Google probably wants to keep you on google.com, where they have ads. By doing the AI stuff, you never click through to someone else’s page. They get 100% of the interactions and can sell all the clicks.
It’s monopoly stuff. They should be stopped, with whatever box of liberty is needed.
Last book: “Last Call” by Tim Powers. It’s great. Poker and archetypes. Big inspiration for Unknown Armies, which I loved.
Current: Medusa’s web, also by Powers. Not sure if I’m into it yet but it’s got some of his signature weirdness
If they know, and it’s not vital, and they don’t care, then I think less of them.
Some people have less self control than a toddler
You are defending the Nazis from the Nazi fund raiser. You don’t want them to be exposed.
“Woke shit” and “Nazi shit” are not comparable.
You’re conflating “illegal” with “just” or “the right thing to do”. Those are two different attributes. Something can be legal and horrifying. Something can be illegal and just.
So this part:
It’s not illegal to be “woke” or whatever the fuck MAGA is calling people, and it’s not illegal to follow dumb Nazi shit. Therefore, NEITHER should be illegally survived.
Doesn’t work. It’s not a question of if it’s illegal. That is largely irrelevant. The proposed action of “we should find out who these Nazis are” may be illegal, but that’s irrelevant. Unimportant.
Nazis are a threat to everyone and should not be tolerated.
You’re giving very lawful-neutral vibes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you were lawful-evil.
You can make an argument that all laws should apply to everyone equally all the time, but that’s not how the world works right now, neither in practice nor theory, but you also should consider the “paradox of tolerance” problem. It is not a good idea to let Nazis just go around doing Nazi stuff.
They can believe they’re the good guys and they are wrong.
Stop defending nazis
I’m reminded of the quote from Sekiro about knowing the difference between honor and victory
I really want that fundraiser site to be breached so we can find out who the assholes are donating to him. Fire all of them, too. Ruin their presumably already shitty lives.
Too many Americans are eager to lick the boot. “We have to work (for free) this weekend to get this feature out [for the deadline the owner made up and customers don’t care about]” was something my old team unironically said to me more than once
Everything is projection
Do they vet the people? Could someone hypothetically sign up for the app, case the rich person’s situation, and then do crimes? Sounds like a good way to find rich assholes.
I feel like the “I have to eat meat every day” people overlap a lot with the “I refuse to wear a mask” people. Are you thinking they’re largely different people?
Code reviews are important. Unfortunately, no-test-text guy convinced his whole team that he was right, and I wasn’t able to block it. I’d scheduled a meeting to try to get the wider org to adopt a more sensible standard, but then there was a mass layoff 🤷
The other guy with the bad messages is at a tiny startup where they’ve laid off almost everyone, and the other 2 guys don’t want to make waves. The CEO is big on “just ship it” (and also “why are there bugs in production? this is unacceptable!!”)
I got laid off back like six months ago. Job market is bad.
And yet billionaires are still living the life and the stock market ticks upwards.
I think a lot about something I read years ago. It said something like, “Some people love their country the way a child loves a parent. The parent is the smartest and the best and perfect. Some people love their country the way an adult loves a peer. They see the strengths, the potential, but also the weaknesses and problems that need to be addressed.”
Conservatives are generally children. Driven largely by emotion with a very simple moral framework. Much like you will likely struggle to explain to a toddler that taking the other kid’s toys, screaming constantly, and shitting in the sandbox won’t make a lot of friends, explaining politics to a conservative is likely to be an ordeal. They don’t care. They have feelings and that is their reality.
It’s also kind of funny how conservatives are the ones who typically say “reality doesn’t care about your feelings”. Everything is projection.
Dexterity is avoiding getting hit by the asshole going the wrong way down the street
Strength is dragging them out of the car afterwards
Someone who rejects the content because they don’t like the form is an idiot. Unfortunately, all of us are idiots like that.
People are too emotionally invested in meat. They’d rather die in record high temperatures than go without or even reduce.
I’m pretty sure they also try to fuck with the census
Sometimes called the ratchet effect. Republicans push to the right, and Democrats refuse to move to the left.
Then Democrats are confused why they’re not more popular, despite being a watered down version of Republicans.
Conservatism is entirely about protecting the in group and hurting the out group. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
Thus, they are bad people. That’s how bad people behave.