Expectation Vs. Reality
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It is true that the Earth is round, much like it's true that an ongoing genocide against white people is occuring in South Africa.
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Just read a sci-fi novel set in 2005 where they had laser guns and orbital defence platforms.
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What's a grok?
… ask grok
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It is true that the Earth is round, much like it's true that an ongoing genocide against white people is occuring in South Africa.
Nice reference
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Oh, I see.
Ugh. Billionaires should get restrictions on the stuff they are allowed to publish
It’s not known whether it was him or not, but many suspect it
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Blade Runner was made in 1982 and set in 2019 Los Angeles. I think that in most ways, real life 2019 was closer to 1982 than Blade Runner 2019.
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Just read a sci-fi novel set in 2005 where they had laser guns and orbital defence platforms.
Heinlein?
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Instead, we get Dark Age 2: American Boogaloo
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Elon's pet LLM chat bot. The one that he recently tweaked temporarily(?) to spread South African "white genocide" conspiracy theories on Twitter because... well because what else would you expect Elon to spend his time doing?
It also got tweaked to spread Holocaust denial after that.
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Heinlein?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Nah, Bear. The last time I read Heinlein he laid out a schema for starting a cult that sounded suspiciously close to what his friend L Ron Hubbard later did for real.
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Oh, I see.
Ugh. Billionaires should get restrictions on the stuff they are allowed to publish
why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.
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People using a glorified Markov chain to fact check things is the most depressing shit I've had to endure in a while
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Blade Runner was made in 1982 and set in 2019 Los Angeles. I think that in most ways, real life 2019 was closer to 1982 than Blade Runner 2019.
Culturally we are still living in the 80s, just a dragged out fun mirror version of it because everyone at the top of the pyramid refuses to believe there could be anything better than their idea of life and the malls are online.
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why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.
The core issue is clearly that money can be used to bypass rules.
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
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Nah, Bear. The last time I read Heinlein he laid out a schema for starting a cult that sounded suspiciously close to what his friend L Ron Hubbard later did for real.
... which is also the origin of the word "grok".
Full circle!
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It’s not known whether it was him or not, but many suspect it
Its a reasonable suspicion.
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
When the world stops being a neoliberal hellscape
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why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.
Elaborate on why politicians should be exempt
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
No. Have you not been here for the past 2 years? It gets worse from here!
