Fourth turning theory is fashy crap written by a play write and a business fund manager (people with no credentials for historical analysis), worshipped by people like Steve Banon.
Accordingly it’s totally subjective, a guessing game.
Truth is: No one can predict what’s going to happen.
You could throw one at someone with a message attached.
He’s Mr. Burns but less lovable and entertaining.
On YouTube, people like Bisan Owda visit some of these places, you can see what it’s like.
Next you’re going to tell me they were never open source (they were never open source).
Nitrogen suffocattion isn’t painless if it’s done completely of nitrogen.
You’re talking about regular oxygen suffocattion caused by decreasing the oxygen available over time.
What you’ve essentially said is “the guillotine is immoral because if you cut 1/10th of the way through, then 1/9th of the way through, then 1/8th and so on… Then it’s REAL painful!!!”
No shit.
I hear ramping up electrocution over a 20 minute period is also not great.
Yep, it’s not like we can vote him out.
I agree, autocracy sucks!
Amazon has a healthcare company now too…
…and they own twitch.
We’re always going to end up with people who can manipulate a crowd being in charge. We’re stupid like that.
Here’s one to go get angry about, the Jordan Peterson crowd saying “Communism is slavery to the state”.
Bush Gore 2.0
Back when Florida threw out all those votes because Black people didn’t trust the system down there so they ticked, and wrote in “Al Gore”… Officials called this “over voting” even though the same candidate was ticked and written, they threw those votes in the garbage and Bush won.
Most of the deaths under Stalin were from the conman Trofim Lysenko, who created “Lysenkoism” (a set of farming techniques he was faking the data on to get paid), and under both Mao and Stalin were from unwanted famines.
Good, it’s the only reliable sign of intelligent self-awareness there is, to the point that all children progress through it, starting out as bad liars, and getting better at it.
LLMs however might just be stupid, or stocasticaly incorrect.
Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system, activated when the wealth gap gets too large.
Yep, so much of Reddit is like that… Creating an adversarial relationship with users …and just like YouTube slowing down people using ad blockers, or games demanding people be online, it will eventually drive people away.
Death by a thousand self-inflicted cuts.
…and all so they can steal our collective content, creativity, and every piece of individual thought or content we’ve ever communicated online.
…with the aim of exploiting it to make billionaires richer.
CAPITAL-ism is aimed and designed to benefit those with the capital.
nah, they just told him who had hits out on him, and that he’d be fed to the wolves if he didn’t help.
The protective punishment of the state is probably a lot lighter than the street justice of global networks of criminal gangs.