TheFriar

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TheFriar,

Is this is a real conversation or is this all gay code

TheFriar,

There are already talks of military use, reading all your texts, eliminating jobs with no plan to support those who lost them, AI driven cars killing people, taking all creative work from humans and leaving the menial tasks…that’s nowhere near a complete list and it’s already dystopian.

The thing is, when private companies are the ones that hold the tech and monetize it, shit is going to get dystopian before you can say “artichoke.” Capitalism is dystopian. Late stage capitalism even more so. And we are fast approaching a new frontier in which these same evil tech companies will wield this unbelievable power. I get it. There are good uses. But when the end goal is profit, our best interest comes second, if not last.

TheFriar,

Wrong. People aren’t shitty. The power to exploit turns people shitty. Power corrupts people. Hierarchy enforces a rule of shittiness, an opportunity and almost need to exploit. Eliminate the exploitative hierarchy and the concept of people being generally shitty would disappear.

TheFriar,

communism is fine. People are shitty. That’s why they ruin everything, including capitalism.

This is what you said and what I was responding to (or a reasonable facsimile thereof).

Which is kind of the exact opposite of what you just said.

Communism is both an idealized view of people and their ability to create a system that is best for all—but it’s also overly naive about the entire process because it requires putting a unified party in charge to oversee the transition. So the general thrust of this belief is people are good, and people can be trusted to use their ultimate power for good…and then to willingly step down. Which is where every single communist movement has failed and every person put in power abused it and murdered.

People are shitty. That’s why they ruin everything, including capitalism.

Capitalism is a system that was designed to make people exploit each other. Its founding concept is exploitation. The more people down the line that you exploit, the more profit you have. It’s where underpaying, lobbying, outsourcing and slave labor, insider trading…literally every problem humanity has right now is inextricably tied to capitalism. Because the entire concept is built on exploitation. Screwing over more people = more money.

Do people in your daily life treat you like shit? And I mean just people. Not your boss, but everyday people. No. People on the whole are generally pretty easy going. But the system into which we’ve been born conditions us to hurt each other. We are all encouraged to take from everyone else because it means we get more.

But that is capitalism. That’s not people. If we were all born into a cooperative society…people would be helpful. The instinct to exploit and hurt others would be gone. Of course there are people that are just generally bad and hurtful, but this sense you have of people being generally awful would be gone. Because what you’re seeing is the hand of capitalism bitch slapping everyone. And you’re blaming it on people.

I just think you have it backwards. People are good. Capitalism ruined people. And communism is naive—but only because it believes you can hand a unified party of people ultimate power and they’ll happily relinquish it. Anarchism is the answer. It’s the same concept, but without trusting politicians.

TheFriar,

Hold my common sense, I’m wading into a political comment section!

TheFriar,

“Don’t tell me you’re actually leaving the house wearing…that.”

TheFriar,

Welcome to he internet.

TheFriar, (edited )

I will never pay for premium. Yewtu.be and all the similar front end ad killers are always there when ublock Origin gets half a step behind in the never ending cat and mouse it seems to have with YT. Fuck tech companies. Fuck YouTube. Fuck Reddit. Fuck em all.

TheFriar,

Well I don’t drive

TheFriar,

Nah I live in da city booiiii

TheFriar,

Yeah, I got lucky with my cat too. If I sleep in, she sleeps in. Even if she’s not sleeping in, she just curls up in my arm and will sit there, just awake and chillin. When I go to bed, she’s ready for bed. She gets in, curls up in my arm, and is ready for sleep.

When she was a kitten, she was definitely bad about playing with my face at random hours of the night. But I sort of trained her to not wake me up. She wouldn’t eat until after I woke up-like, a few hours. So she never associated me waking up with food. It was just sort of the routine that she ate away from bedtime. Boom, perfect cat.

TheFriar,

Wait, what wheels?

TheFriar,

Really? I thought it was touching.

TheFriar,

Ah. Understandable. My girl is sitting on my leg right now.

And she’s a cat.

But I get it.

TheFriar,

And why, if you have photographic evidence of grand theft, you’d text the person who stole with just “this is Erica from the dentist office.”

I have a feeling this internet person is making stuff up.

TheFriar,

You think? I dunno. It’s 100% about how you actually view women. When you talk about the woman you’re dating in a way that just recognizes them as another person, then there is no problem.

I believe wholeheartedly I could write this column without issue.

TheFriar,

But generalities are wrong, period. When the subject is described subjectively, then you’re not crossing any lines. When you question your own perception, there’s no way you could really inadvertently cross any sexist line.

TheFriar,

Regulation “may” fail to keep up with the technology?

lol regulation is always done after the fact—if it all. In the EU, yeah, there’s a chance it gets done eventually. The US lol. Regulation is about 44 years behind.

TheFriar, (edited )

I’m confused about the wet, directional heart leaking and pointing under the table?

…or am I not and it’s exactly what I think?

TheFriar,

You’re telling me the woman whose tragedy was sensationalized as she was weirdly sexualized and demonized and judged in the court of public opinion doesn’t like the true crime industry? Weird.

TheFriar,

All I have seen is double standards whenever men’s issues need to be talked about versus women’s issues. Mental health issues, women pedophiles/predators versus men pedophiles/predators, or male SA versus female SA, military recruitments, physical risk jobs like ones at construction sites, women publicly allowed to get away with sexual harassment or roadside flirting, or men being called creeps for being nice to children but women are “inclusive” and never creepy, et al.

Wait, I thought you said men built this world. Now you have a problem with the way the world runs? Sounds like some pinko leftist feminist hooey.

TheFriar,

All I have seen is double standards whenever men’s issues need to be talked about versus women’s issues. Mental health issues, women pedophiles/predators versus men pedophiles/predators, or male SA versus female SA, military recruitments, physical risk jobs like ones at construction sites, women publicly allowed to get away with sexual harassment or roadside flirting, or men being called creeps for being nice to children but women are “inclusive” and never creepy, et al.

I thought you said men built this world. Now you have a problem with the way the world runs? Sounds like some pinko leftist feminist hooey.

TheFriar,

Disgusting thinking. Can you imagine

TheFriar,

They’re talking about in the US.

TheFriar, (edited )

I could see the AI claim. Look between the middle guy’s legs. Is that the bottom of the car, the metallic rail thing (I’m not a car person)? Is it a reflection really bright on the ground? It doesn’t line up with the rest of the car.

Look at the the left guy’s right hand. Is he holding something? Or are his fingers fucked up like AI tends to do?

And the left side of the cover, behind the guy, is that another car? Or a truck? It wouldn’t fit into that space. It doesn’t make any sense. I could very much see this being AI.

It to mention, maybe the most telling, is the “picture taker’s” pointing hand. Is that the thumb? Where are the rest of the fingers? You would see the second knuckle in that position, or you’d see the fingertips curled into the palm. It’s just a blur of he vague idea of fingers. I’m pretty damn sure this is AI.

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