If you’re an American, having deep seated mistrust and skepticism of the medical establishment, pharma, and government is 1000% justifiable. Every one of these institutions has exploited, abused, abandoned, and murdered people, all in the name of public health.

As a person who grew up in poverty, the idea of trusting doctors and medical authorities is just as ridiculous as trusting the police.

Assuming that social problems are the sum of individuals making dumb choices is an easy shortcut that not only eliminates the discomfort of thinking about the issue, but has the added benefit to implying that you’re superior.

This comment is braindead bigotry. It’s like saying a paraplegic can’t be a lawyer because they can’t climb the courthouse steps.

There has never existed an astronaut that didn’t need significant accommodation to live in work in space (duh), you’re arguing that disabled people don’t deserve the exact same treatment. Fuck you.

Ever since stock buybacks became the bog standard default, and P/E ratios are between ‘significantly elevated’ and ‘completely fucking delusional’…

At what point do we start to consider that capitalist economies aren’t broken, but that they never worked in the first place?

Alex Karp’s behavior is much better explained by cocaine. He may be neurodivergent, but he was still high as giraffe pussy.

WAT

I thought you meant that the right wing was covering up the religion of the attacker, not the hero, sorry.

You know how you right click something and can choose “save” or “copy”? That used to be two hole jobs.

If we don’t make sacrifices to the Dragon, it’ll eat the village!

That’s what you sound like. AI doesn’t exist, but it’s going to take your job anyway. And it doesn’t matter if you support it or not. Your devotion and support will not be rewarded.

LOL, You mean the letters C and P can stand for lots of stuff. At first I thought you meant the term “child porn” was ambiguous.

It’s time we stopped pretending that Israel was a little pocket of Europe and recognize that it’s a brutal theocratic regime. The biggest difference between Israel and States like Saudi Arabia and Iran is the branding.

Slavish devotion to Musk? Utilitarian ethics? Grock is just the average reddit user in 2013.

You’re talking about several different technologies when you say “fireworks”. You need a powder that’s safe to handle, a barrel that’s strong enough to contain the explosion, an ignition system, and a projectile that does some kind of damage.

Any platform that’s advertising based is a propaganda outlet. Reddit’s function is to manipulate pubic opinion.

This would be the most ambitious engineering feat in human history. A project to rival colonization of Mars in expense and danger. All to connect one wilderness to another. Brilliant.

Training and culture is important, but one must remember that firefighters and EMTs do not have qualified immunity. Meaning that firefighters and EMTs can and do get sued for negligence and assault. They also have a “duty of care” while the pigs are not responsible to protect the public, enforce the law, or uphold court orders.

His company DevDroid makes remotely controlled machine guns, that use AI to automatically detect people and track them. Because of concerns over friendly fire, he says they don’t have an automatic shooting option.

“We can enable it, but we need to get more experience and more feedback from the ground forces in order to understand when it is safe to use this feature.”

That’s some real Dr. Strangelove logic in the wild. Can’t let robots kill people until it’s safe.

Not to mention that the prize itself was meant to whitewash the reputation of a war profiteer.

The phone was probably stolen from a protestor they were investigating and the bust was coincidental.

Semantic lawyer arguments over dictionary definitions are a waste of time. Reality shapes language, not the other way round.

Prepping is a fad popularized by the zombie movie wave of the 2000s.

99% of “societal collapse” scenarios are going to be like 1946 Germany or 1989 Soviet Union, not 28days later. And in the 1% scenarios, people who care about their loved ones should keep euthanasia supplies, not food and guns.