GreenBeard

This is tactical. They intend to go quiet for a while and then surge back right before the referendum that shouldn’t be happening. They’re counting on people’s short attention span to give them time to organize the next offensive. What we need is people working just as hard on the other side trying to organize the counter offensive and shut down this absolute joke of a referendum. I really hope we can keep the momentum up and the pressure on instead of quietly going back to our silos. We need massive community organizing to put a stake through the heart of this monster, or mark my words, it will be back.

I mean it’s a spectrum of course, as all these things are. No two neurodiverse people are neurodiverse in exactly the same way, we fit broad tendencies. But in most cases people can tell, especially if they understand the broad gist of the various spectra. Most of us wear behavioral masks to get through the day but they’re rarely perfect. Sometimes those of us on a spectrum are better at spotting it in each other than typicals, because we’re working overtime to try to notice and process subtle signals but it’s always there to varying degrees. When our masks slip, people tend to look at us like we grew a second head or something equally bizarre. Some people describe it as feeling alien, or fey-touched, or any one of a billion euphemisms and analogies across time and place.

It is what it is, same as it’s always been.

As someone who’s also neuro-diverse, we’re all a little off-putting. We know we look/sound a bit off and it’s a bit uncanny for some people. People will attach all kinds of meaning to anything they can visibly identify as different. As a mildly autistic ginger atheist I feel like “Soulless” gets thrown around way too freely, but I feel it’s important to keep in mind there are much worse flavours of bigotry out there. Still it’s important to point out that just because Zuck is awful doesn’t mean it’s ok to hate robot-people.

He did. I hope he continues to, because the more he says it, the further it gets from reach. Like how he keeps saying “He’s very close to a deal with Iran”, no he’s not. And every time he runs his mouth it gets further and further away.

Now, is it a good idea to invite Palantir to our security apparatus? Absolutely not. Is it a good idea to sell our airports to JP Morgan? No. Does pushing draconian anti-privacy legislation that will drive out VPNs and secure software providers suggest Carney is a major problem? Absolutely. We should do something about that, but he IS keeping the twit in the White House occupied.

Always remember that the most perfidious way to undermine a good cause is by defending it with a bad argument. He is managing Trump, which is the primary reason people voted for him in the first place. We all need to keep a close eye on what he’s trying to slip by while our attention is elsewhere though. There’s more than one Cabal of snakes looking to subjugate us.

Yep, and it’s everyone else’s right to wish it right back at you. I almost wish I believed in hell, because the idea of people who think like that slow-roasting for eternity is comforting. Unfortunately, the cosmos doesn’t usually do justice. That’s a human affectation. May you always find justice.

Don’t beat yourself up over being human. We all have our limits of what we can and can’t do, and a customer can only do so much. Stand up for labor, support unions whenever you can, I know that’s harder than it used to be, use your vote, and your voice when you’re able to demand better for all of us. Those are what you can do as a citizen. I know it’s abstract, I know they aren’t perfect solutions, but it’s better than where things are. And maybe we can all work on being better neighbours too. Remember, the most you can do is always working with others as a community.

Remember Arugula-gate? I can guarantee Pepperage Farms remembers.

Ah, the “I had to suffer, so everyone else does too” mentality. Now I see why they wished the worst on you.

Friend, just be kind and respectful. Whether it’s a teenager asking if you want fries with that, a retail worker helping ring up your purchases or a service tech fixing something for you, having good manners, not actively wasting their time or creating headaches for them, and having a bit of patience when we’re both frustrated with a system that doesn’t make it easy for you or us is a delight. Do your best to raise your kids to do the same, and remember it could just as easily be them on the receiving end. Most people are just fine. You can’t fix other people. You can make it socially costly to be an asshole, so any chance you get, do so.

I don’t think you can be a billionaire and be a good person. It is 100% true that if someone is that rich, and they tell you it’s from hard work, you should ask them whose, because no one gets that rich dealing fairly. Someone is getting rung out. A lot of someones. Do they all deserve to die? Hard to say for sure, but I see little to suggest keeping them alive is a wise decision, they rarely have much value to society beyond money at that point, and they’ve spent all of their humanity getting rich, so it’s not like it’s homicide ethically, even if it legally is. Still, I’m open to the hypothesis that there’s a human soul left in some of them, and if the evidence can be provided for such I’m eager to see it.

Happens daily to me. That’s life in a service industry. You deal with it.

On the contrary, if consumer uptake is too shallow, their big gamble on AI comes crashing down. While the fallout of THAT catastrophe will not be gentle, it’ll be a whole lot less catastrophic than the alternative. I will continue to avoid using AI as much as I am legally able, which right now is a lot, and steering any company that I consult with that demands AI into losing massive amounts of money on bad AI decisions. “It’s not me, the AI is quirky like that. Sorry, but I did warn you it was unreliable.” Let it burn. Let it all burn.

You probably can’t. He will likely have to hit rock-bottom before he realizes he’s made a mistake. You’ve tried intervention, and you can leave the door open for when his plan all falls apart. You can’t really do anything more than that.

I really hope that Californians in general note who is getting tech $ and make sure they never see office.

But why? No sane person would buy a Tesla in Canada, you’re asking for your million $ dumpster-fire to be vandalized, and it’s not even a good EV these days. Tesla is just paying taxes on fields of rusting lithium coffins.

No one said their strategy was good, just that they were outsmarting Trump. That’s a dismally low bar.

You suffer from the illusion that congress as it currently exists represents humans. Congress represents corporate persons and special interests. There are two categories of corporate persons, a) those with just enough foresight to still be mildly afraid human persons will catch on and do something to overthrow them (Democrats), b) those who don’t care what you cattle think, because they have the psychological tools to manipulate you into doing whatever they want (Republicans). At no point is your opinion relevant because neither party actually cares, they’ll have their public relations team tell you what you’re permitted to care about closer to election day. AIPAC, the special interest group representing the Israeli government funds both, and so extracts favors as they see fit. It’s not at all crazy once you recognize the underlying structure. Evil, but not crazy.

Old guys willing to help pass on knowledge or training

There’s a lot less of those than I had wanted to believe. We’ve had generations now of old salts who wouldn’t or couldn’t teach, and find every reason under the sun to tell anyone who wants to learn to go pound sand. They’ll use you as a first year apprentice as glorified labour, and refuse to take you on once you’re worth more. There’s a million suckers behind you desperate for a job, so you have hundreds of first year apprentices who will never finish training because they can’t get someone to take them on once their work is worth real wages.

Corporate treason has been not only legal, but encouraged for hundreds of years. This is not new, nor will it be addressed.

This is a fight between Palantir et al. and the VPN and other ISP corps. At no point were the Canadian people ever relevant to this bill in any way. It makes no difference at all if it will actually be good for us, or if we approve or disapprove of it. This is bare-faced opportunism, using a crisis as cover to pass legislation that will hurt us for generations to come.