Social Meme Thread v.85: Shereddit (No Code Words)

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quoting myself, but still.

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Mr Holmes said:
@Deorum, It would appear the pool party season is over.

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My impulse would be to empty a 30 round mag on that thing.

BearGrounds said:
People can't see what's coming. The potential existence of an authoritarian surveillance state is beyond their reality, and because of that, they're going to collectively steer all of us into the trap (while screaming "it's all a stupid CT!").

Just take the toll station automation, for example. An image capture of your vehicle's plate is now logged, and your travels documented. Now take this kind of tech and place it in the hands of a corrupt and rotten government, across all sorts of societal interactions and activities. That's what's on the way, make no mistake about it. The tech to enable it is largely already here.

It's simply a matter of time before we're living in a 1984 type of society, barring some sort of crazy shift in mass consciousness that prevents it. Why do you think they want to disarm the populace?
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Yeah, at some point technological 'advances' ceased being an actual net positive or benefit and I'd say that has probably been the case for a good minute now. There is almost nothing cool, fascinating or good about science and technology to me anymore because it seems all that remains is an overt march into the outright dystopian, nefarious and pure evil.

It doesn't help that humans are as disconnected from nature and devoid of spirituality as they've ever been in the history of our species. There is some serious, serious fuckery afoot throughout mainstream culture, society and politics that is starting to creep me out to my core. I do not want any part of it and I will not participate.
 
Deorum said:






My impulse would be to empty a 30 round mag on that thing.



Yeah, at some point technological 'advances' ceased being an actual net positive or benefit and I'd say that has probably been the case for a good minute now. There is almost nothing cool, fascinating or good about science and technology to me anymore because it seems all that remains is an overt march into the outright dystopian, nefarious and pure evil.

It doesn't help that humans are as disconnected from nature and devoid of spirituality as they've ever been in the history of our species. There is some serious, serious fuckery afoot throughout mainstream culture, society and politics that is starting to creep me out to my core. I do not want any part of it and I will not participate.
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Rob Battisti said:
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I'm not sure if you're saying Ted was correct, that I sound like him or just being funny. I haven't read his essays or even really know much about him tbh. Regardless, I'd vehemently disagree that the Industrial Revolution was a negative thing. I'm actually fine with the first three industrial revolutions for the most part and they took place when the nation-state was still considered viable and not in the process of being aggressively torn down.

There have been three mass movements in physical science:

* Mechanics (forces, masses, and accelerations)
* Electromagnetism (fields, charges and potentials)
* Quantum Mechanics (propagating waves of probability)

...invariably followed by three industrial revolutions:

* Water & Steam Power
* Practical Electricity & Mass Production
* Semiconductors, Computers & Automation

Interestingly, the fourth that we're in the midst of is not based on any mass movement in physical science, it's just tech built upon and derived from tech that the third provided. It isn't necessary and it's being wielded in increasingly authoritarian and nefarious ways. I'm not opposed to industrial society (provided the development stays the fuck away from NoDak), I'm a "pump the brakes at the third revolution" dude. But of course, that was never realistic.
 
Deorum said:
I'm not sure if you're saying Ted was correct, that I sound like him or just being funny. I haven't read his essays or even really know much about him tbh. Regardless, I'd vehemently disagree that the Industrial Revolution was a negative thing. I'm actually fine with the first three industrial revolutions for the most part and they took place when the nation-state was still considered viable and not in the process of being aggressively torn down.

There have been three mass movements in physical science:

* Mechanics (forces, masses, and accelerations)
* Electromagnetism (fields, charges and potentials)
* Quantum Mechanics (propagating waves of probability)

...invariably followed by three industrial revolutions:

* Water & Steam Power
* Practical Electricity & Mass Production
* Semiconductors, Computers & Automation

Interestingly, the fourth that we're in the midst of is not based on any mass movement in physical science, it's just tech built upon and derived from tech that the third provided. It isn't necessary and it's being wielded in increasingly authoritarian and nefarious ways. I'm not opposed to industrial society (provided the development stays the fuck away from NoDak), I'm a "pump the brakes at the third revolution" dude. But of course, that was never realistic.
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This is just the second leg of semiconductor and automation revolution. Software is catching up to the hardware.

Along with that however has been a gross misuse of the technology.

Just from a testing perspective our predecessors worked hands on with small representative test cases and had to put hands on nearly everything. Today even at the lowest level of research we can do robust test cases of any sample size and only put hands on the anomalies just as soon as it's automated both in execution and analysis. (Time/Money allowing)

Just the potential for this to transform biology from observational voodoo to a hard science is life changing at a species level.
 
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