Now you’ve got a dependent group who rely in AI as a source of truth, and now they can modify “the truth” whenever you want because it’s the only source left.

Well, besides using that for political reasons, they can also use that for massive profits.

Better make sure your carpet cleaning business is paying Google for “”“advertising”“” (no matter how much it costs), or Google’s AI will just forget to mention your business when local customers search online for carpet cleaners. Or you want to shop online for a new phone? Now Google’s AI will only feed you positive reviews of Google phone products, along with occasional horror stories about other products. Want to download and run Firefox? Google’s AI will straight-up gaslight you into thinking that all non-Chrome browsers are extinct.

Love the one party member in the middle who’s just smiling and living their best life.

He knows he’s only got a few more moments to live, and he’s going to enjoy those moments.

Spiciness is a defense mechanism, but not against humans or other animals.

Spiciness doesn’t protect a plant against mammals – many mammals actually enjoy it, and humans aren’t the only ones who actually prefer spicier peppers. Birds can’t even taste it at all. And it does nothing to prevent insects.

What it actually does prevent is fungal infections. Spicier peppers are less susceptible to fungus problems. And this is backed up by observations in the wild: wild peppers from wetter, more humid regions tend to be spicier, while wild peppers from dry regions tend to be less spicy.

“War is good because it ended slavery once, even though it didn’t actually end slavery at all.”

It was a widespread, manifold effort on multiple fronts.

Backed by billions of corpo-bucks on all of those fronts.

If we’re going to fight them on that playing field, how do we overcome that advantage?

I have two neighbors.

One is an ‘I don’t pay attention to politics, but I vote R every time’ Republican. The other is a Russian and a big fan of Putin.

Really, though … who buys this kind of shit at Costco?

I’m sure there are a few people out there who’d buy this … but those people would be shopping at high-end specialty stores for it, and at this kind of price point, they probably don’t care about saving a few percent on the price, even if Costco has it for cheaper.

Do these things ever actually get sold from the Costco floor? I really doubt it. What’s Costco gain from using a relatively large amount of retail floorspace on something like this, something only a vanishingly small minority of their shoppers ever could or would buy? And not only does it take up quite a bit of floorspace that could probably be devoted to something more likely to actually sell, it runs a pretty significant risk of someone damaging it, either deliberately or accidentally, while it sits there – so it’s not only an opportunity cost, there’s also a significant chance that they might lose a lot money on this.

Seriously… What’s the point of putting something like this on the floor of a Costco?

Some do, sure, and those will probably remain as ways to avoid the law. Though, at least in theory, it will still be illegal and people doing it could at least in theory be caught and prosecuted for it.

Shutting down the main ones, while leaving crypto-based ones as a legally risky alternative will still greatly hamper and slow down these prediction markets’ business in Minnesota.

Trace the financial transactions, which can’t fully be hidden by a VPN.

Sure, a Minnesota resident could use a VPN to go to a prediction market gambling site … but when they pay money to make their bet or receive money from a bet that pays out, those financial transactions should be traceable to and from Minnesota.

No one believes that Russia is a moral actor in this

You must be talking to different tankies than I am.

This ml thinks slavery was ended in the US.

There are more slaves in the US now than there were in 1860. So tell me again, what is war good for?

Every goddamn war ever.

War is defined by the instigator. Israel’s attacks are not a war of liberation.

Supreme Court rulings can already be overturned.

All Congress has to do is make a new law with the opposite effect (assuming that new law is constitutionally valid).

And if the Supreme Court is getting too fucky with what they define as constitutional or not, they can be impeached and removed.

No, not really.

But neither of the wars mentioned in this ‘infographic’ are wars of liberation.

You must be seeing some very different wars than the ones I’ve seen.

In the wars I’ve seen, ‘emperors’ are rarely blown up, but vassals getting blown up is extremely common.

Violence is inherently harmful.

Some people and institutions do deserve to be harmed. Those people and institutions are almost never who actually gets harmed in war. War sucks.

Or, war itself is a tool of oppression.

And you’re going to fix this by having one capitalist country blow people up in another capitalist country?

I ain’t got time for a whole damn audiobook. If you want to make a pro-war argument, make it yourself.