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Killed 'em with kindness like I have never seen!

That's an excellent user name as well, for what it's worth.

It's ultra-processed!

Jon Stewart made a point in some video not too long ago about how modern media presents us with a constant drip of ultra-processed speech and how it manipulates and harms our brains for our short-term gratification but the long-term benefit of others who don't give a shit about us. It is much like engineered ultra-processed food in that way.

Thinking of advertising through that lens, hell that industry has been at the bleeding edge of all kinds of manipulation and shady data gathering for decades! Ultra-processed speech and ultra-processed advertising are basically a package deal!

In near future Black Mirror USA I could see that being a real diagnosis but one of the checkboxes is that it only applies to rich patients paying cash for VIP boutique healthcare.

Anybody who needs to use health insurance or receive any kind of government benefits would never be exempted from any of the tried and true methods of control.

What sucks is that they are really good at spreading it because they speak very confidently.

The Democrats really suck. Our FPTP 2-party system is really some bullshit. However, it is really difficult for me to buy into the validity of the slippery slope you are describing when the people around me keep voting for the option that is #1 worst by a whole fucking lot.

And the further that #1 worst keeps surging and lapping #2 on the evil-dex, the further their psycho supporters seem to like it! We'll see if the pedo shit can finally reverse that.

This would be a different conversation if we'd elected democrats over and over to avoid republicans and somehow still got dragged to the right. At the end of the Obama administration, for instance, there was the concern of the bait and switch.

But no. He gets impeached a couple times for betraying the US in different ways after being openly terrible for years, and dozens of millions of people still turn out to vote for him. He tries some light coup and all the daily otherwise career ending craziness, and they turn out to vote for him AGAIN in HIGHER numbers.

The fact that the democrats are the good cop capitalists to the republicans' bad cop capitalists is definitely a problem, yes. Any of us who get to vote in the US should be keenly aware of that. And there are multiple things we can try to fix in parallel. But sometimes you have to fix things sequentially too.

I can imagine a future device with an e-ink page that's so thin and flexible that it looks and feels like a paper book with magic changing text. I don't know how many consumers would pay a premium for that, but I would definitely buy my wife one.

It's like each newly revealed crime against humanity can only permanently lose him a single maga influencer or high profile republican.

And I wish it weren't so, but I bet he has enough in his history to lose them all.

Unfortunately the lesson that needs to be learned, that trumpers shouldn't just move on to supporting Vance doing the same evil shit but without the rap sheet and the dementia, probably isn't going to happen.

Down there touching our Earth too! 🤢

I was an outdoorsy kid in the 80s and 90s so pocket knives were common, but of course had rules. I hadn't carried one for decades, but started again this year because of hobbies that have me working outside and it's become super handy. I'll even clip it in the pocket of whatever shorts or PJ pants I'm wearing in the house while just chilling with the family. 100% for utilitarian uses, and literally every day.

One thing I have to thank the EDC, tactiool, and/or Mall Ninja Shit communities for though is the amazing variety of high quality pocket knives that use replaceable utility knife blades! Light and slim ones, not rattling box cutters.

Mine is one of these. Plain titanium color, and after an embarrassing amount of screwing around I settled on Tajima V-Rex II blades. I don't have a collection of knives or anything like that, but it is so satisfying to have the one tool that is exactly what I wanted for the job, and have need to use it constantly.

Hell yeah!

I am not flamboyant myself. Along with being a strongly introverted AuDHD computer nerd, I am a straight adult cisgender man with a long beard and literally wearing a red & green flannel shirt right now. I've been trying to wear natural fibers lately and it's 100% cotton coziness.

The frumpy dumpy path so many in my demo seem to assume is their destiny can fuck alllll the way off. We need people to share their interests and be flamboyant if that's what's in their heart!

God forbid we allow a spark of joy in our hearts to reach out and improve the existence of another human, right? Especially when we could have spent more time being good worker bees and consumers of product and content, so that a few sociopaths could watch a number go up and wait for the contentment that will never come.

The first few minutes and any rough treatment or insults was more than enough for uh, doing his job.

The rest of the 10 years is a "you have disrespected The Party and The Race" bonus.

The AI scanner

Oh boy. Does this mean that one or more of our favorite tech sociopaths might have full unredacted versions of the kompromat that they totally promised the AI system would not save?