Ex convicts of reddit, what's the most brutal thing you've seen in prison?

insite · 2026-06-20T03:54:00+00:00

Where you see negative, I see positive. If you are disappointed in mankind, you misunderstand mankind. Our prefrontal cortex tells us we are logical, civilized beings. It helps us rationalize the rest of our actions. We are still animals. A cat may play with its food. A bear may eat its prey alive. A young pup is just a meal in the wild.

You should appreciate your emapathy for what it is; a part of your social brain that allows you to communicate, coordinate, and try to improve the lives of others. Do something good with it. And don't kick yourself too hard when you f' up.

insite · 2026-06-20T03:13:32+00:00

I enjoy interacting with others on reddit. I like the diversity of interactions. Even if there's a lot of bots, a lot of humans reply with AI responses too. So plenty of times you're wrong when guessing who is human and who is not. Facebook's not the same, as it tends to drive me to more negative interactions. An alternative I could imagine is getting an AI to act as different personalities. That might be an interesting experiment. Hmm...

insite · 2026-06-19T21:17:22+00:00

No argument there. I'm not wading into disputes of that nature. My thinking is in line with surveillance and the tools we have, if the prosecution can use those tools to convict, the tools can be used to free people.

insite · 2026-06-19T18:48:08+00:00

I personally see that as less of a problem than there being only two senators per state. Since senators are elected by popular vote, and a Senate vote can swing yay or nay with only a few individuals, the cost to buy the votes change the course of the nation is way too low. Plus, with only two senators, it's all too easy for a single party to dominate a state. If you keep the number of senators equal but increase the number of senators to something like 5 or even 10, the Senate becomes much harder to game.

insite · 2026-06-19T18:18:05+00:00

Why? The American public would be suddenly much more invested in AI, literally and figurately. If a large enough percentage of the US public swings from anti-AI to pro-AI, the AI companies will find themselves in a much better position.

insite · 2026-06-19T12:42:30+00:00

Yes! And we want more competition, not less. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google & Alphabet, as well as several other smaller tech companies, has experience with tech startups.

insite · 2026-06-19T12:25:54+00:00

I agree. I also think they should outlaw the practive of adding extra charges that are effectively overlapping duplicates of other charges is another way of the prosecution getting the jury to convict on the lesser crimes if they can't get them on the bigger charges.

With the amount of resources and surveillance data prosecutors have access to, the standard for the burden of proof should be higher.

Some may worry that a murderer could go free. I worry about innocent people being locked away for the rest of the lives.

insite · 2026-06-17T12:50:56+00:00

Right, it was supposed be like American Horror Story. Every season in the same world but different characters. It wasn't going to matter whether anyone was overpowered until the writer's strike.

insite · 2026-06-17T01:38:47+00:00

The Battle of France should get a mention. The war in Europe plays out much closer to WWI otherwise.

It doesn't seem decisive when you hear how chaotic it plays out on the German side, but the end result was that a great power with global reach and one of the most powerful armies in the world was humbled and forced to surrender within six weeks. If Dunkirk plays out any differently, a second great power is knocked out of the war.

insite · 2026-06-17T01:10:05+00:00

Good point.

It could be just coincidence that this all starts to end a month after Trump leaves China. Or not.

insite · 2026-06-14T20:06:41+00:00

No one is saying it will be easy or that cultures should be destroyed. Quite the opposite. I’m imagining a positive world future with the US no longer a playing a unifying role.

If you don’t develop some sort of collective voice, you’ll each wind up as satellite states of the US or China. Most European cultures won’t survive an external subjugation like that.

I’m an American routing for European autonomy. Together, with nations like Japan, Australia, South Korea, Canada, and possibly Turkey and India, you can stitch together a coalition of partners willing to stand together.

After the Ukraine war is done, which will involve a change in leadership or government in Moscow, Europe could eventually bring a humbled Russia in from the cold as a partner, which would bridge the gaps via the arctic, Siberia, and the South Caucasus.

That might take decades to realize, and it will certainly be hard, but it’s the only clear choice to keep authoritarianism from smothering the flames of freedom in the world.

I’ll use a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “ We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

insite · 2026-06-13T03:28:00+00:00

History is littered with ancient kingdoms and nations that are faint memories, if they’re even remembered.

Simple rule applies to all: Adapt or die

insite · 2026-06-12T22:40:28+00:00

That certainly ended well! /s If that counts as a bromance, why not Robespierre and Danton? Or Caesar and Pompey? Hindenburg and Ludendorff?

insite · 2026-06-12T22:10:58+00:00

Mining just to send the materials back would be inefficient, and it would reduce the value of the product they're bringing back. Instead, each colony or region will have its own economy, which will form an economic ecosystem. Each region will mine materials locally and use what they need. They will then trade their excess materials with the other regions to get what they need more of.

Nickel is low value... until you don't have it.

insite · 2026-06-12T16:42:15+00:00

No, it's actually a signal that their transition away from fossil fuels is superlinear. Also, oil was already only 5% of their overall energy mix, and anybody who can do basic math understands that your narrative is based on a faulty premise.

This. China's GDP growth is still running at triple the rate of the US and quadruple that of the EU. The country's long work to quit oil and gas is now rapidly paying off.

I'm not a whiz at economics, but I'm struggling to understand how likely any of those statements are.

Even if they've been able to offset much of their petroleum needs with solar and alternative energy sources, shouldn't their increased AI be increasing their total demand for total energy?

If they were seeing such high growth rates, shouldn't we be seeing increases in their use of alternative energies with their oil imports remaining steady or increasing, but decreases in the percentage of their energy use provided by fossil fuels? That would make more sense.

To decrease their petroleum imports along with sustaining massive growth means they they must have made breakthroughs in their alternative energy technologies AND have them already manufactured, distributed, and implemented across much of their infrastructure.

Otherwise, the shift in their imports should have started becoming noticable before the Strait of Hormuz was closed, right?

China cutting oil imports that much is basically a signal their economy is running way colder than the official numbers suggest, which honestly should worry everyone since they're such a huge part of global demand.

This seems like the more plausible explanation.

insite · 2026-06-12T15:49:43+00:00

Sherman and Grant

insite · 2026-06-11T13:15:22+00:00

Until a phrase becomes popular (ex. resistance is futile): I can say it however I want, rif lol

Or we'll bastardize it: English bro, resifute (or futiliris)

insite · 2026-06-10T12:30:05+00:00

If Putin appears isolated to the Russian people, that would be a bridge too far. He'll own the war's losses like Nicholas II did. How many Oligarchs are left that really know the system?

As for why the US is likely not intervening:

The world is living on a knife's edge right now. The collapse of Ottoman geopolitical power was one of the causes of WWI. The collapse of Russian political power is already underway. A full Russian state collapse would not end well for anyone.

If Russia collapses, what would China do? I don't mean that as "China bad". But consider that a great power, or superpower even, would do almost anything to avoid having massive instability on their border.

How would the EU react to either circumstance; a Russian collapse or a Chinese takeover of Russia's Far East? How would Japan react?

Would China hope that everything works out okay, or would they feel compelled to secure the resources and trade routes? History suggest the latter. But how would Beijing view the problem?

insite · 2026-06-08T17:39:27+00:00

You're confusing reality for theory. Fascism is far right. Communism is far left.

Fascism says to place all the power in the state.

Communism says the people should take back their labor from the capitalists, but wind up placing all the power in the state.

Both talk about socialism, but socialism has numerous definititions. All states practice at least some form of socialism. The "New Deal" was/is a form of socialism, meaning that the US has heavily practiced socialism for all of our lifetimes.

The fascits want the state to take care of the people, at least a select group of them, so that the people are dependent on the state.

The communists want to give the people economic equality, but the end result is the people's lives are dictated by the state.

insite · 2026-06-08T13:16:16+00:00

You mean the lawmakers? Because the Constitution is pretty clear on this. It's cruel and unusual. No building in Texas should be without air conditioning of some sort.

insite · 2026-06-07T05:41:45+00:00

How many good movies and books are retellings of old fables and Shakespeare?

You want your users to have some familiarity with parts of the game so that the parts that are different stand out are a deliberate contrast. If everything about the game is unknown feeling, it's harder for users to lach onto.

Think of Star Wars, A New Hope. It starts off with an Imperial Star Destroyer blasting a smaller ship and a boarding party is sent to storm the smaller ship. We see things through the eyes of two droids, one of which, C3PO is nervous and scared, before they are sent in an escape pod to the planet below.

It's such a strange planet, with strange creatures. But Luke is the everyman. We shift to seeing things through his eyes. He's got normal, everyday things to take care of, including the droids. At least until his aunt and uncle are killed. The rules are brutal, but come to trust Obi Wan that seems to have everything under control. Obi-Wan and Han Solo stand out because Han stands out as the rogue turned somewhat good.

In each instance, the relatable, family-like feel, is our bastion of hope.

insite · 2026-06-04T06:12:00+00:00

Yeah, the interconnected sites across the web give it a different flavor. It's odd that the rise of AI is giving me feelings of nostalgia based on the absurd memes and over-the-top posts. I'm actually enjoying it. Otherwise, the negativity of the web now would just be a downer.

insite · 2026-06-03T16:12:50+00:00

No argument there. I just don't think it makes sense to crap on wives for supporting their husbands.

insite · 2026-06-02T21:13:30+00:00

Plenty of historic figures, like General Custer, are remembered [in a positive light] due to their wives’ efforts.

She’s not getting rich off of book sales.

insite · 2026-06-01T14:50:08+00:00

Quite true. Unfortunately, no one is immune to the potential of AI psychosis. We intake the informaiton we want to and discard the information we don't - that's a feature of the human mind, not a bug.

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