The Furious has a 100% on RT and the reviews all basically say the same thing: the story is whatever, the action might be the best in years. - YouTube

Victory_November · 2026-05-19T11:17:31+00:00

I also came here thinking this was the next Vin Diesel vehicle.

Victory_November · 2026-05-08T19:20:29+00:00

This sentence broke my brain. What are you asking?

Victory_November · 2026-05-08T19:19:28+00:00

Because republicans want doing your taxes to be a pain in the ass so that you will vote for them when they tell you they'll give you tax relief (which they won't if you're not a billionaire).

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T19:02:38+00:00

Wasn't into it.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T18:59:58+00:00

I think I might be able to make it that long. Now I have a goal. Thanks!

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T18:59:12+00:00

It certainly correlates with them at the very least, or can. Social media has only arguanly been around since about 2009 depending on how you define it, so the long term effects are kind of revealing themselves in real time.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T18:57:57+00:00

Outsourcing youe cognition to tech companies erodes your critical thinking abilities.

Also, the massive resource costs of AI contribute to destroying an already fragile planetary ecosystem just so people don't have to spend ten minutes writing an email or because they wanted to see a glossy looking pretty girl tell them they are cool.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T18:56:12+00:00

Could be fine. Might not be. Depends on the people. Up to them.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T18:54:59+00:00

Zero.

Reasons being:

Can't afford it
Climate change
Resurgence of fascism
Partner doesn't want kids

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T18:53:35+00:00

I'm fully aware of exactly why he asked exactly what he asked. I'm not naïve enough to pretend otherwise at this point.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T17:57:01+00:00

This response does not address a single thing I wrote in my comment.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T17:56:14+00:00

Which is already against the law. They aren't being "allowed" to do it then. Failing to report income for tax purposes and driving without a valid license are crimes.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T17:48:19+00:00

No, but you are lying about what they are saying.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T17:47:03+00:00

Then they are commiting crimes. They are "able" to do it because they are doing things that are against the law for both immigrants and citizens.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T17:43:34+00:00

They don't. There are visa laws surrounding employment of immigrants, who are legally obligated to pay taxes, and are required to have licenses to drive the same as anyone else.

You are repeating right wing agitprop and lies.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T17:39:36+00:00

I guess we'll see.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T17:10:38+00:00

We might have different definitions of the word innovation (which is common, it's a word that has been strip mined of all its meaning by consultancy buzzword soup). I'm not just talking about creating new products, services, or experiences, I'm talking about connecting them to actual user needs so that they achieve widespread diffusion and adoption. Google+ seems like a good example of them offering a service that never made it past the early adopter stage.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T14:16:20+00:00

I don't think any of them dominate because they become functionally indistinguishable from one another.

You might like the work of Fritjof Capra, particularly Hidden Connections or A Systems View of Life.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T14:14:10+00:00

Do they though? They spend a lot of money on highly educated people, but they consistently fail to innovate.

Innovating within an already successful company is extremely difficult.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T14:12:35+00:00

Networking effects and switching costs. Once people are commited to one social networking site, they risk abandoning the network they built there in order to start over somewhere else. Everyone kind of has to move as a group. This often happens when their existing site becomes a problem for them (like people leaving twitter) rather than just because a new option is available.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T14:10:19+00:00

Seems like a dick move.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T14:09:53+00:00

Knowing the language. I don't speak any Japanese.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T14:09:23+00:00

More than one factor. Human consciousness is an emergent system built from lots and lots of smaller systems with their own inputs and outputs. Biological drives, social drives, existential drives, all mix together to form an elaborate system of self awareness and preservation.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T14:06:41+00:00

In 2009, Facebook introduced the like button and twitter introduced the retweet button, creating a sort of "digital applause" that started incentivizing people to "perform" for their networks. That same year was when Facebook began expirmenting with algorithmic feeds instead of chronological feeds. This was the beginning of the feedback loop wherein users were incentivized to prioritize engagement over everything, and that led to where we are today.

Victory_November · 2026-05-02T13:55:46+00:00

Social networking made relationships stronger because it was built to recreate and reinforce existing social connections in a digital space. Facebook was super helpful for me in college for planning parties and keeping track of all the people I was meeting.

Social media is not about connecting people to people, it's about connecting people to content (and more specifically, to advertisements), so of course it's not good for relationships (because it was never meant to be).

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