I keep saying that humanity's toys do evolve spectacularly while humans are still working on the same basic impulses they've been dealing with for millennia.

Trump is a petty conman who does everything in his power to consolidate as much power in himself as he possibly can so that he can funnel as much money to himself and his gang as he can. That's not new. The environment he's doing in may be more complex, or differently set up than in previous iterations, but the core is depressingly mundane.

Gaza is just people hating people and other people supporting different sides while all sides give each other more reasons to hate each other perpetually, some more war-crimey, some less so. Tragic,, quagmired to hell and back, but not groundbreaking in and of itself.

As for AI, the framework is the usual capitalists trying to convince everybody that their new best revolutionary thing is a word sorting machine that can sort very, very many words now very fast. Trying to cash in on the hype is the eternal constant, the occasion this time is a very sophisticated chatbot/image generator based on all the materials the inventors could get away with stealing.

And climate stuff is just this generation of capitalists stripping the planet for parts while they can get away with it. The scale is bigger, but vulture capitalism is also not even remotely new.

Just like the principle of singular attributability of data via the blockchain is a fancy way of assigning stuff to one recipient. We've had approaches to this before. This time the blockchain's ledger system is the big new anchor for the human element, which will invariably at first be either grifters or people who wanna bash in other people's heads with it.

How... how do they know what the frog doesn't taste like?

To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.

"I am close to tears. That is a human reaction, right?"

Darwin approves.

That sounds bad. Can't I just subscribe to have them provided for $9.99/mo each? Sounds much better.

"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? You'll have to get more specific as to which particular deception you mean."

Privacy - Settings - Data - Do not neglect to fail to not grind my bones into dust.

Oh nonononono - you see, when Trump does it, he gets the good words: HE is "good at nicknames", "strong" and "tells it like it is". When anybody Trump doesn't like does the exact same thing, then they are being childish, rude and it is altogether absolutely inacceptable.

Maybe ingest it and then use UV light or inject bleach. I hear Ivermectin helps against everything.

Imagine working in a gorilla sanctuary.

Anakin: "Aww, a piñata too! You shouldn't have!"

Could stand a good 90% more cropping.

I'm sure he'll get right onto disclosing as soon as he discloses his tax returns like he promised.

Netanyahu and Putin are learning alright, but it's not very hard on them.

Around the campfire in the flooded ruins.

That's how you know porn is fake.

2025 obligatory alternatives to social distancing:

-Isolate in the office, just never go home (and keep working of course)

-Instead of not going to work, you can get a free brain worm at one of the new brain worm dispensaries

-ingest a lethal dose of Ivermectin

-Storm and plunder one of the official buildings on the list published on the Department of Patriotism's website (must bring own gallows parts)

Oh yeah? And what if someone ignores that, simply lies and says it's toxic? I'm convinced!

Says right there: they dug to find them. Actually finding them might have better chances elsewhere, on account of the bodies being elsewhere, but the light was better here and they didn't have to walk that far.