I love how almost none of this discussion is about nuclear power or thorium and just about people wanting to feel morally correct about something and snarling back and forth at each other accusing the other of supporting genocide.

Our species is so cooked. We must be the first species to evolve with our heads up our own asses.

For the amount of actual nuclear waste, it kind of is. Earth is so huge and the amount of waste so small, that you could bury literally ALL of it under a mountain somewhere and chances are high that it would never see daylight again nor would never be found by anyone in the future.

Even despite this, extraordinary measures are taken to make sure nothing escapes the containment until such time that Earth’s crust has completely rolled down into the mantle or the mountain erodes, which by then it wouldn’t be nuclear waste anymore.

“Liberal America” isn’t a group of people in the abstract, these are our judges, our lawyers, our civil servants and our accountants and our food drivers. There is great power in that, which is why so many people desperate to hold onto their wealth for so long have worked so hard to make us all think that kind of power isn’t as good as money or fame. When it’s far, far more powerful.

Someone wrote a book about it once, spawned a few big movements. Might have heard of it.

Maybe it will be midterm votes, maybe it will be marches and protests, maybe it will be full on riots. Do not underestimate what happens when enough people start to worry about their safety, security and where their next meal will come from.

It’s very naive of people to think that in an authoritarian dictatorship controlled by the world’s wealthiest people, that there won’t be a LOT of unjust deaths in the coming years.

I will be positively shocked if they don’t make a very public example of Mangione. It’s going to hurt and that’s what they want. They want to kill him in front of us so we feel pain. Then they’re going to do it again and again with other people whom we don’t want to see die. Remember that. This is what happens.

This is what 45% of eligible voters thought would never happen so they stayed home. Too much trouble. Too hard to figure out the truth (by googling for 30 seconds). Too many excuses to not rock the boat, and now the boat is rocking us all out.

Just saying it out loud could get ICE knocking on your door.

It’s an attempt to normalize the fear/hate of LGBTQ+ people on an international level. As long as the administration continues to constantly press this issue, much like the “mere exposure” advertising effect, it doesn’t matter if people believe it nor not, the more times people hear a thing, the more likely they are to adopt that belief or feeling, even to a tiny degree.

That tiny degree, when continually pressed, when continually exposed, over large populations, influences a large number of people.

As long as they have an enemy group they can pin their problems on, they will keep going and keep ramping up the atrocities until we see mass graves. Again. (Seriously, how many times do we have to see mass graves in our nations before we decide that our leadership needs to be thrown down a well.)

If you guys care, please don’t just rant on Lemmy or other internet spaces. Go talk to your family members. Talk to your friends. If you don’t have friends, GO MAKE FRIENDS. GO MAKE ENEMIES. Our anti-social, paranoid, self-absorbed internet shut-in culture is making all of this tragedy possible.

Guys, you HAVE to push through those terrifying feelings of engaging with strangers. You HAVE to get social again. We don’t win this behind keyboards.

Capitalist nations do not care about their people.

They’re all capitalist nations.

This is actually great.

I mean, I know this is going to be a cynical take, but I have nothing left but cynicism towards my country.

If the administration starts persecuting white Americans, that’s far more likely to rile up middle-class, liberal America than if people with “exotic” names like 'Garcia" get deported. It sucks but it’s true, our country is built on a foundation of mildly xenophobic middle-class liberals who don’t really care what happens politically until they feel personally threatened, and at this point I really, really want them to feel the danger so there’s some chance of recovering this tragic slide back into the fucking dark-ages.

Daily reminder that the USA is literally falling to a dictatorship no different than any of the other dictator-led nations around the world like Chad, Sudan, North Korea, Burma, Iran, Pakistan, Laos and so many others.

What? You can’t relate because they’re not white? Get it together people, skin color has been a distraction since the dawn of human migration, if you’re still compartmentalizing nations and people’s by how they look, you’re going to all lose all your happy comforts and shiny toys.

How TF old are you people anyway?

Are you all literally as old as the kid in the pic? Who can relate to this??

I feel like the US is really not getting the memo here, this is fascist dictatorship swaddled in an American flag. This is what dictators do, the next steps are dismantling the other institutions and agencies that could potentially preserve the old country’s rules and laws. As they are already doing blatantly.

Guys… the US is falling. Why aren’t people organizing?

No, avoiding contention is why we’re in this mess and why the world is segregated again.

But I’m not going to say “Go argue on the internet” I am going to tell everyone to get the fuck over their social issues and just TALK to the people in your life who hold shitty positions and are either dimwitted about politics, uninvolved or being brainwashed by social media. They can be turned, I do it ALL THE TIME and I feel like I’m the only fucking human left who doesn’t feel overwhelming fear engaging with another human ffs.

The deflection/projection is strong in that one.

Lemmy isn’t a competition.

All social media is competition. We just don’t like admitting it.

Using generative AI in it’s current form for any kind of production-quality work is a massive mistake. Anyone can tell from miles away when your images or text have been generated, they always have a weird homogeneity that shaves off all the hard edges, both in writing and visuals. We all need to understand though, that it WILL take a new shape, that the progress is inevitable. The things we’re annoyingly surrounded by right now are just the whispers of what the near future has in store.

I have been speaking out against the use of AI for “art” or writing for a while. I have screamed at users that they’re in a bubble. I have shaken reality to singularity-bros and I’ve been called a boomer, a luddite and all the names in the book for trying to tell people they’re being conned so that huge companies can milk them with slightly better and slightly better models for years and years.

But through this whole time, I have been following the industry and testing different models. We’re so cooked. Our species cannot handle what’s coming. It’s a ways away still but it’s going to totally upend our civilization and about the only thing that can stop it will be a complete societal collapse. Right now, I see either option as equally likely. I’m thinking a 10 - 15 year projection before things start getting really surreal/tragic.

Oh absolutely 100% this has had foreign involvement, the KGB handbook (literally) describes how to plant chaotic agents into a democratic nation’s population to boost both sides of every social debate or argument. The digital age made this the easiest tactic in the world and every nation that’s been “annexed” by Russia experienced this sowing of absolute weaponized bullshit and hate.

edit: several tankies follow me around downvoting my every comment and throwing tankie memes at me because they seeth when someone says that Russia did a bad thing. It’s quite charming, they can’t do much else because they’re blocked.

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I bet I could harvest bags of salt from a “look how sassy i am” terminally online account like this, but some of us have better things to do than just make other people mad for attention. Have a good one out there. Hope you don’t get banned from everywhere.

Maybe in private or commercial sector, but defense budgets are NEVER touched. Nor should they be, everyone knows right now the nation that develops the most intelligent strategic prediction systems will basically dominate the world.

I don’t think anyone cares. Nice two pages of ban history.