Not worse than the people issuing their orders, which was kind of the point I think.

This was a conversation about artist’s alley which is for, you know, art. Not kitsch slop. And no, the world really doesn’t have a place for more useless plastic garbage.

You’re describing 3D kitsch, not 3D art

That’s a state warning. It makes sense for it to be state-specific. It does not make sense for federal policy to be state-specific (though it long has been for cannabis anyway, that’s true).

Like, they rescheduled marijuana

As someone in the cannabis industry, that is very unlikely to be a positive thing for anyone except rich dicks who own MSO’s.

For reference, cannabis legalization in California was, by and large, terrible for the average consumer. You have people sucking on heavy-metal laden commodified cannabis (vape carts) for the first time on a large scale as a result of it, prices are generally higher, and quality is universally lower.

So the only conclusion I can draw is America is incredibly malicious and has become hostile to all things good.

Yeah, only not “has become”, but “always was”. It was just more convenient marketing to pretend otherwise.

Doesn’t really help the huge swathes of the country who rent and aren’t allowed to modify their homes (if they even have roofs, rather than just living below someone else)

It’s not abusing or exploiting the system. Massive wealth accumulation is the goal of capitalism and is inevitable so long as egregiously wealthy families are able to pass that wealth on.

Alternatively / additionally, “the purpose of a system is what it does”

This country is founded on religious conservatives lol

Not to say your sentiment about them being bad is wrong, but rather to say, you should extend that sentiment to realizing that America is what America has always been. Just ask the natives, or most South Americans, or the Vietnamese, or the Iraqis, or the Yemeni people, or the Palestinians, or…

Canadian moment

Righteous fury is a good thing.

Hey now, some drugs are very good things

Almost no AI is

I get what you mean but without sufficient sources of renewable energy - which do not exist right now and cannot be expanded without exploitation of miners (including children) in the Congo and elsewhere - there’s no way this technology can benefit us in a net sense. Summaries of messages we read anyway and uncanny simulations of celebrities eating pasta will never offset the damage inherently caused to the natural world by the energy consumed by the slop machine.

Like there are no ethical billionaires, there’s no ethical generative AI (except for early-development-stage medical / science stuff like protein combinations or cancer diagnoses, though I think the cancer-detecting AI is way older than current gen AI)

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…Yeah man I’m American, don’t worry, you’ll never catch me arguing that America isn’t a racist country lol. This place fucking sucks, and that’s one of the big reasons why.

Like I said I truly do not care about Pewdiepie. I don’t want anything bad to happen to him, I wouldn’t go out of my way to make anything good happen for him, he’s just irrelevant to me and that’s fine for both of us I imagine.

Though I will say that if you elect to “not give a damn” about other people being exposed to racial slurs which make them feel dehumanized though, you’re an asshole and a privileged one at that. Just because it may not be particularly relevant in your culture (though, back on 420chan [I’m old], I remember Swedish people whining nonstop about the Somali immigrants in their country, so I’m not sure I’m entirely convinced that it isn’t a Swedish issue too) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about how it can hurt other people. Especially when said by someone with a global audience, especially when that global audience is largely children or teenagers.

But also, to reiterate my reiteration: I do not care about Pewdiepie and am not suggesting he be exiled from humanity, only that he probably shouldn’t do that again. Which it sounds like he hasn’t, so… good?

Deep breaths stranger, I promise I’ll check out IronFox so Brave doesn’t get my $0.20 per year to destroy our rights

The person I was responding to said

I personally love him for being the same guy all this years.

My point was not necessarily that he needs to be excommunicated from humanity, but that they might want to reconsider whether him “being the same guy all this years” is a good thing

(I do not actually give a single shit about Pewdiepie in any fashion positive or negative)

You can also use it to disable JavaScript which lets you bypass maybe 60 - 70% of paywalled news articles

You sure about that?

Ah yes, my massive endowment of $0 towards the Brave LGBT Hate Fund