Someone explain why these aren’t the prerequisite steps required if the ultimate goal was building a robot army.

Deregulate, and create a legal buffer from what “your” robots do and you. That’s not my “army”, that’s my independent security force im contracting.

They blasted some guy by mistake? Accidents happen. Also they’re thier own company.

I literally just now wrote two paragraphs trying to humanized you, the exact opposite of demonizing anyone. Praising your good qualities, even.

Then you come back, shrieking like a banshee, continuing to not read or think. Really trying your hardest to reinforce every negative American stereotype.

I think, genuinely, the best thing you could do if your goal is to try and have the world think better of Americans as a whole, would be to just shut the fuck up. Every single post you make, I think less and less of you personally. You’re making me work harder than I want to remind myself that you don’t represent a whole country. You frankly are no more endearing than a MAGA. The specific flavour of your stupidity is admittedly different, but it certainly isn’t significantly less concerning. You’re just as illiterate, just as fear mongering/unaccountable (“OH please, don’t you see how what you’re saying is the precursor to a genocide?”, you say, as someone points out YOU are ACTUALLY funding an ACTIVE genocide).

Again, can’t stress this enough, if you are concerned about the common perspective of Anericans as a whole, you really really really should keep your mouth shut. Better to be silent and thought to be an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt kinda scenario for you.

Where have i suggested anything even remotely similar to the allies roughing up the German citizenry? Violence at all?

I get that you’re mad. For some reason you’re desperate for someone to acknowledge you’re “one of the good ones” or something.

First of all, that is pathetic, period.

If it makes you feel any better, I’m sure your identity is multifaceted. And, ultimately, I pass no judgement on you as a complete human. I’m unsatisfied by your comprehension of your own situation. Im unsatisfied by your comprehension of the world. I’m unsatisfied at your ability to read. Im unsatisfied by your capacity for first order logic. I think you are very thin skinned.

But you’re passionate. You write well. You say “fuck”. You have an instinct to “defend” your “kin”. You don’t know when to quit. You’re obviously incredibly optimistic. I admire and respect all of those things about you.

People are multidimensional. I don’t think you’re a bad guy. Nothing you’ve said makes me think you’re great or anything, but like… you’re allowed in my house?

As a human, I love you.

Maybe it’s on me, but after comparing boycotting mcdonalds to a literal war crime… to come back by trying to convince me to cut Nazi Germany some slack.

You do you. I always say to people now, that you never now need to guess what you’d have done if you were in nazi Germany, it’s whatever you’re doing now.

I don’t expect everyone to have taken a Crack at hitler. Or to have sabotaged a fuel truck. Or have sheltered a Jew.

But, apparently, what YOU would have done is write scathing rebuttals to the Allies who were critical of the bystanders. You would have been arguing that the rest of the world was asking too much of the German people.

I wholeheartedly agree. I love when I hear a new word, and a mushy concept just snaps into focus. Like, yea, I understood that concept in my “gut” but had not special word for it? So gratifying.

Feels like theft when it gets appropriated to something else.

Glad to hear Cory is cool w/ it. Putting a word (even by accident) to a poorly-expresable part of the human experience that let’s people communicate more effectively? That is a contribution to society that most of us only dream of. Fucker did it by accident. Thrilled for him.

How fucking stupid does one have to be to equate boycotting US brands and launching a fucking tomahawk missile at an elementary school. Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

Yeah! I mean, not ALL men, right ladies?

We’re different people and I was offering another more understanding voice to the mix.

What do you want? Me to do the sign of the cross and give a blanket absolution to all Americans on behalf of the rest of the world?

“Go, my children, your country may ravage the world I absolve you”. In the name of the father the son nato UN and all humanity. I offer this to all citizens of the USA, Russia, and Israel as they decimate civilians in illegal wars. Would be kinda shitty of me to not hand it out to them too, right? I mean… what can they do about it? Not really THIER problem, right? We’re all being a little judgemental by suggesting Russia get out of Ukraine or Israel out of Gaza, right? Let em in eurovision. Let em in the Olympics.

Not sure who I am to give it but if im giving that cool guy a break, I may as well give you one too, despite you being a total cunt. Not sure why you care (REALLY wish you’d introspect on that though, is it possible the uncomfort that makes you wanna lash out is that you know at some level you, as an american, are uniquely positioned to save the world like hollywood told you your whole life was your birthright, and instead you’re on the internet mad at foreigners pointing out your country is mudering civilians? That discord must be HARD).

I’m working as hard as I can to undermine him.

Then you good.

Each according to thier ability.

The thing that drives the world nuts is when people in the US are like “not my responsibility”.

Don’t wanna be “that guy”, but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean “greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck”, then that just is what that word means now.

It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that’s how she goes.

The joke here is that a DJ actually knows how to play an instrument.

China is where it is very explicitly because it spent a lot of time not trying to win any race. They’re still not trying to win it.

It’s massively more cost effective to fast follow in the wake of whomever is breaking new ground. Orders of magnitude.

China has been strategically losing races. Over and over. They understand there is no value in getting there first if you can be there 6 months later cheaper.

The race is made up. It’s an excuse to fuck YOU. YOU.

Remember when transistors were invented, and the rest of the world shrugged and said “we lost the race” and then never invented them and still plow fields by horse and candlelight?

Of course not.

Framing this as a race introduces the idea that if you don’t win you’re fucked. As if time stops. It’s a bad metaphor and it only serves to undermine rational thinking. It’s designed to convince people they need to sacrifice something. Datacenters spiked your electricity bill? That’s ok because we have to win.

The space race is pretty similar. Also worth pointing out that by every metric besides man foot+moon, the USSR won. First suborbital flight? Orbital? Satellite? Animal in space? Man in space? Moon flyby? Moon landing? USSR. Did the USA quit? Did it matter?

You can throw money at whatever you want. Framing it as a race is nonsense designed to convince people to work against thier own interests so someone else can get rich.

This hits so hard

Alright I’ve got the 96th Thesis

Wow so you hate Lemmy?

/s

She said she’s bored and Twitter heard that she thinks she’s better then a whole town.

“a”

Books maybe not, but it’s become a film trope for sure. Taken, Wick, and Nobody comes to mind.

Yes