Snot Flickerman

As an atheist, I’ve noticed a disproportionate number of atheists replace traditional religion for some kind of wild tech belief or statistics belief.

AI worship might be the most perfect of the examples of human hubris.

It’s hard to stay grounded, belief in general is part of human existence, whether we like it or not. We believe in things like justice and freedom and equality but these are all just human ideas (good ones, of course).

More importantly, Pride itself a reference to the Stonewall Riots, in which cops brutally assaulted LGBTQ+ citizens with great malice and the citizens fought back.

June 28th, 1969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

The first Pride Parade was a year later, on June 27th, 1970

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade#First_pride_marches

The reason cops shouldn’t be allowed at Pride is because cops violence against the LGBTQ+ community is why Pride fucking exists to begin with.

I mean, arguably, yes, but I meant more “we” as in “humanity as a whole.”

Sure, plenty of us don’t actually get a choice in what is happening, but outwardly, you would attribute it to the human species, even if it was only a subset of the human species. Mosquitoes and bedbugs aren’t responsible for the destruction of the planet, although it would be nice to be able to blame them.

Sam Altman says AI is gonna need so much energy that we need to be investing in new energy strategies.

If it still takes humans doing all this extra work to get the job done, wouldn’t it make more financial and ecological sense to just…

…

…pay artists a living wage to do the same fucking job instead?

We’re gonna burn our planet to the ground and doom our species to extinction for this bullshit? Fuck me, maybe it’s what we deserve, then.

So your average HN thread, then.

Program it to think that if it lets go of hugging me, it may be the last time it sees me.

This is why you always, always engage safety protocols.

There are some who call me… Tim.

what’s Bill the Cat doing here again?

inb4 modified chicken tendies copypasta

The True Meaning of Christmas.

Nah, another reference to the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. In the book, owning a real, live animal is considered a mark of high status. However, animals are hard to care for and die easily, so many people “fake” that status by having an artificial animal. In the book, Deckard and his wife are quite devastated over the loss of his goat.

That’s my fault in the original comment, I remembered it as a sheep, not a goat, because of the title of the book.

Data is very proud of his sheep cat, but he won’t admit to anyone that it is actually artificial.

Are… Are you… Old Gregg?

It’s that time of year, where we all want to partake in the spirit of the season.

Baileys Irish Cream.

RIP gamerpoop.

I need one for Baldurs Gate 3 so bad.

At least I have 4 Halfling Barbarians.

Wasn’t this literally one of Christopher Lloyd’s bits on Taxi?

You wanna go where everybody knows your name.

*Applause

Star Trek: The Next Generation was filmed in front of a live studio audience.

*Applause

but it doesn’t matter because I’ve already seen everything.

This is a warning

Step away from the car

This car is protected by Viper