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RememberTheApollo_

@ RememberTheApollo_ @lemmy.world

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  • TIL about Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity: "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."

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  • Coupled with aggressively willful ignorance from the masses and deliberate lies from leaders, media, and social media and we get what we have with the Reich Wing in the US today.

  • TIL about Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity: "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."

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  • Hate to say it but I checked in Safari and Firefox, both look fine… not sure what’s going on with what you see.

  • TIL about Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity: "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."

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  • It looks perfectly fine on my device? IOS/Voyager? I don’t see what you see apparently.

  • TIL about Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity: "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."

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  • Both can be true.

  • Not looking so bad now

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  • Never heard of them, had to look it up. Seems kinda a spotty record depending on the manufacturer.

  • Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube

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  • I instantly skip anything AI that attempts legitimacy. I’m irritated at the attempt to grab my attention with complete fakery.

    I do occasionally watch some of the disturbing fever-dream clips simply because they are hallucinatory and seem to flow the way a human mind might grasp facets of something and amplify or distort the flow.

  • Trump Floats Deploying National Guard to New York, Chicago, and LA After DC Crack Down

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  • Did we forget? I kinda feel like this is an extension of the BLM persecution. It worked so well they decided to keep using the same techniques.

  • 8 billion people vs. 3000 billionaires: Who would win?

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  • Pretty simple and effective.

  • 8 billion people vs. 3000 billionaires: Who would win?

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  • I have no doubt the world will be fine, but the hypothetical we're discussing isn't just one or two rich bastards knocking off a year with their legal estate already taken care of in a will...we're suggesting more direct action assisting their departure en masse - which isn't going to happen without a lot of other upheaval causing all kinds of economic turmoil that we're ignoring for the sake of this argument.

  • 8 billion people vs. 3000 billionaires: Who would win?

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  • Ok, let’s look at this…

    IF billionaires were removed from the picture, what would be the result?

    There would be investment assets in various holding entities that would then be what, up for grabs? Sold off? Put in probate? Trillions in stock alone would suddenly be ownerless. How would that affect the market and the regular person’s investments?

    Multiple BoD positions and CEO positions opening up. How would those be compensated? Just make more people rich?

    Material possessions originally worth absurd sums now up for grabs to nobody who could realistically afford to use or maintain them (yachts, palatial homes, etc). Manufacturers of luxury goods would vanish (stupidly expensive watches, clothes, cars).

    How would you prevent some other greedy, power-hungry f_cks from taking up the reins and putting us right back where we started? There is no point in civilization’s history where greedy f_cks haven’t existed, so how do you prevent their grubby fingers from tipping the scales right back in favor of piling all the money and power in their corner?

    What are the unintended consequences?

    (This is NOT an argument implying we should keep billionaires, just asking realistically and pragmatically what the result would be should they no longer exist)

  • Not looking so bad now

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  • Or save them redundantly to several archive-quality hdds. Why have 20 blu-ray dvds for one copy of a collection when you could have 3 complete copies on 3 hdd. Both are life limited media, both will eventually require re-archiving. One has potential for mechanical failure, the other more likely to physically degrade. Pick your poison, or do one of each.

  • Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

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  • Talking about online privacy has become the “safe sex talk” of the last decade or so. You have to keep reminding kids so that it sticks. Nothing you say online is private, it can all be copied/screengrabbed/recorded/photographed and shared by the recipient. What you say, any images you post, etc. On school or work devices they can essentially see most everything, nothing is private. Even if you make efforts to cover your tracks, a truly determined agency with enough resources likely will find out who you are if they want to.

  • Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center

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  • Assuming anyone involved in building that place will bother listening to a judge.

  • Texas becomes seventh state to ban lab-grown meat: The new law establishes civil and criminal penalties for selling the product.

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  • Your entire comment assumes the state of the art for lab growing proteins is static and will not enjoy economies of scale.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald Trump

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  • Jesus, just pull his fly down and give him a blow job already.

  • Gen Z men voted for Trump to drain 'the swamp.' After Epstein, they feel duped.

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  • Guess I can’t talk. Gen X was one of the biggest trump supporters, but knowing my cohort I just assumed they were all a bunch of leftover homophobes and racists like a lot of our parents were. I was mostly the same but I also have AuDHD and have an incredibly difficult time with hypocrisy and injustice, so things like religion or anyone claiming superiority over others, regardless of reason, while being an absolute tool themselves really turned me off to the whole racist and homophobic social standards of the day. Took a few years to get away from the casual, unthinking racism - not actually being hard core racist, but the casual kind where you told racist jokes and made sweeping judgements about a group while still maybe going to school with them them and getting along just fine.

  • Gen Z men voted for Trump to drain 'the swamp.' After Epstein, they feel duped.

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  • Do they not think for themselves? Can they not see how trump performed historically? Why did they think he would suddenly be different this time?

  • Gen Z men voted for Trump to drain 'the swamp.' After Epstein, they feel duped.

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  • You’ll get the token candidate and Barron will get 98.5% of the vote. Occasional beatings and investigations into the precincts that get too high of an opposition vote %.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • Aigen or Aibstenant something for a term. Vegan is not right.