Beaver

"Let's give the racist chatbot the power of life over death" (immediately murders a bunch of schoolchildren)

There's a lot of sorting that happens to recruits who join the US military. Most army and marine personnel are in supporting roles, and those are generally filled by the higher educated recruits who did have other potential opportunities in life... and then you can imagine who gets to be the cannon fodder on the frontlines, and then who is actually doing the atrocities. It's perverse.

The air force is where that dynamic is flipped, and the actual trigger-pullers are highly educated, accomplished people who could have done anything else with their life but cause death and misery. They are some of the most contemptible scum in the imperial core.

The Ussuri river conflict, right after the sino-soviet split. But I think it's main characteristic is that it did not escalate into a major war, despite the huge depopyment of forces.

I didn't make a conscious effort to stop. They got really shitty on their own, and I found more grass-touching activities. I still have accounts on all of the big social media platforms, since people will message me or send me links on them from time to time. But will go months at a time not even thinking about them.

I do spend a lot of time on lemmy and mastodon, as well as groups on the various messaging services (discord, matrix, signal, telegram, WhatsApp, and good 'ol SMS and email). Those are technically the same kind of "social media". But I think everyone understands now that there's a categorical difference between real communities of people using a technology to talk to each other, and the skinner boxes.

They love playing with their toys.

The top two look perfect to me

Mayor Pete in shambles