We 100% will be. At least for certain companies. The investment int AI is hype for sure, but a decent chunk is for fascism. Surveillance, information control, mass manipulation, etc…

The Trump regime will absolutely bail out key players to use them for control.

Alulose, monk fruit, stevia. There are 3 fully “natural” sugar alternatives.

I agree that sugar alcohols can be bad for your gut and liver. As well as some are cut with carcinogenic fillers, but there are sugar alternatives that have VERY little effect on you. And actually alulose can be beneficial to your gut microbiome, while not affecting calorie intake and liver processing

Stevia, if the aftertaste doesn’t bother you, is definitely the most affordable and passes through the body with barely a trace. I know you didn’t mention cost, but I do admit that alulose is significantly more expensive than sucrose. Around $30 for a 5 lb bag vs $8 for a 25lb bag of sucrose. But Stevia is often sold without filler, like xylytol, which a lot of monk fruit is unfortunately cut with to make the amount bigger.

Mood AF. I hate feeling this way, but I almost feel things need to get worse before they get better.

I won’t actively work towards that, and I’ll work to make my community and city a better place in the midst of that. But I think humanity will only change when things are really drastic.

Yes. I absolutely believe this too. If there is a multiverse, it’s not so much about us switching realities but differences reconciling and merging.

That’s whack. Spanish Onions refer to something completely different in most places.

https://therustyspoon.com/spanish-onions/

Wow… Freaking traitor.

Archimedes, the Greeks expected more from you…

Hey… How dare you bring logic into my eco-fashy views of “fixing” global suffering…

/s

(Also not making fun of the comment you responded to, but those that I have seen so much on reddit.)

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We still use anal gland stuff for cheap, faux vanilla flavoring 🤮🤮

If you have a spare hard drive lying around (rare amidst this storage famine), consider downloading Wikipedia and a few other things you would be interested in. There are multiple ways to do this, but I’ll recommend Kiwix.

Literally just for the sake of preserving and archiving information, for a bunch of reasons (fascist retconning, natural disasters, cyber attacks, etc…). You don’t even have to seed it or make it available publicly. Use it if you want, or throw the drive into a drawer.

If anyone are unable to do this, absolutely no worries. But to those who can, please do. It helps.

Yes. It’s very easy. You just install the app, download the offline resources you want, and turn on LAN mode which allows you to access the media from any device on the LAN, or VPN’d into the LAN.

Absolutely. There is a nonzero overlap between FOSS/decentralized software nerds and white knights/nice guys.

Thankfully it’s not too much here, as Lemmy has done a good job at not tolerating intolerance, so the incel white knights leave, but some of the more innocent ones stick around.

GenZ is actually even more likely to get scammed than boomers. So no, not only have they not learned, they’ve actively gotten worse.

https://tech.co/news/gen-z-online-scams-boomers

The study does acknowledge some correlationary aspects as opposed to direct reasons, such as increased online presence, but still… It’s real bad mama, it’s real real bad with these youths.

What about the billions ICE is spending on stockpiling weapons and vehicles, the increased military budget, rhe continued erosion of our rights, and the almost certainly rigged upcoming midterms suggests lawsuits and courts are going to be any impediment to the fascists eventually?

And no, I’m not saying we just roll over and give up. But I am being realistic with the way that most authoritarian regimes go, and how they consolidate all power. Trump campaigned on giving politice as much immunity as he could, and that includes the way that courts punish police oversight and brutality. He’s actually delivered quite well on the things that benefit him and his cronies. And since police serve as the Pinkerton class of capital, I think once he gets enough power, he will fulfill that promise.

Give DHS as much immunity as they need, CiA and FBI clearance and permissions up the wazoo, and anything else they need to stay in power.

You’re assuming that the police will actually sift through footage in a meaningful way instead of just trusting faulty, fascist trained ai algorithms. Like that one guy who got mistaken by an AI profiling systen at a casino for someone who was kicked out, and when handed his license to prove he was a different person, the cops LITERALLY just refused to believe the evidence of their eyes. They took him to jail because the almighty machine could never be wrong. The story is wild: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2026/03/11/ai-software-tells-cops-to-arrest-the-wrong-guy/.

An elderly lady misidentified by Flock, held for 6 months in jail: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-grandmother-jail-mistake

I’m sorry that apparently this fascist threat isn’t enough for you to think it’s a big deal, but it is.

Absolutely this one. My friend told me that and wow, the difference has been incredible.

Metrolist for the win

Exactly. No offense to the average liberal but this whole “but what will happen to all the compute and data centers when the AI bubble bursts” is so tiring.

Firstly, the fascist regime will absolutely bail out a few key companies. Secondly, all those centers will be used for mass surveillance, war games, predictive policing (and population control), and all the other shit in the fascist grabbag.

There is absolutely a level of speculation to this insane bubble. I’m not going to sit here and tell you to ignore the evidence of your eyes. Obviously there is an aspect of short sighted money chasing (pretty standard capitalist bs), and there is absolutely an aspect of corporate greed and the companies trying to outbuild, outcompute one another. But for the people at the top (Miller, Thiel, Elston, Musk maybe, and others), they absolutely have long term goals. They are definitely getting rich off the bubble and benefiting from the short term insanity, but there is more there.

These neofeudalist assholes want to see us in chains, under their ever watchful AI eyes.

Getting meta with the “shit post”

Can’t deny the scientific experts