Star trek, but obly the classic shows. Anything after Kurtzman took over has been unmitigated dog shit

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Fuck this billionaire bullshit that will be abused to hell and back. First off, this is WAY more complicated than these bozos imagine, it’s like the “datacenters in space!!!” stupidity. Yet these assholes will invest in it, pollution will have been had from here to hell and back, and it’ll fail because this is not just “dump a mirror in orbit”

But let’s say they get it done, just for a second

What do you think will happen? What would happen to nature, animals, humans, and even weather patterns To add to that, Do you really believe byhis would be abused to fuck over some marginalized group or country?

They were, yes, in the original stories, but since nudity is ick ew omg in religions, the leaves were added in all imagery because imagine somebody seeing a weewee

The company that bribed the Cheeto?

Yeah, sure. Trust THAT company

I’ve not used it for a while because I just gave up on it but I was literally trying to use it from day 1. Been trying it on and off over the years, never with much success

… So not only I got Rick Rolled in 2026, I actually went there myself, like a double tap.

Nicely done!

This guy blocks everyone who doesn’t like his AI mess. Interesting

Make sure to use AI for that!

We should jail those bits

It’s not virtue signalling, I know very well what I’m doing is hypocritical at best, but it’s also unavoidable for me. For one, I’m using it like this at work where they’d love nothing better than for me to start vibe coding. This is the compromise I’ve been able to make so far.

No. I was questioning why drink whatever that is if they don’t like it. If you don’t like it, don’t drink it?

(almost) Everyone watches porn, yet in my experience, the vast majority of people look down on performers

I guess it’s this social status thing.

It’s similar to how in all the most religious.placea people are mostly into gay and trans porn. Noooooobody watches it, but porn sites continuously have to stream that porn there, they don’t know how that happens either, magic!

My mother knows his name, she’s too old for the internet and she’s in Europe

However, she watches this weird bulb that emits light and it shows her things from around the world. I believe it’s called a television and the thing she sometimes watches is called “news” I believe.

Just because you are ignorant doesn’t mean that everyone is

Yeah, but no.

That is the problem, WE (as in you and I) cannot do anything and WE shouldn’t have to be responsible for this shit

It’s the same as recycling. I separate all by garbage down to toothpicks, but Taylor Swift flies her private jet for whatever dumb shit and undies all the work millions of people do with a single fucking flight.

Big chain stores on a daily basis throw away millions of kilos in perfectly fine food, clothes and other products (without separation for recycling, of course) to keep prices up, and somehow I need to fix this problem?

We, as in you and me and millions more can work for decades to build up something amazing and it gets torn down in a day by some billionaire or dictator, the end.

I’m really really not trying to be a dick, I’m just trying to show a reality check here. I’ve heard “save the Amazon!!” literally all my life, decades, and NOTHING was done to stop it. Oh sure, er had little wins here and there, like this one, which got washed away a year later by some new asshole on the block

I’m not saying “why even bother anymore”, though the feeling is… Familiar, at this point, but I am saying that we need to start doing something else because we’re focused on the wrong problem

The Amazon is not a problem, it’s a symptom of the real problem. The real problem is that out of 8 billion people on this world there is a tiny sliver, a few tens of thousands of psychopaths at most, that have gathered all the power and money. Be it billionaires, dictators, doesn’t matter, same shit, different day.

THAT is the problem, that is the issue that needs fixing. These people need to be stopped, one way or another, and never to return.

Ordinary people don’t want wars. Why do we have wars? That tiny group of people. The current Iran war is the result of a small group of US government officials and a part of the Israeli government.

The Amazon problem? Look down history, all the shit that happened there has to do with money and power.

None of it will ever really stop for as long as we continue looking at the symptoms. We need to stop the cause.

How?

I’m open to suggestions!

Personally, I’d LOVE to see world wide wealth caps. Start with, say 100 million, then a decade later you can lower that to 10. Have normal tax brackets, but nobody can be worth more than that cap, the last bracket. Any income or existing Wealth after that goes 100% to taxes. Governments will finally have the income to do things like universal healthcare, free education, even some form of universal basic income

That’s never going to happen of course because that requires the rich and powerful to finally be the same as the rest of us, and they’ll never allow that.

But with that, we’d finally be able to focus on fixing the world without a few powerful psychopaths fucking everything up for everyone just so they can get a little richer

I agree with you

The problem is that I’ve been alive probably much longer than you, and I’ve seen news like this a hundred times already.

Next year the Amazon will again be burned down at record speed because of some new president that was elected who thinks that trees are useless wastes of space or something like that.

I would call it good news when the entire Amazon, all of it, is declared a nature preserve that humanity has to protect at all cost.

That will never happen. The best we can hope for is that it disappears a little slower.

And “we have to start somewhere”? Do you know how many “starts” I’ve seen over the decades? Where we need to start is getting rid of the rich, the billionaires, the centillionaires, the Wall Street types that add nothing to this world, just takes from it, the dictators, the fascists, all of it. Those are the actual problem. Climate change is just a symptom of the illness that is them

Nah, wouldn’t do that. CSS needs to be well designed to function properly, you need actual developers for that or you’ll screw over your users.

But yeah, to give quick pointers and ideas to flesh out, it’s reasonably useful

If that is enough to warrant it’s extreme energy use, the spread of AI slop everywhere, the pollution, the uncontrolled datacenter expansions, the explosion in hardware costs it created, the countless death and suffering it caused through AI psychosis, the AI childporn bots (hello grok, are you still the world’s biggest child porn producer or did Elmo finally reign you in to again be mecha Hitler?), the…

Long story short, AI will likely end this world in a long list of fucked up ways, I don’t think it’s worth it

Until then, I’ll use it as a suggestion tool, not much more

Not everyone lives in the US, though

And it won’t matter, I wouldn’t buy one because the Chinese government, like the US government, is evil as fuck and wants to control every fucking move of every fucking person

But having said all that: I still don’t believe this crap either because big claims require big evidence, to put it very simple

I’d hope that too but this is the real world and it sucks. More and more, everything must be to apease those in charge, those with money and power and things like VPN gives us alternatives, so yeah… And yes, I’ve heard the first proposals to ban VPNs, to “protect the children or course” (fuck the children, nobody cares about the well being of children, it’s all money and power) and I’m sure those first bans fail, they will just try again next year and the year after etc. until they win.

They only need a single win and we can’t make a law to prohibit this shit behavior apparently

I’ve seen similar processes at work for encryption for the past 20 years or so. Every one or two years they try again, and again, at some point they’ll succeed just for sheer statistical probably

So enjoy while it lasts, I’m getting out of it what I can, while I can

Yeah, the USA is had and we all know that Putin is our friend who would never do anything to hurt anybody!

Come on dude, don’t be THAT naive

The speed with which I saw this happening in so many countries tells me that we probably only have a few good years left until this is a world wide thing.

Same for VPN, I don’t see those last much longer either