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  • I’m not interested in having kids because the world is ending

    I’m hard pressed to point to any ten-year period in which some number of Doomers did not insist The World Is Ending.

    Like, take your pick of any ten-year span during the Cold War. That butted right up against the OG World Wars, with a Great Depression breather. Before that you had plagues, famines, and economic crashes that shat all over '08 and COVID.

    Westoids live in the wealthiest, easiest, most affluent era of human history. Then someone points out “hey, eating burger every day isn’t sustainable” and they conclude the world is over.








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    Spooky AI Company: “Enter your heart’s desire, but know that somewhere we will be harvesting priceless natural resources to fuel your hedonistic desires.”

    Regular Business Owner: “Yeah, okay, give me 1M phone calls a minute to every elderly person in the country, telling them that Medicaid is going bankrupt and they need to sign up for my scamming private coverage policy. Then mint me 40B units of a fake currency called KanyeNaziPopeCoin and book me on Joe Rogan to answer fake call ins from people saying they’re dumping their life savings into it.”

    Spooky AI Company: “Oh geez. That’s going to cost a fortune. We’re going to lose $5B/yr just staying operational.”

    Regular Business Guy: “No sweet. We’ll bankrupt Social Security to bail you out.”

    Spooky AI Company: “This feels unethical…”










  • If cops start ignoring judges, citizens can start ignoring cops.

    A tightly knit, professionally trained, ideologically uniform organization is going to be a bigger danger to the public at large than a random subset of disorganized dissidents will be to the police.

    Id LOVE to see ICE try some shit in LA or Fresno.

    While it would be extremely entertaining to see ICE stumble dick first into an LA County Deputies Gang, they are more likely to find common cause than conflict given that they’re both fascist af.