The impulse to follow big strong loud dangerous people is baked into the our tribal psyche since before we were homo sapiens

The bandits never had to come from outside, they were already the tribal ruling class

The idea of ‘a peaceful village of farmers just growing stuff’ is a very bad shorthand for how complex the tapestry of human culture has been

The first agriculture workers were likely captured slaves

So it’s more accurate to say: A bunch of bandits kidnapped other people and forced them to tend land, leaving the bandits the time and resources to get better at kidnapping, over time the slaves started becoming ambivalent and eventually respecting and in some cases worshiping the bandits that had kidnapped their grandparents, after enough generations are born under the yoke of servitude, it becomes just daily life

Still unemployed, still suffering from EDS

Had a really bad episode today at a convenience store where the cashier overcharged me for a 12 pack of hard seltzer, and pretended not to speak english, I wanted to slam his head into the counter again and again and again. It was so fucking obvious, 12 packs are 20 cases are 40, I DID NOT HAVE A FUCKING CASE

So I left the 12 pack on the counter and walked out and now I’m sober and even agrier.

WHY the FUCK do people constantly seek to take advantage of everyone?! Why DO I FUCKING HAVE TO BE ON MY GUARD EVERY GODDAMN SECOND I AM OUTSIDE

My therapist wonders why I’m an agoraphobe, and it’s shit like this.

Fuck people, all of them

I’m guessing that’s their phrase for just not masking

IT work and especially programming are very work-from-home friendly, not necessarily self-employed tho unless you can afford the startup.

Resumes are easy, there are a ton of youtube tutorials, just pick a recent one as standards change every year

Depends on the user, I used DungeonAI back in the day to get over losing a family member and it was fine

On the other hand, my neighbor is convinced that some Character AI loves him sincerely and that he birthed the first ever conscious AI. He barely talks to his wife of 20 years anymore

Tell me you’ve never been to therapy without saying you’ve never been to therapy

Not completely spite, there’s a good chunk of fear there too

Rich people whisper in their private circles about all the times in the past the oppressed fight back, and spend a good chunk of their unethical wealth to prevent the common people from organizing

It’s worked so well that they’ve turned us against each other over the basic right to have a livable wage.

Yeah but that’s nothing new, companies have paid millions in research to make the perfect telephony menu tree to force people to hang up or get misdirected instead of actually talking to a person. This is a legit thing that several companies offer services over

You don’t need AI for that

There is no public forum not infested with the alt-right, so no, there is no digital home for sane people on the internet anymore

great to hear, I hope more local services follow that pattern bc in my area we are severely underserved

lol. iamverysmart.

Literally no one who has ever posted that kind of reply has anything useful to contribute in over 12 years of that sub existing

I’m pretty sure from your post history that you wouldn’t bother to do anything even if you could.

What interest do you have in so eagerly denying the obvious? I’m pretty sure if I check your post history I’ll find some interesting things

The idea of ‘superior genes’ is a myth that flows out of noble class animal breeding

It was folded into ‘divine right’ as one of the many stupid reasons they justified their power and luxury

The rich bred dogs and horses and saw inheritable traits and then just applied that to people with zero actual understanding of biology and genetics.

Hypothetically those displaced talents can go on to create something better but they won’t because everything is profit motivated today

That’s why there are 3 tiers of support

I guarantee they aren’t replacing tier 3 yet, meaning that problems the AI can’t solve will theoretically see a human

Yes but they stop at that instead of seeing them as the cultural mine canary they are, and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it

And you are proof yourself not realizing that the teenage boys during Gamergate are about to hit their 30s soon and they didn’t stop being easily swayed misogynistic tools

And their indoctrinating a whole new generation through tate and rogan and the like

While everyone seems to just tut tut and say 'wow teen bois amirite

You really have no fucking clue how bad or deep this problem is and it’s so well known that Chinese aristocrats wrote about it a thousand years ago, they called it ‘The Bare Brances problem’, and it resulted in numerous bandit uprisings resulting in entire villages getting raped and pillaged

And it all started with socially disenfranchised young men who had no future

Just like now

You really, really don’t know how bad it’s going to get. I’ve spent the last year prepping a remote cabin because our family has survived two dictators and they passed down their tips

If you aren’t doing something to secure your family’s safety now, it is likely too late unless you are wealthy enough to drop and go at a moments notice.

The firstest world problem ever: Bored horny teen boys memed us into fascism through social media manipulation and no one is willing to face facts about it

Part of the reason we have a fascist infestation right now is you people’s only response to the threat of our democracy collapsing is to fucking make harry potter memes

My first day out of contract work in five years, nothing concrete on the horizon, I have 1 month worth of funds

Autists have the worst employment outcomes of ALL minorities. ALL. No one fucking gets that. Old neurotypical black women (the historically hardest to be employed segment) have more statistical likelihood to find employment than an autist of nearly every segment.

The ONLY metric that transgresses these depressingly rigid criteria is wealth, which being autists have a 30% lower accrued wealth statistically for a variety of self-reinforcing reasons means that I am so fucking tired of fighting uphill for what everyone else just gets

Add on top of that my video feeds are now flooded with attractive, marketable autistic ‘content creators’ giving ridiculously bad vibe based advice and making hundreds of thousands of dollars showcasing the very thing that has made EVERYTHING in my life harder.

I am so tired and angry and everyone on lemmy is a fucking asshole for the last 3 months, and I’ve been mod harassed by a fucking supermod for at least that time tha the admis constantly refuse to do anything about and if I could break the universe in half with my hands right now I would do it without hesitation without a fucking thought for the rest of you.