jkf
13hr ago
If the dumbest 40% of society are going to die, so am I if I vote with them. Am I missing something here?
Pretending to be retarded so I can be a part of a mass suicide doesn't seem like a great strategy; if it turns out to be actually so terrible (which I strongly doubt), I've certainly got personal options for dealing with a life-not-worth-living due to inadequate idiots in the world.
jkf
4d ago
By the letter of the law, e-bikes would definitely count -- vehicle (check) with a motor (check). (those scooter things can fuck off too)
The trouble is, boomers and environmentalists like them, and they are running the place!
jkf
4d ago
Same as me! Actual laws like this usually say "motorized vehicles" which makes almost all of the other quiz questions non-ambiguous, but I guess there'd still be some ambiguity about the tank depending on exactly how it was deactivated.
jkf
5d ago
Very much the former -- it's an unabashed propaganda campaign that would be completely unsurprising if it were done conventionally by some government hiring actors etc -- indeed it's in response to just such a campaign by the UK government!
What's interesting about it is that it seems to have been put together in a matter of days, by (as far as anyone knows!) non-state actors with limited resources and strong government operations. (the videos are probably illegal in the UK on the grounds of promoting hate)
So more of a worked example of AI videogens to create impact IRL than anything with much artistic merit. Just as handheld firearms democratized warfare (for a while), maybe publicly available AI (plus social media) will democratize the mobilization of egregores upon the genpop?
https://x.com/LBC/status/2015894345770045489 (MSM backgrounder)
https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2013157247820406995 (first video)
https://x.com/AmeliajakSolana (whoever's doing the videos -- I notice they've pretty much switched to images now, so probably Sora is indeed what they were using -- you'd need to scroll way down for the rest of the videos, they were coming out regularly a few months ago)
jkf
6d ago
Not sure if it's what you're after (nor the creative process they're using), but the ongoing "Amelia" series on Brit-Twitter is producing coherent and effective political shorts on a fast timeline...
jkf
6d ago
They (meaning the American agencies -- local state capacity here is not even in the same ballpark) could probably get most of the guns in Canada; for the USA -- Civil War stuff aside -- there's not even the state capacity to win the War on Drugs.
The War on Guns would be much tougher even if you didn't have a rifleman behind every blade of grass fighting alongside the gangbangers.
I've driven from (southwest) Texas to Montana in a day; surely a motivated individual with a car could make it happen? Planes also exist, if one is not truly destitute.
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