This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors.

Which is why “AI” will parrot it.

More people should honour Punch a Nazi Day.

(In case of doubt, Punch a Nazi Day falls on any day that ends in ‘y’.)

More public money syphoned off to the parasitic corporations and dumber, easier to exploit proles.

Seems like a massive win for capitalism, really.

Until it all blows up on our faces, obviously, but when has capitalism ever cared about anything beyond the next quarter?

Well, yes, obviously. But if there isn’t one they stay out of the city, with the rest of the dangerous machinery, not on the sidewalk with the civilised people.

Yes. Including passing a hard civics test, no retries. And keep them off the fucking sidewalks.

If they’re driving a bike or any other type of vehicle including roller skates (exceptions can be made for non motorised wheelchairs with a medical certificate) on the sidewalk I very damn well do, yes.

Well, without the command thing. Or the shooting.

Just take them away quietly and dispose of them and their accursed wheeled contraption in as painful a way as possible somewhere where it won’t bother civilised people, and fine and shame their parents or closest relatives.

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

Ban cars from the cities.

Turn roads into bus/tram/delivery and bike lanes, making the sidewalks wider, with space for trees and terraces.

Require a license with a damn hard civics test to even be allowed to look at any form of personal transport (including roller skates) let alone drive it in the city. You get one try. Don’t even dare looking at a wheel ever again in your horrible little uncivil life if you failed it, on pain of pain.

THROW ANY FUCKING CYCLISTS OR SIMILAR WHEELED BASTARDS¹ WHO DON’T STAY IN THE BIKE LANES OR EVEN LOOK AT THE SIDEWALK INTO THE FUCKING SNAKE PIT; LET THE SNAKES GROW FAT AND LUSTROUS ON THEIR UNCIVILISED BLOOD.

1.- Wheelchairs are fine with a medical certificate; motorised ones and personal scooters are not, get the licence and stay on your fucking lane, you wheeled asshole.

Everything starts with good intentions.

No it doesn’t.

When it comes to privacy, politics, and capitalism, almost nothing starts with good intentions.

Most everything starts for the short term benefit of whoever starts it and any investors putting money into it, at the expense of everyone else and ignoring any future negative consequences unless profit can be extracted from them.

It hurting people the starter doesn’t like (even if it will come back to hurt the starter in the long time) is also a very important factor, though secondary to the short term profit one.

Anyone remember RAMdisks?

I wouldn’t trust books when it comes to hunting mushrooms, slop or not.

Don’t go hunting mushrooms unless your family’s taken you hunting mushrooms since you were a kid (and even then only in regions you’re familiar with, and even then don’t pick any mushroom you’re not 110% certain of, and if you’re not an idiot), or accompanied by someone with that experience verifying every single mushroom you find before picking it up, and telling you why and how it’d’ve killed you or why it wouldn’t’ve tasted good.

American values.

The USA is the only UN member that hasn’t ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Need to ensure an adequate supply.

Also, they don’t only like abusing children, they like abusing women too, so it’s two birds with one stone.

(Certain conditions may apply.)

The USA is the only UN member that hasn’t ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Because they want to be able to keep executing children.

We know what “AI” can do.

• Create one of the largest and most dangerous economic bubbles in history.
• Be a massive contributor to the climate catastrophe.
• Consume unfathomable amounts of resources like water, destroying the communities that need them.
• Make personal computing unaffordable. (And eventually any form of offline computing; if it’s up to these bastards we’ll end up back with only mainframes and dumb terminals, with them controlling the mainframes).
• Promote mass surveillance and constant erosion of privacy.
• Replace search engines making it impossible to find trustworthy information on the Internet.
• Destroy the open web by drowning it on useless slop.
• Destroy open source by overwhelming the maintainers with unusable slop.
• Destroy the livelihood of artists and programmers using their own stolen works as training data, without providing a useable replacement for the works they would have produced.
• Infect any code they touch with such an amount of untraceable bugs that it becomes unusable and dangerous (see windows updates since they replaced their programmers with copilot, for instance.
• Support the parasitic billionaire class and increase the wealth divide even more.
• Make you look like a monstrous moronic asshole for supporting all that shit.

It maybe being able to save you five minutes of coding in exchange for several hours of debugging (either by you or by whoever is burdened with your horrible slop) is not worth being an active contributor to all that monstrous harm on humanity and the world.

I don’t want my data poisoned, I’d rather just poison the AI bros.

That’s a higher purpose, not a lower one.

Bear in mind that the atmosphere back in those days was 5% carbon dioxide, 24% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 38% tar, 10% nicotine, 2% cocaine, and 1% trace gases.

Things got gunky fast. Also brown.

I mean they beat the old arrow keys (wasd hadn’t been invented yet), and were better than most joysticks of the time…