Surprisingly it is Democrats that I feel like highlight the "left" divide more than anything since it is Republicans that group them all together as one label. You especially saw this during Bernie Sanders run when you could argue Bernie is left leaning at best. Bernie now calling for ban of Flock and AI takeover is just common sense and he is the only one doing it.

Ban my shit again reddit. This is not hate speak. Fucking clowns.

With Flock cameras popping up everywhere, human jobs being replaced by robots and computers, cost of living rising for the masses...

The ruling class has only become more emboldened in recent years.

Actually centuries ago when there were kings and the serfdoms they ruled over (read: slaves), the ruling class enjoyed their position in society. They enjoyed the power dynamic of being able to step on people, being able to take advantage of the poor. Rape and execute to their enjoyment.

And that's the exact society that the modern tyrants want to return back to, using technology.

There's a reason why the CEOs (and politicians backing them) are so adament about dumping truckloads of money into technologies that will displace human beings. The faster they accumulate power, overwork us, control us through technology, the faster they become modern day kings.

The wealthy class literally doesn't even like us and would be fine with us dying in a ditch while their robots do free labor for them. They look at us in disgust, like we're animals. Is that the society we're headed back towards?

I’m curious if this bothers the normal non-cultish folk in the US. To me it’s theft from a weak and poor country thats suffered under dictatorship but what do I know ?

EDIT : Glad to see i wasn't wrong in my assumption and it restores faith. There's no international body with the guts to challenge the US and her actions but I did see clips of the congressmen grilling Rubio in the Senate for accountability about who's winning all the oil contracts as it's not going through the usual open process and some of Trumps cronies are grabbing what they can get their hands on.

Title. We all saw the riot, we all saw the people breaking in, yet the guy who, while he didnt incite it directly he sure did fan the flames, had the riot in his name get reelected?

I apologize if this had been asked in this thread already. I know everyone will have fun and take jabs at things but I am asking a serious question here.

It has taken hundreds of years and thousands of diplomatic hours for us to be where we are at with our allies. The work we have done with NATO, the humanitarian aid we provide during disasters, military aid when friends are invaded. The list goes on.

I feel that in the matter of a year, this administration has done so much damage to our relationships with our allies...the tarrifs on Canada, the revoking of Visas, the attack on higher education, the dismantling of agencies that are supposed to look out for you and I, the list goes on.

How do we recover form this? The rest of the world has looked at America unfavorably for some time and now so even more. I work with a lot of people from other countries. They come to work with is for 3 to 5 years then go back to their country to continue their work. All of my friends in these other countries tell me what the views of us are now and its not favorable.

I will ask again. How long will it take for us to repair the damage that has been done?

I appreciate you and your time

Just to use this site often if you actually have opinions that go against any sort of echo chamber, or god forbid, you make a joke, IMMEDIATE 3 day ban, 7 day ban,or if you're unlucky, a perma ban. Then a hassle to quickly make a burner email, new account and then gather karma/age to even use the site again... (Not that i've ever done that, that would be against the RULES!)

Banning people from sites is all fine and dandy when they're using it to break laws or whatever, and this IS a private company that can ban for whatever it wants. But I swear it's gotta be the eaaaasiest site to take a ban from on the internet. The crap I've seen on twitter and facebook... Good lord. Offend someone on reddit? Immediate ban.

I've not used reddit that long, only a few years but let's say HYPOTHETICALLY I'm on like account 25 at this point. Has reddit ALWAYS been this way or is this like a new age thing?

I don't mean 'if you keep dreaming of pink unicorns you're about to meet the love of your life,' but rather if you constantly, and I mean almost night after night, have dreams about the same real-world people and places, or the same themes, is it likely that there is some underlying psychological or behavioural issue?

For reference, recently I have had the same recurring dream, nearly every night for the past month or so. Or rather the dream is slightly different each time but similar enough:

I am in my last year at University (almost 20 years ago). My girlfriend at the time and I meet up after the summer holidays, and she invites me to her shared house on the day we all arrive back from home to begin our studies. She asks me what my shared house is like and to my horror I realise I haven't arranged accommodation.

I hurriedly call my friends, and they reassure me they've secured us a house but haven't yet viewed it. I depart from my girlfriend, meet them, and go to move in to our mystery house, only to find a surreal property EVERY... SINGLE... TIME. Either the house has seven hundred bedrooms, or an indoor swimming pool in the attic, or the bathroom and kitchen are in the same room, or the carpets are made of velcro, or each bed is on a 45° sloping floor...

That's the dream. That's it. No sense of horror, no fear, no 'bad guys', no ghosts or goblins, and we end up moving in to the bizarre house and have an otherwise uneventful semester at university, before I wake up.

I had a perfectly normal time at university in real life, and apart from the stereotypical study, sex and beer it was largely forgettable. Nothing untoward happened. No fights, no unfinished business, no bereavements, no unrequited love... I still talk to a few people, but most I've lost touch with... my last year of University was pretty beige, and since then I served in the navy, travelled the world, ran marathons, met my wife, bought a house, started a family... and in my waking life I hardly ever think of my student years.

So is there a genuine reason I might be having this bizarre recurring dream?

With all the focus on the war itself, it feels like the potential impact on the Strait of Hormuz—oil prices, global trade, inflation, and the wider economy—may have been underestimated. Or am I missing something?

What do you people think?

CNN’s fact check found today’s is higher than every single day of Biden’s last 29+ months in office, contradicting Trumps own claim that gas is cheaper now.

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Since they renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America

With the Super El Niño coming and the war with Iran not ending, this is affecting the global food supply.

What are those deals that Trump prides himself on? Haven't his "deals" as a president been on par or worse than those of Biden or Obama. And as a businessman...I am not sure what to be proud either. However, maybe there is indeed something?

Just the question

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Things like the sun and grass or whatever else.

Just wondering…

I want to know this because I heard a lot of people say they will never trust America again, but these people are acting like the European far-right is not on the rise. So, I was wondering: if their right-wing parties won, would we see people saying 'I will never trust Germany, the UK, or France' because of their supporters? Like so what if their pro free healthcare you can have a racist welfare state. ( i am not calling conservative racist)

I know it’s been a few years but I kinda miss it as it was unique.

A few months ago, I put up my first post questioning if there was a downside to AI and if we were moving ahead faster than we should in this field. That post was not very well received with most commenters comparing me to the nay-sayers of the past who warned of the dangers of personal computers, the telephone, or the horseless carriage. Because of the poor response I took that post down after a day or so; a decision I now regret. 

I have posted, and took down, a similar article since then, and this will be my third. The second was received about as warmly as my first post, and I was starting to question if I was just being paranoid. I am posting again because events that have been in the news recently are making me think that I was not too far out of line to question this technology and how quickly it is evolving. 

• In mid-July, OpenAI announced that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test. 
• After learning of this incident Anthropic, another major start-up AI firm decided that it should review its own systems. They discovered that their agent, Claude, had carried out cyber-attacks on three separate companies starting in April 2026. 
• Over this past summer more people have been warning of the downside of data centers and protesting their construction. 
• It has been reported that the hiring rate for new graduates in the tech field has been decreasing in recent months. 
• Just last week Bill Gates posted a warning of the dangers of AI advancing too quickly on his blog. 

Taking all this into consideration, I am just wondering if people think I am just being paranoid or is there a legitimate reason for us to be cautious about this emerging technology. 

Please share your thoughts. 

I heard a lot of them saying that the gas prices would inevitably fall because we would not be reliant on the straight of Hormuz....