private panopticon
That’s the only thing George Orwell got wrong: he envisioned surveillance conducted by the state - i.e. a communist dictatorship, but what we end up with today is surveillance conducted by late-stage capitalist monopolies in cahoots with the state - i.e. a fascist dictatorship.
Either way, it’s a dictatorship.
you don’t have the right to make us
Apparently they just take the left.
I don’t think the surveillance capitalists are asking for your opinion…
Gee, I feel so much better now…
OP thinks 2018 Elon was a better man, when all he was was better at hiding who he truly is.
A nut called Elon Musk. That blind squirrel gets him on a surprisingly regular basis actually…
Grok makes the right assumption, which is this:
Given that DoJ won’t release half of the Epstein files, nobody has definite proof of who’s a pedo and who isn’t. But considering how powerful the men mentioned in the Epstein files are, it is reasonable to assume they can corrupt DoJ into not releasing the dirt, and they have.
Therefore, it is rational to apply presumption of guilt to anybody listed in the Epstein files rather than presumption of innocence. Ergo, Musk is a fucking pedo until proven otherwise. It’s plain logic.
Incidentally, considering everybody mentioned in the Epstein files to be pedos by default has one interesting consequence: if somebody with enough influence to sway DoJ is outraged at being associated with Epstein’s pedo ring, they can use their influence to publicly ask that the files be released - or at least the parts of the files that concern them - and clear their good name. Right? Well… Notice how none of those fuckers come out to ask their good names cleared…
“It will be a combination of economic isolation the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in the Strait of Hormuz that will keep anything from going in or out of the Iranian ports,” [Scott Bessent] added.
The most economically isolated country in the world, North Korea, isn’t doing great but it’s still around and it’s still a crazy dictatorship that’s not going anywhere soon. Cuba too has suffered the US’ economic wrath for a full 66 years and it’s still around too.
I’d say the US’ track record in successful economic isolation of people they don’t like isn’t stellar.
As always, the one thing you can count on with absolute certainty is that ordinary people trying to lead a normal life will suffer for decades to come courtesy of the United States.
This infographic is inaccurate: the airport employee should be pictured struggling to pull the cart, not casually walking.
Also, it’s orange, not red.
I’m so excited I just can’t hide it…
Wow… It’s almost like the Trump-Epstein affair is an actual conspiracy - the only one the MAGA morons believe in that’s most likely true.
Like Binface himself said:
Whatever the result of the by-election, either Farage loses the election to a bin and that’s not great, or he wins against a bin and that’s not much better. Either way, Farage has already lost.
Pity though, I really hoped Binface would win that one…
“Please be assured that we take the accuracy of our documentation very seriously, and we are truly sorry that this occurred,” the letter stated.
Yeah. That’s why you do AI: because you take your patients’ documentation really seriously…
While you’re at it, please ditch Hakeem Jeffries too: those two are about as effective at inducing excitement and kindling hope in Democrats as two wet mops left in a bucket for too long.
I wonder why Americans don’t realize there won’t be any midterms. It’s fucking obvious that Trump and his henchmen are going to declare a national emergency, or send ICE goons to “secure” the polling places, or somehow tamper or cancel them. It’s blindingly obvious - if only because Trump does jack shit to even do anything remotely popular to win the vote, meaning he very obviously doesn’t intend that there even be a vote.
It’s glaringly obvious and yet people still cling to this fantasy that they’re going to be able to vote and retake the house and senate.
The Germans too thought they could vote the Nazis out, right up until the Nazi outlawed all the other parties.
Fat chance. He’s quite the fatso. Even in liquid form, he would probably overflow.
Pigs gonna be pigs…
Pity the taxpayer is paying to fuel up a fully-loaded Boeing 747 and a C-32 to fly this one piece of shit around…
I’m not buying this. There’s no way in hell this fat orange pile of blubber fits in this.
Google Search has been dying for a long time.
I find it fascinating that in today’s world, private companies are allowed to decide how long they want to keep the entire populace under surveillance, just like that, without any laws or any judge involved, without the entire thing instantly turning into a giant scandal or people rioting in the street over it.
As a gen-Xer who has known a world where privacy actually meant something people deeply cared about, the world we live in today is frighteningly dystopian.