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[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 111 points 3 months ago (2 children) US is like a bad b-movie. The villains do everything they can to destroy the people. The companies are all evil. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 months ago (1 child) You’ve found the plot! The twist is that this is what asymmetric warfare looks like, decades in the making. The US is currently losing the Cold War against the USSR, which began 5 years before Putin was born so it was his entire upbringing. He doesn’t need to maintain tight control of Donny, but merely let him wreak whatever havoc he will. The leopard face-eating will mostly just be sad because everything will be so badly damaged by the time the red team really understands how badly they’ve been had. Corporate greed is a reliable villain to rise to the occasion, that merely needed some unshackling. Billionaires gonna oligarch if you give them half a chance. Helping capitalism to self-destruct is possibly the ultimate communist victory. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 child) I feel like, having read your comment, I should stop feeling so grumpy about Russia fucking with us. We can’t get thru this late-stage capitalist nonsense fast enough. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) Nope, the next stages will be worse. Climate change is baked in and being in the 99% is gonna suck. Is fascism a sub-stage of late-stage capitalism, or a subsequent stage? One of the subsequent stages is AI-powered robot weapons, which I predict will be used on the domestic populace before too long, but also fits in the bad b-movie theme: This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group. That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yo dawg, I heard you like DAWGs. So I put AI inside a human-killing system so it can simulate killing people while it kills people! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 child) They didn’t tell Ender that the “training missions” were all real battles until after he won the war, so that he wouldn’t have to grapple with ethics in real time. That was the essence of the Game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) Fucking spoilers! throws book in the trash That was on my To Read list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent [–] xxam925@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago Nah some 15 year old will crack the security on them. Or fitgirl. permalink fedilink source parent [+] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 months ago (1 child) You’ve found the plot! The twist is that this is what asymmetric warfare looks like, decades in the making. The US is currently losing the Cold War against the USSR, which began 5 years before Putin was born so it was his entire upbringing. He doesn’t need to maintain tight control of Donny, but merely let him wreak whatever havoc he will. The leopard face-eating will mostly just be sad because everything will be so badly damaged by the time the red team really understands how badly they’ve been had. Corporate greed is a reliable villain to rise to the occasion, that merely needed some unshackling. Billionaires gonna oligarch if you give them half a chance. Helping capitalism to self-destruct is possibly the ultimate communist victory. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 child) I feel like, having read your comment, I should stop feeling so grumpy about Russia fucking with us. We can’t get thru this late-stage capitalist nonsense fast enough. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) Nope, the next stages will be worse. Climate change is baked in and being in the 99% is gonna suck. Is fascism a sub-stage of late-stage capitalism, or a subsequent stage? One of the subsequent stages is AI-powered robot weapons, which I predict will be used on the domestic populace before too long, but also fits in the bad b-movie theme: This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group. That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yo dawg, I heard you like DAWGs. So I put AI inside a human-killing system so it can simulate killing people while it kills people! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 child) They didn’t tell Ender that the “training missions” were all real battles until after he won the war, so that he wouldn’t have to grapple with ethics in real time. That was the essence of the Game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) Fucking spoilers! throws book in the trash That was on my To Read list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent [–] xxam925@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago Nah some 15 year old will crack the security on them. Or fitgirl. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 child) I feel like, having read your comment, I should stop feeling so grumpy about Russia fucking with us. We can’t get thru this late-stage capitalist nonsense fast enough. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) Nope, the next stages will be worse. Climate change is baked in and being in the 99% is gonna suck. Is fascism a sub-stage of late-stage capitalism, or a subsequent stage? One of the subsequent stages is AI-powered robot weapons, which I predict will be used on the domestic populace before too long, but also fits in the bad b-movie theme: This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group. That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yo dawg, I heard you like DAWGs. So I put AI inside a human-killing system so it can simulate killing people while it kills people! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 child) They didn’t tell Ender that the “training missions” were all real battles until after he won the war, so that he wouldn’t have to grapple with ethics in real time. That was the essence of the Game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) Fucking spoilers! throws book in the trash That was on my To Read list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent [–] xxam925@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago Nah some 15 year old will crack the security on them. Or fitgirl. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) Nope, the next stages will be worse. Climate change is baked in and being in the 99% is gonna suck. Is fascism a sub-stage of late-stage capitalism, or a subsequent stage? One of the subsequent stages is AI-powered robot weapons, which I predict will be used on the domestic populace before too long, but also fits in the bad b-movie theme: This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group. That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yo dawg, I heard you like DAWGs. So I put AI inside a human-killing system so it can simulate killing people while it kills people! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 child) They didn’t tell Ender that the “training missions” were all real battles until after he won the war, so that he wouldn’t have to grapple with ethics in real time. That was the essence of the Game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) Fucking spoilers! throws book in the trash That was on my To Read list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent [–] xxam925@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago Nah some 15 year old will crack the security on them. Or fitgirl. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yo dawg, I heard you like DAWGs. So I put AI inside a human-killing system so it can simulate killing people while it kills people! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 child) They didn’t tell Ender that the “training missions” were all real battles until after he won the war, so that he wouldn’t have to grapple with ethics in real time. That was the essence of the Game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) Fucking spoilers! throws book in the trash That was on my To Read list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 child) They didn’t tell Ender that the “training missions” were all real battles until after he won the war, so that he wouldn’t have to grapple with ethics in real time. That was the essence of the Game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) Fucking spoilers! throws book in the trash That was on my To Read list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) Fucking spoilers! throws book in the trash That was on my To Read list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xxam925@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago Nah some 15 year old will crack the security on them. Or fitgirl. permalink fedilink source parent