Points gun? He’s been spamming the trigger like he’s playing CoD.

Which is about the extent AI could benefit a service like Duolingo. Gutting their workforce isn’t going to make it any better.

I was gonna say language learning is actually one of the few AI might be useful for, but they’re not talking about making their users learn with a little AI translator having a random conversation with them; they’re replacing their workforce with AI.

Fuck. I was considering using Duo once I finish school to give myself some more options to flee the US as we dive deeper into nazism. Any good alternatives?

Onion, I know it’s hard, but you can’t just report on current events as-is and call it parody.

Captain America 2: Fighting the Nazis that have infiltrated the US government.

…my memory must be shit; I don’t remember Captain America ever fighting DOGE…

I’m torn between something familiar - english speaking, mostly western culture, just for the sake of an easy transition; or somewhere like Thailand where it’s just a completely different world. Like, if I’m going to pack up and move halfway across the globe, might be a good time to dive into something that’ll give me a ton of brand new experiences.

Idk if I’m adventurous enough to actually commit, but the temptation is definitely there.

tru

Damnit. I thought you meant the orange Mussolini and got all excited.

language

That is definitely an intimidating step. I speak a little Spanish, but was never particularly good at it, and that’s hailed as one of the ‘easy’ languages. …'course, the stakes are a tad higher now than when I was studying that stuff in highschool…

No - that strikes me as an end game move. It’ll enable me to cross the border, and if shit hits the fan that’ll be good enough to then figure out the next steps.

I would need to do WAY more research on prospective point-B’s before diving into dual citizenship.

That said, I don’t really know shit about expatriating, so if anything I just said stands out as glaringly wrong, please do school me!

Yeah, click bait.

They’re fluorescent, which is still cool, but they don’t hold a charge or emit their own light as “glow in the dark” implies.

At least I got chicken!

Freeman’s Mind

Honorable mention to Charlie the unicorn.

I got a passport, and am wrapping up a degree in nursing.

It’s not necessarily my intention to jump ship as soon as I graduate, but knowing that it’s an option will be a great comfort.

Other than that, I stopped eating eggs.

Neither A nor I, in fact!

Ur not wrong.

I mean the route we’re on right now is already apocalyptically bad. Neither works of fiction giving a cautionary tale of fiction, nor failing to fully understand what we’re doing really hold any weight against the reality that we ARE cooking our planet.

Worse case scenario, we do what we were going to do anyway: change the climate into one that doesn’t sustain human life.

I vote fuck it, if there’s a chance it could work, let’s give it a shot.

Bro, this whole stupid ass conversation started with me saying peaceful protesting is not a mutually exclusive action.

This whole stupid ass conversation started with me listing examples of violence getting shit done, against the contrast of millions of protesters not accomplishing jack.

Like, feel free to go be violent or whatever. Just don’t talk others into doing it first when you obviously are not willing to do that. That’s why Luigi is an icon, and you are, frankly speaking, a huge hypocrite.

What in our conversation history makes you think I’d be a good candidate? I’m a surgical tech, dude. On the nonexistent chance that Trump winds up in my OR, yeah it’d be an honor to be the one to take action. Failing that, he’s surrounded by people with guns who’ve all sworn an oath to kill him, so why is rubbing you wrong when I ask those people to do their job?

I ask people to do shit that I cannot all the time - that’s how specializations work. If my tooth hurts, I’m going to ask a dentist to fix it. If my transmission breaks, I’m going to ask a mechanic to fix it. If my country is under attack, I’m going to ask the people who’s job it is to kill the attacker to fix it.

Why is that hypocritical to you? Do you whip out your own drill when your molar starts to ache? Do you learn how to fix a transmission when your car breaks? Cuz if not, what you’re doing is called projecting - the hypocrisy here is yours.

Luigi didn’t try to persuade or pressure others into taking a risk he wasn’t personally willing to take.

Cool. And?

I have seen the power of peaceful protesting. The boycotts work. Violence only gives the administration a convenient excuse to hurt us. Don’t fall for it. The calls for violence are propaganda.

You keep making that claim without evidence. I keep refuting it with events that just happened. Like you don’t need go dig through a history book to see that violence works (although that would make the case too), you just need to turn on the fucking news.

You’re advocating for the preservation of evil people by arguing points that have been shown false. That’s propaganda. You’re projecting again.

Trump’s Tariffs Have Done What No – other – US Adversary Could

It’s very ironic to me you are even bringing up Martin Luther King Jr because it makes my point.

Again, MLK Jr himself contradicted you in his own statement. He doesn’t place much emphasis on it - he prefers the nonviolent route, 100% - but even he acknowledged that nonviolence ignored leads to violence. It’s the Birmingham Jail letter if you’re interested - I recommend it.

You know how Black people finally got their civil rights? Lawsuits. Lots and lots and lots of lawsuits. Look it up if you do not believe me.

Lawsuits, nonviolent protests, and you’re skipping a pretty important ingredient: violence. Lots of violence. The Black Panthers were standing by with rifles to enforce the efficacy of their nonviolent counterparts. Direct military engagement such as by the 761st Tank Battalion or Tuskegee Airmen, which fostered a huge amount of respect from the nation at large by showing patriotism even in the face of massive discrimination, and -you guessed it- a professional aptitude for violence.

MLK Jr’s movement was a subset of a greater movement; his was nonviolent, the rest of it wasn’t. If the violent components were removed, the nonviolent components would have failed.

Millions of people boycotting, even if imperfectly, is fucking devastating for corporate giants and 100% legal.

First off, never conflate legality with morality. You strike me as someone who already knows this. Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Legal only means it’s sanctioned by the state, and when that does align with morality: cool, follow the law. When it doesn’t align with morality: fuck the law.

In any case, you’re correct, we can and should be boycotting corporations that dip below a certain moral standard. That isn’t mutually exclusive to violence though - you know what else is devastating to corporate giants? Cutting its head off, which is what Luigi just did to health insurance, and he single-handedly accomplished more for us by a single action than every healthcare related protest or boycott in my entire lifetime. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t boycott, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t engage in nonviolent protest: but if you find yourself in a room alone with Hitler and you’re packing a revolver, that isn’t the time to shake your fist at the fucker and explain to him the error of his ways: it’s time to pull the trigger.

It’s going to take a long time to extirpate all the cancer plaguing our institutions

Justice delayed is justice denied. That’s also addressed in the MLK Jr’s Birmingham Jail letter.

and violent conflicts just make it take even longer.

Not according to current events, but we’re circling back to the start of this conversation.

It’s important to note the role that social media manipulation plays us all into thinking that challenges in court and peaceful protests do not work-- they do, just not in a way that is obvious to someone who is not used to fighting against an authoritarian regime.

Different tools for different jobs. A paintbrush being really effective for its intended purpose doesn’t mean it’ll make a good sledge hammer, nor vice versa. You are correct in that there is a great deal of painting that needs to be done; but there are also some walls that need to come down.