Humans existed in harmony with nature for a very long time, and in many places still manage to, despite the increasing challenges posed by climate change.

The human species isn't what's throwing the planet out of equilibrium. It's capitalism and the closely-related evils of white supremacy and war.

We can survive this if we kill capitalism, kill the notion of whiteness (and Zionism), return to listening to nature if we have strayed, and avoid war.

Though the human population is projected to begin shrinking very soon even without major environmental pressures, so "surviving this" might not look like the society we have today. Maybe we're maintaining our own equilibrium, at least a little bit.

If anything is left, it's not the end. Revolutionary optimism even in the face of extinction, man.

That and the willingness to throw every billionaire into a woodchipper.

Fair, I was thinking more bruteforce-type applications like protein folding or synthesis pathways for certain medicines.

"Crowd" being, in this case, one guy lol

If a single stream of water is polluted or a single living being is harmed for the benefit of producing AI slop, then yes, everything about it is bad.

"Net effect" is a concept for a reason.

some people just have decided that AI is bad no matter what.

Correct, because outside of scientific and medical applications (run by actual scientists and medical professionals), all AI is bad no matter what.

Nothing it can possibly do for you justifies the harm it does, and your reliance on it atrophies your cognitive skills.

Yet

I'm going to stare into the abyss until it blinks first

I didn't take the vaccine at first because they pushed it as having "no potential risks". Every medical procedure has risks, so I knew they were bullshitting and was therefore unwilling to risk it. Mind you I worked through the entire pandemic as essential medical personnel (running a weed dispensary lmao)

Eventually, accurate risk information about the myocarditis / etc became available. That actually made me more comfortable because at least it was fucking honest. So I could evaluate, what is likely to cause me more harm, the vaccine or COVID?

The clear, science-based answer is COVID. You aren't a free thinker, you just opted into a different lane of dogma.

And also made to be susceptible to that level of stupidity by capitalists & their owned politicians gutting education / failing to fund it adequately to begin with. (For US anyway.)

Good choice. Unless they pay you enough to get a nice house, nice car, and take care of all of your immediate family, it is nottttt worth it.

Yeah it did

now I'm unemployed and will die before I take a managerial role again

I'm not single

or 55

but if I were single at any age, I would never approach a woman at a gym. Idk. Feels only a small step better than approaching them at work. "Captive audience" type shit, it would feel gross to me.

Almost no one wants "smiles and small talk" at their job. It's not just about what I want lol. But that's why I'm not single.

It's not necessarily even about your intention, it's about leaving people alone when they probably want to be left alone.

In fact, you’re more likely to meet people who are both old and in shape at the gym because…

Canadian moment

They aren't ghouls, they're victims. They can be, and often are, victimizers as well. Most people join the military because they're broke and desperate. Have some class solidarity.

Now the people who join the military just to go shoot someone in the Middle East (or soon South America maybe), yeah, they can get thrown into the meat grinder.

Phrased in another way, it's equivalent to if you had $1,618 in the bank and were fined $0.30.

Imagine working 2, 4, 8, whatever number of years, then you get to a night meant to honor your accomplishments.... then you have to sit through a billionaire performing autofellatio in the form of an advertisement

Yeah uBlock Origin has worked fine through every single one of these "adblockers are broken!" articles I've seen

I don't mind, it's still good to raise awareness about Youtube's bullshit - especially since I'm getting ads for Border Patrol, OpenAI, and the fucking Melania movie now when I do see them (when I am lazy and using my Roku TV instead of HDMI). But it hasn't been a problem for me yet.