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 So let's recap what the media taught us this week. The man that shot another man in cold blood is a heinous murderer that must be locked up. The man that rode a system that puts healthcare behind a paywall, condemning possibly hundreds of thousands to death, while enriching himself to degrees that would save thousands if properly distributed, is a fine upstanding pillar of society. In capitalism the ends justify the means. If you want to be cruel and evil, you better be successful at it.
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 @selzero@syzito.xyz I want to see the fleet of cop cars in formation behind the kid on a tiny little trike riding down the freeway Their problem with protestors is not that they "disturb the peace". It's that they disturb the violence. 
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@selzero THe one on the left looks like Mason Alexander Park, but as a brunette Adulthood has its pros and cons. On the one hand, there comes a time when you see people bearing grudges against you, even after months of not interacting with them, and you don't feel bad, your core emotional reaction is to feel sorry for them, for suffering in the dungeon in their minds they have built and sentenced themselves to. On the other hand, no one asks you what your favorite dinosaur is anymore. People don't care. It's triceratops you heartless bastards. It all evens out I guess. This is a placebo toot. Studies have shown that toots will still get interaction, even when clearly labeled "placebo toot".
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@selzero wait, is this a $1 placebo toot, or a $10000 placebo toot. I'm told that matters...  @selzero An article about one of my favorite research results: placebos are getting stronger! https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/in-depression-treatment-trials-placebo-effect-is-growing-stronger/ "Where do you see yourself in three years?" "3 years? By that time I'll be dropping poisonous scorpions into rich people's climate change bunker air vents."
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Back in the olden days when I wanted to record a VR video, I had to *make* my own VR camera, with a bunch of Go Pros. So you have a Rolex to tell the time. My watch can also tell the time. Can your Rolex do this?
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Tributes to Metropolis (1927) within Bladerunner (1982) both movies giants of their era, revolutionizing cinema, esthetics, and story telling. #scifi #cyberpunk #movies #moviestodon #oncinema #OCATC #PopcornClassic #FiveBags #AndALittleAndroid ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ค
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   So apparently Google is blocking uBlock from Chrome. I hereby rebrand Google Chrome as "Google Firefox Downloader".
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@selzero @schmidt There is something else Google should worry about. In almost all of Europe (ie Council of Europe areas rather than just European Union areas) Have article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which is the right to privacy. Google could face an UNLIMITED fine if it breaches that. Council of Europe includes countries such as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK who are outside the EU. I sometimes get the impression that the Netflix algorithm has gained sentience and is trying to express itself in a "a have no mouth and I must scream" type trapped hell.
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 @selzero I remember going into a bookstore in Buenos Aires that sells books in English a couple of years ago, and I asked for "anything by Philip K. Dick" and the cashier looked at me like if I had said the word Dick to her. @selzero Well I know of at least one android who does because I've read An Unexpected Attachment by @RubyJones Look. If we developers say we will fix something. WE WILL FIX IT. No need to keep nagging us every 6 months. Geez.
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@selzero oh jesus, it's been so long i honestly thought it was intended behaviour  The Book Wheel was an invention from the 16th century for people that needed multiple tabs open before browsers were invented.
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@selzero
Our capitalistic economic system has been colliding with our constitution for many years, driven by technology and greed. It has made us polarizingly ill.
You have given a vivid description of the symptoms of our condition. Any ideas on treating our ailment without violence?
@selzero Yeah. When people are punished by the system, it's usually because their crime wasn't big enough.
@selzero Murder is always wrong. The victim can be a terrible person (and likely was in this case), but violence isn't the solution.
The U.S. already has too many people who think they can settle any problem, personal or political, with the barrel of a gun, and the death toll from mass shootings (orders of magnitude higher per-capita than other other rich country) tells its own grim story. I think it's irresponsible that some people online (not you) are celebrating and encouraging that.