’t unique to any side.

It really does help if we can agree what words mean.

I mean, have you met art?

Ooohhhh Long Donson!

Thanks for your service.

This image needs to be all over twitter and truth social. Trump hates images like this. I want him to see dozens of copies of this whilst he shits at 3am. Just flood him with it.

e: I can’t spell

‘Carry a laser down the road that I must travel
Carry a laser through the darkness of the night’

I’m saying I’d like to watch it if they actually played the game. I enjoy rugby, for instance, and some hockey.

American football just doesn’t have much actual game in it anymore.

People have been saying that to me for years – often angrily – but honestly, every game I’ve ever seen has been like 5 minutes of game during which a guy touches another guy the wrong way, followed by a foul or something, then at least a half hour of back-to-back replays interspersed with a few guys debating every aspect of the way each guy touched another guy, plus at least ten minutes of advertising, then repeat.

I’m pretty sure even fans wouldn’t disagree with my timing breakdown.

eta: it sounds annoying broken down like that, but I’d argue fans should be annoyed at the industry, rather than at non-fans.

As a designer, programmer, and music engraver/editor, I’ve always paid for all media I’ve consumed because I’ve strongly believed creators deserve to be paid.

But after the Napster, Ticketmaster, Netflix, and dozens of other egregious examples of corporate sadism, I’m proud to sail the high seas now.

Bold of him to make that move without a toddler protecting his head from gunfire.

The mask has been slowly coming off for at least 15 years. If you haven’t noticed and this seems like a surprise, I honestly don’t know what to say.

Bullets. We’re talking about bullets.

You’ll never find hidden stashes of weed or cocaine. However the stashes of lead will find you if you follow your dog towards stashes of weed or cocaine.

Could have been the new owner who dumped a retired K9 at the pound, perhaps since sometimes those dogs have PTSD and can be more of a challenge than expected, or the owner died. Animals wind up in odd places for many reasons.

On a dog’s brain? Who even knows?

Put the food bowl in there. He’ll feel validated, like he hit the jackpot/final level, and it will desensitise him. 2 birds.