i assume you’ve read this piece on why thomas the tank engine (the show) is fascist
Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.
no candidate in the history of any democracy anywhere has ever met the exact expectations of a given voter
This has got to stop. It’s got to become career and social instant death. No more “both sides”, no more diner interviews, no more “I keep him on Facebook because he’s funny”- just salt the earth.
This isn't perfect but there are some actual numbers here. I can also tell you that Iowa residents have seen 30% increases in water bills and 20% increases in electricity bills as a direct result of the chat gpt plant's gluttony. www.kcci.com/article/ai-t...
Few people in Iowa knew about its status as a birthplace of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, before a top Microsoft executive said in a speech it “was literally made next to cornfie...
I think there's an important corollary to all this, which is that as a rule, fascism only thrives when people do start to perceive it as inevitable. That's how it intimidates opponents into silence, that's how it makes followers feel strong, that's how it tempts the undecided to join the winners.
Having a skill that these guys dont have and charging money to perform it feels, to them, like you're stealing from them. That ability SHOULD be theirs; why are you gatekeeping it?
Rich people are so cheap, and get so viscerally angry when they have to pay people because to them they're not paying people for services rendered, they're having some of their literal worth stolen from them
Like I think it's impossible to overstate the loss of credibility and trust that occurred because of the shit handling of Katrina.
Where is "FEMA is inept" coming from? It's coming from ~40% of the trailers they provided to Katrina survivors being found to have toxic levels of formaldehyde and substandard construction materials.