Oh weird, I misread that as public being skeptical of the idea of Elon’s life expectancy projecting forward beyond Q4 2025.

Hah!

What a silly mistake I made!

… Sadly, the first thing that comes to mind, upon reading your comment…

First, we take Manhattan… then we take Berlin.

… I am hopeful that I can make it either to, or at least nearer to Canada, into a blue state, within the next year…

I am fully expecting shit to get very bad, very fast now.

… At least I am white… as sickening as that is for me to say… it does make me less of a target.

…

Spent the better part of two decades telling my friends and family that what is happening now … is the trajectory we are on, and we must enact change now, while we still can, to avert this path.

… I don’t talk to any of them any more, as they all thought I was insane…

They didn’t believe ‘it could happen here.’

And now, it has.

And most of them would either entirely deny that it ‘has happened’, as they are neck deep in QAnon/MAGA insanity…

…or they would tell me that simultaneously they don’t remember me explaining how and why this could happen, how it became more and more likely as the years went by… and also, at the same time, just remember me being hysterical, about something, vaguely, for no reason they can remember.

Welp we’ve got farm labor, cold turkey ‘detox’, no cell phones, communal bunks type rehab camps for… everyone on either hard drugs, or any kind of medically prescribed anti depressant or anti psychotic.

Thats still on the bingo card from RFK, to my knowledge, that hasn’t happened yet.

We’ve also got concentration camps guarded by I guess Blackwater (whatever they’re calling themselves now) for all homeless people, a few miles outside of major cities, and of course a 0 tolerance policy for existing in a major city while homeless.

That hasn’t happened yet, but Trump has outlined that idea a couple of times.

… that one will be super-fun as the economy crashes.

Because confirmation bias is a superior substitute to basic research, how else would one inform themselves about the world?

/s

What I’m suggesting is I am asking ChatGPT to validate my idea that all Filipinos have the same beliefs, wherever they are, almost as if their worldviews are entirely determined by their racial/ethnic origin.

Please stop and maybe read the things your write outloud before you post them…

… and you’d be wrong.

It does resemble a terrorist attack…

But if you watched the press conference with the chief of police (or the equivalent title)…

They have the suspect in custody, there were no specific threats to the event before hand, the suspect has a long history of mental illness, and the suspect has had many previous run ins with the police, ‘suspect is well known to the department’… gives me the impression this is a person who is having one kind of mental breakdown or another … every month or other week.

At one point a reporter asked if it was terrorism and the CoP basically says… that would require a political or ideological motivation.

The CoP … you could tell he was doing his best to divulge information he could without divulging information he couldn’t. He paused and tried to rephrase things a few times, openly struggled with … seemingly genuinely being unclear about what he was legally allowed to say.

If the person truly is seriously mentally ill, there may be additional laws in place protecting some extra level of their privacy, at least before charges are actually brought.

Put all that together, and it seems like this person has been just… very very seriously mentally ill for a long time, as in, too mentally ill to be capable of forming a coherent or describable ideology.

Or, at the very least, that seems to me to be what the police are saying.

Yeeee-up.

Because we do not live in a Democracy with regular election seasons.

We live in a fascist oligarchy, which must constantly beam propoganda into the minds of its citizens.

…

Trump basically never stopped campaigning during the entirety of the Biden term, nor even for his fist term… despite being the President.

US political ad seasons are notorious for being … way too long, up to a year… compared to most functional demcracies, where this ad season is often several weeks, not several, or many months.

Trump ratcheted this lengthy American political ad season into just literally all the time.

Before him, a sitting President running ads… during the middle of their own term… I think its literally unprecedented. Sure they’d give addresses and speeches to the public in extraordinary situations… but not run what amount to campaign ads… just all the time.

This is the power of money and media in the digital age.

Tell the lies often enough, and they become real to the enthralled. Literally right out of Goebbels playbook.

It truly now just is cult reaffirming propoganda, in the derogatory 1984/dictator sense of propoganda

Trump has stated many times he’ll serve a third term. Told people they’d “never need to vote again.” He fully plans on being President untill he dies.

Well, on one hand, I am Autistic, I default to literal concrete meanings without fairly explicitly clear context indicating otherwise.

On the other hand… seems to me that just sort of broadly, generally, everyone is kind of… a combination of losing their minds and becoming hyperbolic as a default (due to massive stress of hypercapitalism collapsing living standards)…

…while also there is a massive trend that… basically the post-irony language/humor style of Zoomers has imploded, and nobody can really tell who is or is not joking any more, everything is a Schrödinger’s shitpost whose ‘true’ meaning is nebulous until it is observed and commented on.

I used to be able to tell what were jokes, irony, satire… took me a long time to learn all the nuances.

And then basically that all just collapsed in the last couple of years.

I mean… I have had a cat, and played with it in the manner I described till he got too old for that sort of thing.

It did not to me seem at all that I was putting in 900x the effort, either in physical energy terms, or mental effort / discipline and dedication terms, or both those combined.

Maybe… a roughly equivalent amount of combined mental and physical energy?

…

And yes, my cat would also wait hidden for periods of time… its part of their hunting strategy. Just pretend you aren’t there, and then when a sense of safety has come about… strike swiftly with the element of surprise.

Cats… are generally solo, stealthy predators, after all. A … stealth, glass cannon, low durability berserker build, to try to mangle it into video game terms. Capable of intense bursts of extreme athleticism, but also requiring significant down time to recharge.

Sort of the opposite of the human hunting strategy of using pure raw stamina to chase down prey over long periods of time, in group coordination with other humans, and then basically just finish off an animal as it is basically having a heart attack from redlining itself for too long.

…

To me, I made it into a game: learn my kitty’s strategy, bait it and goad it accordingly… leaving some grace for him to enjoy actually catching and monching on it, but also challenging him with new patterns and movements, introduced gradually.

If kitty is either utterly uninterested… or just waiting for you to rope-a-dope yourself into exhaustion, and then he grabs it when you are tired… congratulations, you have been tactically outsmarted by a cat lol.

The cat has managed its stamina levels and recharge rates better than you have managed your own.

…

I just set aside a few 30 minute blocks each day, or at least most days, to just set up some music, and do nothing other than play with kitty.

Like how a dog owner might set up an hour or so every couple of days to take a dog on a walk.

Yep.

This means the 4th Amendment is dead.

Oh, any LE agency wants to search your house? Your car?

Uh, hrm, which very vaguely suspected migrants live in your building, your neighborhood?

2 miles away? Whatever, close enough.

Ok, now you’ve got ICE at your door, on the flimsiest evidence, connected in the flimsiest way, to a person suspected on a different set of flimsy evidence…

… And they are just searching your place because random guy may have been in the area, might have burgled you, whatever, who cares, we’ve got a warrant, lots of guns, do not interfere with our investigation.

This comm does actually have a rule that you are to replicate headlines precisely.

Have… have we all learned yet, by now, that basically 90% of managers and bosses are literally idiots who only understand buzzwords, vaguely, uselessly?

… Their jobs are easier to automate than ours.

Reminder that during Covid, Elon bought a bunch of CPAP machines (for sleep apnea), sent these to various hospitals, claimed he sent them ‘respirators’, and then claimed it was a conspiracy against him personally when hospitals told him ‘these are not respirators, they will not work, we cannot use them’.

Also, vibes based math aside…

I don’t get how this … makes sense, from an energy expenditure level.

You have a 3 feet long stick, with a 4 foot long string, with a fuzzy mouse on the end.

You… flick your wrist, in various motions, such that the toy seems to be … hiding… then evading! then running, then hiding, then somewhere hard to reach… scittering slightly like it thinks its safe, sniffing for food -ah back to evading!

Sure, your arm is moving too, maybe you are also turning somewhat, or even walking a bit to certain areas of your place with more cat obstscles… but you literally have leverage, working for you.

… The cat is literally bouncing off the walls, running at 15 mph, climbing up the cat tower, shimmying under the couch or a table, suddenly executing snap turns, sometimes literally in midair…

… How on earth does that work out to you expeding more caloric energy than the cat?

It is even less work on your end if you use a laser pointer, though personally I would not recommend this due to the chance of accidentally injuring your cats eyes.

Damn, that’s… quite the line up of Steam Deck related devs, shit.

Welp, I’m convinced.

That sounds very much like certain white trash family members in my family/extended family, and family of neighbor kids I grew up with.

Utterly shit people who have objectively fucked up or failed at nearly every opportunity ever presented to them, never seek out or attempt to create their own opportunities… but also somehow just infinitely smug and self confident about basically just random unremarkable nonsense details of their lives.

And of course, are never wrong about anything and are literally incapable of genuine introspection.

I mean, I’d appreciate it!

Wha… do you get some kind of reddit currency if you make a post that breaks 1000 upvotes, with a multiplier based on your log in streak length?

Jesus Christ, these fucking dark pattern, microtransaction shit just needs to be universally banned.