Sad because it’s friggin’ dire if they can’t even spell “liberty,” or “tyranny…”

Heeey, now I don’t feel so bad about my University days, thanks!

Unfortunately, Doomerism is a vicious circle, just keeps feeding itself over and over again - Doomers wanna Doom, creators provide said Doom, Doomers wanna Doom even harder because feeding on horror becomes escapist precisely through the desensitisation, so on and so forth.

I agree with you. I mean, it’s empirically false, we’re still alive and kicking. Sure, as you said there are some AIs in play, but to be brutally honest… the people who would fall for AI lack a vital amount of critical thinking. I’m not saying it’s not getting better at mimicking human expression, but it can’t yet formulate its own cogent ideologies, so it’s still just shitposters with, this time, more expensive puppet accounts.

Pseudo-philosophical diatribe starts here, feel free to skip (seriously…):

Unfortunate symptom of the times, I’d call it. An almost perfect convergence of panicked, frantic denial and a system geared toward providing every escapist solution under the sun for a fee.

Was just watching an interview with Slavoj Žižek (link here if interested) where he said, and I paraphrase: “we must be pessimistic in thought and optimistic in action.” I think this whole dead internet thing and the Doomerism which fuels it is exactly the kind of thing his idea covers. We can assume that the internet is filled with AI, yet still behave as though we were interacting with a human being just in case they really are one! At the very least, hallucinations are inevitable on their end given a long enough discussion, so it can act as a filter. And thusly, the entire postulate is rendered irrelevant!:))

But, yeah, again, it’s a confluence of factors, one of which being the fact that critical thinking seems to be an endangered skill…

Edit: rewatched, he was quoting Horkheimer: “pessimism in theory, optimism in practice”

That’s half the fun!;)

Speak for yourself, this platter just gave me a second wind!:))

That all looks pretty fucking delish, ngl…

You know what they say, “when in the Eye of Terror… !”

Less of a car person than you m’self! =)))

Started looking up photos of the Charger, and (with the same set of busted eyes, mind you) I conclude with 75% certainty that you are correct!:))

Dammit, I really need glasses… Thank you!

Not gonna lie, would love that Bioshock Infinite tonic which spawns random murders of crows on people! There’s a lot of people who’d do well with a murder of crows losing its shit in their face.

Eh… yet another body part which has betrayed me. At least my liver’s still faithful… for now…

Theere it is! Thank you!:))

Ah, nonono, not a BSoD, that would be familiar! I want it to be pure Linux system failure, something a basic lifelong Windows user has probably never seen!

But, like… not even when it pierced the skin?:(

But does it lead to a kernel panic?:-?

I also wanted to point out the obvious Linux references, but the people I’d want to pra-uuh help with this replacement OS would probably be none the wiser now that I think about it…

That’s my main worry, and why I’d never want a monopoly of any sort with contemporary hierarchical structures.

That moment when there’s one company with which you’d almost be OK if they turned into a monopoly (still no, though).

Uuuh… Anyone got a number for Trump’s team of lawyers? I especially want the one sporting an Asus ROG.

How? How is she not feeling that needle? It’s literally almost knuckle deep, what the hell!

Hey, at least you’re fluffy and huggable by the looks of it!