I got bored again, bitch

[dittography-direwolf]

The only god a statist has is the state. They will justify any evil to preserve it, and treat any questioning of its necessity as heresy worthy of damnation.

[fictionalauthorityii]

[dryiffsrevitalizingtailholetonic]

but yeah I've gone full tinfoil hat as far as the datacenters are concerned: they're building out capacity for an unimaginable amount of storage and processing power, far beyond what grok or gemini or whatever would need to misread wikipedia and reddit to you.

No no, they want a surveillance system that isn't dependent on buildings full of analysts, who even with advanced tools have a limit to the number of targets they can keep tabs on.

They want something which can make connections between all the disparate datasets they've been building for decades, against the population at large--foreign and domestic. and do it in a way that is accessible to an imbecile (read: upper management).

At least, that's what it seems like to me. Admittedly, I am not an engineer or even a programmer. Maybe all this shit really is just so Grok can tell you if a tweet is real or not.

[fictionalauthorityii]

Surveillance and data sorting is 100% what these centers are for. The framework for such a system has been in the works for years, being tested all around the globe. Remember when we pointed out that AI like Palantir and Lavender are being used in Palestine and Gaza in order to track the movement of people and target them? It was just the tip of the iceberg.

People see this stuff happening in other countries and think that it will never happen in their country, but this shit always comes home.

There’s already a vast network of flock cameras, tracking your every move, there’s already going to be built-in surveillance systems in cars, and they can already figure out who your friends and family are just by studying whose phones your phone is near every day. They can map out your whole routine, they have absolute shit loads of data on everyone - the problem has always been that there is just so much data to get through that it is virtually useless.

Not with AI. AI does not get tired, doesn’t take breaks, doesn’t need vacations, doesn’t need to be paid. It will relentlessly parse every little bit of data the surveillance state takes in and spit it back out in neat rows, everything about you filed away.

[fictionalauthorityii]

Oh, and in case anybody still, for some reason, doubts that this might be the case - Trump is having the government invest tons of money into buying large stakes in AI companies

They are already integrating companies like flock and Palantir into the government, now they are gonna start buying up even more controlling interest in AI companies

All of it will be militarized, against you. 

And the conservatives who endlessly scream about communism in other countries won’t say a goddamn thing about the government buying controlling interest in private companies and expanding the surveillance state, because it is coming to fruition under a republican majority and Maga is a cult

[dittography-direwolf]

What a month, every company is insincerely pandering to fags.

And, aside from the 250th anniversary thing, they're also pandering to gay people.

[fictionalauthorityii]

Trump has stated 55 times that he defeated Iran.

Trump has stated 35 times that Iran is destroyed.

Trump has stated 38 times that a deal is imminent.

Trump has stated 25 times that the Strait of Hormuz is open.

The bread is stale and the circus is indeed gay

[thememedaddy]

[simon-newman]

"Fall asleep for a century or two"

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

'Stay home and play video games all day'

[gearboxpraexology]

I think my body might be onto something actually. It told me to make a huge bowl full of fried rice and eat it. Best decision I made all week.

[fictionalauthorityii]

I love the insane cope train Trump is on right now

“We control the strait and to prove it, I ordered a Secret Mission™️ to sneak 100 million barrels of oil through! Because we control the strait! We do! We control it! That’s why we had to sneak it through!”

Nevermind that there’s zero independent data to show any increase in traffic through the strait whatsoever, and absolutely no way to verify that this happened because any decrease in gas prices from what amounts to five days of normal traffic through the strait would barely make a blip on gas prices and it wouldn’t last for very long

Odd that 200 ships didn’t show up in the traffic counts 🤔

But trust me guys, it was a Wildly Successful Operation that happened and don’t forget, we control the strait! Not Iran!

[dittography-direwolf]

Voters who constantly simp for politicians like to imagine that they live in the house, remaining in complete denial that the politicians will always see them as from the furthest edges of the field.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

why is "bleedout spot" such a meme suddenly? you are not going to have a noble violent death, go work on being a useful person who is alive

[konigstigerr]

u wouldn't believe how hard the ttrpg wars go.

[riflebrass]

"You're not gonna do the thing so shut up and stop playing make believe." Shut the fuck up old man. Let the youngsters enjoy themselves.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I’m going to keep posting what I feel like posting

[riflebrass]

You're also gonna keep spending the next few decades miserably living an unfulfilling life doing stuff that seems pointless. God forbid some other sap in the same boat have a 10 second daydream of a meaningful death as a little treat to take their mind off it.

[fictionalauthorityii]

This is legitimately just a case op saying “I am going to present this situation in as bad faith as possible, because I am a cranky butthole”

 It’s actually a simple psychological reason that the “rear guard” scenario appeals to men, and it has nothing to do with wanting to be violent, or gain some kind of “glory” while “being released from responsibly”.

It’s also just a meme It’s really not that serious 

[dittography-direwolf]

Y'know I also find those memes kinda tiresome but "You're just fantasizing about not having to be useful" is such a boomerbrained take that OP was probably wearing socks with sandals while he came up with it.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Touched a nerve with this one

[dittography-direwolf]

No more than you can touch your toes.

[fictionalauthorityii]

• higher gas

• higher inflation

• billions more to Israel

• AIPAC compromised candidates filling 90% of your “representation”

• a stupid fucking ballroom

• a stupid fucking pool

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

why is "bleedout spot" such a meme suddenly? you are not going to have a noble violent death, go work on being a useful person who is alive

[konigstigerr]

u wouldn't believe how hard the ttrpg wars go.

[riflebrass]

"You're not gonna do the thing so shut up and stop playing make believe." Shut the fuck up old man. Let the youngsters enjoy themselves.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I’m going to keep posting what I feel like posting

[riflebrass]

You're also gonna keep spending the next few decades miserably living an unfulfilling life doing stuff that seems pointless. God forbid some other sap in the same boat have a 10 second daydream of a meaningful death as a little treat to take their mind off it.

[fictionalauthorityii]

This is legitimately just a case op saying “I am going to present this situation in as bad faith as possible, because I am a cranky butthole”

 It’s actually a simple psychological reason that the “rear guard” scenario appeals to men, and it has nothing to do with wanting to be violent, or gain some kind of “glory” while “being released from responsibly”.

It’s also just a meme It’s really not that serious 

[dittography-direwolf]

Y'know I also find those memes kinda tiresome but "You're just fantasizing about not having to be useful" is such a boomerbrained take that OP was probably wearing socks with sandals while he came up with it.

[fictionalauthorityii]

[dittography-direwolf]

I'll give the Rebellion this, Hoth was actually a brilliant longterm strategic move, even if unintentionally. Not only did the Empire have to move a bunch of expensive specialized hardware out to the ass-end of nowhere to perform the initial assault, now they're gonna hafta bring in even more so that they can hold the place and make sure you don't just come back after they leave.

[dittography-direwolf]

POV the "veteran" who joined the national guard to get out of going to Vietnam heard you say you don't want to die for Israel

[dittography-direwolf]

The "anti-larper" movement going on across social media claims to be about sincerity, but I can't help but notice that it's the wokescold variety of sincerity. The kind that only cares about sincerity, authenticity, and being genuine when it offers the chance to lecture, dismiss, or attack. Outside of those conditions the supposed anti-larpers seem to feel free to be as irony-overdosed and insincere as ever.

[homeiswhere-thephobicis]

things were bad once so you must not complain when they get bad again

[trunk--slamchest]

You're ungrateful, back in my day things were bad (they weren't) so we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps (we didn't) and look where we are!

[dittography-direwolf]

Conspiracy theory: The shitty mascot horror movie that inevitably gets made when something comes off copyright is actually pushed and funded by the studio that formerly held the copyright. It poisons the well and makes using the property for new stuff cringe, so that people will stick with the studio's version.