zifnab25 [he/him, any]

There’s a special sadness in techbros spending the last sixty years trying to invent the Robot Dog, given how many real dogs are in need of adoption and ready to give you their entire heart and soul for a head scratch.

The way they jerk themselves off after every successful missile strike, you would never know they were losing.

If voting isn’t enough (I didn’t think it is) then do more. Go knock on doors for the candidate that you like. There are a million ways to participate in democracy.

Love to door knock for Heinrich Himmler.

These “both choices bad. Better to not vote” people really don’t make any kind of sense to me.

Hey, listen. I vote every year. This year, 90% of my ballot is going to be blank, because so many of the candidates are absolutely abhorrent. But when I am presented with the Himmler / Hitler choice, I will be firmly bubbling in © None of the Above. I might even knock a few doors and tell my neighbors about how great © None of the Above would be. If I could figure out where to send my money, I could even see myself donating.

Image being unhealthy and saying “it’s going to take more than a 20 minute walk once a week to get in shape. Better not even do that then cuz what would be the point?”

Its funny, because I’m picturing you trying to recover from a broken leg with that mentality.

We will be more like China

We won’t be like China. We’ll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.

That’s the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.

If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).

This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won’t accept American mass media at face value.

Nintendo gets to do this (the Yuzu shit) because so many other developers have stopped making anything except slot machines.

• Regular

• Deluxe

• Budget Brand

• Whole Foods Select

• Fiji Brand Chickpea (not from Fiji and technically not a chickpea but does somehow both ruthlessly exploit foreign laborers and generate ten times its weight in carbon emissions; promises to cure cancer)

• A single novelty supersized chickpea that sits in a display case and never actually gets sold but kids love to look at.

Well, that’s annoying.

No idea what I linked because this is two months old

And every time she’d try and report the posts the report button is greyed out.

What about the uninstall button?

What does it say that these once popular forms of mass surveillance are filling up with dog shit?

There’s a Sci-fi horror book I enjoyed, called “John Dies At The End”, that posits an alternative history in which computers were created from the brains of pigs.

As a consequence, the civilization is heavily invested in harvesting organs in the same way that we’re invested in drilling for oil.

That would require some kind of machine capable of learning, a model of language so incredibly large that it can comprehend these linguistic nuances, or an intelligent form of artificial device.

Wonder if we’ll ever have something like that in the future.

I know this to be true, because the TV told me so.

Okay, but the alternative was the barbaric nightmare of that but under Russia. Now they get the liberty to slave and prostitute themselves under future NATO Leader Donald Trump.

wouldn’t it be better if this work was directed towards improving lives of people actually living in US

They haven’t earned those improvements to their livelihoods. They’re not willing to charge a field of land mines with a MANPAD and a prayer, hoping to win our puppet in Ukraine a PR victory.

Ukraine War benefits US economy

Health care, please

You don’t get $1.2B in credit by being poor.

They’re definitely sending special forces and they’re very likely using some amount of “military advisors” to train and arm the Ukrainian rank and file.

A big chunk of the money is getting pissed away on mercenaries and other military contractors, certainly. This is still, at its heart, a jobs program for Nicolas Cage’s character from Lord of War.

Waving my cowboy hat, clutching a bomb between my thighs, and screaming “You’re all about to find out why we can’t afford health care!” as I plummet towards the earth.

Some sources have reported the explosion was a result of a gas leak, however no official cause has been stated as of yet. Dallas Fort Worth has a history of gas explosions after heavy rainfall due to the clay soil absorbing the water, expanding, then contracting, causing explosions.

10 people have been confirmed injured as of publication, as per the Forth Worth fire department.