Also, the bell curve does not have a single bottom.

A bell curve counts the frequencies of a single parameter. A person, such as a teenager, does not fit on it.

Not at all

I think you underestimate the impact of technological progress.

Back in the day, you needed an army who could betray you. Tomorrow, you can deploy a fleet of self-governing robots to kill thousands. Of course, only accessible to the rich.

For ordinary folk, the future is looking grim indeed.

My school teacher taught me I should be surprised at things like this.

Luckily, I am no longer 12.

Hmm hmm. I’d recommend reading this: https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

It argues for why capital punishment is not necessarily a good route to go.

Yes, slavery. It’s been around for ages.

In 1962 there were no “lethal autonomous weapons”.

Only if other people can’t hear you or you’ll be a disturber of the peace.

The issue is the extreme power imbalance. My ‘cloud’ will be a small space, surrounded by capitalism on all fronts. Like an oil field that’s not drilled, but all fields around it are drilled. It’s emptied anyway.

You cannot be ‘apart’ from capitalism as even if you are, or try to be, outside - your position is still going to be defined as an outsider to capitalism and all the hardships that entails.

And if you get a ‘cloud’ big or powerful enough - let’s look at history, what would happen?

Genocide. That’s what happens. Every time.

I believe in personal relationships. Trying to be in good relationships makes this mess endurable and, I believe, safest.

Yes. My guess is that, soon enough, just wearing a police uniform will be enough to end up on kill lists.

Kind of like Colombia during narco wars, except it’s going to be everywhere, no matter what kind of cop.

Cops will need to watch their backs even more when people have less and less to lose, and believe less and less in the ‘rule of law’ that constantly fucks them over.

Yes, this cost-saving doesn’t directly benefit any billionaire.

I think people care, we’re just trained into patterns of learned helplessness and isolation over generations.

There were large swathes of people who resisted during the 19th and 20th centuries, they were systematically murdered en masse. I bet it has happened many times over the centuries.

Sometimes I wonder if we’ve bred ourselves into either loyal obedience or dispassionate compliance because everyone else was always killed by the first group while being ignored by the second.

Or maybe it’s just me 🤷‍♂️

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Hmm… ‘demographic transition’?

But WHY? Seriously, are these cops brainwashed? Have they no children?

I know, I know, 1312 - but really? How much of a bastard can you be?

Does anyone know a goddamn cop who can explain what the fuck is going on in their minds?

LOSE YOUR JOB! DO WHATEVER ELSE! PICK UP EMPTY CANS ON THE STREET! Isn’t anything better than doing this??

They just need to become non-profit and cap wage differentials within the company to 5x, then donate the surplus to the IPCC.

Big Oil doesn’t need to advertise. They do lobbying instead.

Praise #melodysheep for autotuning Carl Sagan and his friends: https://www.symphonyofscience.com/vids

Look at the old one for some life encouragement.

Gravity set the stage for the ball to fall downwards, free of charge common sense concludes.