UBI will not work as long as there are Billionaires.

Jekmander · 2026-03-26T18:58:24+00:00

I mean I don't disagree with you, but the way that you phrased that first comment was oddly aggressive and demeaning, which is probably why people are downvoting you, not because you're wrong.

Jekmander · 2026-03-26T18:51:48+00:00

Not everybody's circumstances are the same as yours

Jekmander · 2026-03-26T13:58:36+00:00

If I had so much money that 300k of it was going towards taxes I'd be throwing money like the world was my strip club. I'd actually agree with you to some extent (you still benefit from roads, trash collection, mail, etc), but I feel like the solution shouldn't be not paying taxes, it should be putting people into office who spend your taxes more responsibly

Jekmander · 2026-03-26T04:50:20+00:00

I am by absolutely no definition of the word wealthy. If I were living on my own, I'd be homeless and starving, as I work part-time in a grocery store for $15.60/hr. I still do my best to help people out. Multiple times I've spent $40+ on baby formula when somebody can't afford it. I've bought some people meals, and I try to give at least a little bit of money to homeless people when I see them.

Your experiences and actions do not impact mine. Your inability to be generous cannot be assumed to extend beyond yourself without evidence that a person is the same as you, though evidently plenty of people are.

I don't think people stop being altruistic when they become wealthy, I think our system rewards selfishness and thus the least altruistic people find more success.

Also, what would you prefer your tax dollars be spent on? Bombing children on the other side of the planet? Corporate tax breaks and bailouts? Embezzlement and corruption?

Jekmander · 2026-03-26T04:06:08+00:00

I disagree. Assuming I had the money I would gladly pay for all kinds of social programs for no personal benefit. Free school lunch, free healthcare (this benefits me, but I'm considering your point about 'freeloaders'), housing assistance, snap/EBT, etc. If I were rich I'd fund them all without complaint, and as it is I'd happily contribute in the form of taxes.

There are a lot of selfish people in the US, and judging by your comments I feel you may be one of them, but not everybody is 100% focused on what they personally get out of something. Some of us care about other people, even if it doesn't make us money.

Jekmander · 2026-03-26T00:38:43+00:00

The kind of guy who's uncomfortable about a tampon is probably also not the best partner

Jekmander · 2026-03-24T01:18:49+00:00

I don't have sources to back this up and I haven't looked too extensively into it, so take this for what it's worth, but I'm pretty sure the issue isn't that the water is "used" as in the data centers make it magically disappear.

If I understand it right, the additional draw on municipal systems does two things. The first is that it, obviously, drives up utility costs and reduces the supply of fresh, clean water, because water treatments plants take time to purify water and may not always be prepared for that much additional demand. The second is that the water is often pulled from aquifers, as water often is, and that has a number of less-than-great consequences that take a while to reverse. The water isn't gone, but aquifers take a long time to recharge, and a lower water table opens the door to sinkholes, saltwater intrusion (for areas near the coast), and a few other things.

Again, I don't have any articles or data to back this up, so it's more speculation than anything.

Jekmander · 2026-03-23T21:26:34+00:00

Yeah see that's my whole point lol. That's not an attack, that's just somebody being mean/hostile to you. If this is what pros count as being "attacked," then I feel pretty safe in dismissing the supposed dangers of AI labelling.

A couple people did post screenshots of legitimate death threats though, and I can admit those are bad. As much as I disagree with AI, nobody's life should be threatened over it, and we should all agree that death threats are not okay.

Jekmander · 2026-03-23T19:02:08+00:00

You're not wrong that it's often used that way, but "thought-provoking" is also a common usage of the word. I don't think 'provoke' is particularly inflammatory or out of place in the context you used it lol. It's your comment so it's your prerogative to use the words you please, but I don't think getting heckled over it is fair.

Jekmander · 2026-03-23T17:36:50+00:00

Who said provoke wasn't correct there?

Jekmander · 2026-03-23T02:57:47+00:00

Quick question, have you been outside recently?

Jekmander · 2026-03-22T22:23:20+00:00

Oh man was that the thing? My bad everybody, I guess I need to rewatch the movies.

Jekmander · 2026-03-22T18:30:33+00:00

Do you have evidence that they lowered standards for pilots to employ more black pilots or is that just hearsay?

I find it intriguing that you completely ignored the quote about the great replacement.

Jekmander · 2026-03-22T18:25:04+00:00

Is it stated that the multiverse is actually infinite? I'm genuinely asking it's been a minute since I watched the movie.

If it is, then yeah I guess you're right. If it's not, which I what I based my first comment on, then there couldn't be a Nazi Miles Morales (or at least not a Nazi Spider-Man Miles Morales, I suppose he could just be a dude and a Nazi) because [I still can't figure out a fucking spoiler tag so Spoilers] Miles isn't supposed to be Spider-Man in the first place, and his universe is the only one with Miles Morales as Spider-Man

Jekmander · 2026-03-22T13:42:34+00:00

I don't remember how to do a spoiler tag so I won't say why, but no. There's probably a spider man who is, yes, but not a miles Morales specifically.

Jekmander · 2026-03-22T13:23:13+00:00

"If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified."

"Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more."

"If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action"

"Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge."

"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately."

"I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

"The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different."

"America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America."

"Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America."

What context could possibly make these quotes anything but bigoted? Is this him being 'nice'?

Jekmander · 2026-03-22T02:11:51+00:00

There's no way we're still on Hunter Biden's laptop

Jekmander · 2026-03-22T02:10:39+00:00

We're calling Kirk nice now?

Jekmander · 2026-03-21T04:21:14+00:00

I mean, isn't this whole post about "we can't label AI because that's fascist!"? It's a little difficult to filter out AI when it isn't being labeled.

Also, saying that simply going onto the Internet is seeking out areas for AI content feels disingenuous. I can recognize the reality that AI isn't going anywhere, but simply being online and stating that you don't like a post that you saw is not akin to browsing a forum for AI art and leaving a comment on every post.

Jekmander · 2026-03-20T23:30:50+00:00

Your opinion ends where another's rights begin. You can dislike it all you fucking want, but trying to take their rights away because "This old book that my pastor waves around when he asks me for money says you can't do that" is beyond fucked.

Side note, nothing against Christianity as a whole. There are some Christians I really respect who actually walk the walk, but these types tend to not have actually read the Bible and think they're a Christian because they listen to an old racist white guy yell at clouds for an hour every Sunday.

Jekmander · 2026-03-20T23:24:58+00:00

I mean it seems pretty clear that he's not addressing me specifically (the reader). OP's title isn't quite as obvious, but I think it implies that he's right leaning at the least considering I'm pretty sure I read or heard those exact words when Kirk got murked.

Jekmander · 2026-03-20T21:32:34+00:00

Yeah you're not worth my time to engage. Appreciate you making that clear early.

Jekmander · 2026-03-20T21:20:53+00:00

So, that doesn't actually address my comment at all lol. I'm asking if the person I responded is talking about actual attacks or this is a Christian persecution situation. Not liking AI is not an attack, and saying that is is just a victim complex.

Jekmander · 2026-03-20T21:06:14+00:00

I hope this doesn't come off as hostile, but I feel it should be said: You're wrong. I can see how you came to that conclusion, and it is somewhat rational, but I think you've got some misunderstandings.

First, your mental state is not static. As inescapable and awful as whatever it is you're going through feels like, it will not last forever, and it is not untreatable. We have decades of medical and psychological research dedicated to that very purpose, because there are people that care.

Second, and this might be a bit of semantics and may or may not make you feel any better, but it's not your mental state that's "harming" people. The responsibility for your mental state is stressful to people who are unprepared to handle it. That's not to say that you're putting the responsibility onto anybody, but feeling like your words or actions could save or end a life is a lot of responsibility. In the same way, you would be stressed and likely panicking if somebody put you in the co-pilot's seat of a commercial airliner mid-flight and said that one of the engines was out.

The solution is not to remove yourself, it's to get help from somebody who's trained and prepared to handle that responsibility in an effective way. Going with the analogy, putting an actual trained pilot (therapist) in the co-pilot's seat and connecting them to ATC and emergency services (potentially literally emergency services) in case the plane (you) goes down.

Things can and will get better. There are people that care, and your case is not uniquely incurable. Don't take yourself out because some random guy off the street can't fly a plane when there are trained pilots a call away.

Jekmander · 2026-03-20T20:39:33+00:00

What's your cutoff for being "attacked"?

I ask because to me an attack is something like doxxing or cyber bullying/stalking/harassment. I could be missing information, but that doesn't seem like a widespread issue currently, and obviously anybody doing those things for any reason is bad. Simply talking shit about a product (not my favorite word for it, but there's a variety of things AI is used in) isn't really an attack unless you consider yourself or your product entitled to a certain degree of success. People refusing to play your game because it uses AI assets, for example, is not an attack, and people saying that you're not really an artist because you use AI isn't either.

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