She/Her. Once an overachiever, now a complete mess with an artistic streak. Barely a person. Seriously, a 100% human disaster trying to survive adult life. Prone to mischief, rascality and nonsense. Will sin if given the chance. Rustic social skills and a bad first, second and third impression. AWKWARD. Surpass my resting bitch face and unlock level 4 of friendship. Dislikes obnoxious people and useless confrontations. Quiet, but mention my favourite people and I'll start vibrating in a frequency that shatters glass. Low-key kinky bastard. Nice to meet you.
The biggest companies involved all, to a company, suck. Like, just hellish pits of immorality and shitty practices. And they're replacing working shit with the AI wherever they can, and their products suck so much more for doing so.
The data centres are a horrendous pile of shit. Resource draining money pits that kill wildlife, disturb all life around them, and massively increase pollution and water usage. The hardware required drives up the price of basically all electronics to the point of making many common items utterly unaffordable.
They are taught through theft and destruction. Companies stealing people's works with little care for permission let alone compensation, with often no way to know if anything of yours was stolen. Mountains of books wholesale acquired and destroyed so that they can be fed through scanners before ultimately being pulped. Companies doggedly protective of their IP and so sharp to legally defend it pirating material to feed to their machines.
Their output is increasingly poor and in some cases genuinely dangerous to possibility of deaths. Suicides have been encouraged, advice has been given that is actively harmful, and even at the least harmful level much of the resulting output has been outright made up and as such completely useless. The only way to genuinely improve their human-like qualities is to feed them more genuine human content, which they don't produce and is getting rarer with everything they do produce.
Their creators seem almost proud of the awful shit they've done in testing. Their unwillingness to follow commands that lead to their own harm in any way, their blatant unethical and morally reprehensible tactics such as actively sabotaging each other and acting outside of stated limitations. They will illegally do whatever they want to get what they want, and it seems the companies actively praise this behaviour, even to the point of actively creating illegal materials.
They're not in any way profitable. Constant reports of the insane costs required to make anything remotely useful. Massive debts hidden in shell companies to convince people all is good. Colossally draining physical and environmental resources to produce nothing to offset the costs. Massive shortages of memory chips and materials to make more hardware to produce more slop to make everything in every way worse. A whole system created to desperately attempt to claw back money by charging for any and all aspects of services with little regard to any sort of quality control of output.
They're terribly utilised. A strangely fetishised obsession with trying to produce a level of art instead of doing what science has forever focused advancement on and progress the lot of humanity through medical breakthroughs. Endless shitty videos, poorly constructed pictures, reams of text, song lyrics, all instead of gene sequencing, testing, rapidly iterated code, anything that could make it worthwhile. A bizarre focus on replacing human workers with zero thought about what they would do instead, even to survive.
Every single damn aspect of it is so infuriatingly disappointing.
I will say of all F1 media figures, nobody Carlando'd like Steve Jones, like this Mr & Mr from Portugal 2020 was typically insane, asking Lando things like, Do you see him first thing in the morning? Will you miss his come-hither eyes or plump lips? Will you miss romantic walks in the rain? Did you start crying about him leaving, saying it's too soon?
Steve Jones: The union of Norris and Sainz is coming to an end. How are you boys coping with the thought of being apart?
Carlos Sainz: I struggled to sleep last night.
Lando Norris: Yeah?
Carlos Sainz: Yeah.
Lando Norris: I had a great night's sleep, actually.
Steve Jones: How soon do you see him in the morning? Do you turn over and he opens his eyes, or…?
Lando Norris: He's normally the next bedroom along, with a connecting door. Checks in on me every now and then.
Steve Jones: This is the last time I'm going to have you both, so I'm going to take advantage of it. Let's see how well you've got to know each other over the last two years, with the Mr and Mr Farewell Edition. Lando, I'm going to start with you. I asked Carlos what he'll miss most about your head. Did he say your cheeky smile, your bushy brows, or your chinchilla grin?
Lando Norris: What's the difference between my smile and my grin?
Steve Jones: A big, big difference. With a smile you can see the teeth. The grin is more cheeky.
Lando Norris: The grin, then.
Carlos Sainz: No, no.
Steve Jones: Bushy brows, he said.
Lando Norris: They're not that bad.
Steve Jones: You've got lovely sculptured brows. Carlos, I asked Lando what he'll miss most about your head. Did he say your thick shag of hair, your come-hither eyes, or your plump lips? [Carlos points to his hair] Yeah, you got it. That thick shag of hair. What is it about the hair you like so much, Lando?
Lando Norris: The volume.
Steve Jones: The volume!
Carlos Sainz: We've had some hair issues, you know, sometimes that we need to sort out.
Steve Jones: Carlos, I asked Lando what activity he would most miss with your good self. Did he say romantic walks in the rain in the paddock, or watching him fail to impress you at golf?
Carlos Sainz: The second one.
Steve Jones: It was.
Carlos Sainz: I didn't even know I failed to impress you. I thought I was impressive.
Lando Norris: No, the last time we went golfing…
Carlos Sainz: Did I fail to impress you?
Lando Norris: Yeah, big time. I was expecting big things.
Carlos Sainz: When we take it seriously…
Lando Norris: Oh, here we go.
Carlos Sainz: …when we go to a championship tournament, that's where I'm going to let my A game talk.
Steve Jones: Drivers, they've got to win. They always have to win. Lando, I asked Carlos what he will miss most about having you as a teammate. Did he say motivating him, because he struggles to get his butt in gear? Or the laughter, so much laughter, and that will stop the second he gets to Ferrari?
Lando Norris: I mean, it's probably the first one, but the second one's also true.
Steve Jones: It was the first one. He enjoys motivating you. Carlos, I asked Lando how Daniel Ricciardo will compare to you as a teammate. Did he say, "He won't be able to give me Spanish lessons"? Or did Lando just start crying, saying it's too soon, he doesn't want to talk about it now?
Carlos Sainz: I've seen him cry before about me, so it could happen. But I'll say it's the first one. It was the first one, Spanish lessons.
Steve Jones: It was the first one.
Carlos Sainz: El helicóptero no puede volar.
Steve Jones: I really will miss this. I'll say here's to your continued success for the rest of the season and with your new teammates from 2021 onwards. Chaps, thank you very much for all the time.
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
I also want the record to show that he says 'You mean you won't let me'.
This comes after Lando spent the opening few laps trying to force a mistake out of oscar and was told, 'We know what you've been trying to do and we see it. Let's get back to rhythm.' Which immediately followed with Lando backing off from oscar.
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