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Comment The Real Terminator (Score 3, Funny) 10

The year is 2063, a video of a concert gets uploaded to youtube. A totally real band plays to a totally real Coachella crowd that spreads out for hundreds of miles into the distance. The video has twenty three trillion likes from totally real people. The last actual human died of starvation a decade ago watching AI slop while waiting for an AI delivered doordash that got stuck in a bootloop, but the AI show goes on unabated.

Comment Didn't the US do this already? (Score 5, Insightful) 134

Like, over 200 years ago, sort out that individual state issues coinage was bad? Oh right I'm sorry all the old ideas that are bad are good again because history is fake and illiteracy is good. I'd communicate my apology in grunts and hand gestures, fortunately I'm already safe due to the whole illiteracy thing.

Comment TeaOnHER??? (Score 3, Interesting) 111

Really, TeaOnHer, excluding gay guys? Where's the progress? I demand an AI coded gossip site for everyone, about everyone! One with a monopoly on gossip that's the result of capitalist ravenings, run by an egomaniacal psychopath as it expands into vague super conglomerate who's only reason not leak all my info is that they can charge for it if they don't; now that's progress!

Comment The Mobs have come (Score 2, Insightful) 165

In the seminal post apocalyptic novel A Canticle for Leobowitz remaining mobs seize and kill scientists and intellectuals of all kinds after a nuclear apocalypse, blaming them for building the weapons that brought the world low.

Well here is a mob, not acting directly and somewhat rationally for a crime clearly committed; but acting indirectly through a democracy against scientists for the crime of delivering bad news at all. We've killed each other enough that the days of direct holocaust and mobs are mostly gone outside an isolated incident or two, evolved out of the deluded direct mob. Instead the mob in question just burn the metaphorical books; and some even claim it's not their fault, they wouldn't have voted for the leader of the mob just months later, they voted for the mob for other reasons, somewhere, somehow others are to blame, not them.

What a sadly anticlimactic little pith of nothing this example of humanity marches towards its doom as. Collectively we've the power to bring forth great dramas and amazing twists for our imagined dooms, and yet in this real world example of demise humanity punishes those who warn caution as it stands on the shore as the acid seas reach achingly slowly to swallow them whole.

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