pssst: it’s gonna get worse

Download a shitload of epubs, roms, backup of wikipedia, and get ready for full-on, unmissable, 1984-style marketing and propaganda culture. You’ll see it, you’ll have to see it, and there will be no option B.

“Okay, evil asshole” ~ Everyone on Earth

I’ve considered containerizing it somewhere just for the sake of selling and buying car parts and ‘the like’, but I have no active intention to participate beyond that and family matters.

Fact is, I’d be fine if that was all Facebook was, that seems reasonable. It’s the endless patronizing propaganda, tracking, ads and arguing bots everyone takes issue with. If they just didn’t suck, they’d be fine.

People selling lawnmowers and TVs from 2013 that still work.

Good, fuck em. Smol web, best web

Plane Landed!

style: 4500

substance: 4500

speed: 4000

civilian health: 5000 PERFECT

rings collected: 5000 PERFECT

black box: INTACT

Grade: A

“A?! A?? wtf do you even want!? WHERE’S MY GODDAMN S-RANK!?”

throws controller

Is lemmy nothing to you people?

Consider those who just turn on artist radios, Spotify can’t blacklist an artist they feature, to my knowledge.

Oh, there’s an Ai group in your favorite artist’s radio? Guess there always will be, and they won’t be alone, why do that? Less they have to pay.

That has nothing to do with taste. You could be blasting Dave Brubeck and the next song is an Ai drum solo.

Cost of doing business, easy write off.

‘yar har, fiddle dee dee’ intensifies

They’re right, most people have shit music taste.

I have shit music taste, but only because I’m self aware enough to know I do.

You may be shrugging right now, going “well, I don’t have shit music taste.”

You do.

‘Infinite strength’ has weird limits in fiction, but can usually be troped in three big, easy ways. The first is to threaten something that character cares deeply about. He may be invincible, but his world is not.

The other is to have them at limited potentials of that power, or limit them by their incompetence or inexperience. This is the Matthew Malloy or Scarlet Witch situation, they had/have power but are sometimes written with zero control of that power.

The last and easiest, is to use abilities that do not depend on strength. Strength is always troped by magic and telepathic users of at least some skill. Can’t kill what you’re fighting? Teleport it to hell! Trick its mind into fighting someone else. Trick it into thinking there’s nothing wrong, or Charles Xavier’s method, ‘you sleep now’.

Though there are sometimes limits to that. See - The Hulk.

“He’s too angry! His mind is madness!”

No idea why they never think of just levitating him. He can’t smash if he can’t get to the ground.

Prime is a different beast. He’s still silver-bronze age Superboy, with every bit of rediculous strength the plots of the 70’s had to offer. The dude can punch holes in reality and collide planets.

Goku though just needs a training arc to beat anybody.

Saitama would be a good one-one for SBP.

ok goku, you beat me… I do have a finite power limit

“ha!”

but I don’t!!

Uh yeah shuffles papers our uhh Ai did that as well!

“My Ai just hacked the entire US financial sector then left without a trace, prove it didn’t!”

This is like kids saying Superman could beat Goku in middleschool.

he could, tho

Let’s see that SOURCE.

(I hate Israel, loooove truth, tho)

To the witless idiots defending authoritarianism to stop school shootings, If this sort of shit stopped school shootings then I guess we wouldn’t have school shootings.

Guess it doesn’t. www.edweek.org/leadership/…/01

I do get the angry anti-2A people willing to take everyone’s guns to stop school shootings, because besides one italian kid shooting an insurance CEO, you aren’t really making good use of that amendment to hold your government accountable in the first place.

We had an encrypted chat for a bit before I realized it was completely pointless with literally everyone in it but one or two having entirely stock phones with in-built Ai and tracking mechanisms. We used XMPP.

Since it was for a Jellyfin server, it basically meant anyone on an unmodified Google or Apple phone was basically a door to a seach of that data from either company for the text logged into each chatroom by each user, and displayed. Unless everyone is secure, no one is.

What hellhole is this when the US typically has no such requirement?

If this is a country in the EU, y’all need to step up and tell US to fuck off,

Why do people seem to think ungoogled won’t just become ‘unverified’ and the world won’t just keep spinning as usual?

This sucks for anyone with a stock phone, sure.

Oh no, I can’t use my banking app!

Oh no! 🙄 Guess you’ll actively have to remember your balance. The horror.