Honestly probably the closest thing to Pikachu we have.

Shower beer vs. Shower beef

Yeah but, you know, Democrats.

While elements within the party want change, the party as a whole is still captured by and beholden to wealthy donors.

Unlike gigiachad America, which cuts down all its trees to build data centers.

Ugh seriously stop trying to paint China’s achievements as disasters because every where else is succumbing to fascism.

If you think it’s bad now, just wait untill climate change gets worse. We’re going to live through some serious shit. Like awful times for thousands of years if we can’t get it under control.

If I hear one more person say something along the lines of, “AI is the future” I’m going to strangle them. Of all the people that say that shit, none of them can explain how it works.

It goes quite well in a drink called “The Last Word”. It’s 1 part gin, 1 part green Chartreuse, and 1 part maraschino liqueur.

More like “life is a Piss-on” amirite

Payday loans already do this.

Came here to say this. It holds up really well and remains relevant.

AI does not have motivation, sentient thought, or any awareness of what it’s doing. It is a program using a computational principle to predict text in response to an input. It’s no more capable of thought than a program like GTA V.

Any apparent motivation attributed to AI is actually the motivation of the people invoking it. When individuals claim that AI is compelling them toward a certain action, they are, in reality, using AI as a vehicle to launder their own selfish desires and making those desires appear more objective, rational, or socially acceptable than they truly are. In other words, AI is propaganda. It provides a convenient mask for human agendas, as you say.

My knee is a free thinker, too.

The second thing is actually pretty easy to answer. The same people from the first part of your answer have also been using their outsized power and influence to erode the power and influence of unions over time. Many actions taken by European unions would be considered illegal in America and met with violent state oppression. While Europe has maintained many of their labor rights from the turn of the 20th century, America’s labor rights have been rolled back to almost before the new deal. Most unions barely have the right to strike, and even when they can that power is exceptionally limited. Basically any effective labor action in the US would require people to accept that they are breaking the law, and will likely die, sustain life altering injury, or go to jail for it. Since most Americans that would benefit from strong unions are living in oppressive poverty to begin with they either see the risks of illegal labor action as too large, or have been propagandized against it.

I mean you have trees, so they’re mostly on the balcony. I live in a large city (not many trees) of mostly row homes, and they’re on like every window of the side of the houses that face the sun. Not just patios.

Awning. They’re a great way to reduce the need for AC by providing shade in treeless regions.

People rarely distinguish between the sentiment of a demographic versus the sentiment of the individuals that make up that demographic. Hence, stereotypes.

“Americans” are not a monolith. There’s almost 400 million people in this country. Idk how each individual is doing, but most of the people I know are too busy trying to keep their heads financially above water to care. The actual American people have very little say over what happens in this country, and most are just as trapped in the horror as the rest of the world.

Does a country without public transit, universal healthcare, or any social safety nets sound like a country where the average person is in control to you?

That outfit somehow looks both expensive as hell and cheap as hell.

Oh no! AI! Experience this dramatic irony for me!

You squeeze the lime in the coconut.

No resistance! That’s why ICE shot those people!

This guy clearly didn’t do any research on the street.