Sure!

So how about this climate change huh? Ecological collapse in just a couple of decades from what I hear. And really no one with significant power anywhere doing anything but speeding it up.

Discuss.

Everyone is going to die.

You can sit in the corner of a padded room and live off protein supplements to maximize your chances of staving off the inevitable by a few extra years, usually the worst ones anyway according to most that get there always volunteering “don’t get old” safely existing, or you can live.

No wrong answers, it’s a personal choice. Just know you’re almost certainly filled with life shortening microplastics regardless of your decision.

"The sword of God, the blood of the lamb, vengeance is mine, millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question. ‘You believe in God?’

‘No.’

BANG Dead.

‘You believe in God?’

‘Yes.’

‘You believe in my God?’

‘No.’

BANG Dead.

‘My God has a bigger dick than your God!’"

-George Carlin

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Reminder: no one is wasting their drugs to get your random brat high.

Drugs are expensive. Kids, if you want to get high, steal your parent’s wallet and buy them yourself.

🌠Doo Doo Doo… Doo! 🌠

Wait, does Halloween even exist outside the US and its hat?

I thought it was just an us and our hat holiday.

Let’s be honest, our “free market” is a regular casino for the plebs that own about 10% of shares in their 401ks and Robinhood accounts, and an intentionally rigged casino for the oligarchs that own the rest, with marked insider information cards, and loaded market manipulation dice.

Gotta love when the bootlickers defend this economy, and market investment, as somehow inclusive, when 93% of stocks are owned by 10% of Americans.

(Saved Fortune article) https://archive.ph/DW0A8

The enshittification continues.

Turns out greedy fuck capitalists trying to streamline and privatize the creative process of art to be just another cog in their money printer… turn all art to shit a dog wouldn’t bother to piss on. There have always been studio notes maligned by the creatives hindered by them, but now the studio notes are basically the entire script, generated by algorithm based solely on what the algorithm believes will sell. It’s wrong, but it makes the capitalists feel like they’ve got this art crap pegged, and no amount of box office bombs or reality will make them accept the truth that their core value of avarice poisons any capacity to comment on the human condition in an engaging way.

There’s no deeper truth, no engaging narrative possible in “give me MOAR! I want MOAR! Give it to me NOW!” which is all these soul killing, unloved, blatant attempts at IP nostalgia manipulating cash grabs are. “Hey, my conglomerate owns the film rights to this character, here, they’re standing in front of an explosion like that game you stupid peasants loved 20 years ago for reasons I don’t care to understand! You pay me now yes?!”

From games to movies any other form of media, if you traded your heart for that gaping blackhole in your chest that needs to suck up ever MOAR capital they installed when you got your MBA, you can’t be creative, and you can’t be inspirational, because the great stories creatives dream up usually have someone like you in them, the one dimensional, buffoonish secondary villain complaining about what they own not being respected over the course of the narrative.

Even some greedy fucks of the past understood that their place was on the golf course sucking each other off in their dapper lil pastel polo shirts while the creatives and actually talented/useful cast and crew made them their money.

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Oh come on now.

Almost all people declaring or otherwise promoting their supposed genius are completely full of shit, Elon comes to top of mind, but there in fact are some savants for which quickly understanding and mastering highly technical domains just comes naturally.

These people are almost always far more interested in exercising their gift/curse and solving problems than in self promotion or feeding a greed disease. People like Elon unfortunately receive most of the fruits and accolades of the efforts of people like this. It makes me sick how selfish, self-important capitalist baffoon types literally rule the world by paying people that do solve mankind’s great problems a salary, then perverting their work to maximize profit and walking out on stage with it in a fucking turtleneck all but declaring “I made dis thing. Don’t ask me how it fucking works, but I made dis. Pay me. I’m God.”

It’s sad that humans largely tend to swoon over, and would much rather be led by charismatic narcissistic bullshit artists, usually dopes who never think before they open their gaping mouth holes, who have no problem declaring they know everything about everything than almost exclusively non-charismatic, high functioning geniuses that are almost always too neurotic to want to lead, which makes them even more desirable candidates to be drafted into it.

billions of inhabited star systems.

Suddenly that massive Galactic Senate Chamber seems cartoonishly tiny. Was the galactic Republic just a dictatorial empire to the high hundreds of millions of worlds/systems that didn’t have a senate pod from which to be heard/represented?

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I understand intimately, my friend!

Yeah. It’s carved to be vilified, which is hypocritical not just because there are other equivalent harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure, there are several considerably more harmful harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure.

All because an old newspaper magnate’s paper pulp business interests were threatened by hemp and it became tradition.

You can cause severe brain damage and kill people with alcohol, tobacco, and concussions. The studies I’ve seen about Marijuana in teens handwring over <5 IQ points with chronic use.

It’s inconsistent to the extreme.

It’s not realistic or even reasonable to avoid all pleasurable activities that come with risks, which weed falls under, until an entire third of your life is over, no.

We let people under 25 play contact sports, drink alcohol, and consume large quantities of sugar, all indulgences potentially more detrimental to the body than Marijuana.

Look at all the research on contact sports and the massive risks they bring, it’s weird to me those are still legal for kids.

How is it a strawman? Even the person I replied to said it isn’t realistic to follow the letter of the overcaution.

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No one’s getting out of here intact and alive.

Don’t run in front of any buses, but when hit with a statement of overcaution, I usually blurt out “you’re right, we should all sit in the corner of an empty padded room, eat saltines, and wait patiently for a safe death.”

Beyond the point of being a good student, excess intellect at this stage of civilization is more curse than blessing.

Honestly if they’re a good student and otherwise aren’t a troublemaker, I didn’t see nothing.

Until they turn 18, then pass that shit son.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/chatgpt-gets-new-o1-model-first-to-have-reasoning-for-hard-problems/