wouldn't just giving them the land be worth less than thousands upon thousands of human lives? like, if america wanted to conquer british columbia would it really matter? is that worth even one life?
people treat this war like it's china invading america and it's some huge clash of cultures/ideals. wasn't ukraine part of russia at some point?
I grew up in Romania in the 80s and sometimes we only had 1 square of toilet paper per day. This had to last through 13 shits (this was how many family members lived in my flat).
The abundance of America is an enigma to me, even to this day. I often wax nostaligc about my mom's hands smelling like warm dookies while she was preparing our potato soup and that long ago lubricated feeling between my cheeks that will sometimes rise above a faint whisper when I eat too many Hot Pockets.
When I first came to America, I dropped down on my knees and cried when I saw the paper aisle at my local Kroger. I had to borrow $8 from my girlfriend to buy a 12 pack but it was worth it. I rubbed my ass until bloody even though it was pillowy soft, almost heavenly.
explain why an AGI would propel intellectual and economic growth past its creator's peers.
we already feed all of human knowledge into these dumbass chatbots and don't get anything out of it other than super-autist pattern recognition.
"but if it could think, it would immediate solve all the problems plaguing humanity" -- says the dumbass AI bro.
innovative ways to fuck over the consumer and stack profits higher and higher. there used to be people tasked with imagining clever jingles to sell products. at least you could be proud of that job.
imagine being an overachiever and going through university and graduate school and your job is 'finding new ways to manipulate people.'
you'd think if they were really smart they'd realize they're garbage. right???
a woman with a septum piercing can't be controlled.
where does that come from though?
everyone in American movies and TV is a savant or aspiring to be one; they're not just a hacker or a tailor--they're the best at what they do!!! they have skills unseen even by the oldest gods. they can create a perfect dress in 20 minutes flat that'll wow the most critical Vogue editorialists; They can hack into the most secure system in a matter of minutes!
your average american can't read past elementary school but here you are with your pedantic nerd bullshit to act like details matter.
critique by grammer.. i dare you.
want more capitalizations? want me to spell grammar properly?
i'd argue that's there's nothing depressing about homelessness if you divorce it from cultural ideas about the housed, the houseless, comfort and class and laws.
what are you lacking if you have no home? no netflix? no bed? people survived without those things for thousands of years. what they're lacking is dignity and freedom.
you have no agency as a living being when you're 'homeless'--you can't hunt here because it's owned land; you can't park here because it's owned land, you can't build a shelter because it's owned land, etc.
without those restrictions plenty of people would choose to be homeless.
they're still sticking to the trope that the homeless are lazy, uneducated bums; at best they're what happens to good citizens after falling into addiction.
they all WANT to be there, but we definitely don't want them!!!
but that narrative should be falling apart as conditions deteriorate...
but you know, american education lol.
brilliant satire that critiques all of magazine journalism.
i love going to [insert publication here] and reading another article about 'so and so is ready for their next chapter in life.' the so and so always an uninteresting, overly wealthy fuckwit that hasn't accomplished anything other than going to college and having a wealthy parent.