Politics Please say rock bottom is getting close

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Phatguysrule]

Life in jail. Everyone in that room.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Life in jail. Everyone in that room.

The inmate was obviously resisting arrest and presented life threatening danger to the 5 or 6 armed officers in the room.....seems to me the officers were simply "standing their ground".............

 

[Chris Craig]

Life in jail. Everyone in that room.

Everyone of them. You could tell they were just doing it for fun.

 

[Everything Beagle]

Everyone of them. You could tell they were just doing it for fun.

A little of the old ultra-violence.

 

[barfo]

A little of the old ultra-violence.

Dim and Billyboy did become police officers, after all.

barfo

 

[crandc]

Mother of convicted felon Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio, hoping for Trump pardon, was asked about police officers who died January 6. Her response was hey, they signed up for a dangerous job.

Rotten apple not falling far from tree

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[crandc]

Assuming he existed Jesus did not say I am he.
He wasn't speaking English and he wasn't a Real American.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Assuming he existed Jesus did not say I am he.
He wasn't speaking English and he wasn't a Real American.

Jesus was a white man who spoke English. It's insulting that you would say otherwise.

 

[crandc]

Jesus was a white man who spoke English. It's insulting that you would say otherwise.

And no doubt voted Republican.

 

[crandc]

Got a junk email promoting buying gold endorsed by Sean Hannity.

Delete.

 

[crandc]

Congressional Republicans cut funding from IRS budget that was earmarked to collect unpaid taxes from high end incomes. They had successfully recovered nearly $5 billion in a year. Cut expected to cause big increase in deficit.

 

[Chris Craig]

And no doubt voted Republican.

And owned lots of guns

 

[jonnyboy]

Looks a whole lot like the cases dropped before the vaccine came out, like many have said. Same with the measles vaccine.

 

[jonnyboy]

Man, talk about viewing a brick as a dunk.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Looks a whole lot like the cases dropped before the vaccine came out, like many have said. Same with the measles vaccine.

That would be false. Polio and measles vaccines caused the reduction.

The number of deaths may have levelled off or even decreased from the absolute peaks as we became more capable of treating the disease.

But vaccines prevent the need for treatment by equipping the body with the tools it needs to defeat the virus.

The vaccines caused the significant drops in hospitalization, infection, and death rates.

 

[Everything Beagle]

https://baptistnews.com/article/what-will-it-take-for-you-to-care-about-transgender-people/

I’m atheist but I’ll take any help we get.

 

[crandc]

The percentage of people who are transgender in America is about equal to the percentage of Jews in Germany in 1932. Who were accused of poisoning the blood and representing decadence. Of taking over. Of endangering German girls and women.

 

[Everything Beagle]

The percentage of people who are transgender in America is about equal to the percentage of Jews in Germany in 1932. Who were accused of poisoning the blood and representing decadence. Of taking over. Of endangering German girls and women.

Yeah I’m not excited about the next 10-15 years to be perfectly honest.

 

[Everything Beagle]

I’m being polite by not putting this in the AI art thread.

 

[Phatguysrule]

I’m being polite by not putting this in the AI art thread.

Decarbonization and adoption of nuclear energy are the solutions here.

Using less energy was never an option. Even curbing energy use long term was never a realistic option.

We have to embrace AI. If we don't we'll just fall behind other countries who do.

 

[Everything Beagle]

Decarbonization and adoption of nuclear energy are the solutions here.

Using less energy was never an option. Even curbing energy use long term was never a realistic option.

We have to embrace AI. If we don't we'll just fall behind other countries who do.

Oh stop this bullshit. You sound like Saruman.

 

[Everything Beagle]

There is no bright side. There is no getting to have it both ways anymore. We can’t capitalism our way out of the problem we capitalismed out way into. Nobody is coming to save us. AI is a cul-de-sac, and mealy mouthed half solutions to the problems it causes WHILE PROVIDING NO BENEFITS TO HUMANITY are pathetic. Fucking centrist bullshit.

 

[Phatguysrule]

There is no bright side. There is no getting to have it both ways anymore. We can’t capitalism our way out of the problem we capitalismed out way into. Nobody is coming to save us. AI is a cul-de-sac, and mealy mouthed half solutions to the problems it causes WHILE PROVIDING NO BENEFITS TO HUMANITY are pathetic. Fucking centrist bullshit.

There is no doubt in my mind that AI will be capable of providing significant benefits to humanity.

This is not a race we want to fall behind in.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Oh stop this bullshit. You sound like Saruman.

I see no reasonable alternative. We can make plenty of clean energy. We just need to choose to do it.

 

[Everything Beagle]

There is no doubt in my mind that AI will be capable of providing significant benefits to humanity.

This is not a race we want to fall behind in.

Billionaires want AI to work because AI will never unionize. They don’t want us to have good lives; they want us working in the fields. Human slaves for human tasks, AI for everything else. I for one am not going to roll over and accept this fate. I don’t want my kids to live in that world.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Billionaires want AI to work because AI will never unionize. They don’t want us to have good lives; they want us working in the fields. Human slaves for human tasks, AI for everything else. I for one am not going to roll over and accept this fate. I don’t want my kids to live in that world.

AI controlled bots will eliminate the need for most people in the fields. And those who do need to be in the fields won't be have hard work to do...

 

[SlyPokerDog]

AI controlled bots will eliminate the need for most people in the fields. And those who do need to be in the fields won't be have hard work to do...

And that will finish off what's left of family-owned farms. There is no way they can afford such technology.

 

[Phatguysrule]

And that will finish off what's left of family-owned farms. There is no way they can afford such technology.

Family owned farms are gone anyway. No family can afford thousands of acres to compete with the mega farms that we already have.

Any family that already has that will very easily be able to afford AI bots. These are people who buy $250,000 combines every year. Adding a $250 Nvidia AI computer is nothing.

The government makes tax incentives to cover all of this.

I would fully support a change in our culture that brings permaculture into cities and neighborhoods. So that our cities and neighborhoods could then grow much of their own food.

There are solutions to these problems. I don't think restricting AI is one of those solutions. I think restricting AI would be a huge mistake. We will benefit far more from AI by leading than we'd benefit if we try to restrict it.

Not only that, we have a huge shortage of farmers. The average age of most farmers is over 60 now. Their kids don't want to run these farms. They're going to end up selling to a mega corporation no matter what we do. The farms we have now aren't like Green acres. They are large corporations.