The “let’s get rid of plastic straws” thing took off specifically because it’s insignificant. They can all just order a crate of paper straws and pat themselves on the back and it’s business as usual. Doing something meaningful about climate change and/or plastic pollution would actually require some effort, and might even make line go down for a minute, and we can’t have that!

Hell yeah, let’s go.

I think it’s also important to have a hotdogs per day figure, and the math from here is super simple, so I can do it.

384,1236060*24 = 33,188,227,200 hot dogs per day.

Was it ever really a thing though [in the US]? Like aren’t presidents sworn in on a Bible or something? And it says something about God on the money? And the pledge of allegiance? (The USA is a cult, btw)

The US has been the main villain ever since they inherited the role from the British. None of this is surprising if you’ve been paying attention.

…a team member used the AI to fix a simple typo in a pull request.

A little beside the point, but why on earth would you use copilot to fix “a simple typo?”

Just the phrase “fix my typo” contains about 10 more characters than a typical “simple typo”.

Maybe there’s some context I’m missing, but I get the impression that the people using these chatbots every day just have their brains melted. Like even the most rudimentary task becomes daunting without the help of their little bullshit machine.

My browser tab collection doesn’t help.

Now add a German Shepherd labelled “Firefox” 😝

You don’t have to look at everything in terms of individual responsibility. We can clearly see that the injustices caused by transatlantic slavery, and imperialism more broadly, are very much still here. I think it would be nice to try to remedy this.

Of course, it’s non-binding, and the countries that should probably be paying reparations just happen to have all abstained (except for the rogue USA of course, voting against) so I don’t expect anything will happen. But it’s a nice idea.

True that has to be a factor a well. As it turns out they have no issues applying the misogyny to children too.

Umm excuse me, “corruption” is offensive, the correct term is “lobbying”.

I suppose this is the logical outcome of rabid individualism. It wasn’t their kids that were abused, but it’s their bank account getting drained at the gas station.

Text has power. People have done worse because of what they read on 4chan.

And sure, yeah, a well-adjusted person isn’t going to end up thinking chatgpt is their wife, but it’s not like anybody has access to mental healthcare around here.

It’s “a democracy” in that the rich old white dude at the top gets swapped out every few years.

But any analysis of government policy vs what regular people want shows exactly no correlation. This isn’t even new. Sure it’s gotten even more egregious lately, but it has always been an oligarchy or plutocracy at best.

I think if anyone is going to use a nuclear weapon, it’ll be israel.

The US can pull out, president man-baby can write a fanfiction about himself winning the war, and all his thugs can turn their attention to some other debacle, but israel will always be within range of Iranian missiles.

Without US support (and many Americans, even some of the really evil ones, have had enough of israel at this point) it could end up facing an existential threat. They’ve shown again and again that they have absolutely no regard for human life, and they don’t even seem to consider blowback most of the time. I believe israel going “Samson option” is by far the most likely nuclear scenario.

Lol, the US isn’t democratic.

Yeah this angle makes way more sense.

The idiot was calling himself the “peace president” and anyone dumb enough to buy that is probably not thrilled about another war. And anyone smart enough to see through his nonsense wasn’t going to vote for him anyway.

There are some spectacularly incompetent morons in this administration, but I think even they could figure out that starting a war with Iran wasn’t going to win people over.

So it seemed safer, but went down hill, like as in less engaging, more boring, that sort of thing?

At this point, why would they even care about the epstein files? No one’s actually doing anything about it. If pedo’s were getting [redacted] and they were afraid for their lives, this whole “distraction” narrative might make sense, but I have not seen an instance of someone suffering real consequences for being in the files. I would love to be wrong on that bit.