That’s probably the scariest thought of immortality. Living normal life is one thing… hell most the things are just… more of the good and bad. But yeah over the course of thousands of years, the million to one scenerios that could get you trapped. (landslides, earth quakes, building collapses, swept out to sea, intentional “murder” (IE an enemy knows he can’t kill you, so he entombs, burries you etc…)
Maybe progressive stronghold would’ve been less controversial.
anything stronghold doesn’t make a lick of sense, when specifically new york mayor, is the very definition of swing, in that recent years it’s gone 50/50. Progressive stronghold makes even less sense, Are you trying to say, any of their recent mayors were progressive, because I can’t even come close to agreeing with that statement.
Whether it’s a winning or losing recipe in other places is hard to say. Depends on what issues we are talking about. I would say in the bible belt, taking a hard line support of trans rights, would be dangerous. On the other hand, other topics certainly do make sense in other places. I used to debate with conservative friends here in the state of South Carolina… IE a place that is undoubtedly red. Most of them if you talk on the actual issues of prices, of taxing the wealthy etc… they’ll agree point by point on left issues over and over again. They’ll argue that the democrats don’t stand for that, that they don’t intend to do it or won’t do it when they are in office. Hell half the time they’ll say things like “they know it’s a good idea so trump will get to it if it’s possible”.
So in short… I’d have to say, I’d personally imagine a Zoran or similar doing… well equally well to a centrist democrat here. Probably not able to win… but acting more republican doesn’t change the numbers. The R gets all the voters that believe republicans are better. No amount of acting like a republican will pick up any of them.
Again I will say, the grey areas is the ones that might have the deciding factor on abortion, guns or gay/trans rights. In the bible belt, those are single issue topics that some that could agree with a left leaning economic policy, but may completely disqualify anyone who takes a stance on those issues. Honestly I don’t know what’s better or worse for those concepts. Because it’s disgusting of an idea to throw LGBT under the bus to get elected, but also such a strong issue in these parts it’s hard to imagine anyone winning with even a neutral stance on it.
Point still holds… the last time a republican New York MAYOR was elected, was only 4 elections ago… prior to Mandami’s win the 10 elections prior to it for mayor went 5 for republican, 5 democrat. Doesn’t really make sense to compare a mayoral candidate to a presidential result, in a city that apparently has a strong track record of supporting republican mayors even when they went all in on the democratic president.
I mean isn’t that still kind of it though, I’m trying to figure out how new york city is being called a “democratic stronghold”. as if it’s been solid blue for the last 50 years or something… the place that made Rudy Giuliani, followed it up with bloomberg. Then followed up with 2 corrupt centrist democrats.
Even better part of your statement… it checks out theologically. The bible actually specifically says that Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light. and it specifically predicts the antichrist specifically will convince people that he is holy, and people who think they are doing god’s work will follow him.
Pay no attention to Laura Ingram, we purposely trained her wrong… as a joke
Kind of the constant history of socialism. It’s almost the same as the arguement against being LGBT.
See being LGBT is bad, I can prove it, look at the suicide rates of LGBT people?
Isn’t that because you are bullying them?
Yeah, but I wouldn’t bully them if they were straight, so that proves being LGBT is bad for your health!
Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc…
Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it… like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy… watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.
I suppose the question is, did she shed a tear while chopping it up?
Except generally speaking… those far right small government types are actually very concerned with increasing the number of people of their own race… hence why abortion, birth control etc… are what they fight against.
They just dont’ care about feeding or keeping those people comfortable, they want them toiling away for scraps.
Maybe his big brother hiding just behind… Big corporations.
While I’m far from an expert on it… at best the dream simulations are still, extremely rudimentary. To the point that’s usually how you can tell it isn’t real by doing something like reading a book. IE it’s largely believable, but only because you are put in a gullible state. Like watching 2 year old AI videos, while stoned.
Don’t have a tesla, not sure if there’s any way to test, but looks to me like the user at least claims she ensured NSFW was not turned on. and that gork was listed a just “lazy male”.
I don’t dabble with it so I can’t say if there’s a way that could be turned on by mistake on grok’s settings elsewhere and it carries over to the car or similar.
I mean that’s basically the setup we have here as well. Problem isn’t that… well duh if you consent to your picture being on the internet this happens… The problem is, this genie is out of the bottle. For now Sora is, kinda half assed attempting to follow a “only use real people that have consented”. We already know, if it isn’t codified into law… these things will be adapted by companies that don’t care about the rules… and existing companies will also be more generous of what they can consent to etc…
IMO I don’t think they’ve worked the model beyond “this still works for the next quarter”. IE it’s mainly betting on, other companies paying enough that their workers can buy their products. But of course if their methods are working those companies will be less profitable and thus either go out of business or be aquired.
or perhaps the government assisting the people with food stamps etc… which of course they are voting to cut to give themselves bigger tax cuts.
The only possible way this has any long term capacity is if this is a short term game that they intend to massively change when they hit a certain point and all competition is completely out of the market. IE all industries move into a seperate monopoly, and then just become their own government.
I don’t think they are really thinking that far ahead though. economy works on short term numbers, and they are just doing what’s best for them until the next quarter, without considering that 5 years down the line they could be destroying themselves.
Based on time of the anime’s development, and of course the fact that it is japanese, more likely IGS was the thought process at that time. KGS was the standard in america… but not the primary choice for China/Japan.
You know what, he actually wouldn’t be horrificly wrong if he were actually pushing for something there. Lets say hypothetically our jobs, aren’t real work, and it’s no big deal that they are replaced… the actual intents of progression of technology… was originally that when the ratio of work needed to be done and people shifts… we’d work less for more pay etc… but no we just capitalism it and say “labor is in high supply, so we need to cut it’s price until people can find use for it”.
What do you expect… they replaced their investigative journalists with AI just days before this article came out.
(source, I asked chatgpt to research before doing this comment).
Yup, the classic, "just because you’ve been paying a landlord 1800 a month for your one bedroom appartment that’s almost certainly going to be over 2000 in a year you’ve crammed your family into, why would I trust you to pay a 1400 a month mortgage.
Flying pig was too on the nose?