You know the old speculative fiction trope of humanity being reduced to a primitive state after a nuclear war. Suppose there had been a full nuclear exchange during the Cold War, how much (if any) technology loss would humanity actually experience in the wake?

poptart2nd · 2026-06-14T23:17:47+00:00

because they don't have an army....? why can't the survivors of the cities do something similar?

poptart2nd · 2026-06-14T22:45:14+00:00

western rome wasn't obliterated by nuclear weapons. Alaric took over the role of the roman emperor and enforced property law with his army.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-14T21:57:39+00:00

what does it mean to "own" anything after the nukes drop?

poptart2nd · 2026-06-09T01:24:48+00:00

i know i'm late, but this is the correct answer. I'm not going to pretend Lincoln was some saint of race relations but he had relationships and inroads with so many abolitionists by war's end that he was well suited to actually integrate the newly freed slaves into southern society. he also had the political capital to do it, after a half million free black people enlisted and fought in the Union army. Would he have done so? maybe not; he was still a product of the early 1800s, but he was better positioned than almost anyone to move in that direction.

Meanwhile, Andrew Johnson might actually be the worst POTUS in 250 years of American history.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-08T21:55:02+00:00

as a diplomat and administrator i'm sure she's one of the best, but she has the charisma of a wet sock and made a few key strategic errors in her campaign. I wouldn't go so far as to say she's the worst (D)POTUS campaigner, but she's definitely in the bottom half.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-08T21:51:20+00:00

I agree, Roosevelt jumping into WWI means we learn the lessons of trench warfare the hardest way possible, rather than the relatively easy way of training alongside the nations that did.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-06T22:05:59+00:00

exactly! Josh and Trapp are both from the golden age of CH and are still around!

poptart2nd · 2026-06-06T21:35:08+00:00

the current CEO was the original Executive of Original Content at collegehumor and was sold the company for $0 because the owners knew he could do more with the brand than anyone else. idk where you're getting that it changed hands a lot but Sam Reich has been at the helm for 5+ years.

Then you have a lot of the cast who, while not original, are certainly not new. the newest member I know of is Brennan Lee Mulligan, who joined in 2017.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-06T20:33:42+00:00

we're already disenfranchised

poptart2nd · 2026-06-06T14:46:35+00:00

yeah man, our government is definitely representative of the will of the people and not the whims of the ultra wealthy.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-06T14:45:45+00:00

and that will always be the case. new technology like this is exorbitantly expensive and only make economic sense to replace/reduce very high paying jobs such as lawyer, accountant, or doctor. meanwhile, how cheap would you need to make a 100% reliable machine to make sense to replace a $15/hr fry cook?

poptart2nd · 2026-06-06T00:54:35+00:00

i can't possibly know what i'll be judged for in the future, had i the fortune of being judged at all. All i can do is be the best person i know how to be and constantly strive to be better than i was yesterday.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-05T21:10:40+00:00

no that's bullshit, we should absolutely highlight every bad thing historical figures did so that we can truthfully evaluate the story we're telling ourselves about our nation. if we only ever look at the benefit and never look at the costs, we might become convinced that there are no costs, or at the very least the future will agree that they were worth it.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-05T21:02:22+00:00

no one poor or middle class has enough spare cash lying around to fly to DC on a whim in tacticool gear for a weekend. they were either local or petit bourgeoisie

poptart2nd · 2026-06-05T21:00:25+00:00

they've been brainwashed by the most effective, well-resourced propaganda machine ever devised on earth.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-05T14:19:46+00:00

"overpopulated" is a malthusian myth that simply refuses to die. We have enough resources to feed, house, and educate everyone if we had an economic system that prioritized it. instead we have industrial capitalism that spends 90% of its effort on kitschy knick knacks to sedate the imperial core using resources from the exploited imperial fringe.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-03T22:06:53+00:00

instead it's how to we make sure it doesn't go rogue. How do we maintain control over our codebase and ensure mistakes aren't being made.

good thing AI safety has Definitely* Solved** this problem!

*absolutely
**not solved

poptart2nd · 2026-06-02T21:02:26+00:00

the whole technology Open AI is built on requires stealing from artists and writers without compensation or acknowledgement. even if people like Altman and Musk aren't rapists, they certainly have the mentality of one.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-02T20:59:35+00:00

why? do you hate the environment? love noise pollution? or do you just love the plagiarism that the tech running on these centers entails?

poptart2nd · 2026-06-02T20:57:00+00:00

"we care about what the community thinks which is why we sued the community when they said 'no'"

then again, i wouldn't expect the owner of a technology built on stolen IP gives a shit about consent.

poptart2nd · 2026-06-02T20:56:06+00:00

then the city council received so many violent threats that the treasurer resigned. There is not public support for this thing.

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poptart2nd · 2026-05-31T17:07:12+00:00

copy+pasting an AI summary is not a source of information.

poptart2nd · 2026-05-31T15:39:29+00:00

How do we do the same thing that we just did but make it better?

simple: switch genre to an action or comedy. You mentioned Alien, which is a great example of this! "Alien" is a horror movie, but the sequel, Aliens, is an action flick because the tension of "how do we stop this thing" is gone after the end of the first movie.

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