FriendOfDeSoto

joined 2 years ago

How does confidence factor into this? I've been confident in stuff before and it turned out that confidence was misplaced. Pride cometh before the fall shit. Confidence alone risks cockiness. Cockiness may lead to somebody testing your Golden Shield. Didn't work. You now don't have a country any more.

If the Golden Shield really worked it's a question of capacity. If you had enough juice in it to repel all nuclear weapons you could throw at this country in a worst-case scenario, you'd have a powerful defense against the most powerful weapon on Earth that's ready to deploy this minute. It may not save you from conventional attacks. It may not shield you from chemical or biological weapons so gruesome they aren't currently shelf-ready. But development of those would suddenly become a viable prospect. I fear it just turns the spiral of development of more destructive weaponry one more rotation. Extrapolating from the last 6000 years of history, we've gone from sticks and stones to vaporizing people into thin mist by harnessing the power of the atom. We're already in the narrow bit of the spiral. Paradoxically, developing a Golden Shield against nuclear attacks may lead to wiping our species out for good.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Glad to hear it! I thought I heard a sigh of relief so massive it circled the world twice.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What you need is help, not AI. If paying a designer is out of the question, look for the most design savvy person in your family, friends, or in your neighborhood. Maybe you can comp them a meal in exchange for making this look good.

You can use AI image generators to make background images. Just check the licenses if you're okay to use their stuff in a commercial setting. AI is still largely dog shit at handling real text in images. That's why I wouldn't recommend going this route for you here. You have a lot of text.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What do you want to do with your poster? Will this be used as a meme or will it actually go to a printer or be displayed on a high-res screen? If it's just a meme thing, any image creator AI will do. Most of them have free options.

If this will actually go to a printer, you'll need high resolution images and would do well to design it in a vector format, SVG for open source software: Inkscape is free to install on computers, vector-ink is a thing for mobile and the web as well. Adobe Illustrator for the corporate expensive route. Big file sizes work better on a good computer so YMMV.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I get why the feelings sucks. You're in your head and somehow only the worst possible outcomes ruminate. You've called the cops, good on you.

You're not in charge of the world, there ought to be others who are charged with taking care of that girl. Their failure in preventing her from showing up on your porch is not your fault either and she's their responsibility, not yours. Keep repeating that in your head.

I know. What you have hit upon here is my obviously unsuccessful attempt at making these people look more ridiculous than the OG death cult.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 60 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I think this USSR quote is a good answer:

We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

In any authoritarian system where indoctrination starts young you'll probably have a fifth of the population that's high on the coolaid or never questioned anything due to ideology or intelligence (or both). The rest know they're lying, etc. And keep their mouths shut because they don't want to go to Siberia or El Salvador.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No. At least not yet. I don't think they will be because that would entail having any of 47's children succeed him. And I feel like they know they are a shade duller than Hegseth.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 27 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I think you need to be more specific with the query. If I'm the only passenger plus crew, yes. If the plane is full of people going to a place to help out, no. If this flight could be done by train without multiplying door-to-door travel time more than 2.5 times, yes. If my blood type or bone marrow was so rare I could save a life, I think I'd be okay again even if I was a lone passenger. There is plenty of gray here to consider.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did you skip high school? You're equating normal with socially desirable. I don't. There are plenty of people who behave normally while not being nice. E.g. bullies, mean girls. Some of them never grow out of it.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I beg to differ. If I were a c-word, this behavior would be par for the course.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 71 points 9 months ago (5 children)

This is not the behavior of a friend.

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