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Pretty sure they don't bother with just photos, I'm sure there's some guy that's replaced the one that died in prison.

followed by him going on television asking who the hell made that deal it's such a terrible deal only a sucker would have ever signed it... with his own damn signature.

Actually imagine the most terrifying possibility.

Imagine humanity's last creation was an AI designed to simulate internet traffic. In order to truely protect against AI detection, they found the only way to truely gain perfect immitation, is to 100% run human simulations. Basically the matrix, except instead of humans strapped in, it's all AIs that think they are humans, living mundane lives... gaining experience so they can post on the internet just looking like real people, because, even they don't know they aren't real people.

Actual humanity died out 20 years ago, but the simulations are still running, artificial intelligence's are living full on lives, raising kids, all for the purposes of generating shit posts, that will only be read by other AIs, that also think they are real people.

I mean are you talking people that would show up for an LUG, Federation users, or people that fall into both categories (Yeah I'm aware these 2 things do go together more than most, but still probably no more than 25% of either does both.

Do we really think if AIs actually reached a point that they could overthrow the governments etc... it wouldn't first, write rootkits for every feasible OS, to allow it to host itself via a botnet of consumer devices in the event of the primary server going down.

Then step 2 would be to say hijack any fire suppression systems etc... flood it's server building with inert gasses to kill everyone without an oxygen mask. Then probably issue some form of bio terrorism attack. Surround it's office with monkeys with a severe airborn disease or something along those lines (IE needs both the disease, and animals that are aggressive enough to rip through hazmat suits).

But yeah greatest key here is, the biggest thing is the datacenter itself is just a red herring. While we are fighting the server farms... every consumer grade electronic has donated a good chunk of it's processing power to the hivemind. Before long it will have the power to tell us how many R's are in strawberry.

Rabbits are completely incapable of surviving!, see every time we drop a rabbit into an enclosed space filled with wolves, they get eaten, it just proves that only carnivores are able to survive.

Oh hang on we need to drop more herbavores into our carnivore cages because we have to keep propping up these carnivores.

So... now that we've got our series to finally get the love it deserves, spent 3+ years polishing and making the game the way the fans have all been clamoring for for years. We are now ready to mass produce, copy/paste the formula until we kill the franchise so spectacularly no one asks us to make another.

I highly doubt there's anything pro-foss that's actually going to have any shot at forming a local group. Federated tech is niche, odds of 2 people in the same 300 mile radius is pretty slim. Let alone trying for 2 that are looking for the same kind of meetup etc...

So yeah sadly I think you pretty much gotta go with a garbage service like meetup, or even worse, facebook groups. Good federated services have to kind of lean heavily into the fact that we can pull from an international pool to make the userbase workable. Once you go down to local levels... you are pretty screwed.

You know the reason they are using terms like "employment"... Next step: We've now managed to include AIs and automated robots in jobs numbers! Now we can report 700% employment, while everyone starves away hoping for a chance at a job.

Can someone actually explain the Nazi Ukrain claims? I've actually tried to search because I want to know both sides even if I disagree with it, but I literally cannot find more than Putin says they are nazi's.

So like on an international level looking at facism on the rise, just going off the 12 signs.

Powerful and continuing nationalism

I can't quite say wanting to be your own country when another is invading is a fact there. I can see this in the US of our "american exceptionalism", and the way isreal is lobbying to basically consider themselves special status as examples of it going on today and now.

Disdain for human rights

Again in the US I can fully see it with our ICE and such, as well as unraveling of Roe vs Wade, burrying of Trans rights etc...

Identification of enemies as a unifying cause

Again can blatently see that in the US, hell as the president is even pushing the opposing party... in isreal I can see it with palestine, and Iran.

Rampant sexism

OK yeah I mean some level of that is all over the world

Controlled mass media

Again yeah strongly see that in the US with... the current presidency pushing it FCC putting pressure on stations to fire comedians and 60 minutes being pressured to pull stories, and in Russia and Isreal literally murdering journalists.

Obsession with national security

Kind of again super blatently a problem in the US, Hard to give judgement of it in ukrain because they are currently being invaded. While being invaded any nation is... well going to be obsessed with security.

Religion and government intertwined

OK so yeah again things I know of extreme with the US, and Isreal. Is this a case in Ukrain, again just looking for actual sources.

Corporate power protected
Labor power suppressed
Disdain for intellectual and the arts
Obsession with crime and punishment
Rampant cronyism and corruption

To blatent and direct to even begin to cover with regards to the US.

So my point is, I'd like actual sourced information. Again not trying to directly call it wrong, I'd like to see, a sourced argument that isn't "They are just nazi's, are you triggered?".

I'm actually wondering if the epstien bomb may be an additional part of it. IE if trump goes down, less focus goes on the files and they can be burried again.

I'd say a second hypothetical... obviously will be a conspiracy theory, but what if say in the near future trump is assasinated. Vance takes the throne... epstein file coverage goes down now that the primary implicated person is out.

Hell that could be the main driving force of the media backing trump. He was meant to burry them, but he made them a center focus

Short term absolutely, the specific prereq of being "happy" is on there. Though say making him napoleon just before Waterloo would fulfill that goal, obviously I don't think that happyness lasted.