Impeachment and getting even aren’t priorities: They’re framing one of the key things they were elected for as childish and unnecessary.

I’m actually a little stunned they didn’t let voters enjoy the thought of whatever they imagined Democrats would do for a little while.

He didn’t even give people time to enjoy the fantasy.

Something surprisingly few people get about AI is if it had any intelligence at all it would surpass us blindingly fast, no matter the starting point.

It’s never going to be in the news that thinking machines got 23% smarter over the last month or three.

There’s an old comic I wish I could locate that has people standing at a train platform awaiting superintelligence. Nothing happens, then someone staring down the track says I think I see- whoosh and it’s already gone.

I figured that was already a euphemism for shitting yourself.

I’ve had one lie to my face and the person next to me about what they said to us less than a minute prior.

It’s understandably difficult for people who haven’t experienced it to understand or believe it.

Courtesy of COVID I feel like a frustrated spectator dealing with poorer memory, and brain fog when I reach the limits of a much reduced intellectual stamina.

We can all decide the government should take their money, and politicians can do exactly what capital wants as always.

I wouldn’t say core problem but it’s definitely a critical component missing from any ernest attempt at actual democracy.

Big if do.

I can’t wait for all this to be long forgotten when we’re being loudly told all over again how important voting (and nothing else) is.

After the ‘4’ incident my calibration for guessing if something like this is a joke is completely broken.

Start? We’ve been embracing the Great Filter like a long lost friend.

No answer to them being paid off by the same people because there cannot be one.

Give it a generation or three, but yes.

Companies that “haven’t gone evil” yet are like dynasties that aren’t ruled by a mad king, yet.

To be fair to them the default with “user friendly” phone UI makes it difficult to have any idea where things are. You often really have to go out of your way to open a file manager.

pre colour film announcer voice

The worker of the [year] 2000 will work just 20 hours per week

Oops, we forgot to account for employers existing.

People die if they are killed.

Well met, the-answer-is-thought-terminating-cliche-what-was-the-question.

I hope you’re having a lovely day.

It’s not naive, it’s their excuse to switch their brains off.

If uncomfortable thoughts only come from faraway malicious others trying to undermine your “democracy”, you can dismiss them guilt-free.

Now you can simply drop a piece of paper in a box and call it good. Nothing scary needs to be done or considered to arrest the decade long freefall into overt fascism that you wait no stop you’re thinking again.

and that finally – and this goes for the capitalists too –

an inhuman power rules over everything.