Ah, doing your best to break the Therac-25’s record, I see.

Toad = chonky

We call these frogs, though…

Story goes that Reagan got freaked out after watching the film and asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff if it’d be that easy to hack into the US military. After a week of looking into it came the answer: “no, the problem is much worse than that”, and fifteen months after having watched it signed the confidential directive “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security”, starting the implementation of cybersecurity measures in the country’s institutions.

No need to reinstate it, the 13th amendment already allows penal slavery.

Just need to redefine who is a criminal, which they’re already doing, by declaring ever widening sectors of the population as criminals and getting away with it.

Do you want to collect less in taxes?

I’m sure they plan to make it up with civil asset forfeiture (i.e., theft).

If the victim has their cash under the table they can steal it more easily than if it’s in the bank. And with a harder to track paper trail. Easier for it to get lost and end up in Trump’s pocket.

No need for the /s. In the Land of the Free the swine can just keep it. Legally.

(Technically it has to be involved in a crime, but ICE are criminals, so anything they do is by definition involved in a crime. And it’s not like technicalities have ever stopped other pig breeds from stealing people’s cash anyway.)

wildlife can contract communicable diseases

And deer in particular are infested with prions.

I don’t care how alluring the animal might be, I don’t want those things in my continent, let alone my genitals.

I’m sure some of those Japanese deer that bow for snacks would be up for it, in exchange for the right treat.

That picture is horrifying, though.

Trump’s puppeteers should fire their taxidermist.

This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors.

More people should honour Punch a Nazi Day.

(In case of doubt, Punch a Nazi Day falls on any day that ends in ‘y’.)

More public money syphoned off to the parasitic corporations and dumber, easier to exploit proles.

Seems like a massive win for capitalism, really.

Until it all blows up on our faces, obviously, but when has capitalism ever cared about anything beyond the next quarter?

Everything starts with good intentions.

No it doesn’t.

When it comes to privacy, politics, and capitalism, almost nothing starts with good intentions.

Most everything starts for the short term benefit of whoever starts it and any investors putting money into it, at the expense of everyone else and ignoring any future negative consequences unless profit can be extracted from them.

It hurting people the starter doesn’t like (even if it will come back to hurt the starter in the long time) is also a very important factor, though secondary to the short term profit one.

Anyone remember RAMdisks?

We know what “AI” can do.

• Create one of the largest and most dangerous economic bubbles in history.
• Be a massive contributor to the climate catastrophe.
• Consume unfathomable amounts of resources like water, destroying the communities that need them.
• Make personal computing unaffordable. (And eventually any form of offline computing; if it’s up to these bastards we’ll end up back with only mainframes and dumb terminals, with them controlling the mainframes).
• Promote mass surveillance and constant erosion of privacy.
• Replace search engines making it impossible to find trustworthy information on the Internet.
• Destroy the open web by drowning it on useless slop.
• Destroy open source by overwhelming the maintainers with unusable slop.
• Destroy the livelihood of artists and programmers using their own stolen works as training data, without providing a useable replacement for the works they would have produced.
• Infect any code they touch with such an amount of untraceable bugs that it becomes unusable and dangerous (see windows updates since they replaced their programmers with copilot, for instance.
• Support the parasitic billionaire class and increase the wealth divide even more.
• Make you look like a monstrous moronic asshole for supporting all that shit.

It maybe being able to save you five minutes of coding in exchange for several hours of debugging (either by you or by whoever is burdened with your horrible slop) is not worth being an active contributor to all that monstrous harm on humanity and the world.

I don’t want my data poisoned, I’d rather just poison the AI bros.

That’s a higher purpose, not a lower one.

Sir, this isn’t a Wendy’s anymore.

Intelligent life arose here

Citation needed.

I mean, dolphins are pretty smart, I suppose…

People, though…? Evidence points to a very definite no.

The fact that we call ourselves “wise” is the first hint that we’re anything but.