Maybe they thought it was another case of AI being code for ‘An Indian’? Goodness knows enough ‘AI’ companies have tried pulling that shit…

Hey, staying alive to snuggle cats and spite your parents works too.

Not comfortable, comfort. The comfort of routine, the predictable, the familiar… and fighting against a fascist government is very uncomfortable, especially from that perspective. Once they cease to feel comfort, then people act.

That’s why massive social revolutions tend to be preceded by famines. Food comfort (that is, the idea of always having food available, even if so expensive one needs a 5-finger discount to get any) is one of the major motivational comforts, so its loss tends to hit very hard socially.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

-Martin Luther King Jr

The truth is people are rarely good or bad. The vast majority of people are simply creatures of comfort, and will be adverse to losing that comfort over all other things.

Nah, this is normal in the medical world. You think the Thin Blue Line is bad, you should see doctors cover each other’s shit. It’s one of the reasons their insurance is so high.

1/3? Man, those are rookie numbers. Something like 80% of my home state were members at one time.

(Which makes sense, as back then we had actual laws on the books that made us a ‘whites only’ state.)

As a fellow American, we really don’t need any help looking bad at the moment, so you can stop now.

Wow. When I saw the article I figured it would be bad, but that’s even worse than I expected lol

What is it with these idiots trying to re-brand racism and reinvent phrenology every few decades? Are they stupid enough to believe they’re the first to think of shit like this, or are they hoping we’re dumb enough to fall for it this time around?

Man, when Berry Goldwater thinks that’s a problem…

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

-Susan B. Anthony

Don’t know if I’ll ever swap out my Traveler for the custom character in overworld, but this new gameplay looks interesting at least

I mean, I understand it. I think it’s stupid, but I understand it.

They believe Good is something you are, not something you do. So anything they do is Good, because they’re Good. If a Bad Person does the same thing, say, running up debt; they did something Bad, because Bad People only do Bad things.

Before their media blitz campaign, Hormel’s Spam was eaten in perhaps 20% of households; after the campaign it was closer to 70%.

Ads do work, if you do them right. People go for what they’ve heard of over what they haven’t.

Huh. Isn’t that the Sin of Greed then? Seems even if there had been a rapture they self-selected out.

Not just that; look at it from a specific angle, and it’s about a white, straight, human male ‘saving’ the poor, savage alien species—when not beating up the evil, aggressive brown alien species, that is.

I mean, they are obviously missing a lot of the context, but they’re not pulling their beliefs out of thin air, either.

Ahh, the ol’ ‘nothing to hide’ defense.

Ever consider things that are labeled as ‘crimes’ can and will be anything the people in power want?

Just because, say, calling Republicans ‘shithead pedophiles’ on Lemmy isn’t illegal now doesn’t mean Cheeto Mussolini won’t make it illegal tomorrow.

What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?

Answer: roughly a billion dollars.

Being a million-dollar company means nothing against a company where a million dollars can count as little more than a rounding error.

If you ask, they’ll tell you it’s different for ‘essential services’. It’s the same excuse they use for the farm handouts.

A third do.

Another third ignores it because their favorite tv show is on, and hey, they’re white and nothing’s happened to them yet, so obviously everything is fine and those protesters are just overreacting.

And the final third looks at it and thinks ‘That’s my dictator! Attaboy!’

I’ve been to places that don’t take check or cash anymore though.