Rottcodd

It just struck me that artificial intelligence is an accurate term after all, just in a different sense than the classic idea of a non-living consciousness.

It’s “artificial intelligence” in that it’s a substitute for real intelligence.

I thought it was already widely known that he’s a piece of shit.

On a nearly daily basis now, I’m reminded that a significant number of the people who make up the power structure in the US are in fact profoundly mentally ill.

One can only hope that we serve as an object lesson for future civilizations - whatever you do, don’t let psychopaths run free.

It’s the entire reason I still own an original Xbox.

My vote for best - Secret of Mana

My personal favorite - Jet Set Radio Future

I never started in the first place.

It always seemed like snake oil to me.

I left Florida in '93, and there were times I regretted it. There were a lot of good things about Florida, and it was always interesting. And once you adapt to the weather, it’s nice (if a bit dull).

Now though? Holy fuck I’m glad I’m not there. I don’t even understand what’s going on there - it’s like some sort of mass psychosis. It’s gone way beyond a political shift - it’s more as if someone decided that the thing to do was to establish some sort of right-wing version of the Khmer Rouge and a bunch of Floridians said, “Yeah! That’d be great!”

At the rate they’re going, it’s only a matter if time before they start systematically killing “undesirables”.

Seriously.

How is that proving their point?

The question was wherher “Lemmy” was deliberately and unnaturally biased, akin to a car forum that was biased entirely toward Ford and against Chevy.

There is no mechanism by which that could even be accomplished here, since there’s over 1,000 individual instances, each subject only to the authority of their individual owners.

So the answer to the OP’s question is and can only be “no,” simply because it’s literally impossible for it to be otherwise - there is no mechanism by which any such lemmy-wide bias could be imposed or enforced nor is there anyone with the authority to do so.

So clearly, if the downvotes prove anything at all it’s something else.

I would say that, as far as the OP’s thinly veiled concern-trolling goes, it’s fairly obvious that what they prove, if snything, is that bias against right-wing ideology occurs naturally on internet forums, even in the absence of mechanisms by which it might be enforced or people with the authority to enforce it.

You might do well to honestly consider why that might be the case.

I believe that the oligarchs will try to do exactly that - I just don’t think that they’ll succeed.

And in trying and failing, they’ll so undermine society and bring about so much frustration and anger that our civilization will not survive.

I would presume that in 100 years, if humanity still exists, we’ll be deep into a dark age, so there likely won’t be much in the way of widespread taboos at all. Individual clans and tribes will undoubtedly have their own taboos, but there’s no telling what they might be.

i was just about to post about that - my tuxedo also loves zipties and I have no idea why.

The thing that most stands out to me about Musk and his ilk isn’t their hate - it’s their cowardice.

If they would actually own their hate, I’d have some bare modicum of respect for them. At least then it would be a principled stance. A loathsome one to be sure, but at least principled.

But they’re too cowardly and weak-willed for that. They’re all telling it like it is and going their own way and fuck your feelings right up until someone calls them out on it, then they instantly turn into weepy schoolgirls moaning about how picked on and persecuted they are.

At this point, every new day brings new things that are going to astonish future generations (if there are any).

They’re going to look back and be amazed and repused by seemingly entirely inexplicable examples of our impossibly obvious stupidity and insanity.

Hey c’mon - he was on vacation, so he was doing what he loves most.

Dang right! That thar’s the probbim wif edjumacashun! Too much larnin’ n’ not enuf prison!

It’s like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom’s credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he’s up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.

I block every one I see, without exception.

This isn’t science - it’s propaganda.

That appears to be true, but I don’t see how it matters.

If you don’t have an account there, it doesn’t matter at all.

If you do have an account there, it matters exactly and only as much as you think it does, and only to you. And if it comes to that, it takes mere minutes to open an account on a different and presumably better instance.

There’s no central authority here who can allow or prohibit anything.

The highest authorities are the owners of the individual instances, so if any of them choose to allow it (which I’m sure some would) then they will.