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Cake day: May 7th, 2024
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.English
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    7 hours ago

    A whole 7 days??? Gosh gee willakers!!! You think people can uphold a boycott a whole 7 days???

    Look. Boycotts are effective, but you gotta be stubborn. It’s gotta be “boycott from now on” with no end date.

    Otherwise, it’ll just look like normal fluctuations in their business.

    “Oh, this week was slightly down…ah, but then it stopped. We’re good!”

    But if you boycott forever, then their numbers continuously go down. And if you get other people boycotting, those numbers go down faster.

    THAT’S how you make an impact.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning.English
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    16 hours ago

    Ya know what? Good. Let’s get this shit out of the way. We all know that at some point we’re all going to have those years where AI is just used to make decisions it absolutely SHOULD NOT be used to make. We all know there’s going to be those years where everything is as stupid as humanly possible. So I say may as well be now, since we already KNOW we’re going to have some stupid years for the next 4 years at least.

    So may as well do the AI stupid at the same time as the orange cheeto stupid. Maybe one of the AI stupid decisions will somehow cancel out the corrupt ideas of drumph.

    We’re going to have some bad years. That much has already been confirmed. May as well pile everything on, and get it all out of the way at once. Hell, we all know a civil war is coming, may as well get that out of the way. And apparently we’re bringing measles back. That one’s totally preventable by the way. We have these things call VACCINES!!! Which for some reason, people would rather get measles, than a small shot in the arm. These people, in the medical community are known as “morons”. But, here we are. We’re doing this too.

    And all of this going on, simultaneously. For reasons that I’ll never understand, and I’ll never agree with. On SO many topics. Regardless, that’s who we are now. We’re the country that actively harms it’s own citizens, so that the president can make more money for themselves. All while the majority of the country AGREES WITH that decision. Then they want to complain about the policies hurting them, by saying things like (and I quote) “he’s hurting the wrong kinds of people”. These people can get fucked. I feel ZERO empathy for the man who sticks his hand on the stove, burns his hand, holds his hand in recoil…and then stick their hand on the stove in the same spot again.

    So lets get AI over with. Lets get all the bullshit out of the way. By the time 2028 rolls around, hopefully somebody with some god damn sense will win an election. Will the DNC learn from their mistakes? Lets take a look.

    2016 - Trump was a joke, and needed just the most basic candidate. Real middle of the road stuff here. Instead, you decided to run a deeply unpopular and unlikeable woman. This in an election where no woman has been president in the history of the country. And instead of running a popular likeable woman as your first, you ran a woman that turns off voters. And trump wins.

    2020 - People were so sick of Trump, that all you needed was any average politician. Any middle of the road guy will do. Oh, Joe Biden? Ok, that’ll work. Biden wins.

    2024 - Hey…Let’s try running the EXACT game plan from 2016 where we ran a deeply unpopular woman against Trump. Except THIS time, let’s not hold a midterm, and let’s also spring this on people last minute. Trump wins.

    So, will the DNC pick a 2028 candidate who’s likeable, young, strong, has a backbone…Kind of sounds like maybe AOC on a ticket would be perfect. So, will the DNC learn from their mistakes? Oh god…we’re getting Elizabeth Warren instead, aren’t we?