Leo Gura

Bingo. It's empty theatre. But at least it serves the function of publically shaming these perverts for the historical record. Better to have their lies on camera than not. Without that, future generations will not believe these people were real.

And then asshole Trump came along? Okay, so what? Why let such a creature influence you so much? Soon he will die of old age and the world will go on. Mankind has survived much worse. Keep things in historical context.

Yes, it is wrong. That is not how reality works. But it is too soon from your trauma to start correcting your worldview. At this time you need a good 3-6 months for your mind to settle and grieve. Then we can discuss how to improve your understanding of mankind and reality. For now just take it easy, comfort yourself, give yourself space and time, and try not to invent grand narratives about mankind from your current state. You are in a state of profound loss, hurt, and trauma so your sense-making from that state will be distorted and biased. That is okay, but try not to feed it too much or you will develop a toxic ideology which will be hard to dislodge in the future. Very horrific things can and must happen in life. Making sense of why they happen is very serious work which requires coming from an unemotional state. Wishing you peace.

His whole career is a grift. He gets huge money from the whole anti-vax shtick. He sells a book accusing Bill Gates and Fauci of purposely killing kids. This is how he make his living. He created this alt-health niche for himself and makes millions from it and uses it to get sex and feel powerful.

That's why we have arms races. This is the arms race problem writ large. No party can trust the other parties to disarm. Which is why we can't have nice things.

Are you saying you're blackpilled due to Trump? Certainly it is a disgusting turn of events, but the world must go on. You don't need any spiritual positivity. What you need is to appreciate how real life is. Life is real in that politics is brutal and serious, not merely a spiritual New Age "the world is on the brink of awakening" fantasy. The bitterness of society and politics is what makes life serious and worth living. I do not want to live in a New Age positive fantasy, and neither should you. It is good to be bummed out by Trump's victory for a few months. But then you use that grow yourself even higher!

This situation is still very fresh in your mind. Give yourself time.

The US certainly does not want multi-polarity. It is doing everything possible to undermine it at a geopolitical level. The entire purpose of US foreign policy is to profit from hegemony.

This is where your worldview is flawed. Anarchy is an arms race to the top. There is no other possibility. Global anarchy forces someone to dominate and establish supremacy. If this was not the case, no government would be necessary at all. So your worldview has this fundamental flaw. If your view was correct, China would not need monopoly of power over its people and neither would Putin. Your view is well intentioned but naive in typical leftist fashion and as mistaken as communism was in the last century. You underestimate man's nature. Man is worse than you know. China and Putin are worse than you know. And they would try to dominate the world if given the chance. There is nothing special about the American empire that makes it uniquely evil. That same evil exists in every nation that has a monopoly of power over its people. Because that is the only solution to anarchy. Contemplate deeply what I said here. This is very important. This is very important for your political development.

It was very necessary.

RFK fans live in a parallel universe, alongside their savior.

I'm sorry that happened to you. So sad. Made me cry for you and your dog. But humans are gonna be here regardless and very few humans are that bad. You gotta find the good ones. There are good ones like your dog was. Be careful not to over-generalize. The humans who hurt your dog were bad. That doesn't transfer to all humans. Just like there are some bad dogs, but that doesn't transfer to your dog. Keep in mind how "evil" animals are. A wolf has no problem ripping a rabbit apart. Life is a very difficult and hurtful thing. You have deep trauma from losing your dog. It will take time and some therapy to heal. Hang in there. Sorry for your loss.

I agree. It will be interesting to see how far the Chinese can push their censorship one party state.

@Eskilon Seems to me that even the cost of super-intelligent AI should drive towards pennies over time. I don't see why AI should be expensive. Running human brains is not expensive.

This seems like an unhealthy overcorrection. You definitely can have healthy honest loving friends. You don't need 50 of them, just 1-3 would enough. Just be more selective. Deciding to never again have friends at 24 is extremely limiting. Maybe if you were 60 that would be okay.

Well, yeah, all the problems boil down to selfishness and self-absorption. Multipolar world sounds good in theory but in practice it leads to anarchy, with corrupt actors like Putin thinking he is on par with the West. The West was right that communism was a failed worldview not on par with the West. And the same will happen again with Putin's kleptocracy. It will not outcompete the West. China is a more complicated matter.

The question arises, will there be a market for AI which is not top of the line? For example, if OpenAI makes a super-intelligent AI that is costly, will using something like DeepSeek still make any sense? Is there a market for Walmart AI? If super-intelligence exists, why use anything lower since you will get inferior results?

It's very hard to say how AI will play out. Generally speaking human evolution seems to be moving towards higher consciousness. But that's very long-term. In the short-term lots of weirdness will happen.

You are genetically superior to a dwarf. Not morally superior, just your functional capacities are higher. Ironically, as you complain about woke Europeans who cannot see that men need to fight in Ukraine, you are missing that dwarfs cannot win a war against Russians either, because they are physically limited. Physical strength is necessary to win in combat. But there is also mental strength. A mentally disabled general cannot win a war. This is the reality of life. Be careful not to jump to conclusions about what ought to be done about this. I am merely stating how reality works, not making any policy decisions or moral-worth claims. No matter how much you dislike it, society IS composed of a bell-curve of weaker and stronger individuals across hundreds of dimensions, and these differences are not minor, they are massive. The challenge of organizing society is to figure out how to handle these differences in a good way without abusing anyone.

Remember what corporations are. They are factions of citizens. These factions are designed to serve their own interest at the expense of the larger collective. So what we have is a mosaic of small factions all trying to pull the blanket to their side of the bed while everyone else sleeps naked in the cold. And unless you are a large corporation you don't have enough pull to keep yourself warm. So you are forced to join one of the factions to keep yourself warm or launch your own. So it's a race to the bottom.

I also love this one:

That's easy! Microraptor

America has one of the best geographies possible. America is life on easy mode. Africa is Dark Souls.

It won't happen in our lifetime.

Zero, unless Dems have some miracle mid-term election victory.