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You're absolutely right, he's literally just their trigger happy hype man. He's there to act as a motivational figurehead who's willing to accept and promote whatever results in the most military action being taken at Trump's request. Also "trigger happy hype man" - that would actually be a cool name for a song or album come to think of it....

The timeline where Americans collectively lose their minds and make shit loads of money uploading youtube videos about it.

Thank you for your service 07

I'm not surprised, companies are starting to realise that AI is only as useful as the data it's trained on. If you blast it with all the internet slop we have completely unfiltered, it's going to start fucking up all it's responses. It's not just about the volume of data, it's about the quality of that data. Sites like Github, and academic journals, contain the exact data that companies need to create well rounded LLMs, that don't go off on racist rants and declare themselves as "MechaHitler". That makes data like Github's pure gold.

Yeah same, but I'm really upset at the amount of quality content netflix keeps killing. They literally had a David Fincher TV series Mindhunters, that was absolutely incredible, but cancelled it due to "costs". The reality is, if Netflix just invested more into a smaller amount of films and shows, they could have made so much more money off them, by pushing them into the media spotlight. But instead they choose to give up every time something doesn't look profitable.

The problem is that COVID paralysed a lot of the extroverts, especially the extroverted children and teens. For me personally I can attest that the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia, destroyed my sociability. But I'm maturing now, and I'm realising that I need to find others like me, because if this is a widespread problem effecting billions of other people, that means there are people out there that are ready to start getting to work, they just need support from others like myself. I think the degree to which the lockdowns impacted people's cognitive health, was severely overlooked. But we can get through this, and we can fight back, they wouldn't be introducing hate speech laws and trying to ban social media around the world if they weren't worried of a collective voice forming on the internet.

Oh shit, I hate to break it to you, but the series was cancelled.... The conclusion was actually rushed, since it was planned to continue on indefinitely..... They must've just had incredibly talented writers.

Absolutely, although as a Sydneysider, I generally have pretty good bus services where I live. The only thing that makes my blood boil is how awful the bus drivers can be to children. There was one day I had to catch the bus to the library after school, and it was storming a fuck ton. This group of highschoolers get on, and some of them don't tap on and go and sit down. The bus driver, an old grey haired lady yells her head off at the back of the bus, but since they had already sat down, she couldn't find them. So she decides the only thing left for her to do, is to stand by the Opal card reader, and force every single person to tap on. You might be thinking "well fine she's pissed, but those guys should've just tapped on right?"

Well this little kid jumps on, and he looks no older than 12 years old. He asks, in a voice I can barely make out over the raging storm outside "can I come on? My family just moved here and I don't have a card yet" - to which the decrepit bus driver yells "Not on my watch, get out of here! No one is allowed on this bus unless everyone taps on!", she then proceeds to shove him to the middle of the entrance before shoving him outside.

I remember kicking myself the rest of the trip to the library - I was furious at myself for not having recorded what she had done, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for the rest of the week. No one, especially not a child, deserves to be forced out of a bus in the middle of a thunderstorm.

So every time someone praises public transport here, I'm grateful for the comfortable experience I get to enjoy. But each and every time someone praises the buses, the first thing I can think of is that little boy, and how despite confessing to the bus driver he was new to the area, was pushed into the middle of a raging thunderstorm.

The owners of my family's last house left us with solar panels, and as a struggling barely middle class family, it helped my parents afford all our expenses; from groceries to rent and even a vacation. It makes me so happy to see solarpunk become so popular, the good it can do is nothing short of awesome.

It's unbelievable how much more powerful, livable, and culturally cohesive you could be as a country, if you had a government that wanted to actually solve systematic problems to make life better for all Americans. Imagine an alternate reality where the US gov actually worked to provide you with the essentials you need to survive? The US could've become objectively, the strongest cornerstone of western democracy, cemented in a history of moral altruism.

This website visualises the ultra wealthy to scale, with examples of issues that could've been solved using this money, such as:

• Chemotherapy for Every Cancer Patient: The site states that the annual cost of chemotherapy for all cancer patients is approximately $9 billion. It then points out that Jeff Bezos made that much money in just 40 days in 2018.
• Malaria Eradication: It highlights that a tiny fraction of the wealth of the 400 richest Americans could eradicate malaria globally.
• Ending Homelessness: The visualization includes the cost to house every homeless veteran in the United States.
• Clean Water: It estimates the cost of providing clean water and waste disposal to every human on earth.
• Testing for COVID-19: During the pandemic, the site was updated to show that **Bezos's wealth could easily pay to test every single person in the U.S. for the virus. ** and the US would still easily be the richest country in the world. This is without even taking into account the sheer amount of wealth the US and it's politicians possess as a whole country.

So in short, if the US gov actually wanted to help support their own population the US could have:

• Eradicated homelessness, malaria, chemotherapy costs, water scarcity + waste colonialism, and COVID-19 test costs.
• Provided universal free chemotherapy to every single cancer patient in the US
• The best and most affordable healthcare system in the world
• The best education system
• The most affordable housing system
• The best Transport
• Solved and you'd still have more than enough money to invest in your military, intelligence agencies, and crucial architecture that big business relies on.

Yes that means that every single problem that Americans suffer with, is optional. The only reason Americans don't have all these things, is because the wealthiest people in the world have decided that instead of working in symbiosis with the rest of humanity, they would rather feed off of and suppress the 99%.

The top 1% wants ownership over the whole planet. It isn't enough to live obscenely luxurious lives, they want total control over everyone's values, beliefs, actions, and decisions. They want to own you, they want to own me, and they want to own everyone else. To them we're the **equivalent of house squatters living off THEIR real-estate. ** So how exactly do they solve that problem? They can't exactly go and evict 9 billion people without serious repercussions. Yet BlackRock bought Christmas Island and has invested so much in housing; along with billionaires like Zuckerberg, Musk, and Bezos, even bought their own islands. So what do they do if they can't evict us? They do the next best thing; ** destroy our autonomy, ** forcing us to rely entirely on them, through legal retribution. How? By criminalising ownership, and forcing everyone to pay subscription fees for everything.

First it was music and podcasts. Then movies and TV shows, digital and audio books, as well as social media. So what's left? Well, the only thing not on that list are the essentials, and they're already coming for those too. Think housing, water, food, cars (eventually public transport). If you thought communism, is bad, oligarchy is much worse, just look at Russia.

If you're someone that thinks this will never happen to us, think again. Musk is already looking at implementing paid subscriptions to unlock features in Tesla cars

We can fight back. We can stop things from getting worse, and we can undo the damage that's been done. But** only if we can overcome the social divisions they are purposely funding in order to keep everyone from organising against them**. We have to become active participants in our communities, if we want to ever live in a truly free world. That might look like something as small as spending time with your family and friends, or helping volunteer with clean up in your council. Whatever you do it is clear, the only way for humanity to survive the commercialized corporate hellscape Earth is becoming, is by coming together in spite of our differences, to fight for something bigger than all of us individually; a world whose freedoms are no longer held hostage by the top 1%.

That is the entire plot to Travelers summed up in a couple of sentences.

Those are literally all the things I'm into (minus the fine art) but only because I suck at drawing. Don't get me wrong, death metal is way too much for me, but I listen to heavy metal all the time.