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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Instead of running a red light or hitting a pole self-driving cars drive full speed under a trailer and decapitate everybody, or someone falls against the car and it detects an accident and decides to pull over and slooowly runs over the person and drags them down the street ignoring all the screaming. The kind of accidents society is desensitized to are the ones they taught the car how to avoid, the fucked up shit where somebody gets hydraulically pressed to death in slow motion while 15 people film it on their phones is what Waymo is going to do.








  • Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? - John Adams

    The US government is built around trying to put off dealing with the impossibility of a “democracy” swarming with slaves and incredibly rich aristocrats, so it needs unelected people whose job is to say no when people try to vote against the aristocrats. There might be liberals who don’t like the racial profiling, but that’s the price they pay to have a secretive council of lords who make it illegal for you to vote to make landlords illegal.



  • Yes but not because of generated videos. Cop just shoots you and the nearest bystander says “grok what happened” and their camera glasses say “What an intelligent question!!! It looks like someone was just nonviolently apprehended for a serious crime!!! You’re so pretty!!!” Then they ask grok if they can cross the street now and get hit by a truck.






  • digging through all the uncited quotations to get to Hitler’s Rival which is citing Der Weg in die Katastrophe, but that doesn’t say February it says May 31, what Thalmann said was

    “Schließlich gab es in bet letzten Zeit an der Peripherie der Partei besonders in be- stimmten Schichten der Erwerbslosen eine solche Auffassung, Hitler müsse erst an die Macht, dann würden die Voraussetzungen zur revolutionären Krise beschleunigt heranreifen. Aber, Ge- nossen, man darf nicht spielen mit dem offenen Faschismus. Wir müssen unsere ganze revolutionäre Kraft einsetzen, um bie offene Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten durch unsere Antifaschi- stische Aktion zu verhindern.”

    “After all, there has recently been a perception on the periphery of the party, especially among certain sections of the unemployed, that Hitler must first come to power, then the conditions for a revolutionary crisis would ripen more quickly. But, comrades, we must not play with open fascism. We must use all our revolutionary strength to prevent the National Socialists from openly seizing power through our Anti-Fascist Action.”


  • What happened here is Del Monte was sold in a leveraged buyout to the son of Ferdinand Marcos’s money launderer. When the dictatorship collapsed the guy who was in charge of the shell companies and Swiss bank accounts and keeping track of the shrink wrapped pallets of $100s buried in the jungle just kept it all, and became a private equity fund. (typical private equity origin story)

    He bought Del Monte with debt and then transferred all the debt to Del Monte once he owned it, then his creditors who are in on it resold the debt to retail investors and pension funds as AAA recession-proof revenue from a 100 year old canned food company, and now he has Del Monte declare bankruptcy to fuck them.