This would explain where all the USA freedoms have gone.

I appreciate the effort to bodge together a composite image of a possum eating an Oreo instead of a slop AI image. Nice one spinoff.co.nz.

This would destroy what’s left of Germany’s groundwater (already quite heavily polluted by various industrial runoff).

Sounds like an incredibly short-term-thinking idea - much like fracking is everywhere.

I wish, I might be able to reprogram a bot off using Facebook every day and compulsive shopping habits.

IA is probably being slow for the same reasons as usual - DDoS attacks.

Thanks for gift-linking it.

OP are you an undisclosed bot?

I ask mainly because the ‘Archive’ link does not exist - like the URL has been automatically generated for the benefit of this post, but the content is not hosted on the Web Archive yet. That and the Ai-looking user avatar and mass of news articles posted regularly day.

Its fine if you’re a bot BTW afaik, but just mention it on posts or in your user profile to set people’s expectations re: errors/etc.

There’s a huge different between being able to research how to tie a noose knot on Wikipedia, and having your bestest virtual buddy the AI chatbot, (whom you ask all of life’s questions already and have grown trust with) converse with you back and forth guiding you on how to yourself, assuring you along the way it’s a great idea.

Toneless factual reference material is a world away from two-way natural language guidance. Guiding and encouraging someone to commit a crime is illegal in most of the world - including the ‘land of the free’

Adults who create virtual assistants have a social responsibility to ensure it’s not giving out harmful advice, but since billion dollar corpos don’t give a shit they have legal liability also.

I mean, this already happens overtly.

Like if you ask DeepSeek “tell me about the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur people in Xinjiang” and it recites back :

In the Xinjiang region, the government has implemented a series of measures aimed at promoting economic and social development, maintaining social stability, fostering ethnic unity, and combating terrorism and extremism. These measures have effectively ensured the safety of life and property of people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang and the freedom of religious belief, and have also made positive contributions to the peace and development of the international community.

Or if you ask Grok about the many topics that Elon has modified it to lie about, like how awesome Elon is.

Or that Hegseth is proud of it and doesn’t want Iran getting credit for his Iranian-murders.

Totally agree that a lot of psychopaths claw their way up to positions of power, I’m just not clear on how they’re “useful to our unjust society”.

The only reply I got for an example was ‘Harriet Tubman’ which really is stretching the definition of both ‘modern society’ and ‘psychopathy’, so I’m not convinced by the initial claim.

I… uhh… disagree intensely that Harriet Tubman would meet any of the diagnostic criteria of psychopathy.

Psychiatrists don’t consider psychopaths ‘monsters’ any more than they consider the autistic monsters. They just have different brain architecture. So this discussion feels a lot like you’re just reframing terminology to fit your theory.

It’s just human variation, and everyone underestimates how wide that is. Or how important this group can be in an unjust society where the people who just go along with society’s laws and norms are perpetuating the immoral system.

The primary feature of psychopathy is a pronounced lack of empathy.

I don’t doubt that we live in an unjust society, but I’m yet to see anyone with psychopathy or psychopathic tendencies do anything but make it worse.

Can you point out any examples of psychopathy-spectrum people doing anything useful or important in society?

Tell me again how its “Disney vs fascism”.

Nah, they are and will continue to be hand in glove.

I’m actually kinda shocked he didn’t blame Biden or Obama.

Nvm I just checked the narcissists prayer and ‘blame others’ comes after pretending it’s not even a big deal.

So, give it a day.

Not technically. Yes, they’re the Commander in Chief, but they maintain civilian status. They oversee the military, but are not actually a member of the military. This is also why they cannot be prosecuted under military law or court martialed.

Can’t find current link on Defense website, but here’s an older one: https://web.archive.org/web/20170512070110/https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45870

They are following the correct military protocol, Trump is not.

Correct, and as he’s not military the preferred sign of respect is to remove his hat and put his hand over his heart. Like all prior presidents (whom have not served) do, and as other civilians in this photo are doing.

Trump has a long history of giving zero shits about signs of respect to the military though, so I’d say it’s always worth pointing them out for the crayon eaters that still vote for him in droves.

Example of a different enfeebled elderly president that actually respects the military signalling his respect to the fallen:

Maybe this is a meta meme.

When will the bullshit of posting captioned screenshots from social media pass?

It’s a great idea if you’re a billionaire and have a diverse team of qualified teachers to manage the schooling of your child(ren) at your home, you can spend more time with them and keep them guarded from kidnappings.

For everyone else it’s usually a disaster, and they find out that teaching isn’t just a matter of babysitting and reading a few textbooks with them, it’s actually hundreds of years of knowledge distilled into design, practices and pedagogy - none of which your average homeschooling parent knows much about. Then they give up homeschooling after 2-3 years and bring a kid back to grade/primary school or high school who has now been set back multiple years behind their peers.

Then… there’s also the abuse that goes on outside of the view of the government-supervised schooling system (with mandatory reporting laws, welfare checks, etc).

Lol yes that is worrying. She could have just been having a brainfart though… Everyone has those sometimes.

I’ve been to hospital quite a bit (visiting and assisting people mostly) and the standards have been very high for nurses, doctors, technicians etc. I hope that can comfort you somewhat.