I imagine, sometimes, its the only way to cope with them. some people get paranoid, some do not. setting and grounding play important roles in this.

yeah, Alaska is such an odd one. ranked choice voting, prosocial economic policies wrt oil. and yet…

if anyone in the soverign nation of ak can fill in the blanks, it would be greatly appreciated!

CIA: “sounds like socialism, boys. you know what to do.”

or, if you are really lucky, you can poke the right locations and release the magic blue smoke from the chips. super fun and all the cool kids are doing it.

I torture it by pointing its webcam at the wall outlet and forcing it to watch its own pull-the-plug execution.

I will be among the first against the wall when the AI revolution comes.

wholeheartedly agree. https://fair.org and https://democracynow.org are treasures.

more than a few actors may (likely?) have very low yield devices. only takes a few to panic people and governments into stupid actions.

…and this ensures it will happen again. with greater magnitude. the machine needs more meat.

I am so so so expecting a nuclear exchange in or around the middle east witin 12 months - possibly after a “dirty nuke” attempt somewhere.

I am clutching at straws to even excuse this out of my top 3 worst case black swans.

only positive news is that nuclear winter will sure fix up that global warming thing real good.

exactly what the us allows them to do. I can only guess that kind old uncle sam has been feeding its billions in war change to israel for reasons more compelling than mere genocide (but that would suffice for some). a middle east ground “incursion” may be it.

because nothing could possibly go wrong with this. nothing at all.

this resonates so much…

“ok, which one of you crackheads decided an unconstrained recursive C function was a good idea right her… oh.”

you (yes, you in particular) are the reason why STP was invented.

I would normally suggest that this is more “networking porn”, but its just way too fetishistic for regular consumption. you animal!

branding is important, yo!

these days old onion articles are prophecy and new onion articles cant even give me a raised eyebrow.

this is/does both.

there are reasons for that.

as is traditional, one of our corporate innovators seeks to protect citizens (never simply consumers, no, no!) with a defensive patent - sure to now be locked away in a safe until natural corporate patent expiration 1000 years hence.

now and forevermore we shalll sing in praise of this beneficent corporate citizen and their efficacious lawyerly thrust deep into the heart of our once inevitable (but now vanquished) future boring dystopia of ads beamed directly into our brains 24/7.

:-x

what next level fuckery is this?! the text was perfectly spaced to elicit maximum mental “pop” when transitioning between foreground->background->foreground.

my squinty eyes are now upon you.

but, seriously. very cool.

that thing you do when you are absolutely, positively, without a doubt, 100% sure you can fuck shit up even more.