[–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Musicians are old news. It's YouTubers now. They start their channel as kids, and ten years later they aren't kids but their whole audience is. I think kid-fucking is coming back in a big way, sadly.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Eddard Stark was still the asshole who beheaded a kid for running away from the nights’ watch.

    Propaganda in action.

    Dude was a deserter, formerly a rapist. Read the books, not fake news.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    We have a Constitution, that’s the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.

    It's just words on paper if not enforced. And Republicans haven't been keen on enforcing it when it comes to him, not specifically but especially.

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  • [+] -6 points 11 months ago

    This is the stupidest take.

    If anything, you're arguing that the protests accomplished none of the goals of the protestors, and only managed to escalate and incite a response that was a "warning" that worse will come if we don't keep it up.

    So... it still seems fucking pointless to me? Like for fucks sake, we're all just waiting for him to die of natural causes and hope that the coalition falls apart, doing a whole bunch of pointless shit until then because we all know that violence is the only way to remove him at this point.

    Naive fucks. The people who support him are just as committed to keeping power.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    The robots don't judge, either. And you can be as cruel, as stupid, as mindless as you want. And they will tell you how amazing and special you are.

    Advertising was the science of psychological warfare, and AI is trained with all the tools and methods for manipulating humans. We're devastatingly fucked.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I wonder if we're not fucking ourselves.

    "Not enforceable" may have been a thing of the past, with the way technology has developed. We may be approaching a point where terms & conditions ARE enforceable.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That sounds like an interesting novel or movie, but utterly impractical in the real world.

    Entirely too easy to game, or imagine a scenario where several generations after it's implementation, "high producing" robot jobs are inherited, creating a permanent upper class and a permanent lower class, because the only jobs that EVERYONE has access to are the jobs that will break your robot, and your bank.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    It’s clear that advertising has a lot of power to influence people’s choices, otherwise oligarchs wouldn’t burn so much money on it.

    Marketing, advertising, etc. It's a science, a field of study. What is the goal? To make people buy things, ostensibly. How do they chose to do achieve that goal? Deep analysis of the human psyche and studying methods to manipulate them into taking intended actions.

    Advertising is the science of psychological warfare.

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