19th century rural life consisted of you and your family living on barely more than subsistence farming and not seeing or interacting with anyone outside your family or immediate neighbors for months at a time.
In 1980, John Lennon was shot by a mentally ill man who was convinced to kill Lennon by reading Catcher in the Rye. If he had never read Catcher in the Rye, he most likely wouldn't have killed John Lennon.
But it is not the fault of Catcher in the Rye. We don't ban the book, or call the author irresponsible for writing it, because we recognize that the fault lies in the mental illness of the shooter, and that anything could have set him off.
The people who kill themselves because an AI Chatbot told them to are mentally ill. It is their mental illness that killed them, not the chatbot. You can make the claim that if it wasn't for the chatbot, they wouldn't have gone through with it, but again, you can say the same thing about Catcher in the Rye. Getting rid of the trigger does not remove the mental illness.
There is a lot to hate about AI. A lot of dangers and valid criticism. But AI chatbots convincing people to kill themselves isn't a problem with chatbots, it's a problem with the user.
I get it, grieving families will look for anything and anyone to blame for suicide except the victim, but ultimately, it is the victim who chose to kill themselves. If someone is convinced to kill themselves from something as stupid as an AI chatbot, they really weren't that far from the edge to begin with.
I've gotta wonder... How expensive are these little networked e-ink displays? Probably not super expensive, but they've gotta be more than a paper price tag. Definitely more of a hassle to replace when someone breaks them by running into them, accidentally snapping them off, etc...
I would rather be a correct asshole than a polite idiot. You aren't upset I'm an asshole, you're upset because I called out the idiocy of people like you falling for this post.
Stupidity is a BAD trait. It is BAD to be stupid. If you fall for obvious misinformation, it is because you have acted stupidly, that is a BAD thing. People deserve to call you out on it because you should feel BAD for being stupid. Our society used to do this regularly and idiots learned to shut their fucking mouths and be ashamed of their stupidity.
And I will politely ask you to fuck off the internet entirely until you can recognize fiction from reality. Your kind of stupidity is what's ruining everything.
How? Please spell it out. And remember, calling out idiots is not a conservative trait. Getting upset at idiots is not a conservative trait. Blindly accusing people who don't say things you like of being conservative because you just can't fathom the possibility of someone not blindly believing and supporting fake bullshit IS a trait of a fucking idiot.
Valid criticism of stupidity that goes against the hive mind message? Must be a conservative! Definitely not someone who's fed up with people, supposedly against misinformation, continuously falling for the dumbest shit imaginable!
Oh yes, and thank God we are talking about a completely made up scenario of Barron Trump getting drafted instead of unimportant things like the war itself or the Epstein files. Wouldn't want pesky things like that getting in the way of manufactured outrage for dumb shits like you to lap up.
Oh I know! Let's follow it up with an article about how MAGA is totally about to turn on Trump! Or maybe an AI generated image of Trump yelling at Hegseth? Oh I bet he's big mad about that one! Who cares about reality as long as it sounds good and reinforces the pathetic-ass beliefs of the idiotic masses?!
Idiots. You are all fucking idiots. Yes, you; from OP to every single person in the comments. All of you are too fucking stupid to spend even 30 seconds reading past the most bullshit, click-bait, headline of all time.
No one is talking about reinstating the draft. No one is talking about specifically excluding Barron Trump. Do you dumb fucks want to know what this article is actually about?
IF the draft DID get reinstated (despite literally no one considering it), Barron Trump MIGHT get exempt because he TECHNICALLY falls outside the maximum height requirements (no special treatment, just the actual limits already defined and laid out).
That's it. That's fucking it. No nepotism. No potential draft. Just complete made up horseshit. It's like saying "If we made drinking milk mandatory for people who are younger than 18, Baron Trump might be excluded because he's older than 18." Like, no fucking shit. That's not a news story, its like a hypothetical a child would come up with.
All of you need to go look in a fucking mirror and rethink your media literacy, because it's fucking garbage. You fucking idiots.
Your friends are absolutely right in telling you to never do that again. It was an incredibly dick move to invite them to be the token gays around a bigot without telling them what's up. He was 100% correct, you put them in danger without their consent or knowledge. Like, if you don't profusely apologize and recognize what a completely fucking selfish and stupid thing you did by putting them in that situation, you may have done irreparable harm to your friendship with them.
Oh you thought if the homophobe was just around gay people he'd magically change his way of thinking? Are you out of your fucking mind? This isn't a fucking game for us, it's our fucking lives. Your Russian dipshit really could have pulled out a knife or gun and attacked, and you know what? It wouldn't have been unexpected.
It's like if you had a dangerous pitbull that had warmed up to you and you wanted to see how it reacted around other people. So you invited a bunch of people over without telling them they would be around a dangerous pitbull.
Sorry for ranting, but holy shit this pissed me off. Your gay friends must have the patience of fucking saints to have not slapped the shit out of you for pulling that stunt. I certainly would have.
You might think he was joking, and maybe OP was, but I'm certainly not. Graveyards are a massive waste of space. Respect for the dead is a really fucking weird and pointless thing our society does.
They are dead. Dead. They deserve as much respect as the ground beef you have in your freezer. There is no point in preserving their remains, or laying them in a multi-thousand dollar casket, or having a spot in the ground that will become unusable for other purposes for at least 100 years. They. Are. Fucking. Dead. That's not them anymore. It's dead meat. It's fucking asinine to waste so many acres of land on dead meat.
Yes, actually. Including made-up, fake-ass, low-effort propaganda DOES, in fact, change the meaning of the meme. Because whatever meaning you were trying to convey has now been replaced with: Pathetic, AI slop.
Sorry. Best I can do now is 20 different AI written recipes that are all slight deviations from a single mediocre chili recipe written by an influencer 8 years ago.
19th century rural life consisted of you and your family living on barely more than subsistence farming and not seeing or interacting with anyone outside your family or immediate neighbors for months at a time.