Did you think to ask/wonder why it’s exactly 1hr below 35?

I appreciate that he’s trying, but Bernie is so out of his depth when it comes to AI.

but this is a wildy stupid point. As if all these innocent people and their families somehow deserved 9/11 because of the actions of our government.

Wow talk about putting words in someone’s mouth. Yikes.

As in the person who does hookups.

That’s not where the word originates.

The term “hooker” existed long before anyone called sex “hooking up.”

People used “hooking” itself as a verb to describe a woman having sex for money.

I don’t know if I’d call it a “slur,” per se, but it’s definitely derogatory, and has gone out of parlance in favor of more neutral terms like “sex worker.”

Because everyone deserves basic respect.

And yet watch as they do exactly that for the next several decades.

I’m sure the Python loved it when their jokes were explained in excruciatingly boring detail

Great song. Never released on an album either, only as a single (then later on Greatest Hits compilations)

For about five minutes as he slowly shambles his enormous body out of bed

‘you’re not like other people are you?’

I don’t find this one inherently insulting. I’d probably say thanks.

I don’t think that comparison conveys just how bad this is. I’m not talking about their egos (which of course are massive) here.

This is about fundamentally changing the way society is organized back to something that resembles feudalism.

This is not paranoid conspiracy theory stuff, this is the explicit goal of many, by their own admissions (e.g. Curtis Yarvin, Peter Theil, etc)Then there are many more who are “proteges” of these people who maybe hide the “if you elect me I will do everything I can to kill your democracy” slightly better (e.g. JD Vance, Russ Vought, etc).

The latter are able to get elected and/or appointed to powerful positions because the electorate doesn’t know what “feudalism” or “serfdom” actually mean anyway.

Next thing you know, we’re all fucking serfs.

Prob right after Wii came out. No need when Wii could play GC games

Ehhh… Toys R Us used to have little sheets of paper that you had to bring to the register and they’d get you the game.

This was the 1990s.

Right, they aren’t boring by any means, it’s just before they started getting really experimental.

Though they were smoking TONS of weed during Help! and you can def tell that something was different imo. Meeting with Bob Dylan fundamentally changed them.

So where are all the 3D TVs? Where’s the Nintendo Virtual Boy? Betamax? Google Wave? Google+? NFTs?

Oh not transformational enough?

Ok then how long did it take electric vehicles to come back after The fossil fuel industry killed them in like 1920?

Oh here’s a good one: thalidomide. That one went away for good.

How about the hole in the ozone layer?

Sorry, AI is only a foregone conclusion because apparently everyone’s had their consent beautifully manufactured to an extreme degree.

Yeah, lots of new tech that vanished because it sucked, wasn’t profitable, destroyed the environment, etc.

God. Motherfucking. Damnit. All. To. Hell.

Even if you don’t grasp the context of the times, it’s insane to call them “boring” unless they never listened past “A Hard Days Night” or “Help!”

Or it probably would, they just have no plan to stop it unless they get sued and a judge forces them

If anyone needs to be monitored, it’s all of these fucking techno-feudalist freaks.

If you know what feudalism is, and want it back so bad that you’re willing to bankroll it to the tune of billions of dollars, then you need to be monitored. At the very least. A real, functioning democracy would take those types of threats to its existence seriously.

Instead we (e.g. any alleged form of government safe guard meant to protect us from devolving back into such barbaric forms of society like feudalism) just sit back and say “huh, I wonder if they’ll be able to completely destroy our government this time. Oh well, guess we’ll find out”. Or even worse, now that these psychopaths control the levers of government in the US, they are actually aiding it. They think they want feudalism back because they’re just temporarily embarrassed feudal lords.

Edit:

These people literally want to make us back into serfs. And we’ll answer to a fucking LLM. That will be the only interface between us and the Lords. You know that Amazon chatbot? That’s your boss now… Err no that’s not right. The word “boss,” is not sufficient to describe the relationship. That chat bot owns you now. Well, the person who owns the server it’s running on owns you, but why would they ever choose to interact with dirty serfs when AI can do it? If it’s important, they’ll relay it to them. They won’t even be aware of your medical complaints, let alone need to hear them, let alone need to address the working conditions that created them.

This shit is not a joke and it is very much not funny. It’s genuinely insane that we are allowing this to happen.

Because $$