MonkeMischief

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago

Only slightly more grounded, I see a lot of similarities with Caligula or Nero.

He has the ineffective pettiness and cruelty of Caligula, but Nero had the cultist followers who wouldn't even accept his death and kept spreading legends that he'd show up again. (I wonder if they rioted the capital lol)

Hoping for an ending like Caligula's sooner rather than later though.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago

..."violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit."

Mexico and friends: "¿primer tiempo?"

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

""We found the gold that was in Fort Knox! It was just sitting there. We could just use that. America will be so rich with all this gold Sleepy Joe and his people wanted to keep from all of us. We're gonna take this gold. It'll be the best thing. Lotsa lotsa gold. It's a lotta gold. Gold....yeah."

Said President Musk's little orange pet on Monday."

/s

Unless this already happened in our reality...man I wouldn't even be surprised anymore...

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

One possibility could be because in conventional "computer counting" in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

[monke, chimp, peanut]

monke would be [0]

chimp would be[1]

peanut would be [2]

Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it's a habit, I won't make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

I bet your whole network is connected by CAT. :P

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.

Something like "LG Dishwasher".

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Gotta say, from what I've heard from the trenches, "insanity" and "madness" sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I honestly think, were they here today, everyone who penned the Declaration would consider this douchebag's shoe prints to be more a desecration to the office than if King George III waltzed in and took a dump on the desk.

That sounds like pure projection to me.

This republican rhetoric is shockingly smoothbrained isn't it? Their entire propaganda strategy is to blame everyone else for distasteful things they're literally in the middle of commiting themselves.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

fake Christian bullshit.

With utmost sincerity, God bless you for making this distinction. People who actually paid attention to Jesus' words have got your back, friend. ❤️

I'm so incensed at these corporations spouting "Christian values" while they treat their fellow humans like disposable trash. More Christians need to be calling out this bullshit instead of siding with it.

The bad guys win when they wear the mask of belief and turn us against each other, and we say nothing.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

**bae-blades <3

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today -1 points 1 year ago

I agree with you somewhat and I don't like how much downvote spam you're getting. You bring up some good points we ought to be mindful of.

Right now it seems very clear who the oppressors are, but the scary thing about reactive movements is that even if they accomplish their goal, they tend to seek to justify themselves indefinitely before everyone gets bored and it dissolves.

Everybody wants a revolution on paper, but things get messy and blurry once the powder keg goes off, and people en masse would be looking for the next enemy, the next oppressor, that must be hunted down to finally secure Utopia.

While I'm an anarchist and want the "ownership class" to answer for their wicked ways, I also don't think a bunch of independent actors picking targets and gunning them down based solely on their own justification is an ideal solution. Even if I understand why it happens and don't defend the perpetrators that push people to such extremes in the first place.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't forsee it becoming "sentient" so much as "Being given a stupid amount of access and resources to figure out a problem by itself, and stupidly pursuing the maximization of that goal with zero context."

There's that darkly humorous hypothetical that an Ai tasked with maximizing making paperclips would continue to do so, using every resource it could get a hold of, and destroying any threat to further paperclip production!

So that, with data center expansion and water. Lol

See "paperclip maximizer" under "hypothetical examples" Here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

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