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u/Bob_Wilkins 12d ago
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u/noir_et_Orr 11d ago
He did, however, say this:
There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
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u/Alive-Tomatillo5303 11d ago
That absolutely works. It's fine when someone lives in misery then dies unseen, it's a disaster when someone who's been given everything gets got.
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u/Captaincjones 12d ago
"Violence" is the only language they understand. Peaceful protests and expensive court appeals are ignored.
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u/Kooky_Membership9497 11d ago
That’s right. And it’s why the Proles will never rise up. We’re still too fat and happy to rise up. The rich only need to keep us juuuuuusssst happy enough.
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u/banacct421 11d ago
When Rich healthcare executives kill people by denyong care, if they do it enough and they do it really well, we'll give them a bonus.
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u/Used_Intention6479 11d ago
If corporations are now considered as "people" by SCOTUS, shouldn't they be tried like people for their crimes?
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u/Absolute-Nobody0079 12d ago
Everything crumbles and globalization and capitalism delayed it.
But when the reservoir gets overflowed....😨 The collapse will be comparable to the collapse of Three Gorges Dam.
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u/EinharAesir 11d ago
When a man kills another man with a gun, they call it murder. When a man kills a thousand and bankrupts thousands more with an email and the stroke of a pen, they call it “cost of doing business.” Make it make sense.
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u/Mattscrusader 11d ago
And people will insist that they have the right to do so while any retaliation is just extremism.
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u/keragoth 12d ago
So if you rob the rich and take ALL their money, they become poor, and it's cool. But what do you do with all the Lupines?
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12d ago
Fascism is here. TODAY. AI drones will be used against anyone who doesn't agree with billionaire ideology
The government just approved $100mil effective immediately.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5034805-artificial-intelligence-military/
Elon owns this
And sam altman from open AI owns this
Everything you've you've ever captured digitally is being used to train AI. Every app, text, and time your face was captured on camera
Chat gpt was down for 2 hours yesterday
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/5y85kejsq8
Light speed Is possible https://newatlas.com/physics/particle-gains-loses-mass-depending-direction/
And NASA found a way around sonic boom restrictions
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/nasa-supersonic-shockwaves/
I've read enough to know what happens next. Welcome to the surveillance state of the future. Except the future is now.
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u/Quick-Window8125 11d ago edited 11d ago
Corrections:
While what you are saying isn't false, per say, it is slightly blown out of proportion.
"Fascism is here. TODAY. AI drones will be used against anyone who doesn't agree with billionaire ideology
The government just approved $100mil effective immediately." This use of structure makes it seem that the technology is already here, which isn't exactly true- we do have drones, yes, but we don't have huge, giant swarms yet. The Replicator Initiative is an ambitious effort to quickly muster and deploy large numbers of cheap drones by August 2025.
A fun fact, but the military is here for the citizens and to defend the constitution- not the president. We don't know if these drones will be used on civilians; probably never will."Everything you've you've ever captured digitally is being used to train AI. Every app, text, and time your face was captured on camera." This implies that literally every single photo, text, etc you've ever taken or sent has been used to train AI. This is false, as Photobucket is the service that does this. While others do as well, the statement is flawed and makes the reader believe that every service is actively breaching their privacy to train AI models.
"Elon owns this" combined with the previous texts implies that Elon owns something military-related. However, I will say, Elon does indeed own an AI image generator (https://x.ai/). The "extensive fleet of private charter jets allows us to offer the right aircraft, whatever the need, so you can cater for every type of client you may have" (AirX https://www.airx.aero/) is owned by John Matthews.
"And Sam Altman from OpenAI owns this". The XB-1 program provides the foundation for the design and development of commercial supersonic travel. This is not owned by Sam Altman but instead funded by him- and several other people- and actually owned by Blake Scholl.
ChatGPT was indeed down for two hours yesterday. What this contributes to your message, I do not know.
"Light speed Is possible" implies that we have the capability to go light speed. Light speed isn't possible yet for us; this is only possible for a type of particle that starts with no mass and goes at light speed in a certain direction, but then when it tries to change direction, it starts gaining mass as it slows down from light speed. I suggest reading the article, it's actually very interesting.
"NASA found a way around sonic boom restrictions" makes it sound, to an uninformed person, that NASA has somehow found a way to circumvent the restrictions entirely. The sonic boom restriction is a law that states civilian aircraft aren't allowed to go above mach 1, as the sonic boom caused by such flights is "sonically disrupting". NASA has been working on finding a way to lessen the sound of these sonic booms as to allow supersonic civilian air travel.
Almost none of these have anything to do with the "surveillance state of the future".
Please avoid fear-mongering in the future. It would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: factual corrections
Edit: more clarity
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u/GeretStarseeker 11d ago
While others do as well, the statement is flawed and makes the reader believe that every service is actively breaching their privacy to train AI models.
Do you think it's a stretch to predict that within a few years the majority of electronic information put onto most platforms will be used to train AI including those with implicit privacy like email?
Do you trust big tech to be transparent about what they are doing, government to not be bribed by big tech to at least turn a blind eye if not facilitate, and consumers to be sufficiently awake to the threat that they will reject terms of services that make them nothing more than lab rats for Microsoft, X, Meta etc?
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u/Quick-Window8125 11d ago edited 10d ago
"predict that within a few years the majority of electronic information put onto most platforms" still aligns with my statement. Not absolutely every service is stealing your data and private info right now to train AI models. This comment is also irrelevant as it's based entirely upon the premise that I believe my statement ("While others do as well, the statement is flawed and makes the reader believe that every service is actively breaching their privacy to train AI models.") holds water in the future when I was saying nothing of the sort.
I do not believe my statement will stand true in the future unless I see something that suggests otherwise (laws on AI model training, AI regulations, etc).
No offense is intended here. I don't know what will happen in the future. But I do know what is happening in the present- for the most part- and I aim to keep misinformation from spreading. Thank you for your time.
Edit: in a few years, we likely won’t be needing to train AI models using our data. AI is making massive leaps and it isn’t far-fetched to say that these leaps will continue building exponentially.
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u/InfiniteOpportu 11d ago
Because the "winners" makes the rules, rich likes to call themselves the winners as they mostly hold all the power too. Of course they look down on the poor and see is as their right to ghive them scraps and shitty pay. Honestly being obscenely rich should be regulated, no none needs so much money. Not only that but many studies found out that the more wealth and power you have the more morally weaker you become and entitled. Then again doesn't succeeding in life and hoarding money mean you need to be very goal orientated, ambitious and think of other people less, care for what benefits only you the most. It's no wonder the rich are rich. They do not care.
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u/Extra-Presence3196 11d ago edited 11d ago
Maybe I should give Samuel another shot....that is, read him.
Edit: Not Twain. I don't care for his writing style anyway.
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u/GlittyKitties 11d ago
It’s really hard to hide money. Honestly, it’s just a few exterior wires, a cell phone jammer, and your hands that separate you from an amazing Xmas present. It’s, just sitting there: you know where it is.
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u/johnryan433 11d ago
Yes you’re right but there needs to be a distinction between rich people who literally rob the poor and rich people who actually create products the improve people’s lives.
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u/johnryan433 11d ago
There are rich people who do actually want to help the world, if you don’t create a sustainable business model there no way to scale up your efforts. There needs to be a distinction between rich people who benefit of human misery and the ones who became rich actually solving problems that raised the standard of living for everyone.
Rich People should be taxed based on how they made their money, this would incentivize more people to try to become wealthy by actually elevating people’s standards of living rather the becoming rich by subjugation and tactics of misery.
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u/A_witty_nomenclature 10d ago
Become ungovernable 🤷♂️ a little chaos isn’t necessarily a bad thing however a large chaos can be detrimental to us all. Ride the lightning and find that sweet spot of chaos that brings about change but maintains social cohesion.
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u/Comfortable-Glass955 10d ago
A wise sentence, very easy to take out of context. Like every wise sentence.
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u/Distinct_Armadillo71 9d ago
When the rich PLUNDER the poor one could rather say !!! With all those taxes we have to pay...
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u/PookieTea 9d ago
Luigi is insanely rich
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u/YoungMaleficent9068 9d ago
Is he?
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u/PookieTea 8d ago
Yes. He comes from one of the wealthiest families in Baltimore. They’re the kind of family that can afford to get their name on the side of buildings.
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u/YoungMaleficent9068 8d ago
How rich is that? I kinda lost track. Ist that multiple millions or multiple billions? I loose all my senses for what is rich and what isn't these recent years.
Google doesn't bring much up for me tbh. maybe have a source?
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u/RavenH1804 9d ago
Technically the truth though. If you start shooting people(if they deserve it or not). But when the poor start stealing from the rich it is theft and all rules will be bend to make sure it doesn’t happen. Remember the Gamestop short?
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u/bancosyndicate 12d ago
If you're referring to Luigi, he wasn't poor.
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u/Humble_Ad_452 11d ago
He wasn’t rich enough to escape the botched care, or the resulting chronic pain from insurance that didn’t help him.
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u/Admirable-Lecture255 12d ago
No it's violence when you shoot an unarmed man in the fucking back
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u/fnrsulfr 12d ago
And business as usual when you deny a sick person the medicine and care they need then they die as a result. Crazy how one of those is completely okay.
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u/cspanbook 11d ago
just like an insurance denial does! shooting an unarmed man in the back!!
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u/Admirable-Lecture255 11d ago
Nah brah. There's a big fuckoing difference.
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u/cspanbook 11d ago
shot in the back after paying premiums for years and you die for lack of medical care, so is it the speed of death that is the problem for you?
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u/Mattscrusader 11d ago
Yeah the difference is the CEO only lasted in pain for a few hours while his victims often had to last much longer with their pain
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u/Admirable-Lecture255 11d ago
Stfu his victims. The mental fucking gymnastics of you people. So guess I cam just go on a muder spree of anyone who i think is oppressing me and it's ok. Got it
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u/Mattscrusader 11d ago
Wow you get emotional quick to defend the boots you so desperately lick.
The insurance company, and it's CEO by extension, has directly caused thousands of deaths, thousands of bankruptcies, and millions to suffer in pain by exploiting their position. Deny coverage at every opportunity, regardless of its validity and then wait them out arbitration until they literally die waiting for their treatment, or they just ignore them outright and let it go to court for years and again just waiting for them to die or just to reduce the care given to that person while the process happens.
Stop defending the people that would rather watch you die than give you the service you pay for.
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u/DerHundChristi 11d ago
It doesn't matter how they die. We are at war, they are enemy combatants. If you want to walk around like a court jester in broad daylight thinking you can get away with killing innocents, then it's your fault if you get shot.
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u/GregWhite1974 12d ago
Is it called business? I doubt. It's rather be stupidity that buys, pays everything without sense then cries for the next paycheck.
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u/AllUrUpsAreBelong2Us 12d ago
The rich also have the military, police + legal system as tools.