In the US…

Different in other parts of the world, even in Europe this is a high salary (but it reminds me to still ask for a raise…)

The beginning of time…

If you inherit/“born rich” I don’t think so…

Yet what it did over the time with society is concerning (how much impact social media had since it was introduced). Personally, I’m just mostly annoyed, by the growing level of bullshit, and having to filter all of this. You can’t even believe shopping sites anymore because they’re infested with often incorrect AI-slop.

But yeah when filtering all that slop, it can be better even, there’s endless educative material on Youtube when you search for it. Wikipedia is a really great source of information etc. So it’s mostly the amount of information that you have to properly filter (which in itself can be exhausting though, since all these big-internet corpos are tuned to get your attention in any way).

Yeah less infested with all those big corpo “attention-based-economy” bullshit. More personal touch. This got way worse since AI too…

Not what I said, but have fun interpreting stuff into my comments…

Ah you’re also not missing in the party. Nah I’m not, I’m just realistic…

I have yet to see an authoritarian “state” that I consider communist (and that just doesn’t give it a bad name and fuel for western propaganda) that “uplifts the people” (and doesn’t repress them)…

It’s true though, that it’s probably better than capitalistic states (mostly, because all the systems we have are a mixture of all kinds of ideologies), I think China as example certainly does a better job than the USA at this point (various metrics, like addiction, mental/physical health etc. backs this as well).

Non the less, communism in its core is anti-authoritarism.

You really think those are “liberalists”?!

Why do you guys have such a black/white view of the world? There’s more room than just authoritarians, and authoritarianism and liberalism are somewhat antagonists anyways.

I mean on the other hand Marx was anarchist (though with the exception to have authoritarianism as means to change the system, which I don’t agree with, because it’s also unrealistic to assume that people in charge just throw away their power).

I think having Authoritarianism no matter how, just gravitates towards people that should definitely be not in charge. We see this everywhere. Power corrupts and dehumanizes.

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I guess the downvotes know exactly why ^^

Well let’s say tanks are pictured…

Let’s be optimistic, there’s the case for legalization, which may elliminate any substance for war, and thus it comes to end, just not the usual case for a war…

I gotta admit I chuckled a bit when I saw where this was posted…

AI is a curse…

I honestly think, it’s very cool for prototyping ideas at this point. It’s also parasitic. Although I think because of (maybe) different reasons: It gives people the power (which they unfortunately use way too much) to imitate an art, but in an non-arty imperfect way that doesn’t comprehend details (of the art), resulting in slop. For software that can go very wrong as we see here. This is also a reason why I mostly quit open-source, because now everyone can code a bad version of a library, it sucked the art out of good open source etc. and it’s increasingly difficult because of good wording/“look” etc. to differentiate on quality of code, previously you could often check a code-base review it somewhat and know how good the quality is, now it’s more like “is this slop or not?” (in which case I go a big circle around it, because reviewing is often not worth it)

At some point though, I think this automation of work is inevitable, we need to think about a society that can peacefully exist without having the requirement to work to exist. I actually think this could easily be utopian, everyone can focus on what they actually think is fulfilling life.

Though, it’s sad and concerning that technology is developing faster than society can adapt, which is why I’m mostly with you, because people (or representatives like politicians) just aren’t “programmed” for these fast-paced changes, to adapt the technology such that the future may be more utopian as it currently is heading towards a dystopian future…

sane person

If you don’t care about getting poorer everyday, well you probably aren’t a sane person. Unfortunately the amount of insane people in the US seems to be growing for some time I guess…

I mean just stating the endless facts, would be enough for a somewhat sane person to grasp how fucking awful this current administration is. There’s endless fuel every day. Just collect a list of the worst stuff, you can still fill the whole day with a fairly neutral list of facts… That should be enough motivation to vote them away…

As someone else said here, vote in the primaries!

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/2026-state-primary-election-dates

I only trust math with my data (i.e. encryption…)