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I don’t mean “normal” for the U.S., I mean normal for the rest of the world. I legitimately don’t care how this transition ends up going for the U.S. I just want to be rid of them.

The U.S. was never a good country. The colonisers were religious extremists who left Europe because their views were too extremist for us, even way back then. It’s built on a foundation of genocide and murder, and it never grew past that. It’s never cared for its people. It was always an oligarchy, that was literally the entire point of the U.S. gaining independence from the British crown.

Trump being in charge isn’t really that different from before. He’s unhinged and less political, but he didn’t set all of this up. All of the systems that enable him were already in place and used by those before him. The U.S. was always a conniving and manipulative country, it’s never really had allies, just tools. It’s sad that it took this long for so many to realise, and even now our politicians are hedging their bets that things return to the old status-quo when really they should be severing all ties and leaving the U.S. to collapse in on itself.

You say that, but I’m ready for all this to be over and behind us.

I want Donald Trump’s neck in a guillotine. It’s psychologically important to me.

This is on .world, so I want to preface this by saying; I don’t promote violence, and this isn’t a call to action for anything violent. I’m merely dropping a note about historical events.

Women didn’t get their rights to vote by peacefully protesting to their husbands, fathers, or parliament. Of course, they did all this. They engaged politically to the extent they could. They wrote letters and protested. They were mocked and ridiculed for their simple requests that their voices should be heard too.

More than that though, some people decided that they needed to be so loud that their voices couldn’t be left unheard. Historically, rights have been taken away from people with ease. People clawing rights back from their oppressors is rarely as easy, nor as peaceful.

People have died and gone missing. Peaceful days are already over, and anyone who believes otherwise is lying to themselves.

Maybe they’re just anti-Rockstar, which everyone in their right mind should be.

The problem here is that you lose nuance.

Yes, a lot of datacentres use evaporative cooling, meaning that the heat is taken away as the water evaporates. It’s a cheap and effective way of doing things and the water returns to the water cycle and doesn’t really get locked up anywhere. So it’s not really a problem, right?

Well yes, in a vacuum that’s fantastic. However there’s two caveats to this: evaporative cooling works best in arid areas, because the air can hold more water. Thus they build these AI datacentres in naturally arid areas. Smart, they’re using physics to their advantage!

What’s the second problem then? They’re now using up the ground water in those arid areas to cool their datacentres and thus ruining it for the people that live there, leaving them without safe water to drink.

Also I don’t know how many anti-AI people will be all “bUt gOlF CoUrSeS ArE OkAy, We lOvE ThOsE!!” These things exist purely for rich people that don’t contribute anything, so we could get rid of both and the world would be a better place.

Homeopathic burgers.

It’s not enshittified because the Switch was already shit.

Ah, I’m talking about Frankenstein and 1984 as stories. Frankenstein still a fun read, 1984 is definitely not. But yeah, that’s obviously a subjective thing.

Well, I think it fails from a storytelling perspective. Some argue that at the time the ideas were novel, but like… Orwell drew inspiration from Nazi Germany so it can’t have been that novel. As far as Orwell goes, I think Animal Farm was a better read.

I can see this, but at the same time there are classics that still hold up great. Frankenstein for example is still a good read. Paradise Lost can be a big hard to digest, but I really enjoyed it.

Then again I don’t really read much Bible fanfic.

I don’t see how. It’s a book about a dude trying to get his dick wet, and ultimately both he and his girlfriend sell each other out when they’re tortured. The themes are “totalitarianism and torture is bad.” The characters are flat and uninteresting, as is the world.

Yes, I’ve heard people make the argument that it’s written that way to reflect the dystopian reality of it all, and that’s fine. It’s still a shit story.

Besides, given that the U.S. is now facing that same reality and pushing it onto the rest of us, I don’t think the message the book tried to convey was conveyed particularly effectively.

Worth noting is that the book doesn’t deal with the topic of “oops, you’re in an authoritarian fascist dystopia, how do you deal with it.”

The Hunger Games does, though. The solution there is to kill the fascists.

I felt this way about the book 1984. Entirely overrated.

Like yes I get that the subject matter is what makes it important, but plenty of other books (and other media) has covered it and done a better job of it. Plus, now we get to live it making the book wholly irrelevant.

I bought a Flint 2 last year. I’m very happy with it.

Huh, that’s a bit surprising to me. I moved from a small non-highway connected town last year, and there was a pedestrian and bike path the entire 32 kilometre way from that town to the bigger nearby city.

Wonder how many bike that distance. Honestly must be a really nice path to bike in the summer.

His ascending to public knowledge was for being a racist prick when he was renting out his daddy’s properties landing him in legal trouble. This man has never been good.

Yeah, this is my take on it too. I’m a professional developer, primarily C#, heavily in the .NET/MS stack. I really enjoy C# and .NET, but my overall distaste for Microsoft has kind of slithered in to the rest of it so I’m trying to branch out on a personal level.

Found out recently that Azure DevOps can apparently be self-hosted, when one of my coworkers had to maintain our DevOps instance. Absolutely flabbergasted that anyone would pay to use and maintain it themselves.

“Pressure creates diamonds, yes, but it also creates rubble.”

I like your analysis. It feels more optimistic than the idea of an upper class foisting it on us to have us work harder and question less. Though I suppose they’re not necessarily mutually exclusive things.

Oh nice, at a surface glance, that looks like a podcast very similar to Respect the Dead. Thank you for sharing!

You don’t have bike routes in France?