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i am harry posted:wish someone would have the balls to start writing a book and publish it before getting to the ending like Philip k Dick used to it owns actually that the ending of ubik is the literary equivalent of an author making GBS threads in your pillow while flipping you off
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May 5, 2024 05:52
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Everyone ruling over us is an imbecile who has no clue what they're doing. All the "smart" (comparatively) or competent elites probably retired or died decades ago. Now we have these idiots who probably need help dressing themselves in the morning. Nobody was ever competent they just surfed the wave of ez oil growth and looked smart.
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May 5, 2024 05:53
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Shipon posted:is this why people are suddenly deciding the prequels are good because this shows the limits of that no that was internet irony poisoning
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May 5, 2024 06:36
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hobbesmaster posted:just don’t ask anyone in special circumstances how new planets join up Sending in a reincarnated former slave to kill the most powerful man on the planet and his multiple-lifelong dedication to maintaining the institution of slavery? vespers was capitalism incarnate with his VR gaming empire leading him to cut a deal with other civilizations to create perpetual torture afterlife 'hells' for them to cast their undesirable population into, making him insanely rich on the backs of trillions of sentient beings unimaginable, eternal suffering how awful, who could countenance such a thing.
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May 5, 2024 06:39
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:pretty much every sf/f property is about removing an evil monarchy just to put another monarchy in its place, but it's ok, these ones are good people Actually Star Wars was about what George Lucas saw happing in America. The Galactic Republic overtime lost interest in the common good and corporate lobbyists slowly gained a foothold appointing figurehead leaders and toothless bureaucrats until the republic was so riff with corruption and stupidity it allowed a fascist to take power and overtime dissolve the republic and turn it into an empire. The story is about a band of freedom loving people trying to bring down the empire and restore a democratic republic.
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May 5, 2024 06:43
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The Oldest Man posted:neoliberal capitalism is wild because it is simultaneously one of the most flash-in-the-pan political economies in history (growing from a nascent idea to world dominance to self-driven collapse in a century or less) and yet one of its main strengths is the ability to convince huge numbers of people that no other political economy is feasible despite mountains of evidence to the contrary and loads of evidence that neoliberal capitalism itself is rapidly self destructing Bar Crow posted:It manage to emerge in the prefect window where productivity gains due to technology could counteract the rot. All effort could be put into propaganda because the system had the appearance of stability. I keep thinking more the more cartoonishly catastrophic kind of drug habit, especially how it rewires people's brains to believe it's not possible to function without it, and initial bursts of productivity are inevitably overtaken by the need for more to prop up the unsustainable patterns and tearing the copper out of the walls to feed the raging addiction. Of course it couldn't emerge in any other conditions than exponential productivity gains due to technology because it collapses under literally any external pressure otherwise
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May 5, 2024 06:43
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star wars is about 1) that scene with natalie portman in the leather bdsm dress by the fireplace 2) that scene when the monster rips natalie portmans shirt midriff off 3) space ships 4) thrawn 5) aayla secura's heaving blue knockers
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May 5, 2024 06:47
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mistermojo posted:its cool that google search, once known for being insanely fast, now loads a placeholder element that takes 3 seconds to generate a lovely AI answer to a query. great work team don't use chrome, they "punish" firefox users by not giving them access to their dogshit ai i am harry posted:wish someone would have the balls to start writing a book and publish it before getting to the ending like Philip k Dick used to this is neil stephenson erasure e: tbf he "ends" his books by throwing the reader out of a speeding car into a brick wall. "Oh good, there's my pagecount. Um, sure I guess she gets raped then escapes and finds her adoptive mother before she's turned into a pile of goo but it doesn't matter because the mongol hoardes are here. Audible hopes you enjoyed this presentation of "The Diamond Age" by Neil Stephenson" Harik has issued a correction as of 06:51 on May 5, 2024 |
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May 5, 2024 06:48
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Verbal contract ain't worth the paper it's written on. In life as in the workplace millennials onwards have had this beaten into them yes, anyone who insists on not writing things down is trying to gently caress with you Also it loving sucks for anyone who isn't a white male neurotypical who just doesn't think you're a culture fit lol
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May 5, 2024 06:49
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mistermojo posted:its cool that google search, once known for being insanely fast, now loads a placeholder element that takes 3 seconds to generate a lovely AI answer to a query. great work team lol dude it is loving dog poo poo lmfao
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May 5, 2024 06:51
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i stopped using google like 4 years ago. duckduckgo sucks but at least it's no google-suck
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May 5, 2024 06:56
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blatman posted:it owns actually that the ending of ubik is the literary equivalent of an author making GBS threads in your pillow while flipping you off “hey I’m philip k dick and I bet now that the characters have reached the high castle you’d love to see where this all goes. well gently caress you. close my book. that’s right close the whole god damned thing. good night.”
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May 5, 2024 07:34
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 "people thinking the economy is bad is nothing but vibes.jpg" fakeedit: Siri contrast this graph to the wealth gains of the 0.1% realedit: found the excess savings 
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May 5, 2024 07:43
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isnt the bottom 20% negative in net assets lmao
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May 5, 2024 08:37
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Salt Fish posted:Nobody was ever competent they just surfed the wave of ez oil growth and looked smart. It’s this. The book out of the ‘70s funk was down to a little gift from nature in the North Sea and Alaska. No one can accuse Reagan or Maggie of having some master plan that was going to work out given how neoliberalism unfolded once energy constrictions started biting. Everyone can accidentally boost productivity and claim to be a genius when they have effectively free money thrown at their project.
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May 5, 2024 08:42
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Xaris posted:i stopped using google like 4 years ago. duckduckgo sucks but at least it's no google-suck Kagi has a ChatGPT thing now. 
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May 5, 2024 08:55
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Kagi has a ChatGPT thing now. lmfao wtf. wasnt the whole selling point "hey we're google but from 2004 and ergo don't entirely suck rear end?"
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May 5, 2024 08:59
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https://wolfstreet.com/2024/05/01/o...out-rate-hikes/quote:Oh Deary, Where Did my Rate Cuts Go? sounds like the economy is going to be going gangbusters by october
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May 5, 2024 09:03
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Palladium posted:isnt the bottom 20% negative in net assets lmao yeah. bottom 50% average is like 30k I had to beg the dirt I'm standing on for a $35k loan to stay afloat, very sustainable dirt farming. That will pay for
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May 5, 2024 09:08
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Xaris posted:lmfao wtf. wasnt the whole selling point "hey we're google but from 2004 and ergo don't entirely suck rear end?" Guessing the nerds wanted more features, so there’s an LLM window that opens up a bit like Google’s for generating some collated answer from queries. I think you can just switch it off, but I found it amusing nonetheless.
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May 5, 2024 09:15
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Horseshoe theory posted:What's wrong with living with your parents...? Can't walk around the house naked when they're around.
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May 5, 2024 09:28
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super sweet best pal posted:Can't walk around the house naked when they're around. Beg to differ.
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May 5, 2024 09:29
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Horseshoe theory posted:What's wrong with living with your parents...? they get annoying after a while
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May 5, 2024 10:13
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Harik posted:
  
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