Yes. We are subsidizing the wealthiest corporations in the world to underpay their workers and then we’re subsidizing those workers to pay full retail price for the food that we are subsidizing farmers to produce. Yet no one who works for a living is making any money.

Farmers aren’t making any money, retail workers aren’t making any money, train workers aren’t making any money, truck drivers aren’t making any money, but Walmart, Monsanto and Union Pacific are doing fantastic.

It doesn’t dictate how they grow the food but the number one recipient of those dollars are the owners of retail food sellers and the biggest of these are companies like Walmart.

Kind of yea.

Within snap are some programs (like food stamps) that are another way to funnel government money to private business while using the very real needs people have to excuse the tremendous graft inherent in having the government pay retail price for store goods that it already subsidized the production and transportation of.

There are much more efficient ways to get people food and we used to actually do it but alas there is more money to be captured this way so no more government cheese or federally organized food transportation logistics. …and don’t you dare talk about strategic reserves, stock rotation or paying farmers to dispose of “excess” production…

I thought this was an AI forum for casual hookups, did I misunderstand the name of the community entirely?

This is so fucking wonderful.

This looks exactly like the picture I drew of a dog when I was in kindergarten that everybody said looked like a black man with bunny ears.

I feel vindicated but I’m still a terrible artist.

That’s why we gave them nukes, so we could continue to act with impunity and deflect all of the guilt onto a madman that nobody wants to challenge because he claims he’s on a mission from God.

All of us are expendable in his mission.

They will cater more and more to each other until they turn inward and start hoarding and rearranging resources into their compartmentalized cocoons while they attempt to transform their empires into launch pads that will let them escape the planet like some sort of fungal spore to infect and consume another world.
They will fail to develop a way to sustain humans off world and will leave behind a polluted hellscape of toxic nonsense and dysfunction.

I hope someone still has the resources to pour concrete over the entrances of these billionaire fallout shelters when the front finally falls off the whole yacht.

Stuff only burns for so long. We might learn more about the geometry of space and that there is more out there at greater distances where maybe even other Big bangs are possible but there is a certain maximum amount of time that a star can exist.

Over the time scales of the life of a proton the maximum variability in the amount of time a star can burn is a rounding error against the scale of numbers needed to express the amount of time it takes for hawking radiation to reduce black holes to ultra long wavelengths of infrared radiation.

Harping on rimworld, One of the most moddable games ever made, for the creator not understanding the depths of human sexuality is a little obtuse to say the least.

There are a lot of things that people won’t understand and there are so many mods to resolve this it seems silly to expect the creator to “get it”.

I’ve been around gay and trans people my entire life but I still don’t think that I fully understand human sexuality or our cultural relationships with gender norms.

Undoubtedly if I were to architect something like Rimworld I would get it wrong but I hope I would have the foresight to leave an amendment process so that it could be modded into fitting with people’s understanding in the future.

Putting a million people in space would require ten of thousand of launches if they were Boeing 737s carrying the people.

Housing a million people in space would require technology that won’t exist in 20 years let alone in time to have it built in 20 years.

This kind of shit is just so fucking stupid.

It takes them 2 years to build an Amazon warehouse in fucking Michigan. We’re supposed to believe they’re going to build space stations to support a million people in 20 years?

Who is this stupid? Who believes this shit?

https://youtube.com/@uscsb reminds me of the old Discovery channel stuff before it turned to shit.

Basically they do extremely accurate renderings and explanations of what went wrong in different industrial accidents. There is no vamping for time or exaggeration. It’s 100% legit and it’s awesome and terrible.

I guess we’ll have to wait a while for the USCSB video on this.

I imagine it as a mod for RimWorld.

There are so many more options there and it’s already a war crime simulator. I have whole prisons of captured raiders that couldn’t be described accurately if Harlan Ellison and Upton Sinclair collaborated with Lovecraft to invent the most terrible grinder of misery while they freebased paranoia from the hollowed out skull of Caligula.

The creator (Tynan) already inserts his own character among many Kickstarter donors to face the barely imaginable horrors I cook up in my misery science research facility, I can probably be more creative for people that actually deserve it.

People will lose their jobs to AI in the same way that lumberjacks lose their job to forest fires.

Yea he really made this bed for himself, so I won’t waste tears when he is forced to pay down in it.

It should also be a wakeup call for liberals in government that you can’t expect this president to respect laws or order but given how eager our Good boy Chuck is to get a pat on the head, I don’t think any of them are going to learn any lessons.

Yes. I am often an apologist for incomplete but well intentioned reasoning I encounter in the wild.

I try to first understand before I criticize and that has helped me to interpret other people’s words better.

An apology is not a bad thing or a good thing. It is a thing.

There are plenty of apologies that could be delivered that would meet those criteria and also be really mean things to say that do not make someone feel better.

All of it is an apology. An apology is just an explanation given after the fact. He felt the need to explain his actions further.

To be a full and complete apology many people expect all three of these components, but not All three are essential to every apology.

• an acknowledgment of harm,
• an expression of remorse,
• a pledge of recompense.

You could argue that he didn’t do a full and complete apology but you can’t argue that he didn’t apologize.