My favorite example of this is the idea of money and finance.

There are trillions and trillions of dollars worth of imaginary wealth everywhere. None of it can be backed by actual product or material … it all exists because we all collectively believe that it exists.

It’s our modern day religion and we all believe in it and worship it daily … All Hail Money!

“I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”

• George Carlin.

Cults are built on the power of belief and the more people who believe in a movement the more powerful it becomes.

If ten thousand cult worshipers claimed their leader walked on water, how would you go about convincing them otherwise, even if you had proof.

Look at Islam or Christianity or Judaism, they influence the world but they’re all only built on the power of belief.

And you can equate religions and cults because the only difference between the two is time.

Like Molasses … like a thick pasty sugary burnt tar … almost like licorice but not quite there

But the modern stuff is not quite like the old original stuff from 30/40 years ago. The modern stuff is more like sugary taffy or flavourless caramel.

You either have gigabytes of memes ready to go or you have a great imagination … either way I salute you … and no I’m not kissing that mole ass … that sexy, sexy mole ass.

Yes! Those are the ones … can’t seem to find them any more. All they sell are the cheap sugar ones that I have a feeling is just colored sugar at this point. I know molasses is just sugar too but there is certain strong bitter flavor to it. The old stuff was actual molasses, thick and hard and when frozen (which often happened in the north during Halloween) could be used as a deadly projectile.

They used to be the last candy I would eat out of my Halloween stash. Now as a middle aged man, I still eat them, I still hate them … but they always make me think of Halloween as a kid.

I kept a dozen of them this year and I eat them just for the nostalgia.

This month is too unlimited

So dressing up as an IDF soldier would be scarier than Michael Myers?

They put the ‘fun’ in funeral

If we see a street lady collecting a hundred cats to horde, we call her crazy.

When we see someone hording so much wealth that they could never reasonably ever spend all that money in a lifetime … we put them on the cover of a magazine.

Because the oligarchy supports the leadership they helped to create … not in the process of how that leadership was created.

This is what Arch Linux would say

… most just lie there bored out of their mind

More like kinky sex slaves … they’re all either cheap or work for free.

They’ll complain and give you a hard time during the whole experience but they’ll never leave you alone because it’s their kink and it turns them on.

The water looks a bit too hot … and acidic

You can also download the image and repost it to a lemmy instance like I’m doing here … then no one has to go back to the old site

Well! … this is a silly conversation!

It’s not so much that it’s AI generated … it’s also AI influenced.

I know so many professional office workers who once wrote some of the most boring sometimes stupid emails because they didn’t know how to write or get their message across or constantly miscommunicated things because they worded things wrong … now all of a sudden they’ve become professional writers and all their emails look like auto generated messages.

I’m guessing that many writers also take the AI shortcut. They get a bunch of content generated from an AI than just rewrite it for themselves. Some content i see is lazily edited and some is heavily. But I get the feeling that just about everyone is using it because it’s an easy way to get a bunch of work done without having to think too much.

The first part is true … no one cares about the second part of your statement.

It’s a matter of optics.

If you said you gave $1,000 to some guy you met in England … I wouldn’t think twice about it.

If you gave $1,000 to my neighbor and I saw what they did with that money, I would feel funny about it maybe even a bit jealous … and some people would get mad about it and ask why you didn’t give them $1,000 instead.