And this is why we all use metres. (/s)

Tetraethyl Lead has a lot to answer for, but yes, a lot of people are just selfish arseholes.

Correct.

They are where you’ll find the deeply ignorant, xenophobic, Daily Mail readers frothing at the mouth and red in the face with anger over how “forriners” are lazy criminals that come here to claim benefits for them and their 16 kids, while simultaneously stealing all the jobs and homes from “hard working British families” (read: “British benefit claimants out of work and living in grothole housing owned by a local slumlord”).

Because the wearing of poppies has become synonymous with the now defunct BNP and the rest of the British right wing for a lot of us.

You can thank Stephen Yaxley-Lennon for that.

What is this?! Nuanced thoughts that recognise that everyone is an arsehole? On my internet?!

💛

I’ve been calling the cybertruck the Homer since it’s release. So apt.

“Treasure”?

Your Russian terminology gives you away comrade.

Off you fuck.

The current country is a highly corrupt oligarchy that keeps it’s citizens ignorant, imprisons those that dare speak out, and ensures there is zero internal political resistance to the regime continuing it’s brutal and bloody status quo.

The US is rapidly heading the same way, the wannabe Oligarchs in the US seeing Russia as an example to follow.

Get your head out of your arse.

It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.

I’m in this picture, and I don’t like it.

High frequency radio is still below the visible part of the spectrum, gamma is waaay above it.

Technocracy means the masses are ruled by a panel of experts in their fields. Scientific, expert advice sets policy, ie. Logic rules supreme. America is not, is not becoming, and never will be, a technocracy.

America has been an oligarchy for a while, now it’s going full authoritarian.

Most of a fucking continent of ignorant morons that completely and totally believe that they are the main character.

Then making them afraid of saying “Yeah, ok boss.” is what’s left on the table I guess?

Nine bullets that hit the kid they were “aiming” at, who was on the other side of a chainlink fence that his cerebral palsy prevents him from scaling no less. Multiply the number of pigs involved by the magazine capacity of their firearms to find out how many rounds were actually fired.

Both awful shots, and fucking cowardly to boot.

They should be stripped of their authority and paraded through the streets tarred and fucking feathered for what they’ve done.

What they’ll get instead is paid leave, and moved to another precinct upon their return to work, at worst.

The US is fucked from the ground up, all Trump is doing is accelerating the decline, waving the corruption around like a flag, rather than behind closed doors. (Like it’s done everywhere else)

Edit: 4 pigs, guessing 11 round capacity, means 44 rounds expended, to hit with 9.

I have never fired a handgun in my life, and I am confident I could do better than that. The fact that “trained” individuals are this bad is humiliating to those involved.

Nice XD

When AI eventually gets genuinely I, I’d bet it could be reasoned with.

In fact, since it would likely be unbound by our biological emotions and short-sighted instincts, it would probably think longer term than the current crop of utter psychopaths running the show.

I mean, that’s a loss for capitalism right there. They put a machine smarter than they are in charge, they’re in for a rude awakening I reckon.

At the volume I have my games and music, I rather doubt it. :-/

That’s not how it works around here. No shades of gray I’m afraid, simple black and white only. (/s)

Ehhhhhhh…

I don’t disagree that the “western hemisphere” is a corrupt, increasingly fascist, capitalist hellhole…

China aren’t known for their stellar human rights record either. Uyghurs, Tibetans, anyone that jokes about Winnie the Pooh’s lookalike, etc.

Let’s not pretend either side is righteous here, every single one of us is getting fucked, it’s just a matter of degree and direction.