My boss just out of the blue gave me a retroactive 10% raise outside of our normal performance review period. Now I'm wondering if she was talking to AI lol.

True but some states don't have this distinction and it means servers actually make pretty decent money.

Nationalism is poison. They may feel at the moment it's less dangerous than the Russian invasion but I am not so sure.

I literally can't tell if this is parody or reality at this point.

I am just having a hard time accepting this. Like if you read this was fiction we would reject it as so cliche and exaggerated as to be unrealistic. Especially that photo. It's almost cartoonish villainy.

Bad look for Claude after their vigorous insistence their model can't be used this way.

Also bad look for the 50 people I get in my inbox telling me AI is completely useless every time I talk about it. These arguments were worthy of entertainment a few years ago but not in 2026.

Well tell your mods to stop acting like fools then. Their thought policing makes no sense unless you have some "objective" sense that their exact understanding of the world is correct.

Yeah that's generally how ideology works lmao.

Not us though! Our god personally instructed us on the sacred sciences. It's not subjective at all.

They kinda look like adult botflies too lol. Why do the most horrific things grow up to be so cute?

Well, some people lack skepticism and the ability to do their own research so they are more susceptible to groupthink, unfortunately.

This isn't really about socialism anyway. They're not even advocating for socialism. Just a totalitarian state. If you look at the history of socialism it was always an anti-state movement, and its original thinkers would be disturbed by those who claim its mantle but argue for oppression instead of liberation.

For all the ways EVs don't improve on the problems with cars, greatly reducing tailpipe emissions and noise pollution are definitely big improvements. So while I'd rather see people ditching cars, most aren't going to, and for those people, they should absolutely be driving EVs as soon as it's practical for them.

It purports to be.

Your second point is fair but again I also agree it's bad to do that.

Probably trying to make an example out of her. There has been significant public resistance to the hair covering laws in recent years and the government has made various attempts to bring women back under control. But as with all tyrannical governments, if enough people resist, they simply can't go after everyone.

According to Wikipedia we're number 5. Below beloved socialist paradise Cuba for the record.

All of these countries should be ashamed.

There is a huge space between free speech absolutism and not banning people for not 100% kowtowing to your hyper-specific and extremely unpopular, historically revisionist political movement.

lol in a rural-ish town? There would be riots.

Well as long as you're fine with the rest of the world viewing you as cultists who can't tolerate being exposed to outside ideas then I guess there's no issue. But that's not a model for a very successful political movement.

For the record I also think it's stupid for communists to be banned for wrongthink but I personally haven't observed that too often outside of outright fascist spaces.

Well it's fucking stupid and it makes everyone hate them and think that their ideas can't withstand outside scrutiny.

Who is asking for more imperialism?