[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

American exceptionalism and identity politics have become so ingrained in the culture that it is too painful for people to identify as lower class and needing assistance. Needing help has become considered a moral failing of the individual instead of a failing of the society, and that feeds back into itself to prevent people from changing the culture.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago

Ok I think I've got it.

Jesus is like Voltron, the 3 dudes in the middle combine to form him.
And the 2 on the ends are the spiritual equivalent of two men each, which is why all the parts of Jesus are hanging out with them.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Jokes ~~ab~~o~~ut l~~o~~ss~~ o~~f life are neve~~r funny

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not only the pollution.

It has triggered an economic race to the bottom for any industry that can incorporate it. Employers will be forced to replace more workers with AI to keep prices competitive. And that is a lot of industries, especially if AI continues its growth.
The result is a lot of unemployment, which means an economic slowdown due to a lack of discretionary spending, which is a feedback loop.

There are only 3 outcomes I can imagine:

  1. AI fizzles out. It can't maintain its advancement enough to impress execs.
  2. An unimaginable wealth disparity and probably a return to something like feudalism.
  3. social revolution where AI is taken out of the hands of owners and placed into the hands of workers. Would require changes that we'd consider radically socialist now, like UBI and strong af social safety nets.

The second seems more likely than the third, and I consider that more or less a destruction of humanity

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My only excuse is that I just woke up and my eyes were still bleary.

Wait... Does this mean we can get some Lemonussyade?

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

This is the most Canadian bedroom I've ever jeen

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

Delete this right now.

Not the post, the ice cream flavour.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

I mean obviously you'd have the rule that anyone caught making out or having sex is disqualified.

The fun would be in how much they overthink every little action that they all do, and cutting to the individual interviews explaining their thoughts lol

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

Well... IDK what else could have possibly gotten my wife's attention, because I'm sure AF not hot or cool.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I'm not personally a fan of that brand of elitist gatekeeping. Having it be harder to keep out the plebs is not a look I think we wanna get behind.

Decentralization is important, but the goal isn't to keep people out.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Someone took an ungodly shit.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

If it makes money (or some equivalent) then you can't own it. Parents aren't necessarily, if you're supported so that you can invent for the betterment of society or for fun.

Dictatorship of the proletariat is supposed to be a temporary phase, but it is a fundamental weak point in the transition to communism that I think cannot be overcome, because once people get that power, they won't be able to give it up (or they'll be removed by people who don't want to give it up).

So I consider communism sort of an unattainable ideal that we should strive towards rather than actually considering implementing irl.

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