You can tell the difference between countries that have dealt with people overthrowing their democracy in the past and those that haven't. Brazil did not fuck around in the same way.

High because it's difficult to get more people into the cult when there are already so many of them.

Only if almost is a new way of saying not even fucking close.

It’s not just money, but control to keep the laborers obedient and loyal. We NEED health insurance, so we stay with our abusers.

Yep, it's part of their "jobs you can't quit" agenda (courtesy of Doctorow).

That's certainly part of it

Anslopic just popped in my head because of this, but I think that's better as just a jokey name for Claude's company.

I really like bot rot

They need to come up for a word to describe the unique dread you feel when your realize life is turning into a series of stupid, chatbot conversations.

My work life is already this.

Anyone wanna workshop it with me? How about ... slop fatigue? Bot dread? Meat proxy burnout? Agent silo syndrome?

The trump bots are overactive in the comments

Edit: just so we're clear I'm talking about apnews, not here

Andrew Yang was basically right about everything, let’s be so for real.

Yang sucks it. You should perhaps think about who you admire more deeply.

The mindset behind a single guy / thing / policy fixing everything is part of the problem. The world is more complicated than that.

I'm old enough to remember republicans railing against the government giving money to tesla in one of the spending packages.