Scam from start to finish

Yeah, the narrowing of the word “algorithm” to only mean “social media recommendation algorithms” is getting on my nerves.

If that seems “smartypants” to you, your intellectual standards are set pretty damn low.

Mixing up cause and effect isn’t some minor goof. It’s the difference between eating bread and eating fire.

Do you commonly interpret criticism as a request for a thorough academic study?

You weren’t asked for anything, and this certainly isn’t the equivalent of book titles and the tools to make them.

It’s more like interrupting a discussion about someone who was just shot dead by police to say, “yeah, it’s called being shot”, then getting all pissy when someone tells you that actually, the broader issue is police brutality in general.

By talking about the effect (enshittification) instead of the cause (capitalism). One could read your initial comment and conclude that the only problem is enshittification, and not even think about capitalism as the cause, since you didn’t mention it.

The hubris and hypocrisy of this statement is confounding.

This is not “extremely well understood”. That is flat out misinformation. Your level of confidence on this is far beyond what any scientist or philosopher would admit.

That’s the physicalist perspective, but there are other perspectives, and the philosophical debate on physicalism vs dualism is far from settled.

Plus, our scientific understanding of consciousness is far from comprehensive. We still have no idea how our experience actually emerges from neurological activity.

I mean… that description quite accurately describes me. I’m a broken person who has become convinced capitalism is a major source of strife in today’s world, and have come to believe in socialism as the answer.

However… that hasn’t led me to champion authoritarian states that repress people. There must be a little something extra thrown in there. My guess would be an unacknowledged desire to replace their oppressors.

This reminds me, I wrote something on the subject once:

When you’re privileged, and never had to fight for anything in life, you probably won’t even recognise it when you see it happen right in front of you. In fact, you might even write it off as baseless antagonism, a thoughtless disruption of peace, and side with the oppressors.

“What do you mean he didn’t pay you? He’s an honourable man! He pays me, every friday, on the dot! You must be lying.”

Even more insidiously, though, is the fact that, even if you do suffer and fight your whole life, you still may not see it as oppression. You may even begin to think it the natural order of things, even begin to value and love the suffering, as a trial that proves your worth in life, internalising the values of your oppressors, until even the thought of a better life becomes not only fantasy, but dangerous sacrilege.

“He didn’t pay you? Of course he didn’t pay you. Welcome to life. Pay? You want a blowjob with that, too? Get real.”

And with this internalisation of your oppressors’ values, this adoption of their mindset, and the unquestioning acceptance of the status quo in its current form, once enough does eventually become enough, and you finally get it into your head that things can change, the inevitable form of that change becomes a mirror image: yourself in the throne of oppressor, cracking the whip not only upon your former master, but also upon your former comrades (now, as ever, seen only as competition) for the simple reason that the throne exists, and must be filled, for why else should it exist, other than to seat a whipcracker?

“There’s no law telling him to pay you, why are you even surprised? You expect him to do it out of the goodness of his heart? Of course not. And when I’m on top, I won’t pay you either.”

sImPLY OPErATiNg A MeAT GRInDER

A meat grinder needs meat, you dunce. Activating the grinder in this metaphor is invading Ukraine. “Throwing people in the grinder” is sending people to stop the grinder.

If a coup needed to happen to stop surrender…

Sounds like they were planning on surrendering, no?

You’re doing absolutely nothing to back up your argument.

What evidence do you have that they’re eager for any kind of censorship?

“No. But, in a snarky tone yes.”

Idk about any need for payment, I just installed it with PIP and started using it right away

What about SimpleGUI?

https://docs.pysimplegui.com/en/latest/

Are you trying to say NASA hires “too many women, LGBTs and brown people”, and that this is holding them back?

Is there something about straight, white cis males that makes them better at rocket science?

Queerbaiting is absolutrly a thing, and worth being annoyed at. If a show constantly hints that two same-sex people are gay for each other, then never actually follows through, that’s annoying.

I don’t understand why, legally speaking, a distinction is made.

You don’t understand why the law distinguishes between a piece of digital art and Photoshop itself? Come on, dude.