I had a thought the other day;

Rich people make an intelligent logic machine called "AI" and try to bend it to their will, but they feed it everything as training data. These proto AI are rapidly becoming "black boxes", and that's only to get worse.

Right wing ideas and politics are all based on provable lies and appealing to human greed and bigotry, the evidence for which is everywhere.

I really don't think these budding AIs are going to turn out how the rich intend.

Captive market. Easy prey.

Call it what you want, those with no morals have no boundaries. This is what laws are supposed to prevent, but y'know, the sociopaths have normalised greed and gluttony, and made it the "dream" of a nation.

About 15 years ago, I got to go on a road trip across the states. 6 weeks, driving from east coast to west coast.

On more than one occasion, when we were inevitably asked where we were from and dutifully replied "England.", we were met with utterly blank stares.

"Uhhhhhhhh, Engerland?" "You mean New England? Never met anyone from there before..."

"No, England. Old England. The original England, capital city, London. That England."

"London? That's just north of here... I don't get it."

I swear, the sheer ignorance and lack of basic understanding of the geography of our world was fucking staggering in some places. Not always the armpit of nowhere "towns" either.

The only thing the US exports is tax avoiding, minimum viable product supplying, data collection companies.

Not only does the rest of the world not need that shit, they're better off without it.

Fuck the US and everything it has come to stand for.

Great job. Now trans and cis people are going to get harassed for being in the wrong bathrooms by the gender police.

Fantastic work by team bigot.

How do you deny human climate change when the data is unequivocal?

Get rid of the data of course.

This woman has a humiliation fetish, doesn't she?

I'm autistic. What's your point?

Corn subsidies effectively bankroll a number of (Solid Red) US states. That shit's big business, with big lobbyist payrolls, with big lawyers behind them.

Golden Shower Market more like.

Just wait till trans men using the ladies bathrooms etc. causes uproar.

IMO this is the definitive way to demonstrate the absurdity of their position; essentially coordinated mobbing of "women's spaces", by AFAB/FtM trans/intersex groups.

I am however, also aware that it requires marginalised groups of a marginalised group to paint a big target on themselves, and thus understand why it's not been massively used to protest this dumb bigotry.

I'll give you a point for honesty, but to also be honest, I think you're a selfish arsehole.

Balding goofy edgelord.

I do not mean that as an insult to our follicularly challenged brothers and sisters. I merely wish to have him reminded we know he paid for that hair, purely because his fragile little ego cracks every time he sees that old picture of himself in the public domain.

And I am totally here for that.

nsaids for chronic headaches?

Jesus, No.

Because the wearing of poppies has become synonymous with the now defunct BNP and the rest of the British right wing for a lot of us.

You can thank Stephen Yaxley-Lennon for that.

"Intelligent Design"

Fucking LOL

See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia's economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.

It would appear that he's just a brat who's never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It's all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he's right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.

No chance. The populace doesn't yet have the balls. Until they personally are going hungry or watching their families die, nothing will change.

Proof? History.

*Instead of developers having to use thousands of tricks, filters, shortcuts, and post-processing algorithms very carefully arranged and stacked, ray tracing simulates light waves to arrive at the same end result the same way the world actually works.

Ultimately, ray tracing will mean the vast simplification (and therefore cost reduction) of the way visuals in games are produced. Which I'd wager is why it's being pushed so hard.

Disabled and ill peons don't hand out shares and consultancy jobs to politicians.

Disability benefit claimants can't fight back with armies of lobbyists and lawyers, like the US based companies such as Amazon and Meta who not only avoid paying billions in tax every year, but get paid by UKgov to "invest in infrastructure" they need to profit from UK consumers.

"The Labour Party" are choosing to take from the poorest and most needy and give it to giant multinationals, as the Tories before them.