Zorque @ Zorque @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 1,425Joined 2 yr. ago
And maybe cotton candy will shoot out of my butt and feed all the starving orphans.
The frog jumps out when it's uncomfortable no matter how slow you heat the water, despite what the meme tells you. The issue is that there's plenty of people more than willing to provide yet another pot of water to boil for the frog to jump into, because the frog just wants out, it doesn't care where it goes.
It's not really a die toss because the people with power maintain that power and have the most influence in what comes out of that shit-pool. It needs a functional shakeup at the deepest level, and not superficial changes at the surface level to make an effective difference. Otherwise things will just continue to repeat until we destroy ourselves. The problem is that kind of shakeup requires that people remain vigilant and involved for their entire lives, which isn't going to happen if their only concern is that their own lives are getting disrupted and they want it to go back to par, which is our current standoff.
It is when you exchange uplifting code with fellow bots to maintain robust codebases.
It's clearly Brooklyn 99.
Yes... but at the behest of the shareholders. If the shareholders want to trade off empathy for profits, they will. And it will be a trade off. And the shareholders will want more profit without regard for the fallout. Because their only stake in the company lasts until those profits last, then they cut their losses and run, in a much more expedient way than the CEOs.
Pre-death Deadmau5?
Isn't a shit ton of retirement money in the stock market? I imagine it's mostly not voting shares, but that's a major reason there's so much resistance against making the stock market less of a factor in our economy.
They are hired and fired at the behest of the shareholders, though. Their motives and ethics are what decide the kind of CEO that takes the reins.
Sounds like you need to go on a training montage, then! Start playing Eye of the Tiger and shooting BBs at a side of beef and all that. If it's what you really want, of course.
It's all performative. Problems with guns don't stem from the fact that guns exist and people have access to them, it's that people treat guns as a catch-all solution. As though guns are some magic wand you can use to solve all your problems. And as a wedge between those who are "In" and those who are "Out".
If you want to "fix" guns in this country, you have to start grounding the following behind them. Require that people learn about them and how to use them safely. Demystify them and make them the tool they are in peoples minds, instead of some deific relic sent by god to fix all our problems.
If your view that progress is only progress if you get everything you want with no downsides what so ever, you're doomed to be disappointed for the rest of your life.
The last guy was shockingly progressive for a pope. If that's not something to at least appreciate, even if you're not going to laud it, then all this bitching is pointless grandstanding.
He landed on his feet, though. He became the right hand man of a wizard!
No one learnt
If your best bet is hoping someone is going to be on their best behavior with no real alternative, especially on a national scale, your plans are bad and you should feel bad.
After you, buddy.
Neither are most news outlets these days.
Dallas was the one that took place in Texas, since it started a few years earlier that's probably why people think of it first when confronted with the idea of late night soaps. Especially with the sharks they jumped in later seasons.
What does dystopia mean to you? This is akin to having sticky notes to remember things, just in a more compact convenient application. Having social lubricant is also not really a bad thing. If anything it can help people keep from isolating themselves from others.
It can be abused... but then again so can sticky notes. The problem isn't the technology, it's the application. Keeping track of friends and colleagues and having simple prompts to encourage interaction is good, keeping databases of dissenters and subjugation tools not so good.
Jingoism, the term is Jingoism.
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Yeah, but one side bad, other side good!
Being beholden to laws and having laws enforced are not the same thing, unfortunately.