No, this was about AI slop. People shouldn’t post AI slop.

There are currently 6 NDP members in the house, and the NDP leader isn’t even one of those six.

If this were anything other than performative, they’d be working with the government on a law.

I really wish the Canadian 2-party duopoly was broken and a third party (ideally the NDP) had a realistic chance of winning elections. But, IMO, performative stuff designed for social media likes isn’t going to convince anybody that the NDP should be in charge of the country.

The slop may happen to mostly be correct this time. Did you actually follow it up and verify it was true before you posted it?

Or did you post a question to Google and copy out the LLM response as if it said something true?

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The human-looking part is probably just a lure, like those deep-sea lantern fish. A human gets close enough to investigate and the insect pounces.

Yes… I know what will make people respect me. It’s getting some MAGA stooge to pretend to be a delivery worker and give me a bag of McDonalds product in the Oval Office, as if that’s a thing that can actually happen.

It’s posts like this that just reinforce the idea that centaurs are freaky creatures.

Why a six-limbed creature? Actual mammals have at most 4 limbs. What does it eat? Is the stomach a horse stomach or a human stomach? Does the human head have to eat 15 kilograms of grass per day, munching it inefficiently with its human teeth? Can it just blend it up and drink vast quantities of smoothies instead? Are the centaur’s front limbs massively strong, unlike a horse, because it has to support a whole secondary torso right at the front of its body? Does the whole body have the same notoriously finnicky immune system and fragility of a horse? Where’s the heart, is it in the human chest or the horse chest? If it is running hard will it be the human chest that’s panting, using those tiny lungs to power an entire body? Or is there just an air tube down through the useless human chest all the way to the horse’s mighty lungs? If the lungs being used are the horse ones, what’s all that room in the human chest being used for?

Imagine a guy crawling along on the ground, except where his neck would be there’s a second torso attached, and it goes upwards so that as the guy crawls the second torso is vertical.

You don’t even have to get into the weight.

Mammals have at most 4 limbs. Centaurs would have 6 limbs, and the mammal brain never evolved to handle that many.

What makes you believe this is real?

“Oh wow, you’re really bad at your job!”

It must be a lot of friends who don’t all know each-other too.

If it’s a bunch of friends on one discord server, surely it’s not too hard to get back on to that same server and say “my account was hacked”. But, if you have dozens of friends spread across many servers, you might not even remember the servers.

So, your best friend in the world. Do you ever see him outside his corner store?

Did it though? EFF says that the number of impressions their content received is why they left:

Those [2018] tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month.

Then

Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.

But, I wonder what the real numbers actually are. Do we think Elon is honestly reporting real numbers to people? And, of the “impressions” that are real, how many of those are actually from bots rather than actual human users?

IMO, one of the biggest tricks Elon has managed to pull with Twitter is to convince celebrities and brands that it’s still a thriving site full of other people, leading to them sticking around because supposedly no other site gets as much traffic.

I think you’re missing the bigger issue. They exclusively used rogers. They had a single point of failure. That single point of failure happened to be Rogers, but it would eventually have caused a problem if their ISP had been a different one. This was a national card processor serving 30+ million people.

On Iran specifically:

• When you surround an enemy, leave an outlet free. Realize they have control over that outlet, and you really need shit to pass through there too. Remove sanctions on them because that outlet being closed really fucks with your oil prices and holy fuck are people mad about that and if your enemy can sell their oil prices will come down slightly. Shit, that only gives them more profits, and it helps one of your other big geopolitical rivals whose economy depends entirely on oil. Declare victory.
• If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant – wait, that sounds like something a pussy would do, pretend to be strong, no wait, strong and really fucking crazy, then back down and declare victory.
• If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you can make up for it by POSTING THREATS TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN ALL CAPS.
• He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight and tells his golfing buddies ahead of time so they can make their bets on prediction markets.
• Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical; if details of your paedophilia are coming to light, join your least popular ally in the most pointless war and hope Fox News stops talking about Epstein.

And more generally:

• The most clever of States will spend generations building a military alliance containing the richest countries in the world, and will use that to ensure that all conflicts happen on other continents, never endangering their home. They must then throw that away in a few moons by threatening to annex territories belonging to allies but always chickening out.
• If your State is endowed with wealth, use that wealth to slowly shape the world to your liking over many generations. You may push other countries to adopt laws and treaties that are preferential to your interests. Be sure to squander that in under a year because you don’t understand what a tariff is.
• All warfare is based on deception. Hence, one should lie constantly, about fucking everything. It matters not how obvious your lies are, people donning hats of red will believe and repeat those lies.
• Communication is the key to warfare, so guard well your lines of communication. If you can ensure that the communication of your allies and enemies passes through your territory, use that to your advantage, but draw no attention. Then, one day, just fucking throw that whole advantage away because of some shit you saw on teevee.

A Canadian-only solution isn’t really all that useful. Part of what makes Visa and Mastercard useful is that they work around the world. This also means that they have datacenters around the world that are built in a redundant way so that even if one is destroyed by terrorism or a natural disaster, the remainder will take over the load. Meanwhile Interac failed in 2022 because their only service provider was Rogers, which went down.

I don’t know why there are no Interac credit cards. Visa doesn’t issue credit, it’s just the payment processor attached to the bank’s credit card. It seems like theoretically it should be possible to have a credit card with multiple payment processors attached. I seem to remember there used to be cards that had Cirrus, Plus and maybe also Maestro on them. You could just have a credit card with a priority list of processors attached. Try interac first, if that’s not supported fall back to visa.

It’s probably not done that way because the big companies are willing to spend money to prevent it. I would bet that Visa and Mastercard require that any card where they’re a payment processor is one where they’re the exclusive payment processor. Canada could probably pass a law that exclusive cards weren’t legal. But, Visa and Mastercard would probably use their billions to lobby to prevent a law like that from passing.

This is good for bitcoin.

Not just better, but sounds a lot smarter.

President Camacho was actually a great president. He didn’t seem to be abusing the office for any kind of personal gain. He was an inspiring public speaker. He listened to the voters, he tried to find the smartest person and appoint him so that he’d solve the problems facing the USA, he let the genius try out his solution even though it seemed absurd, and only ordered him to be executed when it only made the situation worse. Also, once the problems were solved, he left office without any complaints.

I watched it again recently, and the thing that really stood out for me was Camacho’s speeches compared to Trump’s. I think if they re-made Idiocracy today, they’d have to make Camacho sound a lot more stupid in those speeches. Trump has lowered the bar so much.