Righteous

That’s what I was thinking. How is this in any way not the opposite of patriotism? On technicality they’re steering torward treason, but neither state they adhere to exists anymore.

Grind it and start moaning.

He looks defeated by the situation, but also surprised he’s not finding it that bad. “This sucks… But maybe I like this? What a day…”

This seems to be a tech corp script. Have one good thing, get rich, spend the next few decades failing at everything else you try.

At some point you just have to admit you’re really shit at stuff but just got lucky once. The odds will land on someone and that’s about as special as you are.

That’s the thing I think I’ll die never understanding. I really don’t see the point of being on your death bed with plenty of leftovers.

Some people have a really backwards understanding on the core philosophy of “being successful in life”. Like, he seems to lack the ability to grasp the literal meaning of that concept and so will always be doomed to fail at achieving anything with it. It just makes sense to understand he has a psychological deficit. I’d be empathetic if he weren’t such a catastrophic burden to everyone.

I dunno. I’m good at reading and my brain voice is doing the same confused staggered reading like When People Capitalise The First Letter Of Every Word For No Reason And The Subconsciousness Struggles To Read Fast Without Seeing Periods In There Or Discerning What’s A Title Or Propernoun Or Not.

Wouldn’t be the first time. It seems so normal now, but it was only a little over half a century ago we learned mattresses have consciousness. Back in Galileo’s time everyone thought quarks were real and some people still do.

We think we know so much about the universe but we don’t.

I think the Declaration of Independence was pretty explicit on this and you guys just get another president.

He looks like he’s missing bolts in his neck.

I’m thinking Vlad may also just be a magnet for bad life decisions.

“This is just like the time you flew halfway across the country to buy a car during a fucking fuel crisis, Vlad!” will be added to the long list of things his wife’s had to put up with.

Ths is gonna cause some fun at work. I know our IT team would not be on top of this until one day a portion of employees can’t SSO in. Then mayhem will ensue by heels being dug on both sides.

Is there a timeline where the West bails Russia out in the near future? Just like in the 1850s…and 1890s… and 1920s…and 1940s… and obviously the 1990s…

Side note: That would make an excellent exposition for an apocalyptic horror, like a zombie film. Some industry billionaire infects themselves with a parasite or virus that’s been dorment for millions of years…

“This summer, the rich fuck over humanity one last time…”

It’s concerning that people aren’t immediately picking up that it’s satire. After setting up for a zinger, here it comes…

I placed my laptop on the table, opened a browser window to ChatGPT, and prepared to do what I do every single day in my actual scientific practice: type a prompt and receive a coherent, well-structured response that I would then lightly edit and present as my own thinking.

It’s at exactly this point you should realise, laugh, and then immediately feel upset because Dr Simmons is making their point. The rest of the write up is them giving us an upsetting insight into the realities of a world they’re intimate with and show very valid concern for, just as we should now be after reading it.

Then to top it off, I come read the comments to have a laugh and discuss it, but instead now I just feel extra gloomy about the rot of our thinking and discerning skills and how easy it is to just take advantage of this. Now I can’t stop thinking about how many users fall for misinformation and how many times each day if this is already the kind of thing breaking their acid tests.

I now imagine some people’s pride will just default all that I just said to a superiority complex and that just makes things even more depressing.

I don’t know if the writer intended this extra provocation, but bonus points. Or they’re reading the discourse around their write up is more about whether it’s satire or not and instead are now at a “I fucking give up on this world” point.

I can’t believe this is the thing that has people get upset at their politicians… But, sure! Keep it up!

Ew. I like my ice fresh.

Well, I was referring physical appearances in that context. I’m sure many Americans are well aware of their various climates; what’s shit, what’s not.

I once explained some socialism ideas on Reddit. One user called me a communist, another a Nazi. It was a very confusing pair of responses but said more than either would ever know.

I did recently watch something showing how much older Americans look due to diet. Not like it’s necessarily a choice of bad diet, rather the options are awful all the way down to produce. There was no science to it, just interviews of Americans visiting other developed nations in Europe, Asia, and places like Australia. A recurring response of why was people pointed it to the “normal” food of the country they were visiting or moved to was higher quality and healthier.

They revealed their ages and I was quite shocked. They all looked years older. Even the host I thought was around 40 to early 40s but was only 32 and apparently was normal for their age.

I guess if that’s the society you live in, you would never realise it until you travelled.