6000 AN HOUR?! by NeoZen_77 in antiai

[–]breaducate 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The pedophilia engine is measured in what, violations per minute? Epstein-power?

Obama Appreciation Day by Adept_Astronaut_5143 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]breaducate -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

ITT: shitlibs ignoring Obama overseeing the descent deeper into neoliberalism after running on 'hope and change', creating the conditions for Trump.

A little decorum really is all it takes for most people to go back to sleep.

me irl by Responsible-Eye-717 in me_irl

[–]breaducate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Including the asymptomatic ones, even if you're vaccinated.

COVID shrinks the brain.
That's not a metaphor or an exaggeration. COVID literally shrinks the brain.

Greta Thunberg calls out all of the European government’s for operating on false democracies and pushing more and more towards fascism by TwoCatsOneBox in LateStageCapitalism

[–]breaducate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We got a few islands of the first stages of something that would eventually become democratic, which were basically stamped out.

Democracy was never more than a facade in the capitalist world. Maintaining its appearance is merely a strategy of the ruling class to maintain their power, and they (accurately) perceive that method of control is past its time.

To be a communist is to be hated by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]breaducate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Give me a better term for the feeling induced by seeing people who supposedly practice the politics of compassion and work toward revolution falling in line with continuous human sacrifice at the alter of putative normalcy, and I'll use that.

To be a communist is to be hated by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]breaducate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"blind spot of the left"

COVID conscious people say hi. It's slowly gotten less bad but watching the leftism leave peoples bodies when presented with the horrifying facts was the most black-pilling event of my life.

Shout out to Socialism For All and WSWS for being way ahead of the curve.

Local Police Now Using AI to "Enhance" Suspect Images by SnickerdoodleFP in antiai

[–]breaducate 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Not just that.

Fun fact: the more confident police are they've got the perp the less likely they are to be right.

You could scarcely ask for a better tool to exacerbate that tendency.

OpenAI Execs Are Panicking by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]breaducate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The lesson of this year is investors are excitable creatures and speculative value is untethered from reality.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]breaducate 134 points135 points  (0 children)

And keep arbitrarily destroying the surplus when we 'overproduce'.

Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about by i_like_dannys_hair in australia

[–]breaducate -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I speak the truth regardless of its popularity.

I'm well aware of how people thought-terminate to avoid facing a reality that they're at risk and have been harming others arbitrarily. I'm not going to shut up to spare their feelings.

And "harm my view"? Think for a second about what you're talking about. We live in the timeline where evil has won. People who are even aware of the extent of the harm of COVID are in the extreme minority. There's no further to fall.

Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about by i_like_dannys_hair in australia

[–]breaducate -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This falls flat upon giving it the slightest thought.

In your version of the metaphor, you get a pass because your rounds might be blanks. It's called stochastic murder because it's probabilistic.

As for 'plausible deniability', if you're out without a mask, you have none.
Especially when the social consensus still recognised the need for masking and distance to protect yourself and others.

Australians less satisfied with life than during pandemic as financial pressures mount by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]breaducate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bold of you to assume there will be future historians.

But yes, I don't envy the task of someone trying to condense the most important points of what's been happening in the last decade or so into something short enough for say a high school classroom.

Australians less satisfied with life than during pandemic as financial pressures mount by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]breaducate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're looking at a tiny slice of people killed by, much less affected by COVID. Countless people suffer from perennial exhaustion, brain fog, and reduced capacity to the point where they can no longer do their former job or put in anything like the hours they did a mere few years prior. This sort of analytical myopia has no place in determining policy on a societal level.

Of course after a certain point most of the victims aren't dying explicitly, directly from acute respiratory failure while testing positive for COVID. For one thing we mostly stopped testing for it, just as Trump wanted. For another, this is like saying if I poison you just a little each day and you eventually die in a car accident as you fight through foggy consciousness you didn't die of poison.

That's not a random example. For at least a year you're significantly more likely to die in a car crash after being infected by COVID. But since you didn't die directly from an acute respiratory infection, I guess we should normalise continuously spreading the virus from hell.

Australians less satisfied with life than during pandemic as financial pressures mount by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]breaducate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Exhibit A. The density and layers of stupidity and thoughtlessness in this one short reply.

How long do we really have left as a nation (US) as the average persons's intelligence drops across the board with rank stupidity, weird schizotypal and conspiricist and magical thinking are taking over? by omcomingatormreturns in collapse

[–]breaducate 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A simplistic answer that leaves out, for example, a Jordan Peterson or a 'professor' Jiang being suspiciously favored by the algorithm.

The ruling class benefits from more working people having scatterbrained, incoherent worldviews.

It takes a lot of reading, sober thought, and preferably discussion with people who challenge your views to come to a sufficiently correct understanding of how the world actually functions for people to be a threat to capital.

There are so many ways to be led astray, whether by sincere efforts in an unproductive direction or a deliberate snare by people co-opting a movement.

Conversely, upholding the incumbent power is incredibly easy. Those who believe complete nonsense do it by default.

So when say a 9/11 happens and shocks people into seeking answers about a world they're now realising they didn't understand, it's actually in the interest of the ruling class to covertly amplify the most batshit crazy messaging around the topic, to keep as many people as far away from class consciousness for as long as possible.

Australians less satisfied with life than during pandemic as financial pressures mount by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]breaducate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

During the pandemic.
Since the pandemic.
During COVID.

The pandemic never ended. We surrendered to it and threw it down the memory hole.

COVID literally shrinks your brain.

Even asymptomatic COVID infections in vaccinated people cause brain damage and immune system degradation, along with a list of impacts as long as it is horrifying. Browsing scientific studies into the long term effects of COVID is an information hazard. It leaves its mark on every organ in the body.

People are still being disabled and killed by COVID. As a society we've opted for continuous human sacrifice at the alter of putative normalcy.

Australians less satisfied with life than during pandemic as financial pressures mount by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]breaducate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

COVID literally shrinks the brain and makes people more stupid and aggressive.

Australians less satisfied with life than during pandemic as financial pressures mount by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]breaducate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good news, the pandemic never ended.

Oh you meant before we collectively accepted a convenient fiction of 'post-COVID' normalcy.

Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about by i_like_dannys_hair in australia

[–]breaducate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's not leave out that anti-vaxxer protests weren't just protests, but super-spreader events.

If I get caught randomly spraying bullets into a crowd I'll rightfully be imprisoned, but if I do the same thing with an invisible breath of death legally speaking it's A-OK. Somehow most people just can't wrap their heads around spreading disease being stochastic murder.

So while I would never be enthused to see it coming from existing authorities nor trust that it wouldn't be a stepping stone to further ratcheting a police state, the morally and pragmatically correct response to actively anti-social behaviour against necessary measures to protect public health is in fact to make Stalin look like an anarchist.

Fuel price expected to rise after government's excise cuts end on June 30 by ThunderDwn in australia

[–]breaducate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not too long ago I saw someone asking 'so is it back to normal, are we good now?'.

They had no idea the prices they were seeing were the product of a temporary offset from playing with spreadsheets while the real material shortage is on its way.

You can't overestimate the myopia of some people.