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Megillah Gorilla posted:Got to crash some time. Musk just doesnt have the hard veins and orange skin it takes to keep going on the toilet at 2 am. His pasty nerd body is weak
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bobjr posted:Didn't they already make a movie about it with the woman fired from Star Wars? I don't think she'd make a very good hunter Coz she can't act
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Yeah so they couldn't come up with a Part II yet so they are just revealing people were doing their jobs Did they literally fire a dude for trying to protect the company? Cause  "This will be very bad for our image and potentially put us in legal hot soup if you release this info" "THE PEOPLE MUST SEE HUNTER BIDENS DICK THAT I PONDERED FOR 40MIN"
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Dec 7, 2022 06:38
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They fired him because he made too much money but they will spin it as whatever
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Dec 7, 2022 06:54
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44 bil to release revenge porn of Hunter Biden.
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Dec 7, 2022 07:08
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The 44 Billion Dollar Dick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-G0SVEQW8A
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Dec 7, 2022 07:25
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Despite the obvious risks I myself am still into the idea of transhumanism, and if I were a billionaire I might even start a brain link company much like Musk - but I'd start with trying to non-intrusively read something out, maybe trying to refine MRI or other such "remote" imaging, and not just "lol let's build a robot that stick a chip in a monkey's brain". Something like that could help people in many ways and not involve any death at all. I might also try to do the space thing, but I'd go for spaceplanes or somesuch that would eventually deliver mass transit, not "because it's cool" rockets that can land themselves like I have some kind of need to make Button Moon a reality. Basically, all of his companies seem to be trying to be "cool", like he's terminally uncool, and deep down knows it, and tries through his "amazing Tony Stark-esque business powers" to not be a total failure. Also, there's all these reports of people working in Musk companies to act as a buffer between him and the rest of the company, and while it might be true at SpaceX, I've known many people who worked at Tesla and being semi-regularly, personally threatened with being fired if deadlines slip is apparently not uncommon from him there. He sure knows how to run a company!
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Dec 7, 2022 08:13
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Did Twitter actually post a picture of Hunter's dick?
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Dec 7, 2022 08:13
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gay picnic defence posted:Did Twitter actually post a picture of Hunter's dick? Matt Taibbi did at Elon's request, yes
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Dec 7, 2022 08:24
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Hunter bidens riotious hog cannot be contained by one server alone.
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Dec 7, 2022 08:27
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elon post the dick
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Dec 7, 2022 08:27
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MrQwerty posted:Matt Taibbi did at Elon's request, yes Yeah, Matt Taibbi posted revenge porn. Everyone skewering Elons fans had tons of fun pointing that out.
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Dec 7, 2022 08:29
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gay picnic defence posted:Did Twitter actually post a picture of Hunter's dick? yup. Pretty hosed up!
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Dec 7, 2022 08:31
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gay picnic defence posted:Did Twitter actually post a picture of Hunter's dick? Matt Taibbi posted a screenshot of Biden campaign sending links of tweets for review which Twitter then deleted. They made this out to be nefarious because Twitter just replied "handled". Matt Taibbi didn't actually say what these tweets were, he just let people infer that they were the Biden campaign trying to suppress the laptop story. But people put those links into archive.org and found out they were pictures of Hunter's dick. Presumably they weren't counting on people being able to check.
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Which also explains why twitter deleted them, its a huge invasion of privacy particularly with hacked materials which could open them up to a huge amount of trouble if they tried to claim it was public interest that hunter bidens hog be posted.
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Charles Ford posted:Despite the obvious risks I myself am still into the idea of transhumanism, and if I were a billionaire I might even start a brain link company much like Musk - but I'd start with trying to non-intrusively read something out, maybe trying to refine MRI or other such "remote" imaging, and not just "lol let's build a robot that stick a chip in a monkey's brain". Something like that could help people in many ways and not involve any death at all. Honestly, my thought is that until we somehow use genetic engineering or some other scientific method to identify, cure, and prevent maladaptive mental conditions that eliminate the capacity to feel empathy for others it's going to go poorly. Possibly also ditto for people that have an innately larger fear response than normal human beings towards those outside the in group or "tribe" they belong too. Looking at history it often is people with extremely sociopathic, narcissistic, or just generally possessing multiple dark tetrad personality traits that tend to organize susceptible personalities into following them into dystopian horror shows. Often this is done in a way that makes them a threat to anyone weaker and more vulnerable than their in group; not only as a means to get to societal or political power but also consistently once they're at a high level of political or societal power as a scapegoat. Not dealing with the empathy problem in our leadership (Which itself is set up to incentivize that sort of behavior insofar as being a sociopathic dickhead is advantageous to get ahead amongst regressive or oppressive pro-hierarchical types.) and humans in general before going into redefining the baselines of expected human capability in society is going to absolutely lead to some sort of lovely dystopia where people get hosed over and persecuted according to prejudice, access to monetary wealth, and bias. It's rather telling that most transhumanism isn't outwardly mundane yet potentially societally transformative stuff like "Let's eliminate this hosed up state of the brain where mirror neurons and other empathy based functions literally do not exist. Which allows those afflicted to prey on innocent people and feel literally nothing for the people they're killing or stealing the potential of their lives from if it seems advantageous to them personally to act like this." and is more "Wow cyborg vr man has a brain implant that lets him get Like, poo poo, the elimination of Polio can be considered transhumanism from the perspective of improving the human condition. loving dentures and tooth care, something that can be traced all the way back to the days of ancient egypt in fact is technically a form of transhumanism as it artificially improved on human life through altering the state of the body outside what is normally possible. It's just that stuff like that is not as glamorous as whatever cyberpunk 2077 nonsense some predatory huckster pitches to get more money in his pocket. Archonex fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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THF13 posted:Matt Taibbi posted a screenshot of Biden campaign sending links of tweets for review which Twitter then deleted. They made this out to be nefarious because Twitter just replied "handled". That's pretty funny. No doubt musk is mad that Hunter has a bigger hog than he does too
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Archonex posted:Like, poo poo, the elimination of Polio can be considered transhumanism from the perspective of improving the human condition. loving dentures and tooth care, something that can be traced all the way back to the days of ancient egypt in fact is technically a form of transhumanism as it artificially improved on human life through altering the state of the body outside what is normally possible. It's just that stuff like that is not as glamorous as whatever cyberpunk 2077 nonsense some predatory huckster pitches to get more money in his pocket. I do consider that transhumanism - there's people who will consider you a cyborg while you're riding a bike and I'm fine with that definition. I think the big difference is I'm not fond of the "someone should spend money on <pipe dream X> when they could be feeding starving children" or whatever - it's true, but at the same time, if Neuralink had been run by a competent person, it might right now be researching how to stop a body rejecting the non-titanium parts of an electronic implant, and that might also have applications for organ transplant recipients - something that can effectively just say "this specific one thing is fine" in a body for example, instead of spending the rest of their life on immunosuppressants. Now I don't think it'd be an easy thing to develop as I don't think medical science is that far along (which is why I also don't think just jabbing monkeys in the brain is "step one" on any of this) but there is legit good things. It's a bit like how you could argue NASA shouldn't have bothered sending man to the moon, as all it got us was conspiracy theories and some quite toxic gifts for ambassadors, when that money could have been spent helping humanity in some other way, but it did also give us modern silicon chips which people are generally quite fond of.
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How long before Elon accidentally posts his pornhub search history and it's sad poo poo like "Sexy Nazi women in lingerie" and "Big Aryan titties"?
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Dec 7, 2022 08:58
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Archonex posted:Honestly, my thought is that until we somehow use genetic engineering or some other scientific method to identify, cure, and prevent maladaptive mental conditions that eliminate the capacity to feel empathy for others it's going to go poorly. Possibly also ditto for people that have an innately larger fear response than normal human beings towards those outside the in group or "tribe" they belong too. Looking at history it often is people with extremely sociopathic, narcissistic, or just generally possessing multiple dark tetrad personality traits that tend to organize susceptible personalities into following them into dystopian horror shows. Often this is done in a way that makes them a threat to anyone weaker and more vulnerable than their in group; not only as a means to get to societal or political power but also consistently once they're at a high level of political or societal power as a scapegoat. I have bad news for you about the empathy thing: It's kind of built in to us. Having power over other people makes people act in a way that looks a hell of a lot like someone just stuck an ice pick in that part of their brain, no matter what they were like before.
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Castor Poe posted:How long before Elon accidentally posts his pornhub search history and it's sad poo poo like "Hunter hangs dong" and "Big Presidential sons' hogs"?
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lol https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1600313926293626880
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Dabir posted:I have bad news for you about the empathy thing: It's kind of built in to us. Having power over other people makes people act in a way that looks a hell of a lot like someone just stuck an ice pick in that part of their brain, no matter what they were like before. There's an adaptive effect where the more power one has the more they can shutter themselves off from the reality of the world (and thus become less adept at recognizing suffering in others along with the practical realities of the world others have to live in) yes. But there's also a sizable amount of historical evidence to suggest that stuff like narcissism, sociopathy, etc, etc, are potential drivers of entirely preventable suffering through establishing systems of thought that enable oppressive shifts in society on a large scale. Like, take Trump as a very recent example. The man has rightfully been described as a vacuous black hole of narcissistic personality flaws and insecurities. Someone like that should never have gotten into power in the first place because of the way he perceives the world. Attendant to that is all the folks who followed him, some out of opportunism, others out of greed, and a shocking amount out of fear of the other which had been drummed into them by other people who often gave not a single care for the harm they were doing if it meant they got ahead. Now, we as a country have to deal with a literal authoritarian pseudo-cult in our right wing, which had been festering for decades because almost no one on that end that power was capable of --- again --- giving a poo poo about other people or the long term consequences of their actions so long as they got ahead, even if it came at the expense of the group as a whole. This isn't a one off thing too. History is littered with examples of cunning sociopaths and narcissistic types playing to a mentally vulnerable crowd to establish a new baseline of societal behavior that is in some way detrimental to everyone not in the in group they established. The example you're talking about is someone who lost their perspective due to unreasonably large advantages given to them. What i'm talking about is someone who never had a healthy perspective to begin with and actively seeks to exploit that to advance their own cause at the expense of others. Archonex fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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The trick to transhumanism is basically the same problem as eugenics: sounds great until you consider who is guiding and administering the system. Imagine cyberlimbs become common to the point that corporations/employers expect you to have one, like present-day college degrees. What happens when your family can't afford your augmentation? You languish in a lovely job. Or worse, you take out loans AND YOUR ARM to get the job. Woops, defaulted on the loan due to predatory lending, now your arm has been repossessed. Now how do you pay the bills? Or better yet your company buys you your arm... Now imagine the power they hold over you. Think you'll be safe joining a union if your arm might be listening? Can you even imagine job hunting in a situation where on a whim your company can fire you and take your arm back? They could even get indentured servitude back by deducting payment from your paycheck. Don't forget the immunosuppressants they provide! Oops, turns out CyberArms-R-Us did all their testing on one demographic (guess which). Hope the medical side effects for YOUR demographic are minor, because you need that job/arm either way. That's just the easy-to-imagine problems... when we talk genemodding or neural links things can get out of hand. Starting with gene mods- sure, mod out the bad stuff, like immune disorders or cancer susceptibility. But where does it end? Allergies sure, correcting vision why not, diabetes... But then deafness, blindness, intelligence (or "disabilities" of same, ie autism/ADHD)? If a fetus has something amiss, is it better to rebuild it or abort and try again? In this situation it may be hard to view natural birth as anything but vulgar. And then, who makes THAT call, you? Your doctor?...Your senator, maybe the Supreme Court? You think advertising being beamed to your neural link is bad, imagine subtle propaganda behind your thoughts or even out in the open, pervasive, an induced schizophrenia. Now your employer requires you to have one of these implants as a condition of employment. Back to genemodding, the rich and tasteless will get everything on the menu because they can afford it, and the gulf between the haves and have-nots will get UGLY. In addition to the obvious ones (taller, stronger, healthier) it's likely they will get some vanity mods too, such as being whiter, blonder or something insane that we can't predict from here. Suddenly it's perfectly clear Who Is Who from a glance. Make no mistake: the ultimate source of all these problems is capitalism and conservatism. But these advancements will be very dangerous in the hands of capital, is my point.
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Evilreaver posted:The trick to transhumanism is basically the same problem as eugenics: sounds great until you consider who is guiding and administering the system. Plus what if I don't want to hack off my perfectly functioning arm just to replace it with something that I'm told is better. And why is it better? Because it makes me do my job better? So I'm supposed to replace all of my body parts with tools to make me better at my job? Is that the utopia we all envision, a more effective workforce? Trashumanism as it is put forward by a capitalist society would systematically replace any part of you that wasn't making you more effective at labor whether you'd like it to or not. Like what elements of trashumanism, do people ever discuss that makes them "more than human" in a way that isn't merely making a person a more functional as a piece of labor? Zeniel fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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I never bothered to learn what the Hunter Laptop story was, so I'm kinda mystified why some dude's hog is now of national concern.
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"His explanation was... unconvincing..." "Elon, if you do this it will come back and bite you and the company in the rear end" "I didn't tell you to do this, therefore you must be working against me!!"
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he trying to get the world record for most number of lawsuits against him or what
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grittyreboot posted:I never bothered to learn what the Hunter Laptop story was, so I'm kinda mystified why some dude's hog is now of national concern. As far as I understand it, Hunter Biden's laptop was turned into a repair shop at some point, where it was cloned and passed onto republican operatives, who are convinced this is significant because ???? ?????????? ???
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Dec 7, 2022 10:14
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So republicans stole nude photos of someone and tried to turn it into news?
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Tippecanoe posted:As far as I understand it, Hunter Biden's laptop was turned into a repair shop at some point, where it was cloned and passed onto republican operatives, who are convinced this is significant because ???? ?????????? ??? I think maybe they thought Hillary's emails were on it? 
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Zzulu posted:So republicans stole nude photos of someone and tried to turn it into news? Yes, and now the story is that evil leftists tried to suppress this illegal material by making Twitter have a lawyer.
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Dec 7, 2022 10:26
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I bet that dude didn't code. That's why he got fired
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grittyreboot posted:I never bothered to learn what the Hunter Laptop story was, so I'm kinda mystified why some dude's hog is now of national concern. A laptop containing files hacked from Hunter's iCloud account was handed to a blind computer repair guy somewhere in Delaware. When handing it over Hunter said "Hello blind repair guy, I am Hunter Biden, disgraced son of presidential candidate Joe Biden. Please repair my laptop which does not contain incriminating emails regarding my business dealings in Ukraine". The repair guy sent the laptop to the FBI but not before cloning it and sending a copy to Rudi Giuliani, who contacted the New York Post to run stories about all the scandalous content it contained, including but not limited to pics of Hunter's hog.
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Dec 7, 2022 11:31
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Man I wish I was famous so more people would be interested in my hog too 
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Charles Ford posted:Despite the obvious risks I myself am still into the idea of transhumanism, and if I were a billionaire I might even start a brain link company much like Musk - but I'd start with trying to non-intrusively read something out, maybe trying to refine MRI or other such "remote" imaging, and not just "lol let's build a robot that stick a chip in a monkey's brain". Something like that could help people in many ways and not involve any death at all. i want to be a cool robot
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I want a perfect machine body that lets me attract fe-males better and gives me an advantage in a fight with a potential villain
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The joyous thing about Elon being a narcissist is that when he was just a Posting Guy he'd have his legions of sycophants and his detractors would be easy to ignore, his image of Modern Day Tony Stark would basically be reinforced a billion times a day and most company drama would be brushed aside or ignored But now Elon can't hide from literally everyone dragging him, from companies he desperately wants to be recognised as a hero by, talking heads he believed would make him a star by association and just the internet at large really There are different breeds of narcissist and those like Trump could not give a solitary poo poo about people hating him unless there are legal ramifications down the line, they're deluded enough to imagine everyone already loves them. Elon is a perpetually insecure narcissist, the funniest kind, because he knows that people think he sucks and will never, ever be happy until everyone everywhere loves him and knows he's the greatest guy in the world ever. Except now he's put himself as head of a social media company which is the worst place you can possibly be if you're a Reply Guy with a desperate need to be loved, because there's less and less room to hide from the reality that a not insubstantial amount of the world does not give a poo poo about you at best or have now had their mental image of you shattered at worst. For most rich dudes this does not really matter because they're detached from the peasantry and shielded by their money when public image has turned, but for Elon I don't feel like I'm taking too long a shot by saying he'd half his riches if it meant 100% adoration by the world over, and even in that reality he'd be wounded by people who didn't laud him harder than the next. None of this makes up for the reality of the damage he's done by amplifying nazis and whatever, but at the very least the smug gently caress has managed to fracture his idea of his public perception and you know that's gotta be hell for him
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