So is their necromancy, since tons of people declared “executed” by tabloids are later seen alive.

Why is China the only country reading the room?

Yeah I was gonna say, swag bag Machato ripped the mask away. This shit is just a prize we give to the empire’s dogs.

This Canadian chauvinism is really weird.

The internet is international. If you don’t want to talk to non-Canadians, go outside and talk to your neighbors. The internet is not for you because most people on most websites aren’t Canadian.

>gets compliments

“Am I being bullied?”

We’ll see what the court says, because my intuition is that an LLM making an offer is categorically different from a human doing it. No one was scammed, this would be more like your own poorly designed website giving you the option to get 80% off if someone clicks the right combination of settings.

The recent bloodbaths at the polls are happening without voter intimidation, hence, they’re going to start employing it.

Why do you think Tulsi Gabbard just raided Georgia? They want a list of the people they need to intimidate.

I think there’s reason to believe that voter intimidation works; that’s how Reconstruction was defeated and how the white minority dominated minority-majority districts for nearly a century. White terrorism was basically the norm through most of US history.

The regime is acting like popularity is irrelevant, and that only approval from their base matters. I think that tells us their plans.

Yeah he’ll send out a check and say it’s paid for by the tariffs or something.

I also think sending ICE to intimidate voters is likely. Might even be seizing voter registration data to make a list of enemies that need to be harassed and intimidated into not voting.

I think they may have signaled to Trump that they were going to rule this way and that’s why the regime is talking about federalizing elections in blue states.

It’s dangerous to Monsanto’s bottom line, because they rely on having a monopoly on their seeds. I’d say farmers breaking patent law is a revolutionary act! But, at least for now, the government doesn’t care if you save heirloom seeds or your own cultivars.

For now.

Then the government will try to make worms and plants illegal.

This isn’t a sign that the technology is advancing, it’s actually a sign of its weakness.

Their bots can’t understand instructions. That’s it. They’re not disobeying because they don’t even know what’s going on.

Okay, pareidolia is also a form of apophenia. You can “see” a face in a pile of rocks and be creeped out by it while still understanding that the pile of rocks is not actually a face. Belief doesn’t have to override contact with reality, it merely needs to be present.

A gambler feeling lucky might still understand that luck isn’t real, but the feeling persists.

Not authoritarianism: being the prison capital of the world, spying on everyone everywhere, police killing 1000+ a year, etc etc

That’s intentional, they’re making you feel insecure so you work harder.

I think it has gained new meaning beyond being a symptom for schizophrenia, such as the tendency for gamblers to believe they’re on a lucky streak or other illusions that trick the brain into seeing patterns that aren’t there.

Or the wikipedia article is wrong.

There are degrees of sickness, right? An asshole business owner who feels entitled to run red lights and speed because they’re white and have a nice car and know the police chief’s son probably doesn’t need life imprisonment or execution.

I mean, I wouldn’t really be too upset if they were, but it just seems wasteful.

On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.

I think apophenia describes the feeling of a pattern too, even if you intellectually understand that there isn’t a pattern.

The “monster” framing precludes the idea that they even can be rehabilitated. Monsters don’t get healing, they just need to be put away or put down. That’s still an improvement over letting them run rampant, but it’s a waste.