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It was truly a piece of shit. Imagine trying to play a game with a cheap touchpad. Worst controller I’ve ever owned.

Not all religious people are evil, just like not all ignorant people are evil. But all ignorance and all religion and prejudice and celebrity worship and cults and gambling and extended-cab pickup trucks are certainly evil.

lock up every religious people [sic] for this crime

Religiosity isn’t a crime. There’s a shitload of evil in this world, and almost none of it is (or can ever be) “criminalized.”

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All religions are a monstrous evil.

If you believe otherwise, you are comically naive and attitudes like yours are partly responsible for this child’s death.

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Yeah it’s fucked up

They’re just using the terminology that’s widespread in the field. In a sense, the paper’s purpose is to prove that this terminology is unsuitable.

A better analogy for AI is the discovery of asbestos or the invention of single-use plastics. Terrible fucking idea.

It would be so easy to tackle the offshoring of US tax funds.

1. Implement better tax laws.
2. Billionaires attempt to leave the country with their ill-gotten booty.
3. Send Seal Team Six after them like Bin Laden. Drop bombs if you have to. The word “billionaire” should be synonymous with “terrorist.”
4. Problem solved.

The fun part is we can’t even fuck up our image on the world stage because Trump already did that.

That’s hilarious.

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Sure, that’s one practical aspect of money that lends itself to superficial quantitative analysis. But it’s not the whole picture. Money is fundamentally about the power to get people to do things for you. That’s what it represents. With money I can force people to give me things and do things for me, almost like magic.

Now the origins of money is rooted in debt (and power). When a ruling body exercises a monopoly on violence over a region, it can offer promissory notes (IOUs) that others value, because they have faith that this ruling body can force its citizens to work by extracting taxes from them.

Check out “Debt: The Last 5000 Years,” or similar anthropological work on the origins of money.

Keeping consumers alive as a class is indirectly encouraged in capitalism.

All they want is money, which has nothing to do with consumers whatsoever. Corporations could extract money by devouring each other, or by taking over a nation state, or by hijacking a treasury department, or by issuing their own money a la crypto. Remember that money is an abstraction (or an instrument) of power. Violently subjugating a region is tantamount to possessing that power (which we call money), or the ability to make others do what you want.

Well, yes, but Americans support Zionism, and genocide is something the current president has explicitly endorsed.

Religion is a monstrous evil.

Currently, Palestinians.

The US is also hellbent on exterminating dolphins and every other living creature until we can achieve a Mad Max apocalypse.

The US with Christian Nationalists at the helm.

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“For a long time.”

Implying that the allure of pork cannot be denied.