Only one would be improved by merely a slight char.

Do I have to act immediately? Pausing for a bit would put some nice color on those tacos.

The first and easiest thing would be to invent calculus. I’m sure other things would pop up situationally, I could probably get basic electricity going with a bit of experimentation.

Greedy sociopaths are a fact of humanity, they will always exist and will always be drawn to positions of power. The fitness of any system to avoid authoritarianism is based solely upon the effectiveness of the obstacles it erects to oppose aspiring dictators.

Materialism isn’t just about base economic principles, it’s about ensuring that your systems are suitable to actual reality, rather than just utopian hypotheticals. Anyone can design an idealistic democratic system of government that works perfectly when everyone is kind, reasonable, and cooperative, but such a system is useless. Lasting success requires a system which fulfills the necessities of government efficiently without being exploitable by greedy sociopaths.

I’m sure the Obama-tan-suit-scandal people are up in arms

Fuck French toast because it is decadent but usually entirely to much.

Marry waffles because they are perfect and precious.

Kill pancakes.

I prefer the generic ones that say “Thank You”

The main threat of AI is that it’s software. At least when robots displaced factory jobs, they introduced robot design, manufacturing, and maintenance jobs. But software is infinitely scalable. You don’t have to program every new instance of a software, it’s just copy paste. Sure there’s tailoring, debugging, and developing new models, but the number of jobs displaced is orders of magnitude higher than jobs created, and rollout is relatively quick and easy. Once a software is mature enough, it can displace an entire industry basically overnight.

This just looks like a curved didgeridoo, am I missing the saxophone part? I don’t see a reed, or valves, or any brass. Curving an instrument isn’t a characteristically saxophone thing, it’s just a cumbersome instrument thing.

Same thing I’m doing now: living my life without concern for my cultural relevance.

You didn’t?

Not me, we. Stop trying to weasel out of your mess.

Which is different from you how exactly? All I see are failures.

Keep up the “I’m rubber you’re glue” act buddy, it’s age appropriate. I wanted Trump to lose, you wanted Harris to lose. You got your wish, this is on you. Or keep blaming everyone else who tried to warn you that it was a stupid idea, how dare they point out the glaring flaws in your strategy. Let’s see if that makes a leftist plan materialize.

Flagrant hypocrisy! This was your plan, not mine. How’s it working? Did a third party win? Did we end the genocide in Gaza yet? Don’t equate your plan’s failure with our recognition that it failed. You gambled, and this is what we get. Own it, maybe learn something about implementation.

A bunch of shortsighted cosplayers with no sense of praxis or political literacy protested the do-nothing Dems and we got the freewheeling fascism MAGAs. How’s that working out for you? How’s the glorious revolution coming?

Up until the moment we have enough confirmed support for a progressive movement, status quo is a hell of a lot better than accelerated fascism; if only to buy more time to build the aforementioned progressive support. I’m all for actual leftward movement, but gambling on unconfirmed support is stupid. Even the liberals understand that, in their sports-team monkey brain.

The left has no plan sufficient to deal with this. I hear vague rumblings about strikes and revolutions and the power of the working class united, but the working class isn’t united yet. There is no organized, validated plan to effect that revolution. There’s no leftist Project 2025. That’s a natural consequence of the commendable independence of leftists, but it has the unfortunate consequence of being tactically untenable. The right uniform under the banner of their dictator, the left squabbles about trivialities.

It’s not that I wish it to be so; I would vastly prefer the left to have a functional plan to secure power. But it is the reality; I see neither such a plan, nor the necessary organization to implement such a plan. That’s why we vote lesser evil. We strive for the stationary phase of the ratchet to avoid the freewheeling phase, because we don’t yet have the organized strength to break the pawl from its housing.

Once we have that organized strength, and not sooner, we can break the pawl. Sooner, and the ratchet spins freely to the right.