Look I’m not saying it isn’t worse now. Everything is obviously worse now.

What I’m saying is that things were already bad before, and we need to look at the root cause because as bad as he is, mango mussolini is just another symptom of the rot that’s been around since long before any of this.

Let’s be real, they already were pay for play before, now they’re just honest about it. Remind me, how many proven unsafe additives does the US allow into food that have been banned by evey other developed country for decades?

A lot of toothbrushes advertise themselves as “improved whitening” or similar things because the design of the bristles and the action (on electric brushes) actually does help them break up stains, and thus help whiten teeth, when used properly.

As for the antimicrobial claims, there are many materials that are human safe that are also naturally antimicrobial. For instance, brass self sanitizes in as little as 15 minutes, which is why it’s the most common material for doorknobs.

So you’re telling me that you have a table saw that can stand up, walk to the wood pile, grab a plank, measure to size, line it up, and push it over the blade if you say “I need a two foot 2x4”? Because that is the level of automaton that we’re talking about with ai. The human makes a request, the bot does all the work.

But nevermind, I just looked into your comment history and you obviously don’t have the mental faculties for an intelligent conversation on this subject. Have a nice life, I’m out.

Your obviously bad faith argument excludes the distinction between tool and automaton.

All the things you listed are tools. They are objects that assist humans with performing a process.

“Generative” ai is an automaton. A human gives it an instruction and it performs a process fully independent of human action.

Hiring someone to draw a picture and then signing your name on it doesn’t make you an artist, and that’s exactly what every ai “”“artist”“” is doing.

Love the work! Also, chibithulhu. 🥹

It’s a scene from Final Fantasy 7.

that got into legal trouble, to put it mildly.

Extremely mildly.

He fucked it up so badly that part of the fallout included him being legally barred from sitting on the board of any charity ever again.

So we’re not allowed to advocate for people to defend themselves from masked, unidentified kidnappers because that’s a “cAlL fOr ViOlEnCe”.

Pathetic.

I don’t give half a could fuck what you think you are outside of this forum. Your slavish devotion to enforcing this rule emboldens and encourages the fascists who see it. You help fascists. You are a fascist that’s all there is to that equation.

So you’re a fascist, got it.

There was even a song called Never Go Walking Without Your Hatpin.

Yup, that’s a huge factor people don’t tend to think about when it comes to fitness. It’s the reason they tell you not to do a lot of cardio if you’re trying to do hardcore strength training. Your body only has so much adaptive “bandwidth”, and trying to do to many things at once will massively reduce your progress in all of them.

It’s partially your height. Naturally lower center of gravity means naturally better stability, plus the less you have to lower yourself to get a lifting grip on something the less effort int takes to get the thing and yourself back up.

To 1, your “example” is a bad faith gotcha based on an insane hypothetical. It does absolutely nothing to prove my argument wrong that everyone would be safer is speeders slowed down to a reasonable speed.

For 2, nearly all highways in the US are set for a speed limit that is both safe for that road and allows for reasonable efficiency of travel. Your example here is once again a bad faith gotcha argument based on insane hypotheticals.

It’s become clear that you have nothing meaningful to contribute here. Have a nice life, I’m out.

What you’re advocating for is allowing entitled psychopaths to set the speed everyone is forced to go because you somehow think that if someone is doing 90 in a 55 and hits someone actually doing 55 that it was the normal person’s fault.

I’m obviously not saying anyone should be doing fucking 10 on the highway, I’m saying nobody needs to be doing more than the speed limit.

Correct. Project abundance is just “do absolutely nothing new, but do is slightly louder.”

We already know what needs to be done, we just aren’t allowed to talk about it.

The Tree of Liberty is thirsty.

Every study we have shows that the roads are safer, there are less crashes and they are less deadly when everyone just goes slower. But apparently you would rather risk getting turned into a rorschach splat than advocate for the thing that actually makes roads safer.

The state of the road in your scenario is already unsafe because of the people doing 75. Every. Single. Study. Shows that there are less crashes and they are less lethal when everyone just slows the fuck down. But none of you entitled fuckwits will accept even the tiniest bit of personal inconvenience for the sake of your own safety and that of everyone around you, so we have to live in fucking Mad Max instead.

This is a bullshit talking point used by psychopaths to try to justify their antisocial behavior. If the people around you are going so fast that just doing the speed limit becomes unsafe, they are the ones wholly responsible for creating those unsafe conditions. They are driving faster than the conditions (and let’s be real, their own ability) would reasonably allow for, they are the only ones that should be held responsible for the consequences of their freakish behavior.