arctanthrope

how are you still doing that, I thought they all shut down like three years ago with the whole API debacle

some decisions do not have moral weight, they are simply preferences that don’t reflect on a person’s fundamental character. like whether you like spicy food, or the color of shirt you wear

apparently limited to 25,000 for the 250th anniversary. doesn’t say how they’ll be distributed, but sounds like an opt-in kinda thing. at least I really hope so, I need to renew mine soon

that’s not in his fourth-grade vocabulary, he thinks “dire” is the person who comes to touch up his roots

how were they supposed to know that the company called “crystal ball used by Satan-analogue to gather intel and to seduce or deceive opposition to ensure success in war to enslave mankind” was evil when they agreed to work for them?

they cite numbers about “cash savings” but then imply that that’s equivalent to savings in general, or liquid assets. like, I’m lucky enough to have a decent amount in my bank account, but my cash savings is probably like, forty bucks? I hardly ever use cash and when I do I just go to an ATM beforehand, why should I have hundreds of dollars in cash lying around? is that what they’re talking about, or is “cash savings” some colloquialism or term of art that I’m unfamiliar with that also includes other things than strictly cash?

edit: to be clear, I’m aware many if not most Americans are in dire financial situations, not trying to dispute that, the wording just seems weird. my first instinct is they probably do mean liquid assets, but to use the word “cash” when “liquid” is a more accurate word that would still be understood by a broad audience seems like an odd choice to me. maybe that’s just a bit of my slightly pedantic tendencies

let’s hope it comes back around

CiviClick, which bills itself as “the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform.”

so the word “grassroots” just doesn’t fucking mean anything anymore, huh

“the lines between gambling and investing have been blurred”

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

“[tech bros] don’t have evil in [their] heart” [citation needed]

or, apparently equivalently, Robert Borden, Elizabeth II, and a common loon (Gavia immer)

it’s nice, but it’s been over a decade since people started talking about needing a $15 minimum wage, with inflation that same value is more like $20 now

this isn’t new, “making smaller marks on a rock” has been mankind’s method for expanding data storage for thousands of years

edit - hmm, needs workshopping I guess. maybe something like: “over thousands of years, humans have refined data storage from its most primitive beginnings as marks on rocks, to its most advanced novelty, different marks on different rocks”

exactly, the real Luddites weren’t opposed to technology, they were opposed to wealthy factory owners using technology in a way that eliminated or cheapened their labor to extract more profit. what Sanders and most others are citing as threats posed by “ai” are actually perfectly in line with the Luddites, but they’re not allowed to say so because the actual history of the Luddites has been smeared and propagandized to make them look like unreasonable morons who are scared of things they can’t comprehend