Recently read this guy’s posts here - good stuff on this topic:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-156951112
This most recent article is about LLM’s specifically, but the previous articles deal in more fundamental terms with human agency in the modern tech world. Definitely a good read IMO.
I am not going to entertain your attempt at rationalization.
I’ll just say this: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
My unsolicited advice:
You cannot control the actions of others anymore than you can dictate their behavior. Work on your reactions. That is what you can control and improve - for you.
His televised narcissistic collapse (now in it’s 13th year) has emboldened every Archie Bunker wannabe, vacuous contrarian, all the racist chucklefucks, and miscellaneous shitstains the country has to offer. The rest of the people are sick and tired of having their empathy and compassion mocked and derided, their hopes and dreams dashed, and their future turned into nightmare fuel.
Yes, he was always a privileged asshole devoid of human compassion or understanding, but this is the moment at the WHCD on 4/30/2011 where he broke beyond repair: https://v.redd.it/sk0jqm81r5kd1
My dog often eats raw bones of various animals. Last month he came home with a wild boar skull which has now eaten almost entirely, aside from the teeth and tusks.
Yesterday he caught and ate an entire rabbit. There wasn’t even a single hair left.
These are not things any human I know can do, safely or otherwise.
62 Ford unibody shortbed. Cost me $100. Straight six and three on the tree. Ran like a champ. If you loaded the bed with a lot of weight you could no longer open the doors to get in or out.
I have seen people hang them from string in fruit trees to ward off birds. 😆
techno-fascist