All of taxonomy hinges on where the butt is.

Anyone ever read House of Leaves?

Where is the proof that you don’t fuck goats?

Kind of is.

I’ll break all the shit if the board of investors are the ones paying for it.

Prompt an LLM to write a bit of code that does something. Do this 9000 times until it spits out something that vaguely accomplishes this task. You can’t push any of the fever dream nonsense it created into the main branch until you check it thoroughly. In the end you spend more time with this process than you would have if you’d just written it yourself.

The C suite and the board members continue jerking each other off as they call this “efficiency.”

I made your favorite! Deep-fried bacon-wrapped pumpkins stuffed with chive butter in a 5 gallon painters bucket of fondue.

If you’re really going to sit here and pretend that none of the things I mentioned play a clear and obvious role in our current situation, I don’t even know where to start with you.

Just ignored the entire first part of that, didn’t you champ?

The average American voter is hilariously unengaged. Many of them read at an 8th grade level at best. We’re suffering the consequences of an education system that has been tragically underfunded for generations, and our media institutions are thoroughly compromised. Because of this, media literacy may as well be non-existent. The worst actors in our public institutions know this and have chosen to capitalize on it. Foreign interests recognize the obvious weakness in our social fabric, and they have been taking advantage of it to great success.

We are completely lacking the most crucial part of any functional democracy - an informed electorate. We have the least qualified people making the most important decisions.

The United States is effectively a failed state. Many of us recognize this, but our options for addressing the problem are limited. We not only have to dislodge the largest defense structure the world has ever seen, but we have to somehow fix the plague of weaponized stupidity that is conservative culture in order to ensure the worst humans don’t end up in powerful positions.

If you have any suggestions on how to start fixing that, I’m all ears.