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        Hitler v1.0.0.0001

        • now with more blatant sexism
        • introduced improved racist algorithm
        • reduced charisma iot connect with untrained users
        • increased fragility of ego to keep charisma in check
        • decreased intelligence to stabilize ego and fortify charisma
        • fatter model to survive harsher winters
        • smaller hand model to appear taller
        • added slurred speech algorithm iot appear incompetent (helps with connecting to poorly configured user systems)
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        Lol all I picture is Hitler telling Donald he is the knock off and Trump saying he is the upgrade.

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          It’s like the fascists wanted a new Hitler but went to the cheapest Chinese factory they could find and failed to specify most of the parameters (as I understand it, Chinese manufacturers are pretty good at following specifications, but anything you don’t specify might as well be randomized).

          And then, when they sent an early sample to show that they’re about 33% of the way there, they just cancelled the rest and went with that sample.

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            The funny/sad part is, the actual Hitler was a beta version of that same process.

            The guy was a fucking mess. He had gas that could clear a ballroom. Was addicted to every substance available, had incestuous and pedophilic tendencies, and thought that a fedora and dog whip made him look cool.

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              Remove the bit about the whip and you could be describing Trump (though the addiction part might not apply to him and I don’t know if Trump’s reported stench is coming from gas).

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              The whip thing was him reminding people he was literally fighting socialists in street fights, so unfortunately it did resonate with his base. Like Punisher tattoos and rebel flags, they like cringe shit.

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        Probably closer to 8.0 at this point. From Chang Kai Shek to Augusta Pinochet to Idi Amin to Bong Bong Marcos, we’ve been minting new fascists practically every decade.

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      Hitler cited Southern Jim Crow laws as the model for Germany to follow in Mein Kampf.

      Trump is just an accurate reflection of the worst section of our country and their legacy of evil.

      The south wrote a massive advantage into the constitution by way of the electoral college, and until it’s repealed they will continue to elect the most evil possible choice in any election.

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    Version 2.0 implies an improved version.

    Version 0.1a is more apt because of the shoddy programming and rollout.

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      Maybe where you went to school.

      2.0 just means I’ve decided the bugs I’ve introduced since 1.0 are now “features”.

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      2.0 means they’ve decided to change their license to a subscription model, and put all the useful features behind a pay gate. You can’t leave because they have all your data and there’s no export feature.

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        I dunno, the first time Hitler tried to do what Mussolini did, he ended up in prison. Mussolini was more competent but had to make do with an Italian army while Hitler was less competent but got farther because it was still a German army supported by German engineers and scientists.

        I think Trump to Hitler is more accurate, especially when considering Putin for the Mussolini role. Ukraine would be Ethiopia (though with more support this time around instead of just league of nations hand wringing about the whole thing). Israel/Palestine would be Spain, except it’s entirely one sided.

        I hope Trump loses (election and coup/civil war) before we find out who gets to be Poland and France this time around. As a Canadian, I’m a bit nervous, about either that or being more like Austria. Though if we could be Czechoslovakia and just give them Alberta, I could live with that (other than seeing that BC would likely also be annexed).

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          Though if we could be Czechoslovakia and just give them Alberta, I could live with that

          Please no, it’s already bad enough here under Smith, I don’t want Trump in charge

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            Yeah, even Texas has some decent people. And tbh, Canada could end up being more like Hungary or Austria because there’s a large conservative presence here, too.

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      Version 2.0 doesn’t necessarily mean improved. If we go by semantic versioning and we leave the compatibility aspect out then 2.0 just means a significant amount of features have been added to warrant a major version increment.

      Usually features mean better user experience but not necessarily. For example Hitler 2.0 would have less focus on antisemitism, more focus on general racism. Feature change, but not really an improvement.

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      They probably bought a house built on top of an ancient Indian burial ground, too.

      People live to forget where all that cheap land came from, back in the 70s/80s. A century of genocide and oh hey where did all this Terra Nullis come from? Amazing.

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    My parents in their 30s: unemployment for people our age is at 20%, interest rate on mortgages is at 18%, all that’s available is McJobs…

    Gen X didn’t have it easy after the boomers filled up all positions up to the mid/late 70s.

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    That point 30 years ago was like the last chance to get housing at any reasonable cost. Even the crash of 08 just sorta brought the prices back to normalish and started going up pretty fast.

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    I love imagining Hitler rolling over in his grave being super pissed off about being compared to such an unlikeable dweeb like trump.

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    This shit feels like Majora’s Mask only it’s going to be really slow and somehow worse.

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      People want policies they like, but fail to understand how a participatory social democracy produces those policies.

      They also tend to mistake an “American Idol” ass voting process with participatory social democracy.

      “Democracy is when the government offers you two choices and everyone says the choice they like best, weighted by Congressional votes and not including DC/Puerto Rico/Guam residents for some reason” is a thing Americans believe is the bestest, freeist, most liberty-endowing system to ever exist. Unless the wrong person wins, in which case the election was rigged.

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        They also tend to mistake an “American Idol” ass voting process with participatory social democracy.

        This is what bothers me the most. We can’t make a rational decision together. It’s always sensationalized and simplified and two-sided and full of misinformation and blatant lies and dramatic language.

        Just last night I threw out a pound of political mailers. Just took them right out of the mailbox and threw them in the garbage. Totally wasted paper that I didn’t bother to read because I know it’s just oversimplification and emotional appeals. And it was a pound last week. And the week before that. We waste so much time and money and energy on this shit.

        I’ve gotten seven texts begging for money today alone.

        Make it stop.

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          We can’t make a rational decision together.

          What mechanism would we even use? There is no real “community self-government”. Its all states dictating policy to municipalities which dictate policy to neighborhoods. A handful of individuals are expected to represent hundreds of thousands of people, even at the city council level (my Houston city council has 250,000 person districts plus a couple of “at-large” 2M person districts plus a mayor). There’s no realistic method for 2M people to communicate with one another efficiently or collectively govern. But there’s ample opportunity to demagogue the public and fleece the treasury.

          Just last night I threw out a pound of political mailers. Just took them right out of the mailbox and threw them in the garbage. Totally wasted paper that I didn’t bother to read because I know it’s just oversimplification and emotional appeals

          So much of these elections are just optics - your partisan name tag, your race/gender/sexual orientation, your age, your career. These are the only reliable heuristics. Houston got a slew of black woman democrat judges in 2018 to replace a slew of white man republican judges, because “black woman” is code for liberal and “white man” is code for conservative. Some courts definitely improved (because the primary process in some of these districts selected for the most psycho christian nationalists on the conservative end) but others got a lot worse (because you tossed a bunch of milquetoast moderates with job experience for ambitious politicos who were just gaming the system and couldn’t do the work).

          How the fuck am I supposed to distinguish a legit civil rights lawyer running to replace a certified bigot versus a clueless young ivy league careerist [dem] running to replace a boring old ivy league careerist [gop] at the family court level? There’s no real journalism on these races, and even if there was, I simply do not have time or expertise to weed through dozens of races to sort the wheat from the chaff.

          I’ve gotten seven texts begging for money today alone.

          So many of these are nakedly just scams. Like, not even politically affiliated scams. Just the exact same people who were blowing up your phone demanding Amazon gift cards to pay the IRS or cashiers checks to settle a fictitious lien on your car six months ago, pushing a new angle because they know it works.