This is what they’re planning.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250501223037mp_/https://bse25.mapyourshow.com/8_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details.cfm?exhid=126

The useful AI is in scientific research and accounts for a fraction of a percentage of electricity used in “AI”. It’s not sexy. It’s not hip. And it’s not going to replace any workers, so the tech bros don’t care.

Strawberries have never been machine picked.

Strawberries.

A lot of modern problems can actually be blamed on Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays.

an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as “the father of public relations”. While credited with advancing the profession of public relations, his techniques have been criticized for manipulating public opinion, often in ways that undermined individual autonomy and democratic values.

They should just become a contributor to Heroic.

Work will set you free.

You think ICE cares? You think ICE even understands that?

Yeah, but New Yorkers believe they invented Pizza. Not joking, some very seriously believe that.

No kidding.

Vanity Fair, By Marie Brenner, September 1, 1990, https://archive.is/OQYan

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

You don’t get “charged” for hate on Social Media.

Are you talking about them someone famous says something bigoted and that gets shared around?

Or are you talking about when someone commits a crime in their legal system and that crime is motivated by bigotry?

https://friendster.com/

Hmm. A person disinterested in human beings?

Throwing his 2007 blog post titled Fossils are Bullshit on the pile.

I think he’s at least not Uncool. Like the True Neutral of comic creators.

oh no. So anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A39UmdGmLQ

Except for all the ones that are.

I once went to a convention that was double booked with a Jewish youth convention. It was pretty obvious the whole thing was for having Jewish kids hook up with each other. Also, lots of Youth IDF shirts if you wanted to know for sure what flavor of Judaism was there. I have nothing but respect for anti war Jews.

Marriage or even sex doesn’t imply pregnancy, but even if it does, if you start legally banning people from procreating based on the possibility of birth defects, you start having to consider other banning people who have conditions they had no control over from procreating. It’s an ethical quagmire.