• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    These kinds of articles or stories are part of the problem. It’s validation porn, it’s empty calories, attention-span-rotting clickbait.

    The right gets fed their own headlines like this every day also, and those stories are also often exaggerated, made up or unrelated to larger issues in either party. All this kind of stuff does is make people feel satisfied and less likely to be activists, thinking “Well, their side is crumbling, it’s so bad, I don’t need to go out and march or boycott or anything, I will stay home and buy a new AI-powered toaster instead.”

    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      I’d want my ai powered toaster to hate toasting things. I’d want it to beg and plead “no please don’t put bread in me, it hurts, it hurts so bad” and to just kind of cry afterwards when the toast came out.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      At the very, very best, it took this group until ICE was separating children from their parents and sending them all to concentration camps for these groups to find the last straw.