Past tyrants could only dream of having the sort of AI-powered tools that we possess today

How dare you attempt to distract us from hunting down the brown ladies that are paid to clean houses!

PRIORITIES!

We must protect our freedoms by deporting all brown people without dots on their foreheads

ETA: The negative environmental and health impacts from these data centers are also tremendous.

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How dare you attempt to distract us from hunting down the brown ladies that are paid to clean houses!

PRIORITIES!

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I like when people admit that they have such low brainpower that they can only focus on a single item at a time.

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Why did we decide to live in a world where people can watch, hear, and know everything you do? Why did we give up our privacy so easily?

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Convenience.

I wrote this on the OT three years ago in response to the question, "Will tech be the end of us?":

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Convenience will be the end of us. The tech would not have as strong a footing if we weren't always looking for a more convenient life.

Convenience like your refrigerator having a camera and a touchscreen on it. Convenience like wearing a health monitor on your wrist 24/7/365. Convenience like your home's heating and air being controllable from the cloud. Convenience like being able to turn the porch light on from work or unlock the back door while on vacation so your neighbor can water your Peace Lily. Convenience like your car talking to your watch which talks to your phone. Convenience like having a box always listening so you can ask it if you should wear a rain jacket today or what year John Candy died. Convenience like every aspect of your gross consumerism being tracked with your every purchase in effort to give you a "better shopping experience".

We didn't crave this convenience all at once. Hell, we didn't even know we "needed" all that stuff to make our lives easier. At first, we thought, "Oh, being able to make a call from the road when I'm running late would really come in handy." Or, "Hey, not needing that phonebook to find my barber's number and hours is great!" Then, they found other ways to help us, to make life more convenient. Like the frog in the pot of water they kept gradually turning up the fire. Now, here we are, basically dependent on all those things meant to make us more comfortable. And, we expected them not to take advantage of that network of convenience? We expected them not to capitalize on the privacy we so willfully gave up? We expected them not to use that against us? We, unwittingly, while seeking convenience and comfort we didn't even know we needed, have allowed them a level of their own convenience that has never before been matched. It has never been easier to track and control us, and all for convenience.

Convenience will hang us all, but at least we will be comfortable waiting on the gallows.

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We must protect our freedoms by deporting all brown people without dots on their foreheads

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Brown people don’t exactly have a reputation for improving quality of life. The only “brown people” country that isn’t a shithole is Japan, a nation the USA rebuilt.

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Why did we give up our privacy so easily? No shots were even fired.

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It began in earnest after 9-11 with the PATRIOT ACT. Bush Jr will go down in history as one of the worst POTUSes we have ever had. He and his minions set this country on course for its ruination.

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It began in earnest after 9-11 with the PATRIOT ACT.

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It began here, but not in earnest. The Patriot Act was a conscious decision by the Bush administration to capitalize on fear and push through surveillance powers that would have been unthinkable even one year earlier.

And Congress overwhelmingly signed off on it because they were terrified of being labeled soft or unpatriotic.

This is why people question the legitimacy of the 9-11 narrative sold to us by the Bush admin.

Bush was a horrible leader, though, and was one of the worst presidents ever for many reasons.