I’d go further and say the seeds of the Roman Republic’s downfall was set during the second Punic war when so much wealth and territory was amassed and it mostly went to the top, follow up when the Gracchi brothers did their failed bid to change things, or the several genocides the republic did, such as the 3rd Punic war or what Julius Caesar did against the Gauls again concentration of wealth of power and eroding of any checks against generals seizing control.

That assumes that there are only those two options, you have the paperclip problem as an option, the best case scenario is that the super human AI model just ignores us or wants to cooperate with us the way we try to cooperate with species like wolves to manage ecosystems.

Ok I may be out of the loop, what happened?

Can citizens who’s data was given in an unlimited fashion to Palantir get unlimited access to Palantir funds? So long as we spend some funds to pay legal obligations like salaries we could treat their funds the same way they treat our data, how ever the fuck we want.

Some terrible star trek shows? Literally the distro benefit ratio of late night shows is great even if declining viewership is making it less profitable, the fact that shows like last week tonight and the daily show are still popular shows there is still a market for a news based version of that type of thing and they decided to cancel it because trump threw a hissy fit and Jimmy Kimmel was on a similar path.

Who is diode related to?

Switzerland is one of the most militarized countries where all citizens, male citizens that is, are required to complete a term of service and can be called up in times of war. They haven’t been invaded since Napoleon Bonaparte and have not declared war either. The Vatican is happy to hire the Swiss guard, actual members of the Swiss military, to guard them and despite what Swiss companies like Nestlé do they are generally neutral and open to trade with all countries, all while having the most nuclear bunkers, and defensive posts for any country, with the possible exception of Romania, I believe, who didn’t plan them out and built them everywhere to prevent Soviet invasion from Russia. Switzerland is peaceful because France, Germany, Austria, and Italy were disincentivized militarily from invasion due to the cost to reward ratio, Czechoslovakia on the other hand was invaded by Nazi germany because they were forced to be neutral and were forced to give up their military defenses to Nazi germany. There is a difference between a military spending increase by a country for defensive reasons (usually more Democratic nations) and being a belligerent nation, who when it is an autocracy tends not to increase military spending much until they absolutely need to (such as Nazi military spending didn’t increase by much until 1944, and not in 1938-1939 when they were planning for war as the spending increases were put in place under Hindenburg’s presidency when they were still a republic).

Othis isn’t just for videogames either, be it Autodesk getting rid of perpetual licenses and phasing out activations for older licenses, tesla turning the self driving feature from a one time purchase to a subscription, and more and more companies rent seek without actually innovation making their product better, leaving consumers stuck in a situation where they need to try and find competent competitors or the open source community for similar-ish products.

I think the alien too may be a bigger issue soon enough.

Get your hands off his nuggets

The Dinkster seems to think so.

Not really, Semitic peoples is an exonym coming from the name Shem from the bible used to describe many cultures from the fertile cresent and surrounding areas that share similar cultural and languages, this would include Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Berber, Egyptian, Coptic, Phoenician, and Cananite languages at a minimum. In more common terms semeticic and specifically anti-semitism has become associated with Judaism specifically as many large scale antisemitic movements (against Jews specifically) in the second half of the 20th century took place in the middle east in what could be called Semitic countries for cultural similarity. This foes not excuse the current outcomes of the slaughter going on but context will help understand what is going on and why which makes things easier to change, and false facts or propaganda doesn’t help solve that.

That and they’re vicious fuckers, they bite people, unlike horse herds they do an every man for themselves type thing and love kicking people and animals.

Angela Collier had a video about this topic a few years ago that was great, I can’t remember which video it was but it might have been her first generation Grad student video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-GKGF-zXi4

Ah finally news about other genocides to bring eyeballs on them too, especially one that has gone on for 70 odd years.

Unfortunately I have banking apps and the such, but they work with normal browsers as well so I guess I can just do away with most Google things but it is a pain in the ass to deal with.

Surprise surprise

Fuck that lizard man

She is the one called sailor pinhead!