“Hard-left” candidate promising the bare minimum to stop the riots and keep the system from cannibalising its own foundations for a time.

You know, the kind of stuff you might naively expect from centrists. Without being prompted by protests.

You’d be a fool to trust the US again for generations, regardless of appearances.

That’s what money does.

Exponential wealth and power consolidation is an emergent property.

I wonder though about the step from hearing to acting.

I once auditory hallucinated a single syllable as I was waking up, like someone speaking loudly, almost shouting from right in my face. That was disconcerting enough. There’s a visceral element to it that’s not just a conversation with an uninvited guest.

Despite the hallucinations themselves by no means implying insanity, it’s easy to imagine them wearing you down psychologically if they’re a regular occurrence. Anecdotes about them range all the way from harmless to anxiety inducing sensory overload.

They weren’t exactly subtle during the post-911 fascistic scramble.

the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year

This is sort of like looking at Moore’s Law and saying the computer will gain sentience because look at this graph.

If AGI happens it’s not going to be because they were doing more of the same but better.

The premier Great Filter, perhaps.

Communists: The Democratic party are your class enemies, they exist to serve their billionaire donors and prevent movement to the left, the doomed attempt to ‘fix’ them from the inside has failed many times wasting enormous amounts of time and energy of well meaning people, we need to build power outside of the two party system.

Liberals: This time for sure! For starters we want new party leadership as we all agree is the incumbents are bad.

Rustled Jimmy: Demanding the Dems be better? Hmpf, this is clearly an anti-Dem psy-op by communists!

???

Acts out antisemitic tropes, accuses anyone who calls them out of antisemitism.

I don’t know how you could get more effective at driving antisemitism than that.

Almost mentioned that but cut for brevity.
I thought ‘everyone’ learned this around the path of exile fiasco.

You pierced the veil and showed them the writhing eldritch tentacles of the machine and they really said “The machine is getting better :)”

Watching these reruns while the ecological clock runs out is a bit worse than annoying.

I think they actually can’t implement medicare for all, because healthcare in the US is so far gone that M4A would undermine the entire system.

How long now have people been told it’s impossible? How much the relief when profit-seeking is removed from the equation? How many people will then wonder what other lies they’ve taken for granted?

I mean that if someone is intelligent/educated/curious/enough of a mere science enjoyer if not well educated themselves,
to for instance, know that you need radiators to dump heat in space,

how has that person not already noticed Elon Musk showing his ass?

Yeah, it’s not happening without a revolution. And I don’t just say that because I would prefer humanity survive its own stupidity. The way healthcare is organised in the US is so far gone that

M4A would undermine the entire system.

Huh…you told us this was impossible, but here it is, and it actually works far better for the absence of profit-seekers.
Now a terrible burden of socioeconomic pressure has been lifted. Wait…what else have you been lying to us about? What assumptions have I grown up with that were not my own?

It’s the subtext of every public comment made by Schumer criticising the war: Didn’t go through congress, erratic, no exit strategy.

Never a word against the myth-making to justify the war, or that the US shouldn’t be in an offensive war against a country that didn’t attack it.

No, it’s a costly embarrassment, a strategic blunder, an action taken without filling out the prerequisite forms in triplicate.

Going to war (successfully) with Iran has been an unrealised dream of the uniparty for decades.

I know everyone’s got a different set of filters but how does it take one until the cool things in space post to find out, if they’re curious enough to know of space radiators already?

They the Democrats, not one particular head of the hydra.

Whoever replaces them, if they even bother with the theatre.

After seeing them frame going after their supposed political enemies for the illegal bad shit they’ve done as childish and unnecessary so soon after they were voted in I wouldn’t be shocked if they simply didn’t even address this.

You can and should.

A little deliberate compartmentalisation can be healthy. If you can’t make yourself forget for a day, try hours or even minutes. Set yourself some time in which if you think of these things you say to yourself “not now”.

Just like we practised, teleport around at random and take up the whole frame when on camera.