They develop IC on iPhones?!!

“The whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret!”

Compare how and why people cheer for sports teams. If you’re affiliated you will support any statement in favor of the team, while ignoring, suppressing, or attacking any statements to the contrary.

You won’t debate a Trump troll out of supporting Trump, because it’s about belonging to a group and showing loyalty regardless of facts. Honestly I’m not surprised he’s doing so well, consider how techy most of us are and still get overwhelmed by what the Internet is shaping up to be. If you’re in your 50’s from a poor rural area, what chance have you got to stand against weaponized online propaganda?

We are all like this, by the way. The inclination to blind affiliation with groups is the result of very deep, very old, very well studied cognitive structures and behaviors.

Here’s some introductory reading that might fundamentally change how you perceive people’s participation in groups:

https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/sociology/conformity
Sherif’s autokinetic experiment - if enough people around you believe something, you’ll soon believe it too

https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
A similar experiment performed by Solomon Asch

https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
The Robber’s Cave experiment - arbitrarily divide a group into two, and watch the inevitable descent into inter-group conflict (hopeful note: if you make the groups try to overcome a common obstacle, fighting goes away)

Leon Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Tests - This is an interesting one as well, here’s the idea:

Experiment: Infiltrating a doomsday cult before, during, and after the date of their supposed apocalypse, Festinger and his fellow scientists noted that instead of losing faith, members doubled-down on their beliefs after the ‘end times’ came and went — eventually believing that their work saved the world.

Conclusion: When we have two (or more) incompatible thoughts, we adjust them to minimize internal conflict, what Festinger called ‘cognitive dissonance’ — a term that explains the mind state of those unwilling to accept information that conflicts against their belief.

Not a film, but I read Cormac McCarthys The Road at 25, and it threw me into a deep depression from which I never fully recovered.

Gremlins. Still freaks me out.

MRGA, fuck yeah

The official sponsor of this election is Russia.

Yeah API shit was the final straw, but it was a long time coming. Honestly I’d switch way sooner had there been any alternative. I and a lot of other people tried, but nothing ever really took off even though the systems were there.

It’s about adoption, but mainstream adoption is also what kills a site like this.

“Why don’t you take a seat right over there, pastor?”

“Drone, say KILL ALL HUMANS”

Drone: “KILL ALL HUMANS”.

Then they had brunch.

Everyone needs to watch this instead of keeping track of Ukraine. Swear to god Hamas attack was a Russian distraction tactic. The whos and the whats and the whens and the wheres on Israel-Palestine is the new thing. Who cares about some old war in Ukraine? We have moved on, it’s back to the jews again.

Wag the dog. And nobody sees it. BTW taking odds on Grump winning the election outright. When they give them another chance you know they reeeally want them to win, right?

USA should invade USA and spread democracy there.

Oooh Western money is gonna be pissed.

Thing about counting votes is, you can’t be corrupt.

It’s not the votes that are wrong, it’s the corruption.

“First they came for the botnets”…

Bruh, we are busy discussing our fucking genital identities and who to gets to fuck whom.

I wish it was about climate and education, but literally both sides think they’re immune to propaganda and are on the right side of history.

It’s like when the government refuses to comment on something. Motherfucker you are a servant of the state, you are under our mandate. We tell you to speak, you fucking speak you dancing fucking monkey.

We need a new system. We can’t be running shit the same way in the AI age and a global population of, what, 9 billion?

Our old systems of governance did NOT scale.

Consider the population of the US in the 1700’s. We have about a hundred times that now, but the same amount of representatives.

That means that every representative today has power over a hundred times more people than originally when the constitution was written.

That changes everything.

I can see a problem with kids in her school starting to see her as a sex worker rather than a teacher.

We should. We should also stop punishing sex workers. Victorian morality needs to die already, this ain’t Plymouth Rock.

I would like to attend your classes.