When you never leave the shithole town you grew up in, you think the whole world is evil.

So this is the singularity that halts all AI progress.

Knowing the definition of “fascist” is too intellectual for 90% of America.

Or a society

The root cause is a profound anti-intellectual bent.

We could more easily get oil from Alaska, there’s plenty of it.

That’s a more boring version of the larger thing happening: ruling class decided it’s YOLO time, screw what the middle and lower class think. Buy a dictator, merge the military with the prisons, take over whatever you can laws and legacy be damned.

They aren’t interested in effective reform either. Biden had chances to tax billionaires, or to imprison Trump. But yes they are better at handling the economy.

They’ll run it into the ground regardless.

It’s automated incompetence. It gives executives something to hide behind, because they didn’t make the bad decision, an LLM did.

It’s easier to use a pseudonym on Lemmy.

So Reddit is the scumbag steve.

Break. Up. Windows.

They are a monopoly protected by patents. Completely unamerican philosophically.

Unfortunately none has quite as good of a search engine. Do any actually have social features like friends and feeds?