I view this as Naval commanders looking out for their personnel.

I’m quite sure a lot of the high level commanders here have very little actual investment in this “war” as they’ve seen how unhinged, random and scatterbrained the administration has been with foreign policy.

Imagine spending your life training for the most harrowing missions and highest-level tactics, and then being sent basically to a random country to attack for unspecified reasons, and then being told “Go send your multi-million dollar boats filled with irreplaceable sailors through that channel filled with mines so oil tankers can get around faster or something, don’t think about it. We promise we won’t pull out of this whole mess in a week bro. Promise.”

What exactly is an escort going to do for submerged mines anyway? Take pics? “Oh shit it blew up! Wow. Hope it’s not us next.”

It’s the next one: “Operation: Heckin Huge Chungus LMAO”

My parents were crazy apocalypse preppers, the first 10 years of my life we lived in tents and vans, they had PO boxes the entire time. It’s not exactly nuclear-bunker level security.

Also, commenter above hypothesizing a new housing/living regime entirely which doesn’t seem that far off tbh.

Which part

It’s not like we see faces in everything :)

Welcome to the late 2020’s. It’s only going to get weirder.

To be clear, the LLM in this story did not actually “want” a robot body, it doesn’t “want” anything, it’s not a thinking entity like you or I (assuming you’re real.)

The guy fed it a ton of crazy shit and he got a lot of crazy shit amplified back to him by the world’s best associating machine, crafting detailed and fleshed-out narratives based on every inadvertent prompt he sent into it. People are very bad at understanding how these things work in the best circumstances, so if you’re already unbalanced or have deep emotional/mental health problems, an LLM can be incredibly dangerous for you.

Every country with economic power is a propaganda machine powered by institutional financial corruption.

All the rest are poor pawns that are shuffled around by the economic powers and sometimes turned to rubble.

Take care of and support the best outcomes in your closest community wherever you are, everything else starts there. We’ll never solve this issue but we can make better lives for ourselves and those around us. No, do not run out to the wilderness and live alone, community is strength against all of these forces.

Very possible, but incumbent republican leaders are kinda shitting themselves right now after all these local elections pointing towards local Republican leaders possibly facing a shellacking in the upcoming elections. A lot of criminal chuds are going to be whining very loudly from prisons for the next couple years as they realize that their invulnerability is entirely dependant on current polling.

State charges can’t be pardoned by the president, fortunately.

Don’t worry, pretty soon people will hand over all decision making to AI from daily decisions to the highest level of international politics and war, I’m sure it will be fine. Don’t worry about it.

Elon Musk: “Don’t take tweets so seriously bro”

Also Elon Musk: Incentivizes blue-check accounts with just enough monetary reward for shares and engagement that literally hundreds of thousands of people in developing countries take on creating and sharing propaganda, rage-bait and inflammatory USA content as full-time careers, leading to our whole country embracing fascism out of fear and confusion and electing a leader who has now killed over a million people not counting the failures of covid.

We are barely getting started.

They want to completely blur the line between reality and a corporate-shaped world tuned to every possible consumer’s personal mental and emotional states. People who die along the way because they can’t handle a machine that amplifies their emotions, delusions and fears are just a “cost of doing business.”

There are both genuine burnt-out doomers out there, and there are astroturfers and bots that feed on their cynicism and boost it, making even more doomers. It’s a self-sustaining cycle that spreads rapidly and serves all the purposes of those who don’t want us to vote.

There absolutely is going to be election interference, there always is, and it always takes the form of social messaging in the US. Where people make a mistake is assuming it’s going to be one or two large-scale attacks on democracy, when in reality it’s thousands and thousands of micro-attacks, everything from capitalizing on male sexual insecurity all the way through to instilling doubt in science, through to feeding cynicism and doubt about our process with rumors and predictions. There are whole farms of these people and bots out there just spreading through every conversation-space on the internet.

You can’t change the minds of millions of people, but you can make millions of people confused or unsure what’s actually happening. It works just as well to make people vote wrong or not vote at all, but people don’t view the little things as the actual threat, people are still looking for large conspiracies, which are less realistic and harder to maintain by an administration made largely of utter morons.

I love how we’re both getting ineffectual, impotent downvotes just for talking about it. There are a lot of people who have all their emotions attached to the idea that nothing can be done, because it prevents them from feeling accountability.

When people vaguepost like that, 99% of the time they hold really abhorrent or unpopular opinions about something but are too chickenshit to just say what they feel because they can’t handle trying to defend themselves.

This is really bad and why we need to call out vagueposting because it’s just another tile in the great wall of societal atomization. There is a whole industry out there forming for parents who have been excluded from their children’s lives and empowering the parents into feeling like they’re the victims, despite the objective reality that your children’s behavior is a direct reflection of you’re doing as a parent.

Jasmine Crockett make the same mistakes as Kamala Harris in her campaign.

Also, the zionism.

Hey “There will be no midterms, there will be no elections, the DNC has this rigged along with the GOP” team, where you at? You still planning on sitting all this out in “protest?”

If your kid talks to someone else about something major and important to their lives BEFORE you, you have probably already fucked up as a parent and probably betrayed trust a number of times already. Or been a raging reactionary about something and you have to deal with the consequences of your own behavior by not being a part of your kid’s personal life.

Either way, if a kid is old enough to talk about mature subjects about themselves and their lives with anyone, they’re also old enough to decide who they feel safe enough to talk to.

This society broadly is riding a really weird line between if we’re protecting our kids to the point of treating them like they have no agency at all. Parents have a knee-jerk reactionary behavior that makes them decide protecting a child also means absolutely neutering their ability to make decisions and feel like humans. Make it make sense.

Vagueposting is a scourge on the internet. It teaches people to not have actual values and the idea that we’re all just separated niche groups who can communicate to each other via dogwhistles and gestures. It’s anti-social and lacks actual values or principles.

They all LOVE the war, they are doing backstrokes in it like Scrooge McDuck in his money bin.

The primary complaint is just “You didn’t tell us ahead of time so we didn’t have any time to pick out something to wear! Gawrsh!”

Bad math/geography, but Trump just wants his comfy house with his toadies and food he knows and being surrounded by people he already knows. He hates the white-house, he hates the offices and professional setting, he absolutely would run World War 3 from a couch surrounded by takeout boxes if he could. He takes NONE of this seriously, it’s just roleplay pew pew time for him.

There’s an alarming chance that we may all die because a fat old stupid man with mental health issues and a personality disorder decides he’s bored with having to do all this even from his own home and tunes out or starts pushing random strategic buttons.