Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like they’re TRYING to embarrass our entire nation from every single department possible. 10 years ago this would’ve amused me more than anything, even if only slightly. But now? Everyday is just another brand new stupid example of our own incompetence with somewhere around a 50/50 split between embarrassing and infuriating. I’ve never been a gung-ho, America-first, capital-P “Patriot”, but I never would’ve even conceived that we would sink so low so quickly; every new rock-bottom simply becomes a new surface-layer to be strip-mined of any remaining shred of dignity, empathy, and humanity

Danke

I know the picture of Helen is from Nolan’s Odyssey, but What’s the pic of Andromeda from?

Other people in this thread have already said it better than I could but in brief: Yes

I agree with the sentiment, and I really don’t want to be an asshole here… but are you SURE you didn’t have time to do a second take on that sign? Don’t get me wrong, I’m bad at spacing out big letters too, it usually takes me a couple tries to get it right, but this doesn’t look like they even made an attempt. It honestly looks like they wrote “No data centers” but then went back to try to squeeze in “AI”. And like… it probably didn’t take that long to make it in the first place, were they just completely out of paper and this was their one chance? Even more frustrating though, there were almost certainly dozens more (better) signs that the article could’ve used but THAT one, which was clearly a mistake, was the one they went with?

Others have said it better than I ever could, but in my own words, even IF every person who bought these was the epitome of the highest moral and ethical standards, I would still be uncomfortable due to the way-too-high possibility of them being ‘hacked’ remotely which would still have the potential to destroy lives

You know what, good sleuthing, I’ll upvote that. But I’m willing to give that one a little more leeway because it was submitted to “Political Memes” whereas this place is supposed to be just memes. Plus what you posted isn’t really saying anything, it’s… well it’s just a shitty quote from a shitty former man

Okay but… how is this a meme?

IT WAS STILL HERE??? I thought that monstrosity was put down back when Trump and Musk had their little lover’s quarrel

“Peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals” are not the air-tight source you seem to think they are. A lot of them have become echo chambers that largely seek to only acquire more citations for the sake of having more citations. I’m not saying they all deserve to be thrown in the trash or anything, but likewise I’m also not going to blindly believe whatever they’re/you’re telling me just because they’ve got “Journal” on the front cover. Here, check out this blog post, it goes into some of the history of Academic Journals and how they’ve fallen from grace over the last several decades. Oh also they’re quickly becoming inundated with AI, both in terms of submissions and even the review process itself, and personally I’m not going to let an AI tell me if AI is good or bad

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-citations-ruined-science

Press X to Doubt

Mrs Clinton, it appears the terrorists have snuck a snuke up your snizz

The Irish have never liked Cromwell, he led an invasion of the island that led to the deaths of anywhere from 15-25% of the island’s population:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland

So true, so true. Wasn’t that the plot for L.A. Confidential?

Not inherently, no. But in practice, absolutely. Especially when you consider that people who have been in power for a long time almost certainly have better/deeper connections/corruptions than someone who just got elected into their first term

My thoughts exactly. Almost a complete reversal of “One Battle After Another”; I’m convinced the director for that one just wanted to make everyone look as evil/incompetent/misguided as possible in some kind of botched ‘both sides bad’ argument

This is even funnier as someone who watched the entire film because >!they weren’t actually corrupt, they were just trying to find the person on their team who was!<

Oh she’s awful, Alicia x Death is far superior /s

All I remember from that movie (other than the premise) is when the dude starts singing Janey’s Got a Gun and she gets tackled by campus security or something

Damn. I missed it this year